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| Prerogative Court
of Canterbury Wills & Administrations Index and transcriptions now online on the Prerogative Court of Canterbury page. |
| Freedom of the
City of London Records now online on the Miscellaneous Records page. |
| Military Records Browse records of Jacombs who served during WW1. |
The primary UK records used when searching for an ancestor in the last 200 years are firstly the 'civil registration' records which record the births, marriages and deaths of individuals, and secondly the censuses of the population carried out over the years. Both are perhaps the easiest and most useful records for the public to find, smiling up at them from inside their local record office or library. Searching these may not however turn out to be a quick process.
Jacomb.com aims to ease this process by placing as many British Jacomb-related records online as possible. Currently the site is officially authorised to carry Jacomb records from the General Register Office's Indexes of Births, Marriages and Deaths for England and Wales, records from the decennial Censuses of England and Wales and will & administration entries. A list of burial sites of Jacombs has also been established along with a section on military records of Jacombs who served in the past.
In addition Jacomb.com now carries wills and administrations from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.
Jacomb.com Records Policy
Due to the varying age of records on Jacomb.com it was felt necessary
to outline what will and will not be included. The right to privacy is
important, especially when it comes to personal records such as births
and marriages. At present anybody can enter a library, record office or
Family History Centre and browse through the indexes of recent births
and marriages freely without restriction. If these recent indexes were
published somewhere online - similarly without restriction - there may
be some individuals concerned by seeing their entries open to the world
on the internet. Whilst there would seem to be few legal ways to prevent
this happening (the Data Protection Act could be viewed as a possible
avenue for recourse) it would seem sensible for a publisher just to avoid
the recent records altogether and concentrate on older records - indeed
when publishing family trees online sensible genealogists
do not include records or details of living individuals.
And so it will be here on Jacomb.com. Records of deceased individuals will be freely available whilst records of living individuals will not be. There is a middle ground however where records are created indirectly by a living individual which may be of historical or statistical interest, for example, Patent records and recipients of Honours and Awards (records of the latter being freely published by the press). The best way to deal with all the different types of records is to create a closure system and only publish records created before a certain date. The following table outlines what will appear on Jacomb.com (the length of closure period gives no guarantee that all records outside the closure period will be found on Jacomb.com):
| RECORDS | CLOSURE PERIOD | REASON |
| Births Index | 100 years | Contains personal information - Data Protection Act may apply. Those named may be alive, most dead within 100 years. |
| Birth Certificates | 100 years | Contains personal information - Data Protection Act may apply. Those named may be alive, most dead within 100 years. |
| Censuses | 100 years | 100 year closure standard with censuses - those named may be alive. No access possible to more recent censuses. |
| Marriage Index | 80-90 years* | Contains personal information - Data Protection Act may apply. Those named may be alive, most dead within 80-90 years. |
| Marriage Certificates | 80-90 years* | Contains personal information - Data Protection Act may apply. Those named may be alive, most dead within 80-90 years. |
| Wills & Administrations Index | 50 years* | Data Protection Act does not apply to deceased individuals, however living individuals of the time may be named within. Aiming to ensure all named are deceased |
| Education Records | posthumous | Will only publish details of the education of deceased individuals |
| Patent Applications | 50 years* | Living individuals of the time named within. Aiming to ensure all named are deceased |
| Military Records | 50 years* | Living individuals of the time named within. Aiming to ensure all named are deceased |
| Electoral Roll - statistics only | none | Statistics only, therefore no personal data revealed |
| Jacomb Publications | none | Publications already widely available along with any information contained within them. |
| Burial Sites | none | Data Protection Act does not apply to deceased individuals. |
| Death Index | none | Data Protection Act does not apply to deceased individuals. |
| Death Certificates | none* | Data Protection Act does not apply to deceased individuals. |
| *unless living individuals are knowned to be named within | ||
Records: (as of 21/06/2006)
Jacomb entries in the GRO Civil
Registration Indexes
Jacomb entries in the Censuses of England and Wales
Jacomb burials
Jacomb will & administration index entries
Jacomb education records
Jacomb Patent Applications
Jacomb Knighthoods, Honours & Awards
Jacombs granted the Freedom of the City of London
Jacombs in Boyd's Burial Index
WW1 Jacomb Casualties
WW1 Jacomb Medal Entitlement Records
in the National Archives (index)
WW1 Jacomb Military Service Records
in the National Archives (index)
WW2 Jacomb Casualties
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