England

Click on the Links in blue

** Scroll further down the page for individual England Counties in alphabetical order

Archives / Libraries / Online Libraries / Guilds / Record Offices

* British History Online: Digital library from medieval and early modem period. www.british-history.ac.uk/

** British Library: Main Integrated Catalogue of over 12 million books, serials, printed music and maps, Newspaper Catalogue of over 52,000 newspaper and periodical titles and India Office Select Materials. www.bl.uk/

** Guild of One-Name Studies. www.one-name.org/

** Guildhall Library (London) Manuscript Section. www.history.ac.uk/gh/

** UK Access to Archives  A2A: Search the Data base : http://www.a2a.org.uk/

** The National Archives [British]: The National Archives has a number of searchable resources to help you find the records you require. Includes the catalogue, documents online plus census records www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

** Access to (English) Archives: Currently contains 10 million catalogue entries from 408 record offices and other repositories across England. www.a2a.org.uk

** General Records Office of UK: Order certs using credit cards on line: www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificate/index.asp#0

** London Metropolitan Archives: Includes Middlesex wills. www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/corporation/family-research/

** Directory of Family History resources held in public libraries in UK & Ireland www.familia.org.uk

** Adoption

** Adoption Search Reunion: The site contains two searchable databases: a directory of agencies offering support, counselling and intermediary services, and a database to help people find out where adoption records are held. www.adoptionsearchreunion.org.uk

** Bastardy

** Illegitimacy amongst your forbears, try searching in Access to Archives www.a2a.org.uk

** Births Deaths Marriages / UK Indexes online:  

** Tutorial showing what is contained in UK BDM Certificates in what years. http://home.clara.net/dixons/Certificates/deaths.htm

** NEW Nonconformist / Non Parochial Birth, Marriage and Death records online  http://www.bmdregisters.co.uk/  The National Archives´ collection of nonconformist birth, marriage and death records from 1567 is now online for the first time. A new partnership project between The National Archives and S&N Genealogy Supplies means that you can now access images of these records online.

** BDM Records 1837-2003 Subscription needed www.bdmindex.co.uk  

** BMD Certificates England & Wales: Buying online. www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificate/index.asp

** Free BDM Volunteer project   free access to births, marriages and deaths http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/

** British Origins: marriage index, marriage licence, will indexes, burial index  www.britishorigins.com

** FindMyPast: BMD entries from GRO indexes 1837-2004, Death Duty Indexes 1796-1903, BMD at Sea, Divorce Indexes, Army lists etc.; living people search. www.findmypast.com

** IGI / Mormon Church records Births & Marriages plus more www.familysearch.org

** ** Family Search / Mormon Church records BDMs, Vital Records, 1881 census, Pedigree Resource File, Library Catalogue & PAF Family History Software and charts www.familysearch.org

England and Wales.  www.freebdm.org.uk  

** Boyd's Marriage Index Subscription req. www.britishorigins.com

** Ancestry.com: www.ancestry.co.uk  UK BDM's

** Civil Service Evidence of Age Index now online www.findmypast.com

** War Brides:  Name indexes to war bride passenger lists for ships bound for Canada, USA, Australia in 1946 & 47 at www.warbrides.co.uk

** British Settlers in Argentina - Lost an ancestor? Try this huge indexed collection of records from Argentina documenting the presence of thousands of British and other English-speaking residents there. Includes baptisms, marriages, deaths from the Anglican and Scots Presbyterian churches and more...

** India Office Family History Search. This site offers access to 300,000 births, baptisims, marriages, deaths, burials, in the India Office Records. It covers mainly British and European people in India from 1600-1949 http://indiafamily.bl.uk/UI/

Burials

London burials online searchable index: 1788-1855 (except for St Peters and Vincula in the Tower of London) It covers 98 churches of the city of London. : www.findmypast.com/lbSearchStart.action?redef=0

Census's

**Ancestry.com: http://www.ancestry.com/    includes UK Census 1841, 51, 61, 71, 81, 91 & BDM's and much more. subscription required or try a 14day free trial Available at Casino FH Group (great site).

