Ireland. Scotland. Local BMD Project. Over the last few years family historians in a growing number of counties and regions within the country have been working with their local Register Office staff to create on-line indexes. Each has been managed separately and an indication of the success of the project can be seen by the fact that there are now over 40 million records on-line under the Local BMD banner. The aim now is to encourage family historians in the rest of the country to join this project and begin working with their local register offices to put original birth, marriage and death indexes on-line.
Below you will find : The start of UKBMD website and the Local BMD Project. In 1837 registration of births, marriages and deaths in England and Wales began, however this did not become compulsory until 1875 with the Births and Deaths Registration Act. Since 2000 a growing number of Family History Societies have been working with their local Register Offices to place indexes to births, marriages and deaths on-line. Lookup UK. Lookup UK: Databases. SCRAN. The National Archives. The National Archives: PRONOM. 192.com Telephone Directory.
The Godfrey Edition: Ordnance Survey Maps. EnglishOrigins.org. British Newspaper Archive. Archives Hub. UK Surnames. CuriousFox: UK Genealogy Message Boards. David Archer Maps. Streetmap. The Scots/Irish Immigration of the 1700s. A few terms for your understanding: S/I = Scots-Irish, purely a U.S. term used to distinguish the Presbyterian/Protestant Irish, mostly from Northern Ireland, who emigrated to the U.S. in the 1700's as separate and distinct from earlier and later Catholic emigrants. Papists = Roman Catholics. You should understand that much of what happened in Scotland which resulted in the emigration to Ireland was the result of the English King realizing that the Pope held a "higher" position than that of the King of England. With that thought came the outlawing of the Catholic Church in the whole of the British Isles. Ulstermen or Ulster-Scots = Another name for the Scots-Irish, since Ulster was the part of Northern Ireland in which the Scots were settled by the British.
The Scottish people who found themselves in Ireland had gone through a transforming experience - that of the Scottish Reformation, which was a complete and total break with the Catholic Church. Return to the Table of Contents At War. Scotch Irish pioneers in Ulster & America. PDF: Scottish Immigration from Ulster.