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What is RG36?

RG36 Registers and Returns of Births, Marriages and Deaths in the Protectorates etc of Africa and Asia Covering dates 1895-1965. Notifications of birth, marriage and death forwarded by officials responsible for civil registration under administrative ordinances in Nyasaland, Kenya, Somaliland, Uganda, Sudan, Palestine, Sarawak, Malaya, including Johore and Selangor, and British North Borneo.

Scope and content

This series contains Registers and Returns of Births, Marriages and Deaths in the Protectorates etc of Africa and Asia Covering dates 1895-1965. Notifications of birth, marriage and death forwarded by officials responsible for civil registration under administrative ordinances in Nyasaland, Kenya, Somaliland, Uganda, Sudan, Palestine, Sarawak, Malaya, including Johore and Selangor, and British North Borneo. These newly added records were previously only viewable on microfilm at The National Archives.

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