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Quick tips

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  • baptisms or marriages use the IGI or parish registers
  • burials or deaths use parish registers, or if after 1900 use local burial records
  • a birth place use the census and some later parish registers
  • the occupation use census and trade directories
  • the place lived use census, trade directories or electoral registers.
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