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Explore births, marriages and deaths, trade and company records and medical sources. Birth, marriage and death records (BMDs) are some of the first official documents that you turn to in the quest to research your family history. These are also records that you will visit again and again as your tree grows. So get the best out of the General Register Office indexes for England and Wales, with Barbara Dixon’s valuable insights to civil registration, providing fresh leads to family historians old and new. To paint a broader picture of your ancestors’ working lives, company, trade and occupation records are fascinating to explore. Mark Crail and Stuart A Raymond’s articles cover all sorts of records of different lines of work, while Science Museum health expert Stewart Emmens concentrates on the medics on your family tree. Together their articles are packed with ideas of where and how to look for information.