The most useful records you can consult at provincial state archives (usually open weekday mornings) are vital statistics acts of birth, marriage and death between 1820 and 1860. Concentrate on acts of birth and marriage rather than acts of death, which do not provide as much accurate information which will advance a lineage. Family tree forms such as the Family Group Record concentrate on one family group. The form that's available to download below can hold information about a husband, a wife and their children. I've deliberately included space for twelve children because big families are so much a feature of Irish genealogy, but it doesn't matter if your own.
- Fillable Family Group Record Template
- Useful Linksfillable Family Group Records Search
- Family Group Record Form
- Family Group Sheet Fillable Pdf
Free records
Searching for information about your Gypsy, Traveller or Fairground ancestors? Perhaps our free records can help. We’re building up collections of extracts from parish registers, birth, marriage and death certificates and other sources that we’ll add regularly to this page. So please check back soon. And if you have any to share, please contact us.
Free copies of out-of-print RTFHS publications
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the RTFHS (1994-2019), we will be making available here a number of books published by the Society that have been out of print for several years. These are free for you to read online or print out for yourself.
The first book in this free series is our An RTFHS South Country Family Album, originally published in 2007. This is a fine collection of old photographs kindly contributed by RTFHS members, showing members of their own families. These are mainly people who lived in or travelled in the southern counties of England, stretching from Kent to Cornwall, in the past 100 years or so. The book is in two parts. As the files are large, please allow a few seconds for each part to open on your screen.
We have also provided a separate index to the full names of the people who appear in the book. Including maiden names, they are: Anderson, Ayres, Bailey, Ball, Barney, Black, Bowers, Brown, Butcher, Camfield, Cole, Collins, Cooper, Couch, Cranfield, Crutcher, Doe, Giles, Gobey, Greenstreet, Griggs, Hawkins, Holmes, Hope, Hughes, James, Keet, Martin, Matthews, Mitchell, Norris, Orchard, Othen, Penfold, Pidgley, Rawlings, Renals, Roberts, Sanders, Saunders, Silmon, Small, Smith, Stanley, Swallow, Taylor, Walker, Walton, White and Woods.
Records from across the UK
Records from individual English counties
Berkshire
Fillable Family Group Record Template
Lincolnshire
Oxfordshire
Wiltshire
The Wiltshire Travellers Parish Register Collection
Census records for large encampments of Gypsies and Travellers in English counties
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This page last updated: 10 June 2020.
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