Free Genealogy Data
Finding Free Genealogy Records www.tree-sleuths.co.uk This blog post continues from my earlier post Using FamilySearch . In this post I will introduce you to a selection of free data websites where you can find genealogical information about individual people: things like records of births marriages and deaths. These websites focus on Great Britain and Ireland. These resources are all categorised as Data (D) [1]. Records from England and Wales General Register Office This is the natural place to start, if only because it sits at the centre of the spider’s web: the England and Wales General Register Office (GRO). Although mainly an administrative arm of government serving other government functions, it has data for you. Its website is www.gro.gov.uk (D). The website hosts searchable indexes of birth and death (not marriage) registers for England and Wales created from the full copy registers the GRO holds. Although there are gap years, the indexes are very useful because births show th