Your Family History

Find the family history of everyone in the UK census from 1841 to 1891.

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Can gravestones tell you anything about your ancestry?

Monumental Inscriptions (the writing on gravestones) can tell you alot about an ancestor, but you'll probably find more information in a burial register or death record, than you would wandering through a graveyard peering at headstones.

If you know the location of the grave, however, it may be useful to visit the grave and record the inscription for future use or reference. You may even find other family members in the same graveyard.

In some church yards, you may find that grave markers have been cleared to make the graveyard easier to maintain. In this case, you can always check the burial registry at the cemetary.

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