Looking for your Brough ancestors?
If you're looking for information on your Brough ancestry,
or if you're not sure you're related to the Broughs of the Brough
Family Organization, we
recommend you do the following:
1.) First, see if you can find your Brough ancestors
in the BFO Genealogical Databases or in
the world's largest on-line genealogical database at Family
Search. The Family Search website provides you with
access to the extensive genealogical records of the Family History Library
(FHL) of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The FHL
maintains the International Genealogical Index (IGI)--which contains millions
of individual names, and the Ancestral File (AF) and Pedigree Resource
File (PRF) databases--which contain millions of lineage-linked names from
around the world.
2.) Second, contact the BFO via email and briefly
explain your research problem. BFO family genealogists usually
investigate most research questions related to Brough ancestry within
30 days. However, BFO family genealogists usually volunteer
only two hours of their time to each such inquiry. If BFO
family genealogists are not able to freely resolve your research question(s)
within this time period--or if you feel it would require more than two
hours of research to resolve your question(s)--you can contact a professional
genealogist or genealogical research firm (such as GRC)
to conduct additional research on your behalf.
3.) Third, these are websites that might
be of help to you in your genealogical research endeavors:
New
LDS Family Search
(newest version of FamilySearch by the LDS Church)
New Family Search (millions
of the newest extracted records of FamilySearch by the LDS Church)
Old Family Search
(access to older IGI, 1881 British & Canadian Census and 1880 US Census)
Create A Fan Chart of Your Ancestry
(based on FamilySearch database)
Youth & Family
History (explains how and why young people should get involved in
family history work)
Family Search Labs (allows
easy searching of huge databases--like the British Isles Vital Records
Index)
Family Search Wiki
(free family history research advice)
Family
Search Wiki - Family Organizations (info about ancestral and surname
family organizations)
IGI
Batch Numbers & Extracted Entries (Hugh Wallis site that lists
extracted IGI names through 2002)
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Helpful Genealogical Websites (with links from the Mormon Times
- Deseret News, Utah, Feb.2011)
Family Search Histfam (collection
of lineage-linked genealogies covering hundreds of years)
Medieval
British Isles Families (information about medieval research and FHL
Medieval Families Unit)
Free BMD (listing
of births, marriages and deaths in the United Kingdom & Ireland--beginning
in 1837)
Staffordshire, BMD (listing
of births, marriages and deaths in Staffordshire, England, 1837-1950+)
Staffordshire Name Indexes
(apprentices, prisoners, tenants, wills, from 1600 to 1920 by the SRO)
Cheshire
Parish Registers (on-line FHL project covering the years 1538-2000)
Old Occupational Names and
Titles (via Hall Genealogy website)
UK BMD (listing of government
on-line genealogical databases available for the United Kingdom)
BMD
Certificates from the GRO (birth, marriage and death certificates
are available from the GRO)
Marriage
Licences and Bonds for Lichfield Diocese, 1636-1880 (Staffordshire
and nearby counties)
Will
Indexes of Lichfield & Coventry, 1650-1730 (Staffordshire, Derbyshire,
Shropshire, Warwickshire)
Wills of the Perrogative Court of Canterbury (1384-1858, on-line index
of Wills held by this Court)
National
Burial Index for England & Wales (at FHL in SLC. CD-ROM # 6356,
3rd Edition 2010)
Church of England Locations
(where you can find parish churches and their locations and contact info)
Genes Reunited (major website
for searching and connecting related people in the United Kingdom)
GENUKI (a very large collection
of United Kingdom and Ireland genealogical resources)
Topographic
Dictionary of England (via British History Online)
National Gazetteer
of Wales (lists cities and counties in Wales)
Scotland
births, marriages and deaths, 1855-1956 (SLC-FHL Film # 292772)
Scotlands People Search (official government source of genealogical
data for Scotland)
Irish Genealogy
(online Roman Catholic church records)
Commonwealth
War Graves Register (death records of military personnel during WW1
& WWII, etc.)
National Archives of Australia (viewable
records since 1901--especially military service records)
Australia BMD Records (gateway
to Australian births, marriages and death records, via Cora Num)
Australia Cemeteries Index
(graves and photos of many Australians)
N.S.W., Australia, Family Historians page (general information for
family historians and genealogists)
N.S.W., Australia, Births and Deaths Registry Index (Births: 1788-1908;
Deaths: 1788-1978)
N.S.W.,
Australia, Marriage Registry Index (Marriages: 1788-1958)
N.S.W.,
Australia, Indexes Online (Census, Convicts, Immigration, Naturalization,
etc.)
New Zealand,
Birth, Marriage and Death Records (and ordering such certificates)
British
Columbia, Canada, Birth & Marriage & Death Records (on-line
viewing and ordering)
Ancestry.com (includes
indexed British Census for 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901)
RootsWeb
"Obituary Daily Times" Index (via Ancestry.com)
New
York Passengar Lists, 1820-1957 (via Ancestry.com)
FindMyPast.com (includes
indexed British Census, Military and Migration records)
Find A Grave (extensive
database of gravestone information and photos throughout the world
Mormon
Pioneer Trail Database (contains thousands of names and dates of pioneers,
1847-1868)
Mormon
Immigration Ship Index (of LDS members who sailed to the United States
in the 1800's)
Histories
of Utah Pioneers (online index of Utah pioneer histories via Daughters
of Utah Pioneers)
Photos of Utah
Pioneers (online index of Utah pioneer photos via Daughters of Utah
Pioneers)
LDS Temples and genealogical
codes (of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
HeritageQuestOnLine.com
(includes United States Census records)
Genealogical
Relationship Chart (that explains and shows multiple relationships)
Free Zip Code Lookup
(lists related cities, counties and states in the United States)
Utah
Death Records (covers the years 1905-1954 and includes digital images
of death certificates)
Western States (USA)
Marriage Record Index (BYU-Idaho Index)
Advanced People Search
(a good source to use to find people in the United States)
Public Records Now (a
good source to use to find people in the United States)
Switchboard Digital Directory
(a good source to use to find people in the Unitd States)
MapQuest.com
(a good source for quickly locating cities and towns--and their distances--in
England)
United
Kingdom Postal Codes and Maps (a good source to find U.K. postal codes
and related maps)
United Kingdom Telephone
Books (a good source that lists links to different phone directories)
MeasuringWorth (comparative
purchasing power and value of currency through time)
Xmission Internet Webmail (BFO
email-entry site)
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