** British Origins: Census Index. www.britishorigins.com

** Findmypast.com: Censuses etc. pay per view.  www.findmypast.com

** The English Census Website - 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901 census for England and Wales. Free index, fees apply for image viewing http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/census/

** FreeCensuses - free online census for England, Scotland & Wales, incomplete http://freecen.rootsweb.com

** A Census at SEA for 1861, 1871, 1901 try the census Ships Lists www.thegenealogist.co.uk

** Domesday Book Britain's oldest public record 920 year old census www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/domesday

** Family Search / Mormon Church records BDMs, Vital Records, 1881 census, Pedigree Resource File, Library Catalogue & PAF Family History Software and charts www.familysearch.org

Certificate Ordering

You don't have to pay high prices for ordering certificates. The best place to orderis online at the General Register Office. If you have the name and especially the reference no. it should cost no more than £7.00 for full certificate. For Fees see: www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/order_certificates/certificare_fees/birth--marriage--and--death--certificates.asp

Churches / Church Databases

** UK Church 0f England database 1540 - 1834     www.theclergydatabase.cor.uk

Civil Service

** Civil Service Evidence of Age records 1752 – 1948 Search these records at Findmypast ..  www.findmypast.com

These surviving records consist of documents collected by the Civil Service Commission in order to establish accurate dates of birth for entrance exam or pension applicants.

Convicts / Prisoners

** BRITISH ARMY PRISONERS OF WAR, 1939-1945: Ancestry.ca (Ancestry Canada) has launched online records for more than 100,000 WWII British and Commonwealth POWs. In addition to the POW records, Ancestry.ca has also published online the UK Army Roll of Honour, 1939-1945, featuring the records of all British Army personnel killed in action, World War Two. http://www.ancestry.ca/

** BEDFORDSHIRE GAOL REGISTER: Entries from gaol registers held by the Bedfordshire & Luton Archives and Records Service (BLARS). http://apps.bedfordshire.gov.uk/grd/

** LANCASTER CASTLE CONVICT DATABASE: Lists all the people tried and sentenced at Lancaster Assize about whom we have some definite evidence. http://www.lancastercastle.com/html/convict/default.php

** Old Bailey 1674-1834, The Proceedings at: Over 100,000 London criminal trial records. www.oldbaileyonline.org/

** MORE TRIALS ADDED - PROCEEDINGS OF THE OLD BAILEY, 1674-1913

Trials between November 1834 and April 1913 and the Ordinary of Newgate's Accounts between 1690 and 1772 have now been added. http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/

** Birmingham, Coventry, and warwick: Calander of Prisoners. An Index of over 30,000 prisoners held for trial at Warwick Assize and Quarter Sessions 1800-1900 www.warwickshire.gov.uk/archivesunlocked

Death Duty Registers 

** Death Duty Registers 1796-1811: www.nationalarchives.gov.au/documentsonline/death-duty.asp or http://preview.tinyurl.com/5fs49j

Directories / Telephone directories

** Historical Directories: A digital library of local and trade directories for England and Wales, from 1750 to 1919. www.historicaldirectories.org

** British telephone books 1880-1984 now indexed online. The contents of 1,780 different phone books www.ancestry.com

Docklands Ancestors

Docklands Ancestors at GSV: This series by Robert Cottrell covers the Thames & Medway Riverside parishs in London, Middlesex, Surrey, Kent and are fully searchable using Adobe. This great resource can be found at the GSV library. They can be found on the catalogue by entering the series name as the Topic. www.gsv.org.au

Education

** AIM25: Provides electronic access to collection level descriptions of the archives of over ninety higher education institutions and learned societies within the Greater London area. www.aim25.ac.uk

** Gazetteer of British Place Names. www.gazetteer.co.uk/

** Gazettes, London, Edinburgh or Belfast: These contain a wide range of official notices including state, parliamentary and ecclesiastical notices, transport and planning notices as well as corporate insolvency and personal bankruptcy notices to name a few. In addition, a number of Supplements are published covering honours and awards, premium bonds, armed forces promotions, and company information. www.gazettes-online.co.uk

** Genmaps for England Wales Scotland http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~genmaps/

** Old Maps: www.old-maps.co.uk/

Goals

Bedford Goal Registers: Some online eventually all will be online. http://apps.bedfordshire.gov.au

Immigration UK Records

**  Ancestorsonboard UK Immigration  www.ancestorsonboard.com New !!! 1890-1960. Entire National archives historical database of passengers who embarked on sea voyages from Britian's shores. An estimated 30million individual records include details of emigrations to Australia, Nth & Sth America, India and Africa.

** England - Crew List Index(CLIP) Large data base of seafarers' names from Crew List and Agreements  for 1861-1913 www.crewlist.org.uk

** War Brides:  Name indexes to war bride passenger lists for ships bound for Canada, USA, Australia in 1946 & 47 at www.warbrides.co.uk

** British Settlers in Argentina - Lost an ancestor? Try this huge indexed collection of records from Argentina documenting the presence of thousands of British and other English-speaking residents there. Includes baptisms, marriages, deaths from the Anglican and Scots Presbyterian churches and more...

