Birth records
Birth certificates and baptism records for family historians and genealogists
How to start a family tree
Who Do You Think You Are? family history expert Laura Berry shares her tips on how to start a family tree
How to find birth, marriage and death records
We explain how to easily find birth, marriage and death records in the UK for family history research
Where to find London parish registers online
These websites will help family historians find London parish registers and track down birth, marriage and death records for ancestors who lived in Britain’s capital
Historic Irish birth, marriage and death records now free online
Detailed records of historic Irish births, marriages and deaths have appeared on the web more than 24 hours before their ‘official’ launch
GRO to increase certificate costs from February
Copies of birth, marriage and death records will be more expensive to order from the General Register Office from 16 February
GRO makes birth and death certificate PDF scheme permanently available
Family historians can now order PDFs of their ancestors’ records from the General Register Office