Researching Your Family History Online For Dummies (UK Edition)





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Some Genealogical Websites to Remember


This handy list of the main genealogy websites will help you get started in researching your ancestors. Each site can provide you with lots of information about your research and ways to progress your family tree.


For links to lots of other genealogical sites



For family history societies



To search for ancestors and share your successes



For birth, marriage and death records and certificates



For census records



For further information on resources both on and offline



For professional research in the UK and overseas






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Genealogy Abbreviations


Genealogists love to abbreviate. Their documents, letters, reports and emails are full of long words crammed into little spaces, or of the same words repeated over and over again. Many of the abbreviations that you come across in genealogy are fairly self-explanatory – ‘gt grandfather’ is your great-grandfather; ‘Fred’k Smith’ is in fact Frederick Smith. But other abbreviations may catch you out for a moment or two, so here’s a list of some of the most common genealogy abbreviations:



  • b – born



  • bach – bachelor



  • bap/bap’t – baptised



  • bur – buried



  • c/ca – circa (approximately)



  • cert – certificate



  • Chr – christened



  • d – died



  • dau/daur – daughter



  • dec/dec’d – deceased



  • do – ditto



  • d/o – daughter of



  • f – female



  • FS – female servant



  • gdau/gdaur – grand daughter



  • gson – grandson



  • h/o – husband of



  • m/mar/marr – married



  • m(1) – first marriage



  • m(2) – second marriage



  • m – months



  • m – male



  • MS – male servant



  • NK – not known



  • occ – occupation



  • OTP – of this parish



  • PM – post mortem



  • s – single



  • s/o – son of



  • un/unm – unmarried



  • w/wid/widr – widow or widower



  • w/o – wife of







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