Search Our Records

SmartSearch™ allows you to automatically search for:

• the partner from a marriage record
• the complete family at the same address as the person whose census record you are viewing
• a birth record from a death record (only works for men, or for women who still use their maiden name)

• You can produce surname-distribution maps based on the data in the birth, marriage and death records index for England & Wales 1837 to 2005.
• You will need to be registered and to have bought some credits to use this feature.
• Maps cost just 10 credits each.

To produce a surname-distribution map, search for a surname using the Master Search or Births, Marriages and Deaths search tools, entering the year range you are interested in.

If using the Master Search tool, click on Births & Baptisms, Deaths & Burials or Marriages under Filter by Event, and then on 'View a map of results' to view distribution maps which are generated from the birth, marriage and death records index for England and Wales.

If searching in the Births, Marriages or Deaths sections of our website, click on 'view map of results