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Sister Agnes treating her brother Nathanile, in Heliopolis Palace

How do you prove who your are and who your parents and grandparents were? The first step is to gather various documents in your home and home of other family members of your family.

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Family records come in a variety of forms - diaries, love letters, awards, heirlooms, photos, newspaper clippings, and Bibles - plus many other types. Below are some internet links for researching European and Australian ancestors.

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Where to search for population records.

In large parts of Europe, state administration, and thus population registration, was secularised in connection with the French Revolution. It was then refined by a Napoleon Bonaparte and spread far beyond the borders of France.

During Napoleon's conquests of large parts of Europe, the new order spread, where the state took over the registration of population from the church - for example in the Netherlands where it changed in 1811. Before 1811 population records were held in church archives, after 1811 it is held in Civil registration archives. Eventually the system spread to other countries, England in 1837, Germany (Standesamt) at the latest in 1876, Denmark in 1924 and Sweden as late as 1991.