==Sources used to compile the database==
Abbreviation - Explanation
ADD - Resource not specified... the entry has been added or modified by an individual. On some entries, with "ADD" as the source, you may notice that the Mothers surname has been given. In most cases... the surname was not present in the original records... though I am confident the surname is correct. However, to may prefer to disregard the surname until you have proved its accuracy
for yourself.
ANC - www.ancestry.com
BMD - Birth, Marriage or Death Certificate or Index to Certificates
BTS - Bishops Transcripts
BUR - Burial/ Cemetery records
CEN - Used census data to estimate a date of birth
CWGC - Commonwealth War Graves Commission
ELI - Ellis Island Immigration History Centre
FVP - Free & Voluntary Presents (1661)
IGI - International Genealogical Index at: - www.familysearch.org
MIS - Monumental Inscriptions
MSS - Manuscripts, Books or published works
NBI - National Burial Index (CD ROM)
NBP - Nottinghamshire Baptisms Records (CD ROM)
NBR - Nottinghamshire Burial Records (CD ROM)
NEWS - Newspaper, national or local newspapers the "information" column explains full source details.
NMI - Nottinghamshire Marriage Index (CD ROM)
NML - Nottinghamshire Marriage Licences
NWF - North Wingfield Parish Records (Incl. Clay Cross & Pilsley)
OVR - Overseers Papers
OWN - Owners of land, enclosure records or tithe records
PAL - Pallot's Marriage Index
PHL - Phillimore Index
PRS - Parish Records
PRO - Protestation Returns
SAA - South African Archives
SSDI - Social Secuirty Death indexes (USA)
TRD - Trade Directory
VRI - Vital Records Index
W&P - Wills & Probate records.
WRK - Wirksworth Parish Records, at: www.wirksworth.org.uk (by kind permission of John Palmer)
WWW - From unspecified Internet records online, or family trees found on the Internet
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