** Moving Here: Irish, Caribbean, Asian and Jewish immigrants, 1800-2000. www.movinghere.org.uk/

Institutions : various

General information on most 19th century institutions including prisons, hospitals, orphanages, almshouses and asylums, with details arranged by county. www.institutions.org.uk

Mining UK

** Historical Local & Trade Directories for England & Wales 1750 - 1919 www.historicaldirectories.org

** National Database of Mining deaths and injuries. Consists of around 160,000 names of people who died or were injuried across Great Britianprior to 1949, between 1850 & 1914, and 1915 to 1972. www.cmhrc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/deaths.htm

**UK Coal Mining History Resource Centre Most informative site for all things mining

http://www.cmhrc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

Newspapers

** The Times Digital Archives 1785-1985 http://nla.gov.au/anbd.bib-an24209369

** Guardian and Observer to launch online archive Every edition of the Guardian and Observer newspapers is to be made available via a newly launched online digital archive.

The first phase of the Guardian News & Media archive, containing the Guardian from 1821 to 1975 and The Observer from 1900 to 1975, will launch on November 3. It will contain exact replicas of the original newspapers, both as full pages and individual articles. and will be fully searchable and viewable at guardian.co.uk/archive (archive.guardian.co.uk has been registered but currently has no web pages associated with it) Use this web address from Nov. 3 by putting the address into a search engine.

Readers will be offered free 24-hour access during November, but after this trial period charging will be introduced.

The rest of the archive will launch early in 2008, making more than 1.2m pages of digitised news content available, with Observer content available from its launch as the world's first Sunday newspaper in 1791.

Occupations UK

** AMALGAMATED SOCIETY of PAPER MAKERS Index of Members by mills compiled by Jean Stirk a historian of papermaking. It is part of an index of paper making craftsmen and their families and of paper manufacturers consisting of some 14,000 entries and expanding. 10th Quarterly Report 27 June - 26 September 1896.

** The Apprentices' Entry Books Carpenters' Company of London 1654-1694 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/

** Coal Mining History Resource Centre: www.cmhrc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk

** Society of Brush Makers www.brushmakers.com/index.html

Other Information sites UK

** Family Chest- 100's original English and Welsh historical family & property deeds - offers manuscripts and transcriptions for sale. www.familychest.co.uk/default.htm

** Family Search / Mormon Church records BDMs, Vital Records, 1881 census, Pedigree Resource File, Library Catalogue & PAF Family History Software and charts www.familysearch.org

** Findmypast: Census's, BDM's Shipping and much more:  www.findmypast.com Findmypastcom wildcard It is possible to use a wild card instead of the first letter(s) of a surname when entering a surname in the Findmypast (www.findmypast.com) census indexes. This website does not offer all the censuses yet, as Ancestry does, but for 1841, 1861, 1871 (not complete) and 1891, it is worth checking it for ancestors you cannot find because of possible transcriptions errors, especially for surnames with familiar endings (usually correctly transcribed): *ridge, *field, *ston, etc. According to some peoples experience, there seem to be fewer mistakes in the Findmypast transcriptions; and it has also been very useful for the possibility to enter the name of a brother or a sister as another member of the household, while Ancestry limits the choice to parents or spouse.

** Yesterdays Journey : As in any age, people have had to deal with documentation and Officials whether for good or bad. Yesterdays Journey records the names of those people who had dealings with those events and the paperwork involved. The site deals primarily with Derbyshire, thousands of names many of whom were strays or strang­ers. The whole of the Brit­ish Isles as people moved around seeking work traveled as vagrants through the county or were chased throughout the realm as the responsibility of fatherhood and law caught up with them. It covers Apprentice records, Bastardy Papers, Set­tlement Certificates, Wills & Administration and much more. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~spire/Yesterday/

** Black Sheep Index Reports published in newspapers www.blacksheepindex.co.uk

** FamilyHistoryOnline: FFHS's online database of 65 million indexes and transcriptions of parish registers, census returns, monumental inscriptions, poor law documents, etc.; includes images of gravestones and other documents. www.familyhistoryonline.net

** To find Britons serving in India & South Asia, try: www.fibis.org

** Yesterdays Journeys- Dealing primarily with Derbyshire it does however cover the whole of the British Isles as people moved around seeking work, travelled as vagrants through the County or were chased throughout the realm as the responsibility of fatherhood and law caught up with them. There are references to Canada, Australia, New Zealand and America, as well as other lands overseas, as some moved further afield. http://homepages.rootsweb.com:80/~spire/Yesterday/index.htm

