Family Tree | August 2011
Get the best from the British records on FamilySearch and search the 1911 Census free
Online records are a boon to the busy family historian, and the impressive collections on the FamilySearch.org website have the additional advantage that they are free to search.
Among this giant of a website, there’s 161 million census records for England and Wales, 21 million Irish civil registration records, 9 million Scottish births and baptisms, and 68 million records from English parish registers. Land tax assessments, Nonconformist records, school and workhouse records, registers of electors and probate records meanwhile, add to the variety of these fascinating collections of British records. With new records, resources and online courses regularly being uploaded, FamilySearch is well worth visiting again and again. Turn to page 46 to discover how to get the most from this essential website – and try out their free 1911 Census search for England and Wales too.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Family Tree August 2011.