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Could you become the Victim of the Date Rape Drug? By taking preventive measures to protect yourself and your friends, you can avoid becoming a potential victim. April is Sexual Assault Month

Has this ever happened to you? You're dressing for a date and when you pull on your favorite jeans, you can no longer button them. Or you're running down the football field when you notice that your legs rub together in a way they never did before. Maybe when you look in the mirror it seems like your pores are taking over your face. If you've ever felt out of step with your body, you're not alone

As mentioned earlier, you can not find everything you need to know about English or Welsh research on the Internet. You're going to have to read some reference books in order to better understand and guide your research efforts. Below are two of the best

Before 1837, it was the responsibility of the established church in England and Wales to record baptisms, marriages, and burials. This was done at the individual parish level and the survival of either the original parish registers or copies varies from place to place. Parish registers are the one of the primary sources for genealogical research before the year 1837.

Working hand-in-hand with Civil Registration records are the next category of records which most researchers approach - the Victorian Census Returns. Of greatest use to the researcher are those censuses taken every ten years from 1841 to 1891. With luck, family groups may be traced across this fifty year period with the censuses providing a "snapshot" of the family every ten years

After obtaining any and all information you can about the family history from sources within your own family, the first place to actively search for records is usually from Civil Registration sources. These records are the government-registered records of births, marriages, and deaths which occurred in England & Wales from 1837 up to the present day

Researchers who new to English & Welsh genealogical research often ask some basic questions about getting started in the hobby. Here is a short list of some of the best "Getting Started" articles available online. These focus on the general steps you should take first when beginning your family history

Now that you have some general ideas about getting started in your research from the above web sites, you will want to learn in more detail about the specifics. There are no better step-by-step instruction guides for beginning research in England & Wales than those provided by the LDS church FamilySearch Resource Guidance. These outlines are available on the Internet and are both straight forward and easy to read. They explain about basic record types and how to find them. Perhaps more importantly, they explain in what order you should approach these records   FamilySearch's Res...