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Adoption

** Adoption Registry Connect: http://www.adopteeconnect.com/index.htm

** Reach Out.com.au: http://www.reachout.com.au/default.asp?ti=1998

** Adoption Jigsaw: http://www.jigsaw.org.au

Ancestry.com  

** All Data Bases / The world :  http://www.ancestry.com/ to refine your search enter place or country into keyword box at bottom of page. This great website is available to view at Casino & District Family History Group's research room (Members only)  

OR DIRECT LINK TO ANCESTRY PAGES BELOW

** UK BDMs page http://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/rectype/vital/freebmd/bmd.aspx

** UK Census 1841-1901, page http://www.ancestry.co.uk/ 

** England and Wales Criminal Registers, 1791-1892 (includes Convicts Aust)

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/?htx=List&dbid=1590

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

** New!! Australian - Sands Directories: Sydney and New South Wales, Australia, 1861-1933 

** New Australian - Australian Convict Records

** New Some Australian Electoral Rolls, this data base is being added too. ie. Victoria 1856,1903,1909,1914,1919,1924,1931,1936.  

    http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/list.aspx?dbid=1207&path=

** Ancestry.com Message Boards - Centralized collection of family history & genealogy message boards hosted by Ancestry.com. Forums include specialized topics such as surnames, locales, ...United States - United Kingdom and Ireland - Canada

 

Australia                                                                   click here

Australia Armed Forces & Other  click here

 

Convicts (various websites) click here

Clothing / Costumes

**Costumes/Clothing History: Pack with information useful to tose trying to date photographs by costume. http://www.costumes.org/history/100pages/costhistpage.htm

Canada

** Canadian Genealogy Resources  http://genealogy.about.com/od/canada/
** Newfoundland and Labrador Genealogy http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mtoll/nfl.htm

Census'

**UK & Scotland: Ancestry.com http://www.ancestry.com

** UK & Scotland Census' (FREE) : http://freecen.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl

China

** Aust Chinese heritage: http://chaf.lib.edu.au/index.htm

Criminal Records

England & Wales, Criminal Registers, 1791-1892 http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/?htx=List&dbid=1590

Denmark see Europe link click here

England Counties & England / UK (General) click here

Europe Genealogy Links : All sorts of links to choose from : click here

Family Search/IGI : Mormon Church records Births & Marriages & much more www.familysearch.org

Findmypast : Family tree explorer , UK BMD , 1841 census , 1861 census , 1871 census , 1891 census , military records,  parish records,  UK passenger lists:  Subscription needed http://www.findmypast.com/

** FINDMYPAST PASSENGER LISTS NOW COMPLETE - FINAL DECADE 1950-1960

Search for ancestors from 1890-1960

The last decade of the Passenger Lists has now been added, allowing you to search from 1890 all the way up to 1960, for ancestors leaving the UK. There are now more than 24 million passengers, across 164,000 exclusive passenger lists.

http://www.findmypast.com

France see Europe link click here

Germany see Europe link click here

Gypsy / Romany

** Try this site it has Romany / Traveller links on it: http://www.entertainer-genealogy.org.uk

IGI / Family Search : Mormon Church records Births & Marriages & much more www.familysearch.org

Immigration / Shipping Australia & Other click here

India

** 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/

Ireland click here

Isle of Wight

** BDMs Search thousands of BDM records or free on the IOWFHS website www.isle-of-wight-fhs.co.uk

Italy

Italy Free Births Deaths Marriages online this is a work in progress, not all regions covered to date (Dec 2008) http://italyfreebdm.org

Maps

** GOOGLE EARTH : Look to see were your own house or look at the street where your ancestor lived , this site is fantastic. http://www.google.com and down load Google Earth and let the fun begin.

Mailing Lists Australia & Overseas etc.

** Join any of the hundreds of mailing lists available.

Get your questions answered: No costs involved  http://lists.rootsweb.com/

Medical Terms, Diseases and Causes of Death http://www.antiquusmorbus.com/English/English.htm

Money Exchange Calculations

*8 Aus dollars to other currencies & visa versa http://www.commbank.com.au/Tools/fxcalc.htm

Military Records : Australia, England & various other countries click here

Naturalization Records 

Index to Naturalization, 1834-1903 State Records NSW http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/archives/index_to_naturalization_1834-1903_1681.asp

National archives (click search then click enter as a guest): http://naa12.naa.gov.au/

Navy / Maritime

** Navy Training Ships: http://www.trainingships.royalnavy.co.uk/ lots to look at.

** Royal Naval Seamen online searching available http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/

** UK Women's Royal Naval Service (1917 - 1919) http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/wrns.asp

Newspapers

** National Library of Australia : Historic Australian Newspapers, 1803 to 1954 http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home

