Investigating your Family History
These are some starting points if you are considering investigating your family history.Documents/Certificates
The certificates that record the most important events of anyone's life - their birth, marriage and death certificates - should be your first port of call when attempting to establish concrete facts about your ancestors. It's obviously easiest to start with known relatives.You will need to order duplicate copies of certificates you are interested in. Before you can do this you will need to obtain a certificate reference number - you do this by looking at indexes that are arranged alphabetically in quarterly chronological volumes, stored at one of several research centres
From a birth certificate you can obtain your relative's date and place of birth, the name and residence of their mother (and sometimes her maiden name - for you to follow up later). The name and occupation of the father is also added to the certificate.
A marriage certificate provides you with the full names of each partner, and the date of the marriage - more useful clues for further researches. You will also often find out the names of the fathers of both bride and groom.
From a death certificate you'll discover the date of death and final residence of your deceased ancestor. Perhaps of even more interest, though, is the name of the person who informs the authorities that a death has occurred. This is often a relative who can also be traced, thereby setting up another set of searches.
Parish registers
A slightly more complicated source of information can be found in many parishes, in their registers of baptisms, marriages and burials. From 1538 in England and Wales, and 1555 in Scotland, each parish in the kingdom was required to keep these, and they are very useful to genealogists. However, it is important to stress that most of the records prior to 1837 do not provide an actual date of death or birth, but only the date of the event that followed it (burial or baptism).Parish registers are not a comprehensive record, as they were maintained at the discretion of the local vicar.
Wills
One of the best ways of gleaning information about family relationships is via an individual's will, which usually contains specific bequests to family members.Maternity Acupressure Guide: Easier, Shorter And Safer Birth
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