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First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
How to use the General Register Office to find marriage certificates when researching your family tree and family history.
Birth certificates, registering a death, marriage, family history and correcting certificates
The fourth annual report from the Biometrics and Forensic Ethics Group.
The third annual report from the Biometrics and Forensic Ethics Group.
National Records of Scotland provide demographic statistics and census information, run a family history service, and play a leadership role for Scottish archive and record professionals.
Genealogists, historians and amateur family archivists will be better able to access historic wills under proposals published today (15 December 2023).
Explore the local archives to help your research into family and local history at your local council
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
This book chapter brings together information about current aspects of genome-wide studies and the concept of heritability
Article about the history of the census in England and Wales over 220 years, from the first census in 1801 to 2021 and the future of population statistics.
[National Records of Scotland](http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk) provide demographic statistics and census information, run a family history service, and play a leadership role for Scottish archive and record professionals.
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