** England: Type name of village in England & find others researching in the same village. www.curiousfox.com

** Coal Mining History Resource Centre: www.cmhrc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk

** Valuations of British Money, 1264 to 2002. www.eh.net/hmit/ppowerbp/

** The British Army for Family Historians - The Long, Long Trail - http://www.1914-1918.net

** British Army Regiments their history and traditions www.regiments.org

** Great War Index UK WW1 www.lightage.demon.co.uk/GREATWARINDEX.htm   

** Roll of Honour all Wars UK: Searchable Databases: http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Databases/

** UK online War Memorials/ searchable databases   www.channel14.com/lostgeneration

** UK online War Memorials/ searchable databases  http://www.ukniwm.org.uk/

** The Battle of Britain Roll of Honour other info: www.raf.mod.uk/bob1940/bobhome.html

**Uniforms of various countries www.diggerhistory.info/pages-uniforms/all-forces.htm

** British Military Cemetery "Brookwood" est.1917 and used for burial of service personnel who died in hospitals in the London Military District: www.tbcs.org.uk/military.htm

** Wartime Index soldiers wounded, missing or killed in various 19th centuary wars, as well as those awarded medals or wrote letters from the frontline. Includes New Zealand War 1860-1861 www.wartimesindex.co.uk

** British men and women who were born, married, died, served in the Royal Navy, Royal Air Force, Royal Marines, the British Army, were residents on the island, or in some manner are connected with Malta Malta Family History

** Soldiers of the Queen in second Anglo Boer War 1899-1902 Index to soldiers, nurses identies the unit/regiment in which they served. Covers 20percent of the 500,000 soldiers and nurses. www.pcug.org.au/~croe/sotq_abw.cgi

** British Prisoners of War + other documents online: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/pow.asp

** UK Boer War Indexes http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Databases/#Boer

** The Battle of Britain Roll of Honour other info: www.raf.mod.uk/bob1940/bobhome.html

** England: Type name of village in England & find others researching in the same village. www.curiousfox.com  

** British Origins: Militia Attestations Index. www.britishorigins.com

** Commonwealth War Graves Commission: Debt of Honour Register of Commonwealth forces who died in WWI or WWII. www.cwgc.org

** Imperial War Museum, London (WW1 & WWII Collections). www.iwm.org.uk/

** Royal Navy Biographical Database, since 1660. www.navylist.org/

** Waterloo Roll Call search for your ancestors www.findmypast.com

Watermen / Lightermen / Dockers

** The Company of Watermen & Lightermen of the River Thames www.watermenshall.org go to searching ancestors

** Museum in Docklands www.museumindocklands.org.uk

**Merseyside Maritime Museum www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime includes some harbour board records, including wage lists

Wales click here

Wills

** UK Wills Online http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/browse-refine.asp?CatID=6&searchType=browserefine&pagenumber=1&query=*&queryType=1

Workhouses

** The Workhouse http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/index.html

** Workhouses in Britain: www.workhouses.co.uk

England Counties Alphabetical

** England: Type name of village in England & find others researching in the same village. www.curiousfox.com

** Coal Mining History Resource Centre: www.cmhrc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk

** Genmaps http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~genmaps/

Bedfordshire

Bedfordshire

** BEDFORDSHIRE GAOL REGISTER: Entries from gaol registers held by the Bedfordshire & Luton Archives and Records Service (BLARS). http://apps.bedfordshire.gov.uk/grd/

Berkshire

Berkshire

Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire

** Buckingham Constabulary Worth a look all of UK: www.mkheritage.co.uk/bch/

Cambridgeshire

** Cambridgeshire

** 1881 Census: Residents of Caxton & Arrington Union Workhouse, Caxton, Cambridge, England

Cornwell

** Cornwall

 ** Cornwall, England: Parish and Probate Records at Ancestry.com

** Cornwall Smugglers  Excise/Revenue Men & Coast Guard From the 17th & 18th Centuries

http://cornwallsmugglers.com/index.html

**Bal Maidens & Mining Women http://www.balmaiden.co.uk/

**Cornwell-The Calsrock Clerk Try this site for lots of leads:

 http://www.minebydesign.co.uk/calstock/census/people_emigrants.htm

** Cornwall Information Uk: www.genuki.org/big/eng/Cornwall/Breage/index.html/ very informative site worth a look.

** Cornwall Online Parish Clerks' website: http://www.cornwalluk.net/

** West Briton & Cornwell Advertiser   http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Ewbritonad/

** Cornall Parish Register Index searchable database http://www.cornwalleng.com/

** Cornwall Family History Society
** Cornish Surnames & Places List
** CFHS Electronic Members Pages
** Cornwall On-Line
** Cornwall Connections
** Cornwall Genealogy http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/Cornwall/

