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Kent Genealogical Resources |
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Cyndi's List - KENT |
Links to various points of
interest to family history researchers. |
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Familia for KENT |
Principal public libraries
with family history resources. |
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GENUKI
- KENT |
GENUKI is the largest
collection of research information on the net for UK & Ireland.
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IGI Batch Numbers for KENT |
Click on the batch number
of interest and enter the surname you are searching for to be taken
to the relevant search results at
familysearch.org |
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GENUKI -
Registration Districts in KENT |
Click on a district name
to see the places and dates covered (1837-1974). |
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KENT Archives - Online
Catalogue |
The collections are
divided between the three centres in Maidstone, Canterbury and
Whitfield near Dover. You can either search through all of the
collections or choose one specific office. |
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KENT Family History Society |
Comprises six local
branches and an online global branch. Includes membership
information, publications index, meetings, events and e-mail
discussion group. |
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KENT Genealogy |
This site is an excellent
resource for genealogy in the County of Kent, England. It
includes many indexes and transcripts containing over 90,000 names
and over 350 links to other useful sites. |
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KENT
History |
Archival material,
including articles, maps and images on KENT history.
Simply enter a place name, or its first few
letters, to access available articles and picture archives.
Alternatively, use the menu bar at the top of the page to view other
sections. |
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KENT OPC Project |
An OPC is a volunteer and
should not be confused with the civil Parish Clerk appointed by a
Parish Council. An Online Parish Clerk (OPC) researches all the
available historical data they can find on a parish, and transcribes
records. They may also offer a look up service in response to an
email or postal request. |
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KENT
Place names - BBC website |
Lists places is Kent and
provides information on how the place got its name. |
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KENT Look-up
Exchange |
A list of reference works
on Kent which volunteers are willing to search for specific entries.
To ask for a look-up, click on the name by the reference.
Requests should be specific:PLEASE give as much detail as you
can. Abuses of the kindness of these volunteers will probably cause
them to withdraw their names so please don't ask for all references
to a common name, or for time-consuming research. Volunteers may or
may not be willing to obtain copies of the relevant pages. If they
are, expect to reimburse expenses. |
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KENT Museums |
Lists accredited museums
in the county of Kent. |
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KENT Parish Registers on-line |
Provides transcripts of
Parish Registers that are available on-line. |
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Kent Social Network |
Kent
places, people, events and groups that may help you in your research
within the county. |
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Parloc Parish Locator |
Dave Bennett's Freeware
Parish Locator program called ParLoc enables you to locate any one
of over 15,000 UK parishes. It will produce a list of parishes in
any County or a list of parishes within a given radius of any other
parish and also allows Import and Export via "csv" files. It is
possible to plot the location of parishes to either the screen or
the printer. |
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UK Genealogical
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All Info about
Genealogy |
Researching your
British Ancestry. |
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Ancestors from England |
Offering affordable
and excellent genealogical research since 1999. Current rate is $20
(US) per hour. Official documents requested will incur an
additional cost. |
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Ancestors on Board |
A database featuring
BT27 Outward Passenger Lists for long-distance voyages leaving the
British Isles from 1890 to 1960. |
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Ancestry Aid |
Free genealogy and
family history records. |
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Archives Hub |
A single point of
access to nearly 20,000 descriptions of archives held in 160 UK
institutions, mostly in the higher education sector. |
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The BMD Register
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The official
non-parochial BDMs service for the UK. |
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Blacksheep |
Provides a selection
of criminal, police, railway workers and other online indexes. |
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Britain-A Vision
Through Time |
A vision of Britain
between 1801 and 2001. Including maps, statistical trends and
historical descriptions. |
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British Data Archive |
Their aim is to
provide access to census records in full, in your own home, on both
PC and Mac, at a reasonable cost. |
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British Genealogy |
British-Genealogy.com
is dedicated to assisting people with their British family history
research. |
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British History on Line |
British History
Online is the digital library containing some of the core printed
primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of
the British Isles. Created by the Institute of Historical Research
and the History of Parliament Trust, we aim to support academic and
personal users around the world in their learning, teaching and
research. |
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British Library, The |
Over 13 million
books, 920 journal and newspaper titles. A good place to start is
the Integrated Catalogues. |
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British War Memorial |
Service personnel
killed from 1914 to the present day. The site is continually
updated by the global volunteer network. |
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Current Value of Old
Money |
Changes in the value
of money over time. |
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Cyndi's List |
A categorized and
cross-referenced index to genealogical resources on the Internet. |
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English Counties &
Parishes |
This site is
intended to show how the English local government system originated
and how it has changed over the centuries. It also contains some
explanation of other units of local government and types of
settlement, mainly for the period prior to the reorganization of
1974. |
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England Passenger and Crew Lists |
A web site
well worth a visit, not only for passenger and crew lists, but
visitors can also search for marriages, surnames, census returns and
many other useful genealogical resources. |
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English Villages |
Topics include :
Villages Index, Village Life, Folklore & Legend, Village Talk,
Gallery, Resources, and Bookshop. There is also a Members'
Interest section. |
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English Weights &
Measures |
The definitive
internet resource for information on Imperial weights and measures. |
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Family Records - UK |
This site, provided
by the
FamilyRecords.gov.uk
consortium,
will help you find the government records and other sources you need
for your family history research. |
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Family Search |
Reported to be the
largest collection of free family history, family tree and genealogy
records in the world. |
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Free BDM |
FreeBMD is an
ongoing project, the aim of which is to transcribe the Civil
Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and
Wales, and to provide free Internet access to the transcribed
records. It is a part of the FreeUKGEN family, which also includes
FreeCEN
(Census data) and
FreeREG
(Parish Registers). |
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Genes Reunited |
An excellent site
with over 350 million names already registered. |
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Genealogy Reviews UK |
Provides family
historians and genealogists with information to help them find the
software and data they need to research their family history. New
reviews are added monthly. |
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General Register Office |
Researchers are able to purchase
UK birth, death and marriage certificates online. |
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GENUKI - UK and Ireland |
A large collection
of genealogical information for England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales,
the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. |
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Guild of One-Name
Studies |
The Guild of
One-Name Studies is the premier UK-based organization for one-name
studies. The Guild welcomes as members anyone who has an interest in
the subject. Members who are carrying out a one-name study may
register their study with the Guild. |
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Historical Directories |
Historical
Directories is a digital library of local and trade directories for
England and Wales, from 1750 to 1919. It contains high quality
reproductions of comparatively rare books, essential tools for
research into local and genealogical history. |
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National Archives |
Family History - Let
family history expert Nick Barratt help you get started with your
research. Included in these clips are simple tips on getting key
information and building your family tree. |
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National Trust
Surnames |
This website
presents the findings of a project based at University College
London (UCL) that is investigating the distribution of surnames in
Great Britain, both current and historic. It allows users to search
the databases that we have created, and to trace the geography and
history of their family names. On each page of the website, you will
find a Help link on the top-right corner which We hope will answer
any questions that you might have. |
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Old English Occupations |
A list of some of
the occupations that you may find on the English Census during your
genealogy research. |
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Olde English Links |
Information on
topics from abbreviations, clothing, paleography, Latin, etc. |
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UK BDM Exchange |
An online resource
for anyone researching their UK family history. Here you will find
details of nearly 90,000 Birth, Death and Marriage Certificates
since 1837 along with details of Church records of Baptisms, Burials
and Church Marriages from before 1837. |
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UK Public Libraries |
Shelia and Robert
Harden have compiled a guide to UK public libraries on the web. |
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General Genealogical
Resources
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About Genealogy |
Alternatives to
Pay-For-Use Genealogy Sites on the Internet. |
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Canadian Genealogy
Centre |
The Centre includes
all physical and online genealogical services of Library and
Archives Canada. It offers genealogical content, services, advice,
research tools and opportunities to work on joint projects, all in
both official languages. |
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Convict Central |
Most family
historians in Australia regard a convict in their ancestry as
enormously desirable. "Convicts to Australia" is intended to guide,
inform and entertain those just starting the hunt as well as the
more experienced researcher. The site is a 'work in progress' and
data is being added regularly. We hope your convict research is made
easier by our efforts and above all we hope you have FUN. Although
feedback and
suggestions
are welcome, unfortunately we are unable to answer individual
questions and research requests. |
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FEEFHS |
The Federation of
East European Family History Societies (FEEFHS) was organized in
1992 as an umbrella organization that promotes family research in
eastern and central Europe without any ethnic, religious, or social
distinctions. It provides a forum for individuals and organizations
focused on a single country or group of people to exchange
information and be updated on developments in the field. While it
primarily serves the interests of North Americans in tracing their
lineages back to a European homeland, it welcomes members from all
countries. |
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Legacy Family Tree |
A software product
for building, customizing, searching and sharing your family
history. |
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National Library of
Australia |
Australian sites
containing a variety of information relating to family history and
genealogy including guides, indexes and digitized images of
documents. Also links to other informative sites both in Australia
and overseas and contact with other family historians via indexed
family trees, mailing lists and bulletin boards. |
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Old Maps |
Historic maps of
England, Scotland and Wales can be purchased. |
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Rampant Scotland
Directory |
Includes an
introduction to help those who are about to embark on researching
their Scottish family tree via the Net - written by the author of
Rampant Scotland. |
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Random Acts of
Genealogical Kindness |
Random Acts of
Genealogical Kindness (RAOGK) was established in 1999 as a resource
for networking among researchers. RAOGK links researchers who need
documents from a distant location with others able to obtain them. |
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The Workhouse |
Peter Higginbotham's
excellent website "The Workhouse" describes in the introduction the
workings of the Poor Law through the Centuries and with the Poor Law
Amendment Act of 1834 how the Parishes across England and Wales were
grouped into Poor Law Unions which led to the construction of
Workhouses, some large enough to accommodate up to 1,000 inmates.
The introduction also describes how admission to the Workhouse meant
ultimate degradation to it's inmates. Includes
links
to Somerset's Union Workhouses, which were located in Axbridge,
Bath, Bedminster, Bridgwater, Chard, Clutton, Dulverton, Frome,
Keynsham, Langport, Long Ashton (see Bedminster), Shepton Mallet,
Taunton, Wellington, Wells, Williton, Wincanton, Yeovil. |
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US Gen Web |
This site serves as
the entrance to the massive US GenWeb project, wherein volunteers
across the US maintain linked websites about their states and
counties. This page contains information about the project and links
to state-level GenWeb sites. |
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Yesterday's Journeys |
"As in any age,
people have had to deal with documentation and Officials whether it
be for good or bad. Yesterdays Journey records the names of those
people who had dealings with those events and the paperwork
involved. The documents that sent them back to their legal
settlement or let them stay in a new parish. The warrants for their
arrest, or the Indentures that gave them a start in working life and
the papers that named the fathers of illegitimate children, or the
Wills that folks left. They are all here. Documents that may
identify where they were born, a trade, an employer, their wages,
how long they worked with for each person. Where they got married,
which regiment they served in, how many children they had, names,
ages and other bits of information to help add real history and
detail to your ancestors lives. 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.
Yesterdays Journey is on-going and updated on a regular basis."
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