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Tracing Your Ancestors

Surrey Heath Museum holds a variety of records relating to the history of the area including a selection of old local ratebooks (mainly Frimley and Camberley), historic maps, some editions of the Camberley News (1920 - 1968) and a database of local buildings showing date of construction and builder where known. We also hold local history resource files on a variety of topics and a collection of historic photographs.

The following sites may be of use to the amateur genealogist in tracing their family roots.
Some or all of the following details will be needed to get you started.

• Full Name
• Date of Birth - date/time/place
• Christening - date/time/place
• Marriage - date/time/place
• Death - date
• Profession/occupation details

Government Records	Web Site address
National Archives	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Public Record Office (Northern Ireland)	www.proni.gov.uk
General Register Office (England & Wales)	www.gro.gov.uk
General Register Office (Northern Ireland)	www.groni.gov.uk
General Register Office (Republic of Ireland)	www.groireland.ie/
General Register Office (Scotland )	www.gro-scotland.gov.uk
National Archives of Ireland	www.nationalarchives.ie
National Archives of Scotland (NAS)	www.nas.gov.uk
Civil Registry (Isle of Man)	www.gov.im/mnh/heritage/
Scotland's People	www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
Family Records Centre	www.familyrecords.gov.uk
Office of National Statistics	www.statistics.gov.uk
1901 Census	www.census.pro.gov.uk
Historical Manuscripts Commission	www.hmc.gov.uk
British Library India Office	www.bl.uk
National Library of Wales	www.llgc.org.uk
Genealogical Societies	Web Site Address
Assoc. of Genealogists	www.agra.org.uk
Burke's Peerage & Gentry	www.burkes-peerage.net
Commonwealth War Graves Commission	www.cwgc.org
Federation of Family History Societies	www.ffhs.org.uk
Guild of One-Name Studies	www.one-name.org
Irish Genealogical Research Society	www.igrsoc.org
Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain	www.jgsgb.org.uk
Scottish Genealogy	www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
Society of Genealogists	www.sog.org.uk
UK and Ireland Genealogical Info. Service	www.genuki.org.uk
Online Databases	Web Site Address
Access to Archives Database (archives in publicly accessible collections)	a2a.org.uk
Ancestral Scotland	www.ancestralscotland.com
Ancestors	www.ancestors.com
BT Group Archives	www.bt.com/archives
Child Migrant Central Information Index	www.ncvcco.org
Chineseroots	www.chineseroots.com
Cyndi's List	www.cyndislist.com
Free BMD (Births, Marriages, and Deaths)	www.freebmd.org.uk
Free Census	freecen.rootsweb.com
Free Reg	freereg.rootsweb.com
Family Search of the LDS	www.familysearch.org
Familia	www.familia.org.uk
Genes Connected	www.genesconnnected.co.uk
My Trees	www.mytrees.com
My Family	www.myfamily.com
Origins (for British and Irish records)	www.origins.net
Rootsweb Surname List	www.rootsweb.com
English Origins	www.englishorigins.com
Scots Origins	www.scotsorigins.com
Surname Profiler	spatial-literacy.org/uclnames
UKBMD (Local Authority online databases)	ukbmd.org.uk