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What is RG35?

General Register Office: Miscellaneous Foreign Death Returns - 1791-1921. Contains death certificates issued by foreign registration authorities and churches, copies of entries in the registers kept by British embassies, incumbents of English churches and chaplains, notification of marriages of servicemen during service abroad, and documents deposited for safekeeping. The records cover the period 1791 to 1921.

Scope and content

This series contains death certificates issued by foreign registration authorities and churches, copies of entries in the registers kept by British embassies, incumbents of English churches and chaplains, notification of marriages of servicemen during service abroad, and documents deposited for safekeeping. They include an incomplete collection of certificates of British military deaths in France and Belgium, 1914 to 1921, issued by the registration authorities of those countries.

 

The Genealogist Research Guide by David Tippey

Contents

Researching Your Family History Using TheGenealogist.co.uk

  1. Getting started
  2. The Genealogist
  3. Smart Search™

Census

The census

  1. What is the census?
  2. What does it tell us?
  3. Possible pitfalls
  4. Using the census
  5. Paleography (how to deal with difficult handwriting)
  6. Working with the census

Anatomy of the census page

  1. How the page is numbered
  2. The census information
  3. Other marks

About census indexes

  1. Creating census name indexes

Using census indexes

  1. Searching the indexes
  2. Accuracy and omissions

About census transcripts

Using census transcripts

  1. Search terms

BMDs

Birth, marriage & death records index

  1. What they provide
  2. Why buy certificates?
  3. Finding certificate references
  4. 1837 to 1983 data
  5. 1984 onwards
  6. Additional features
  7. Ordering certificates

Other resources

Parish records

  1. Using the parish registers

Trade directories

Other resources

  1. English & Welsh Landowners 1873
  2. Knights of England 1127 to 1904