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The free collection includes the following:
- The largest collection of Irish family history records available online
- Home Office records, Police files, England & Wales Crime, prisons & punishment records and original documents from the British India Office
- Civil birth, marriage and death records dating back to the early 19th century
- The largest online collection of UK parish records, dating back to the early 1500s
- The most comprehensive online collection of British Military service records
- The 1939 register, one of the most important twentieth century genealogical resources for England and Wales.
- Passenger lists for ships sailing to and from Europe, Australia, New Zealand, North America and beyond
- The largest online collection of England & Wales Electoral registers, containing more than 220 million names
- The exclusive Catholic Heritage Archive, a ground-breaking initiative that aims to digitize the historical records of the Catholic Church in North America, Britain and Ireland for the very first time
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Note: British, Irish, US and World Newspapers, the PERiodical Source Index and UK Electoral Registers & Companies House Directors 2002-2018 are not included in the free access collection.