For anyone new to researching in England, the GENUKI website is a good place to start.  It can be found at https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/ and lists may resources and links for English records.  You can drill down by clicking on the red (England) part of the map to go to the county structure.  Each county has a good overview of the records which are available, by year, with links if appropriate. 

I have been doing English research since the early nineteen-nineties and have learned lots of useful tricks and techniques that are unique to English research.  In March of 2019, I decided to try and record these in a blog that would benefit others searching for English ancestors.

To a large extent, what I am going to cover also applies to Wales but not to Scotland or Northern Ireland where records were handled differently.  For example, civil registration started in England and Wales in mid-1837 whereas Scotland didn't start until 1855 and Ireland in 1845.

English records are freely available through volunteer societies, FamilySearch, specialty websites and the General Register Office providing a wealth of information for genealogists to find and there is more available through the pay-per-view services.  I will try to cover all of these.