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Ancestors on Board |
The National Archives, is proud to present ancestorsonboard, a new
database featuring BT27 Outward Passenger Lists for long-distance
voyages leaving the British Isles from 1960 right back to 1890. |
| Ancestry.co - UK |
Ancestry.co.uk is the UK’s largest and
most popular family history site with more than 2.5 million site
visitors accessing over 570 million historical UK records each month.
Launched in 2001, the site enables members to explore their family’s
history by viewing census, birth, marriage and death records as well as
user-contributed family trees, and by connecting to millions of other
members making their own discoveries. |
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Archives Hub |
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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BBC Family History
|
Take a fascinating journey into your family's past. Discover the
enormous array of resources at your fingertips and get started with your
research today. |
|
Blacksheep |
Provides a selection of criminal, police, railway workers and other
online indexes. |
| British
Genealogy |
This site is dedicated to assisting people with their British Family
History Research. |
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British
Genealogical Research A - Z |
A concise guide to researching British
ancestry both locally and at a distance. Everything the family historian
wants to know about the IGI, using parish registers, the Civil
Registration system, the 19th century Census returns and dozens of other
archives, indexes and sources, with all the costs, contacts, addresses
and tips a professional or amateur researcher could ever need. |
| British Library, The |
Hold over 13 million books, 920,000 journal & newspaper titles.
A good place to start is the Integrated Catalogues. |
|
Commonwealth War Graves Commission |
Established by Royal Charter in 1917, the Commonwealth War Graves
Commission pays tribute to the 1,700,000 men and women of the
Commonwealth forces who died in the two world wars. |
|
English counties
and parishes information |
English counties, parishes, etc., for
the Genealogist. |
| Family
History Online |
A Federation of Family History Societies website, this is a
low-charged site for researchers to access databases not always
available elsewhere. |
| Family
History Research |
Offering affordable and excellent genealogical research since 1999.
Current rate is $20 (US) per hour. Official documents requested will
incur an additional cost. |
| Free BMD |
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). |
|
Genealogy Reviews UK |
This site aims to provide 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. |
| Guild of One Name
Studies |
The Guild of One-Name Studies is the
premier UK-based organisation 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 |
A free digital library of local and trade directories 1750-1914,
covering England and Wales. This site is run by the University of
Leicester, and is searchable by location, decade or keyword. |
| History of
the Workhouse |
This site is dedicated to the workhouse
— its buildings, inmates, staff and administrators, even its poets |
| Imperial
War Museum |
Collections online provides access to
material covering all aspects of twentieth century conflict. The site
now includes detailed catalogue information for over 160,000 items from
the Imperial War Museum's collecting departments. |
| LDS Family
Search |
The largest collection of free family
history, family tree and genealogy records in the world. |
|
Mayflower
Passenger List |
A full and complete list of all Mayflower passengers. |
|
Mysterious Britain |
The Mysterious Britain web site is a
guide to mysterious places, legends and folklore within the British
Isles. Check out the 'What's New Section' to see recent additions. |
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Old English Census Occupations |
Some
of the occupations that you may find on the English Census during your
genealogy research. Because many of these jobs are no longer in
existence there is a brief description against each one. This list is by
no means exhaustive and if you would like to add a 'new' job to the list
you are invited to email the website owner with your suggestion. |
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Old English
Links |
Links to resources providing
information on abbreviations, dates, dictionaries, money, occupations,
etc. |
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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 National Archives |
Guide to resources including how to get
started and online resources. |
|
UK Public Libraries |
Shelia and Robert Harden have compiled a guide to UK public
libraries on the web. |
