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Apply for a UK Ancestry visa if you're a Commonwealth citizen and can prove that one of your grandparents was born in the UK - eligibility, fees, documents, how to apply, how long it takes and how to settle
Includes how to get married, list of funeral directors and how to register a birth abroad.
Find out what the MOD War Detectives get up to throughout their days
Annual statistics on population, births, deaths, marriages and civil partnerships in Northern Ireland
The National Archives is the official archive and publisher for the UK government and for England and Wales. It is the guardian of some of our most iconic national documents, dating back over 1,000 years. The National Archives is a...
HM Passport Office board reports directly to the executive management board of the Home Office, and works with partners and stakeholders to ensure the department meets its objectives.
This collection brings together documents relating to the National DNA Database which is part of the Forensic Information Databases Service.
How to obtain Information held in the index of relating franchises and manors (practice guide 13).
List of all the tools and techniques in the toolkit.
Lists the surnames which appeared at least ten times (in total) in Scotland's registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths for the year.
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