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Person

Surname Use upper- or lower-case. If you do not enter a surname, you must enter a County, Forename, and Place
Forename(s) Optional. Use upper- or lower-case. Abbreviations and Latin versions of name will be included automatically
Birth year from Optional, YYYY. The first year you want to include
Birth year to Optional, YYYY. The last year you want to include
Name Soundex Check to include the Soundex equivalent of the name: it is used for both surname and forename (if entered)
Birth County These are grouped into sections for England, Ireland, Islands, Scotland, Wales and a Special category (including overseas, out of county, ships and military). If you select more than one county, all places within those counties will be searched Select one to three (hold Ctrl for multiple)
Birth Place
We are commencing development of the birth place search feature in the light of your feedback in the Birth Place survey. Our volunteers and developers have already undertaken extensive work to improve the quality of information about the place of birth that we hold, so that the ‘type what you see’ place of birth can be searched more meaningfully.

Census location & year

Census County These are grouped into sections for England, Ireland, Islands, Scotland, Wales and a Special category. Only counties with data are included. If you select more than one county, all places within those counties will be searched Select one to three (hold Ctrl for multiple)
Census Place This box fills only when a single county is selected. Select one place, or leave blank for all the places in a county. See also the “Nearby Places” option, below Select nothing or one place
Census year The specific census year to search. Leave blank to search all. Leave blank to search all
Nearby places. Searches the nearest 100 places (with data) to the selected starting place.

Filters

Filters are applied to the results of a search. (Spreadsheets users will be familiar with the process). We suggest running a search without any filters to get a large set of results (e.g. 3-400); Select the Revise Search button, select your filters and then Search again. Please read the Help carefully BEFORE using the Marital Status, Occupation and Disabled filters.

Marital Status Select the marital status you wish to view. Available from 1851 onwards. Leave blank to select all
Sex Select the sex of the person you wish to view. Leave blank to select both
Occupation Selection will be based on the appearance of these characters at the start of any word in the occupation field. Case irrelevant.Leave blank for all occupations
Disabled Restricts the selection to those who are declared disabled. Available from 1851 onwards.
Search times are limited to 100 seconds.
Please do not restart the search once it is working as this will actually slow the process.

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