BIRTH RECORDS usually give you the child's name, date and place of birth, father's name and occupation, mother's name, whether a doctor or other person was in attendance, date of registration and the informant's name and residence.
MARRIAGE RECORDS usually give you bride & groom's approximate ages, places of birth, residences at time of marriage, sometimes names of both sets of parents [sometime with the mother's maiden names] date & place of marriage, religious denomination, witnesses.
DEATH RECORDS usually give the deceased's name, age at death, place of death, cause of death, informant's name & residence, doctor's name and, sometimes if you are very fortunate, the parents' names and places of birth IF known by the informant.
CENSUS
USA
- 1850 - 1930 for ALL States
- 1880 FREE Look-Up offered for INDEX
- [1890 was destroyed]
1841 - 1901 for England, Wales, Channel Islands, Isle of Man
1881 FREE LOOK UP offered for INDEX
CANADA
- 1851 for Upper and Lower Canada; Nova Scotia; New Brunswick
- 1881 FREE LOOK UP offered
- 1901 and 1911 for Canada
- 1906 for Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta
The 1841 UK CENSUS and the EARLY years of the US Federal Census give very basic family listing information.
For LATER YEARS, greater detail is given, such as:
- Head of Household
- Family Members
- Ages
- Occupations
- County of Birth
- Birthplaces of both parents and Nationalities
- Year of Immigration, if applicable
