Who Do You Think You Are? Encyclopedia of Genealogy (83 page)

The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) contains government departmental records, court, public bodies' and local authority records for Northern Ireland as well as some records deposited by private individuals and companies. It acts as a County Record Office for the whole of Northern Ireland and, as such, unlike any other national archive elsewhere in the United Kingdom, it has an immense collection of private, local and ecclesiastical records.

British Library: www.bl.uk

British Library Newspaper Library: http://explore.bl.uk

Family Search/Family History Centres: www.familysearch.org.uk

Federation of Family History Societies: www.ffhs.org.uk

General Register Office (GRO): www.direct.gov.uk

General Register Office for Scotland (GROS): www.gro-scotland.gov.uk

General Register Office of Ireland (GROI): www.groireland.ie

General Register Office, Northern Ireland (GRO Northern Ireland): www.groni.gov.uk

Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies (IHGS): www.ihgs.org.uk

Jewish Genealogical Society: www.jgsgb.org.uk

Principal Registry of the Family Division: www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk

Society of Genealogists: www.sog.org.uk

The Wellcome Library: www.library.wellcome.ac.uk

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Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet 276

abbreviations

    
in family trees 25

    
in note taking 49

Aberfan Disaster (1966) 264

Access to Archives (A2A) 41–2, 257, 273, 326, 349, 410, 465

accountants 333–4

Act of Supremacy 121

Act of Uniformity (1662) 120, 121

Act of Union (1707) 153, 244

Admiralty 209, 235, 247

    
ADM series 97, 184, 187–9, 190–2, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 202–5, 206–7, 210–11, 212, 213, 217, 229, 236, 237, 238, 239, 247–8, 259, 356, 411, 455

    
ADM 1 199

Admiralty apprentices 356

Adopted Children Register 421

Adopted Children Register Northern

    
Ireland 423

Adopted People's Association (APA) 424, 425

adoption 9, 23

    
case example: David Dickinson 414

    
case example: Griff Rhys Jones 415

    
case example: Nicky Campbell 421

    
historical context 414–15

Adoption Act (1952) 424

adoption certificates 420, 421, 422, 423

Adoption Contact Registers 425

Adoption of Children (Scotland) Act (1930) 422–3

adoption records 419–27

    
official adoption 421–5

    
unofficial adoption 426–7

Adoption, Search & Reunion website 421

advertisements 326

Africa Star 230

African General Service Medal 217

age of consent 79–80, 116

Agricultural Revolution 307–8, 355, 402

agriculture
see
farming and agricultural labourers

Air Force Cross 217

Air Force Lists 211

Air Force Medal 217

Air Ministry 209

    
AIR series 210, 211, 212, 213, 215, 216, 217, 218–19

Albert Medal 229

Alfred, King 182

Aliens Acts

    
1793: 367, 369

    
1816: 372

    
1836: 369

    
1905: 369, 373, 379

Aliens Registration Act (1914) 370

Allen & Burnhouse Gill Mining Co. 256

American Civil War 271

American Revolution 385

American War of Independence 201, 382, 451

Ancestry website 26–7, 57, 59, 88, 104, 105, 109, 110, 170, 185, 211–12, 291

Anglo-Jewish Archive 374

Anglo-Saxon period 133–4, 173, 462

annulments 431

Anson, George 478

apothecaries 347

    
case example: Natasha Kaplinsky 347

apprenticeship 354–7

    
fishing 245

    
pauper children 40–1

apprenticeship records 356, 419

    
Ireland 365

    
Merchant Navy 222, 223

    
Scotland 364–5

archdeaconry courts 138–9

Archdeaconry of London Wills Index 142

archival pyramid 33

archives 30, 32–51

    
finding 37

    
gathering evidence 32–3

    
lectures and workshops 70

    
online access 60

    
types of 34–7

    
working in 38–51

Archives Hub 42, 289

Archives Network Wales 259, 273–4

ARCHON Directory 37, 39, 42, 276

Arigna Mining Experience centre 267

aristocracy

    
illegitimate offspring 419, 477

    
tracing roots 476–9

    
see also
College of Arms;

