Where else can I go to search records?

Where else can I go to search records?

There are local reference libraries that you can search in. There are local museums that give you an idea of what it was like to live in a particular area. There are lots of themed museums, like the army museums, for instance: the regimental museums. But also there are national institutions such as the National Archives down at Kew, and the National Archives in Edinburgh in Scotland, the National Library of Wales for Welsh material, the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, and the National Archives in Dublin, which covers records relating to southern Ireland and all of Ireland before 1922. These institutions, the national ones, will contain records generated or filed by central government departments. And it would include army service records, and most families will have ancestors or relatives that served in the army at some stage. Taxation records -- we can't away from those. Census returns, for example, which is a complete population count. So again, you're going to find mentions of your ancestors on those. So those are just examples of the sorts of things that you can find in other institutions.