General Register Office guides to researching your family tree
These guides explain how to use the General Register Office when researching your family tree and family history.
These guides explain:
- how you can order birth, death and marriage certificates
- how you can use these in your ancestry search
- what information you’ll find on the certificates
- what to do if you can’t find a certificate in the General Register Office’s public index of births, marriages and deaths recorded in England and Wales since 1837
Documents
Updates to this page
Published 22 January 2016