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About Genealogy |
Alternatives to Pay-For-Use Genealogy Sites on the
Internet. |
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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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The BMD Register
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Launch date September 14 2007 - The offical non-parochial BDMs
service for the UK. |
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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. |
| 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. |
| 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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LDS Family Search |
The world's largest collection of free family history,
family trees and genealogy records. |
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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
digitised 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." |
