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Family History
People with roots in the Channel Islands live all over the world, and are often interested in tracing their ancestry back to these shores.
The Jersey Archive has all of the major family history sources available, including Census on Microfilm for Jersey and Guernsey, the 1881 Census for the British Isles, National Burial Index, original Church registers, transcriptions of Church registers, almanacs, rate lists, the CIFHS collection of indexes and family trees, original wills and testaments from 1660 and official States of Jersey records and Royal Court records.
All records, which have been indexed by name, place and subject can be searched on the on-line catalogue, www.jerseyheritagetrust.org.
The Société Jersiaise also offer research facilities.
This article updated: 2002/07/03 10:46:33
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In 1933 an air link, established by Jersey Airways, began using the sands at West Park as a runway. In the first year of operation, 20,000 passengers were carried. |
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