On 10 Sep 2016 11:49, Chris Hill wrote:
One thing to watch out for is the Registration Districts in the BMD Civil Registration lists. These cover a number of parishes, from 1 to 20+, and a number of villages/towns. Frequently they do not appear in the Legacy list since the name does not match any village or town. The best way is to use the Registration District as a name and try to find where it actually is (or was) from the list of parishes that Ancestry can give you.I got caught on that looking for Milton in Kent. There is a parish called Milton next to Gravesend and another just north of Sittingbourne, about 15 miles east, which is the name for the Milton Registration District. I got the wrong one!!
I enter Registration Districts as, e.g., Milton Registration District/RD. No need for any county or country information as they only occur in the UK. As for 'pinning' them to a map, you can use Family Search <http://maps.familysearch.org/> to display a map of the UK with all the Registration Districts superimposed on the counties. Only problem is that it shows the districts as they were in 1851 :-) I think it holds pretty well for the 19th century if you couple it with the information on GENUKI.
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