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Seeking birth record for John Shaw Mckay born 1915 in Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland
Without knowing where you've searched -- and more importantly, how you've searched -- it is difficult to give much more than a general answer. I encourage you to read any search tips and to watch wha …
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Proper British birth date syntax?
When you see a date reference in the form Q4 1968, you are looking at what is referred to as a quarter date.
Birth Registrations
In the United Kingdom, once births are registered, a summary of the …
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Finding person by birthdate alone
A big problem with modern 'hint-based' genealogy is that algorithms for websites like Ancestry are heavily weighted to match people by name, and if the name in the computer index is not what you suspe …
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Children born overseas to British Subjects -- what is their citizenship status?
The page linked to in the answer by user3310902 discusses a particular court case, and the status of children born abroad to British parents isn't discussed there.
However that page provided the c …
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How to interpret differences between different birth indices in England and Wales
I have observed a similar problem with the Massachusetts State Archives' online searchable database for Vital Records, which can be accessed here: Search Vital Records (1841 - 1910). ("Vital Records" …
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Birth records for Baltimore Maryland in the 1840s
You don't say how you know that your 2nd great-grandfather was born in the 1840s in Baltimore, so I'll begin with a caution -- be aware that when people were asked about their birthplace, they sometim …
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Why is my ancestor missing from the New GRO Index - England?
This is intended as a supplement to the previous answer.
The Indexing Problem
Whenever you have a chance to search "the same" data at different websites, it often pays off to search the data on all av …
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Seeking Russian Orthodox birth records for Laski/Leski in Grodno region of Belarus. . .c. 18...
Some general advice on starting work in a new locality can be found in my asnwer to Determining what records are available in a particular locale?.
Use gazeeteers, maps, and research guides for Belaru …
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John Sherwood Clarke: Explaining the two surnames and finding his birth record in France?
The Research Process
One of the things I recommend when you are stuck is to go back to the beginning and review all the records you have collected so far.
Make a Genealogy Source Checklist which l …
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Translating Spanish birth record into English
See the FamilySearch Research Wiki articles Spanish Records Extraction Manual and Spain Genealogy for an overview of information in the Research Wiki that can be used to read and extract information f …
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How to find 19th Century birth certificate from Novara, Italy?
There are a couple of related questions here which might help you. Is there a single place I could go in Italy to view birth records from Northern Italy from 1750-1850? has an answer with information …
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Slovakia, Bratislava, Reca - Jewish records
This is a stub of an answer which will be added to as I find more resources. I'll write out a Research Plan to give you some ideas. You may have done a lot of this already, and if you have, feel fre …
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Finding records prior to 1838 for Malone, Franklin County, NY or St. Lawrence County, NY?
Since the other answers were posted, the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society has published a massive research guide:
New York Family History Research Guide and Gazetteer
I agree with th …
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Looking for 1869 birth certificate in Pennsylvania?
Whenever you are researching in a new time period or location, it is helpful to review what records are available for that time and place. One good starting place is the Family Search Research Wiki. …
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Finding church records for Koselitz, Saxony, Germany?
One of the major references in the USA for locating places in Germany is Kevan Hansen's series of German Map Guides published by FamilyRoots Publishing Company.
Koselitz (and Frauenhain, mentioned in …
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