** Illogan Cemetery in Cornwall war graves and includes mainly people from Canada, Australia and New Zealand
** Cornwall Photos www.kammneves.co.uk/cpg/index.php

** Cornwall County Council - General Register Office Indexes www.cornwall.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=4531

Cheshire
** Cheshire

Cumberland

** Cumberland
 

Derbyshire

** The Genealogy and Local History of the Wirksworth Area, Derbyshire, England from 1600 to 1900
** Derbyshire
** Yesterdays Journeys- Dealing primarily with Derbyshire http://homepages.rootsweb.com:80/~spire/Yesterday/index.htm

Devon

** Devon
 

Dorset

** Dorset

** Dorset online Parish Clerks: http://www.opcdorset.com

Durham
** Durham

** Durham Records online: freely search Parish and census records. www.durhamrecordsonline.com

Essex

** Essex Parish Registers http://seax.essexcc.gov.uk

** Essex general web links Essex

** Essex Country Life provides details of the lifestyle of people above and below stairs in Victorian and Edwardian times in the ** Essex Region of the UK. Contenet includes family history, recipes, etiquette, etc. to give a picture of life in those days.  www.essex-country-life.co.uk

Gloucestershire

** Gloucestershire County Council online database: Great site

 http://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=4237Index

** Prisoners in Some Gloucestershire Jails 1850 and 1851
** Gloucestershire

** Gloucestershire Archives http://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/index.cfm?articlied=1348

** Gloucestershire Parishes all sorts of transcriptions http://www.glosgen.co.uk/parish.htm

** Bristol & Avon Family History Society includes members interest online http://www.bafhs.org.uk/

Hampshire

** Hampshire
 

Herefordshire

** Herefordshire
 

Hertfordshire

** Hertfordshire
 

Huntingdonshire

** Huntingdonshire

Isle of Wight

** Searchable database www.isle-of-wight-fhs.co.uk

Kent

** Kent General indexes Kent

** North West Kent Parish Registers: http://cityark.medway.gov.uk

** Parish Registers Midway & NW areas of Kent http://cityark.medway.gov.uk/

** Kent Monumental Inscriptions (lots of cemeteries):

www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Libr/MIs/MIslist.htm

*Kent Archaeological Society - Studying and sharing Kent's past http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/ Wills, church yard monumental Inscriptions, maps etc.

** Thanets Private School List 19th & early 20th Century A very interesting site. It lists all the private schools and pupils from the area. Written By  BJ WHITE.  http://barry-white.members.beeb.net/places/pt_schools.pdf

Lancashire

** Lancashire Online Parish Clerk records http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/

** Lancashire
** Jacobites from Preston in 1715 transported. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tornabene/index4.ht...

** Online Parish Clerks site for the county of Lancashire, England. It is an ongoing project which aims to extract and preserve records from the various parishes and to provide online access to the data free of charge.Data has been gathered from many sources including parish registers, census, cemetery records, churchwardens accounts, overseers taxes, land tax records, business directories, postal directories, etc and is compiled and transcribed by volunteers. http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/

London & Middlesex

** new London Records online at www.ancestry.com.uk includes BDMs in London workhouses

** London Family History Societies http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/genuki/LDN/fhs.html

** London & Middlesex sites London & Middlesex

** List London Cemeteries with dates established: www.gendocs.demon.co.uk/cem.html

** London Gazette - gradually being made available online: www.gazettes-online.co.uk/generalArchive.asp?webtype=0

** Search the London Gazette Archive World War I Records (1914-1920)  World War II Records (1939-1948)
http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/archiveSearch.asp?WebType=0

** London Metropolitan Archives: Includes Middlesex wills. www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/corporation/family-research/

** Maps of London : http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~genmaps/genfiles/COU_Pages/ENG_pages/lon.htm

** City of London -  all sorts of goodies here: www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/wills/

** Manchester- www.manchester.gov.uk/index.htm

** Manchester- www.manchesteronline.co.uk/mancunian/expats

Leicestershire

** Leicestershire

Lincolnshire
** Lincolnshire

Back          Home        Email