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Courts and legal offices can be a rich source of family history information. Some court houses have legal documents going back many years, for example probate which includes information about estates,wills, intestate papers. Additional more detailed family history records could include marriage papers, court proceedings indenture, voting records. All of these additional sources can be useful additional family history sources to add to your armory.
Attending your local genealogical society can be an excellent way of meeting other researchers. Some societies and family history centers have book and publication exchange schemes to help you get access to a wider range of family history support resources
The amount of information on birth certificates can vary significantly. In more recent years this could mean that there is both a short and long form. So if you can’t find the family history data that you are looking for it’s a good idea to try and find out if a long form certificate exists. Your local family history center or records office may be able to help you with family history and birth certificates advice.Certificates almost always show parents and sometimes other valuable information including where the parents were born, occupation and sometimes their address at the time the certificate was made.
When investigating your family history try wider sources and records such as divorce, medical, immigration adoptions, land title, school attendance, biography from local history books, wills and obituaries