** Melbourne Argus on line index 1870-1879 www.nla.gov.au/argus

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

** Port Macquarie News Paper 1911-1915 Index www.ceinternet.com.au/~rgow

** Ryerson Index : Free web data base of recent Deaths in Australia mainly NSW http://www.ryersonindex.org

New Zealand  click here

Occupations / Old Trades

** Comprehensive listing of old trades and occupations http://genealogy.about.com/library/glossary/bl_occupations.htm

** Britain's Waterway History - hundreds of years of British waterway history brought together in one online catalogue.

http://www.virtualwaterways.co.uk/home.html

** Brickmakers Index- http://www.davidrcufley.btinternet.co.uk/brkindx.htm

** Anglican Clergymen between 1540-1835 www.theclergydatabase.org.uk

** Early Photographers including info about them and their work www.thornburypump.myby.co.uk/Pl/index.html

Biographical database of British Chemists 1880-1970 - lists most eminent Chemists with details of posts they held, honours & awards. www.open.ac.uk/ou5/Arts/chemists

** Pub History Society contains much for people researching publican ancestors www.pubhistorysociety.co.uk

** Workhouse staff or ancestors who ended up in a workhouse. www.workhouse.org.uk

** Watermen & Lightermen www.parishregister.com  CDs available on Company of Watermen & Lightermen their is an online index that tells which CDs contain your names.

Livery Companies city of London try this site www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/leisure_heritage/livery/linklist.htm

Search Engines for browsing the internet:

** Genuki http://Genuki.org.uk

** Cyndi's List : http://www.cyndislist.com/

** Google: www.google.com/

** Yahoo : www.yahoo.com

** Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine

** Dogpile www.dogpile.com/

Scotland click here

Shipping / Immigration Australia, UK & Other click here

South Africa click here

Telephone Directories - World

Phone directories for the World http://www.infobel.com/en/world/

Telephone Directories Australia

** White Pages  Residential & Yellow Pages Business http://www.whitepages.com.au/wp/index.jsp

Transcription Agents

** Marilyn Rowan NSW BDM transcriptions plus you can purchase Victorian BDM certificates which come with a typed transcript & a BDM certificate service for England and Wales. http://transcriptions.com.au/

** Joy Murrin  NSW BDM Transcription Service: England / Wales BDM Certificate Service for civil registration from 1837

: Scotland BDM Registration Service. www.joymurrin.com.au

** Turtle Consolidated Services : Laurence Turtle is a is a qualified genealogist and an authorized NSW Transcription Agent home.iprimus.com.au/lturtle/

Translations

** Bablefish Translations; many languages to choose from: http://www.babelfish.altavista.com:80/

** SDL Free Translation.com: http://www.freetranslation.com)

United States of America  click here

Watermen

** History of Watermen great info includes Watermen of Australia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermen

Wales UK   click here

World Wide Resources & Miscellaneous & Useful Categories

** Missing Ancestors http://www.missing-ancestors.com/ Info covering some counties of England for schools, ie. industrial and reformatory with some lists of staff and children

** Useful Sources 5 million records online here to help enrich the details you know about your ancestors. www.theoriginalrecord.com

** Make a Web Site of your own: Free web space available: www.rootsweb.com

** Translation as you type: Translates to and from English, French, German, Italian & Portuguese. http://ajax.parish.ath.cx/translator  

** Translations: http://www.tranexp.com/win/WordTran.htm

** Babel Fish Translations: Great sight for language translation http://babel.altavista.com

** Prohibited Marriages discussed here www.consang.net/summary/01AHBWeb3.pdf.

** Calendars for selected years and other choices: http://www.timeandate.com/calendar

** Genealogy Online - web sites for genealogists

** Family Search Internet Genealogy Service - International Genealogical Index (IGI)

** Origins of Surnames www.searchforancestors.com/surnames/origin/herbert.php

** Ancestry.com - subscription website.

** National Archives (UK) http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

** FreeBMD - free searching of English & Welsh BMD indexes, incomplete http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/

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

** Cyndi's List of genealogy sites on the Internet www.cyndislist.com/

**Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS/ Society Hall http://www.familyhistory.com/societyhall/  comprehensive directory of genealogical and historical societies on the Web

** Genealogy and Family Heritage http://www.cyberpursuits.com/gen/

**European Databases: http://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/locality/dbpage.aspx?i=d&tp=3258&cj=1&offerid=0%3a7935%3a0&o_xid=0002128773&o_lid=0002128773&o_xt=2128773

** World Flags Data base: Flag pictures & information also maps:  http://www.flags.net/

** Old Websites: If you know the URL of a website that no longer works try the following free service that allows you to visit archived websites. Ten billion webpages archived from 1996: http://web.archive.org/collections/web.html

** IGI: Family Search (Mormon Church Records   www.familysearch.org

 

 

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