Your Family History

Find the family history of everyone in the UK census from 1841 to 1891.

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Can gravestones tell you anything about your ancestry?

Monumental Inscriptions (the writing on gravestones) can tell you alot about an ancestor, but you'll probably find more information in a burial register or death record, than you would wandering through a graveyard peering at headstones.

If you know the location of the grave, however, it may be useful to visit the grave and record the inscription for future use or reference. You may even find other family members in the same graveyard.

In some church yards, you may find that grave markers have been cleared to make the graveyard easier to maintain. In this case, you can always check the burial registry at the cemetary.

Related Website: http://www.bmdindex.co.uk/

The Homeland Handbooks: Newquay Published in 1930, this is a guidebook to Newquay in Cornwall - the references to individuals are in the many advertisements for hotels, etc.		Directories - A Valuable Insight into your Ancestors' Lives Directory Resources are both a research tool and a valuable insight into the lives of your ancestors and what governed their lives.

Case Study - Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Throughout their 20 month courtship and before getting engaged, Robert and Elizabeth exchanged around 600 letters. This is how their marriage record was found.		Fleet Registers Before 1754 many marriages were not performed in parish churces due to the need for people to get around the need for banns and other petty regulations. The favourite alternative venue was the Fleet Prison.