    
pedigrees

Arkwright, Richard 279

Armagh County Museum and Library 303

Army Lists 157–8, 167, 202, 203, 210

Ashkenazi Jews 373

Ashley, Lord 271

assizes (assize courts) 443, 445

    
divorce cases 433

    
records 449, 475

asylums 408–9

    
records 410–11

Atlantic Star 230

aunts 18

    
false relations 10–11

Australia

    
child migration to 388

    
emigration to 381, 382, 384

    
migrant records 384, 391–2

    
parish registers 126, 128

    
transportation to 382, 385–6, 387

    
transportation records 454–5

Bal Maidens 266

Bank of England 332

Bank of England Wills Extract Index 142

bankers 332

bankruptcy 329–30

baptism records 11

    
British Army 161

    
illegitimate children 417

    
India 36

    
non-conformists 120

    
parish records 113, 114–15, 123–4, 124–5, 130

    
spellings 68

    
workhouses 404

Barbers' Company of London 346

Bargemen website 296

Barnado's homes 388, 415, 427

barristers 336–7

bastardy examinations 397–8, 399

battalion war diaries 171, 176–7

battalions 155

battlefield visits 181

BBC Nation on Film website 266

‘benefit of the clergy' 456

Besant, Annie 284

bigamy 9, 429, 439–41

    
case study: Vic Reeves 440

‘bill pleading' 471–2

Birmingham 458

    
industrialization 270

    
population (1700s) 461

Birth and Death Registration Act (1874) 75, 85, 233

birth certificates 10, 11, 29–30, 33, 36, 75, 96

    
adopted children 420, 421–2, 423, 424

    
case example: Bill Oddie 79

    
common problems 86

    
contents 77–9

    
discrepancies with marriage certificates 53

    
illegitimacy 416

    
introduction 74

    
making the most of 76–7

    
Scotland 90–1

    
Northern Ireland 93

    
Republic of Ireland 92

birth records

    
births at sea 220, 232–3

    
foundlings 415

    
RFC/RAF personnel 214

    
Royal Marines 207

    
serving soldiers 180

    
spellings 68

    
workhouses 404

Birthlink 422, 425

Bishop of London Registers 127–8

Bishops' Transcripts 113

black and Asian history 366

Black Country Living Museum 282

Black Death 459

Blenkinsop, John 287

Blitz 6, 359

blood relationships 17–18

Board of Agriculture 316

Board of Customs 235, 236, 240–1

Board of Excise 236, 240–1

Board of Trade 220, 236, 258–9, 328

    
BT series 196, 221, 222, 223–4, 225, 226–8, 229, 230, 231, 232–3, 239, 245, 246–7, 264, 327, 330, 356, 383, 392, 395

    
Railway and Canal Division 294

Board of Inland Revenue 241

Bodleian library 447

Boer War 15, 31, 33, 169

Book of Fees (Testa de Nevill) 479

Borthwick Institute of Historical Research 141–2

Bow Street Foot and Horse Patrols 343

Boyd's London Burials 127

Boyd's Marriage Index 124, 126

Bradford 270

    
Manningham Mill Strike 283–4

Bradford Industrial Museum 280

Bradford Textile Society 285

Bredon's Hardwick 35

Bristol

    
population (1700s) 461

    
trial records 450

Bristol Record Office 450

Britain, Battle of (1940) 219

British Agricultural Historical

    
Society (BAHS) 323

British and Foreign School Society 349

British Army 152–81, 197, 272

    
brief history 152–4

    
British Indian Army 172–3

    
case study: Ian Hislop 169

    
commission records 160–1

    
half-pay records 161

    
life in 179–80

    
medal rolls 170

    
Militia records 173–6

    
officer records

      
1660–1913: 157–62

      
British Indian Army 173

      
First World War 167–8

    
organization and hierarchy 154–5

    
other rank records

      
British Indian Army 173

      
First World War 168

      
post 1660 162–6

    
pay lists and muster rolls 165–6

    
pension records 171

    
ranks 155

    
regimental records 159–60

    
service records

      
prior to 1660: 155–6

      
post 1660: 156–66

      
First World War 166–71

      
post First World War 172

    
soldiers' documents 162–5

    
tracing a campaign 176–9

    
troubleshooting guides 482, 484–5

British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) 421, 424

British Empire viii, 36, 86, 89, 127, 180, 183, 198, 366, 389, 459

British Genealogy website 63

British Indian Army
see
Indian Army

British Library 36, 128, 141, 158, 173, 174, 181, 185, 220, 232, 241, 288, 332, 346, 394, 395, 447

    
Collect Britain website 288

    
Newspaper Archive 230

British Nationality Act (1948) 377

British Newspaper Library 61, 265

British Overseas
guide 89, 128, 393

British Rail 296

British Railways Pre Grouping Atlas and Gazetteer
299

British Telecom Archives 291

British transport police 302

British Trials
(Chadwick-Healy) 446

British Vital Records Index 124

British War Medal 217, 229

burial records

    
India 36

    
non-conformists 121

    
parish records 113, 114, 117–18, 124, 125

Burke's Landed Gentry
55

Burke's Peerage and Baronetage
24, 55, 477, 478

Burma Star 230

Business Archives Council (BAC) 328–9

business records and repositories 326–30

Byrnes, Dan 332

Camborne School of Mines (CSM) 253

Cambridge University 324, 353

campaign medals

    
British Army 170

    
RFC 216–17

    
RNAS 217

    
Royal Navy 198

Campbell, John Menzies 348

Campbell, Nicky 421

Canada

    
child migration to 388

    
emigration to 309, 381, 382, 384

    
migrant records 390–1

    
parish registers 128

Canal Boating in the UK and Europe website 305

canals and inland waterways 286, 292–6, 305

capital punishment
see
execution

Caribbean (West Indies) 140

    
emigration to 381, 384, 387, 388

    
immigration from 366, 375–7

    
migrant records 395

    
naval dockyards 248

    
parish registers 128

    
transportation to 385

Cartae Baronum 479

catalogues (archives) 41

Catherine of Aragon 430

Catholic Archive Society of the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland 439

Catholic Church, Ireland 416, 437, 439

Catholic Family History Society 69, 122

Catholic immigration 271

Catholic Record Society 122

Catholic Relief Act (1778) 121

Cecil, William (Lord Burghley) 471

cemeteries 117

census returns 30, 35, 62, 94–111, 253, 299, 459

    
case study: Bill Oddie 107

    
combining with civil registration certificates 96

    
England and Wales

      
1841: 98–100

      
1851–1901: 100–3

      
accessing collections 103–6