The National Archives
The National Archives is the UK government's official archive. It contains over 1,000 years of history and supplies guides, tutorials, and podcasts to help with your research. Findmypast works with TNA to bring you hundreds of thousands of records, many of which you won't find elsewhere online and we are proud of this ongoing relationship.
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The National Archives Records available on Findmypast
Life Events
- Divorce index
- Index to death duty registers 1796-1903
- Births at sea, 1854-1960
- Marriages at sea, 1854-1972
- Deaths at sea, 1781-1968
- England & Wales Non-Conformist births and baptisms
- England & Wales, Society of Friends (Quaker) births 1578-1841
- England & Wales, Society of Friends (Quaker) burials 1578-1841
- England & Wales Non-Conformist marriages
- England & Wales Non-Conformist burials
- British Royal Marines, marriage registers 1813-1920
- England, clandestine marriages
- England, clandestine marriages browse
- England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717
- England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 Browse
- Middlesex, Brompton cemetery records
Education & Work
- Britain, Merchant Seamen, 1835-1857
- Britain, Merchant Seamen, 1918-1941
- England & Wales Merchant Navy crew lists 1861-1913
- Ireland, Irish Revenue Police 1830-1857
- Ireland, Royal Irish Constabulary Service Records 1816-1922
- Ireland, Royal Irish Constabulary pensions 1826-1925
- Ireland, Royal Irish Constabulary History & Directories
- Britain, Royal and Imperial Calendars 1767-1973
Census, Land & Surveys
- 1841 England, Wales & Scotland Census
- 1851 England, Wales & Scotland census
- 1861 England, Wales & Scotland census
- 1871 England, Wales & Scotland census
- 1881 England, Wales & Scotland census
- 1891 England, Wales & Scotland census
- 1901 England, Wales & Scotland census
- 1911 census for England & Wales
- 1939 register
- Irish Boundary Commission Records 1924-1925
Armed forces & Conflict
- British Armed Forces, First World War disability and retirement payments for officers and nurses
- British Armed Forces, First World War soldiers' medical records
- British Armed Forces, First World War soldiers' medical records browse
- British Armed Forces, First World War widows' pension forms
- British Army officers widows pension forms 1755-1908
- Durham Home Guard 1939-1945
- Royal Navy officers 1899-1919
- Royal Navy seamen 1899-1919
- Royal Naval division service records 1914-1920
- Royal Navy, 1914 Star Medal Roll 1914-1920
- British Royal Naval Reserve 1899-1930
- British Royal Navy, ships' musters
- British Royal Navy Allotment Declarations 1795-1852
- British Women's Royal Naval Service officer files 1917-1919
- British Women's Royal Naval Service ratings' service registers 1918-1919
- Royal Marines 1899-1919
- Royal Marine medal roll 1914-1920
- RNVR other ranks - medal rolls 1914-1920
- British Army service records
- British Army Pensioners - Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Ireland, 1783-1822
- British Army, Women's Army Auxiliary Corps 1917-1920
- British Army casualty lists 1939-1945
- British Army casualty lists 1939-1945 Image Browse
- Royal Air Force muster roll 1918
- British Royal Air Force, airmen's service records 1912-1939
- British Royal Air Force, officers' service records 1912-1920
- British Women's Royal Air Force service records 1918-1920
- British Royal Air Force, Combat Reports 1939-1945
- Royal Air Force, Operations Record Books 1939-1945
- Royal Navy officers medal roll 1914-1920
- British merchant navy, First World War medal cards 1914-1925
- Britain, campaign, gallantry & long service medals & awards
- WW1 ships lost at sea, 1914-1919
- Prisoners of war 1715-1945
- Prisoners of war 1715-1945 browse
- Easter Rising & Ireland under martial law
- England & Wales closed cemeteries burials and re-interments browse
- Scotland, Jacobite rebellions 1715 and 1745
Institutions & Organisations
- Crime, prisons & punishment
- Ireland, outrage reports 1836-1840
- Ireland, poverty relief loans 1821-1874
- Irish tontines annuitants 1766-1789
Travel & Migration
- Index to register of passport applications 1851-1903
- Passenger lists leaving UK 1890-1960
- New South Wales and Tasmania: settlers and convicts 1787-1859
- Convict transportation registers 1787-1870
- Kindertransport
- Britain, Registers of licences to pass beyond the seas, 1573-1677
- Early emigration from britain 1636-1815
- Early emigration from britain 1636-1815 browse
- Britain, early emigration to barbados
- Britain, early emigration to barbados browse
- Ireland, maps and surveys 1558-1610