Discover your English family history
and start your family tree. Find resources for all English counties and
access many
genealogy records including Census, Land and Cemetery
records. This website is dedicated to making English ancestry
research as free as possible. However, that is not always easy. There are a limited number of free resources available
so you may have
already seen some of these links. Sometimes websites go offline
and others may start charging for their resources without notice. So
it's possible that some of the links in this website may not work or ask for
money to view the
data.
A Useful Tip to
Help You With Your Ancestry Research
Using Google Command Operators To Improve
Your Search Results
If you are going to do a Google
Search and you want to get the best
results, you should familiarize yourself with a coupleof very useful
Google command operators, "allintitle" and "allintext". The
"allintitle" operator returns search term results with matches found in
the title of a file where "allintext" returns search results with each
of your search terms found in the text of the file. For instance,
if
you were looking for census documents from Clark County Washington for
the year 1850, you could use the "allintitle" operator and your search
might look like this:
This may return a lot of unwanted results, such as "Clark County
Nevada". You could further filter your search results by trying double
quotes around Clark and County. This would still pull up "Clark County
Nevada" and probably many more Clark Counties. You might even try
"Clark County Washington". Double quotes could have the reverse effect
and return very few results. So you will have to experiment. The search
string below could eliminate "Clark County Nevada" results by using the
"-" operator. The "-" operator means, minus these results.
There is also a "+" operator that works the opposite way. You don't
need to use the "+" operator with the "allintitle" command, because it
automatically searches for every search term you listed.
If you wanted to do a search for a census record for "Bill Jones"
living in "Alameda County California" in 1910, you should
use the
"allintext" operator. It will return only matches from your search
terms found in the text of a file. The "allintext" operator is a very
good way of filtering unwanted results. In the example above, you
should try putting last name first and inclosing last and first name in
quotes. Most census records were recorded this way. You can also use
the "-" and "+" operators with "Allintext. Below is an example
search
for "Bill Jones" living in "Alameda County California" in
1910.
