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Family tracing, public records and finding people in the UK

How to trace family and people in the UK and how to access public records.

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Personensuche, Anschriftenermittlung und Familienforschung in Großbritannien

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German-language information on how to obtain birth, marriage and death records, and how to trace an ancestor or missing friends in the UK.

Updates to this page

Published 31 May 2013
Last updated 8 November 2018 + show all updates
  1. Updated information with new links

  2. Added translation

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