7 Websites for English and Welsh Civil Registration Records

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The year is 1837 and Queen Victoria is beginning her 63-year-reign. It’s also a pivotal year for genealogists with roots in England and Wales. Before then, your best sources of information are church records of baptisms, marriages and burials. But with the launch of civil registration in July 1837, the government started keeping records of View Website VIP Subscription