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From: "fuller.tony" <>
Subject: Re: [HWE] Greetings and Looking for Info. re Clinch family
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 08:27:06 +0100
References: <20051024211345.43642.qmail@web25107.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>


Hi Patti

Whilst the link posted by Melissa is correct for registering modern BMDs,
local authorities like Hackney do NOT hold records which can be searched by
the public.

Those records are held at the ONS' Family Records Centre (FRC) in Islington,
North London where they can be searched and they are available online at
www.1837.com

Additionally civil registration in the UK only started in 1837 and the
records at the FRC only start then. Prior to that date the records are in
the local parish records which by law, now have to be stored in the County
Archive. For Hackney they would be in the London Metropolitan Archives,
also in Islington close to the FRC.

The Hackney link is wholly misleading for family researchers. Hackney local
archive, which I think is in Dalston MAY have some of the records but the
two places above (FRC and LMA) most definitely do.

Regards

Tony Fuller


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