Step 3
Collect birth, marriage, and death certificates
Vital records are the backbone of a sourced tree. Learn where to find them and how to read every clue they hold.
What's inside
Vital records are the backbone of a sourced tree. Learn where to find them and how to read every clue they hold.
What you'll learn:
- Where each certificate type lives, by era and place
- What the small print on a certificate really tells you
- Handling gaps before civil registration existed
- Citing each record so it stays re-findable
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