Back Before 1837 In England and Wales
So many of us that are actively researching our English or Welsh family trees have come to find that there is a huge amount of information easily come by on the web for the years that take us up to 1837. It is this year that many brick walls occur; as I pointed out in a previous article that I have written on the subject of tracing an English family tree before 1837, it seems to become harder for us to get back before that date. It was in 1837 that the state took over the responsibility of keeping records of its citizen's births, marriges and deaths, from the established church. You may have been amazed at the ease you had finding later records of your ancestors on the subscription websites like Ancestry, or TheGenealogist.co.uk, but then as you go back before the census records and the government run data for Births, Deaths and Marriages, you will have found that only a small number of all the genealogical records, that there actually are, have made it on to the net. Parish Recor...