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Service at The National Archives has moved positively ahead in the past few years.
During 1998-9, a large slice of the manual class lists were computerised
for internal use. From 2001 all Catalogue references have been fully
accessible on the Internet. Callers can now dial-up and access indexes
directly and effortlessly scroll through the millions of headings:
Especially useful for specialists and authors. However, it has to
be emphasised that employing independent researchers and record
agents will probably be the most economic and flexible approach
to actually get at the records but The National Archives catalogue
will least provide an overview of what can be researched.
As it is the
aim of this article to inform in a practical manner with a real
slant toward genealogy, it would seem more valuable to cut through
the detail and simply say, that if one had an ancestor with any
connection with the subjects below, then there is a very good chance
that their names might appear in TNA records and can be productively
researched further:
- Army
1760 - 1920
- Medals
and Awards
- Militia,
Volunteers & Fencibles
- Yeomanry
- Death
Duty Registers
- Court
Martials
- Royal
Navy 1688 -1923
- Prisoners
& Prisons
- Masters
& Mates
- Merchant
Shipping
- Royal
Marines 1664 - 1921
- Customs
& Excise from ca 1700
- Coastguard
from 1822
- Royal
Flying Corps
- Royal
Air Force
- Ships
Passenger Lists
- Metropolitan
Police from 1829
- Immigrants
(naturalisation & denization) from 1700s
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- Military
& Naval Operational Records
- Royal
Irish Constabulary (RIC) from 1836
- Merchant
Seaman from early 1800s
- Convicts
& Transportation from 1616
- Prisoners
of War (17th-20th c)
- Criminal
Trials, Assizes sessions, Higher Courts etc
- West
Indies
- Slave
Registers
- Colonial
Records
- Emigrants
(criminal) from 1616
- Emigrants
(voluntary) from 1634
- Indentured
Servants
- Changes
of name
- Apprenticeship
Records (from 1710)
- Probate
Records (PCC to 1858)
- Tontines
& Annuities
- Crown
Employees & Government Servants
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