Recording British Civil Registration Discoveries - International Institute

Recording Civil Registration (Vital Statistics)
For both indexes and registrations, do use a printed transcript form wherever possible. Transcript forms for British Civil Registration Indexes can be found in the course materials Research: English and Welsh Ancestors, Research: Scottish Ancestors, and Research: Irish Ancestors. Consult texts and societies for other countries/states/provinces, or make your own. A worked example is shown below.

Also useful are printed charts that show the whole list of years with boxes to check off as you search each one. Such charts can be found in the above mentioned courses and can be used for any country.

Example of Civil Registration Transcript Form DASHWOOD Marriages in England and Wales

If you are doing a marriage search and know the surnames of both parties save yourself a lot of work by choosing to search first the most unusual surname, then cross reference to the common one. There will be far fewer to cross reference. Your notebook page can be set up below.

Marriage Search for Ann Brickett to James Taylor  Start looking for a marriage in the same quarter in which the first child arrives (2Q 1853), and then proceed backwards to a date when they are known, or likely, to be unmarried. In this case he was unmarried in the 1851 census taken on 30 Mar 1851

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