the people in your tree and show you the details on your home page once you're logged in. You'll then be able to decide if you want to connect to matching ancestors in other trees and use the information the other member has discovered about your shared ancestor. You can see which of your records have been added by other members - and the other way round. Worried about sharing your details online? Don't be. We'll make sure you're in control of what other people see. Any information about living people in your tree is always hidden from everyone but you and people that you personally invite to view the tree. If you're not comfortable with sharing your tree publicly, you can keep it private. But that needn't stop you from connecting with other members if you want to. Search results will still show up for matching ancestors, but they'll only show the basic details about that ancestor and members will need to contact you through our messaging service to ask to see more. Records And How To Search What are Birth, Marriage and Death (or BMD) records? The formal recording of birth, marriages and deaths in England and Wales by the Government began on 1st July 1837 with the introduction of civil registration. Civil registration in Scotland started in 1855 but we don't have these records available to search. Before civil registration, each individual parish was responsible for maintaining their own parish register with baptisms, marriages and deaths. With