Useful websites

[kiterunner]

Please post on here to add any you know of and we will sort them out into some sort of order!

A few to start off with:
Ancestry UK (http://www.ancestry.co.uk/)
Ancestry worldwide (http://www.ancestry.com/)
Findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com/welcome.jsp?_zga_s=1)
1911 census of England and Wales (http://www.1911census.co.uk/)
Scotland's People (http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/)
FamilySearch (http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp)
FreeBMD (http://www.freebmd.org.uk/)
Genes Reunited (http://www.genesreunited.com/home/)

[Mark Dudley]

Pickards Pink Pages for Warwickshire (www.hunimex.com/warwick/index.html)

[borobabs]

ScotFamTree (http://scotfamtree.11.forumer.com)

Brilliant site for help with scotty searches

also

Roots Chat (http://www.rootschat.com)

[borobabs]

Norfolk sites ;;

Norfolk Family History Society (http://www.norfolkfhs.org.uk)

Norfolk Transcription Archive (http://www.doun.org/transcriptions/index.php)

Norfolk Baptism Project (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tinstaafl/)

Docking, Norfolk Genealogy (http://www.genealogysource.com/docking.htm)

[JessBow]

GENUKI (http://www.genuki.org.uk/)

Access to Archives (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/)

FreeCEN (http://www.freecen.org.uk/)

Latin for genealogists (http://www.jaydax.co.uk/genlinks/latin-dic.html)

Historical Directories (http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/index.asp)

Hugh Wallis's Batch Numbers Site (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers.htm)

The London Gazette (http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/)

Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org/)

Old Occupations (http://rmhh.co.uk/occup/a.html)

A Vision of Britain Through Time (http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/index.jsp)

Census Finder - England (http://www.censusfinder.com/england.htm)

Rossbret UK Institutions Website (http://www.institutions.org.uk/)

Cyndi's List (http://www.cyndislist.com/)


Just some of my favourites

[JessBow]

Better have the most important one of all

GRO Certificate Ordering Service (http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/)

[West Yorkshire Maggy]

This is a good site for anyone wanting information on ancestors based in the Sheffield area.

Sheffield Records Online (http://www.sheffieldrecordsonline.org.uk/)

[Sally]

for Herefordshire research regarding churches etc.:

Herefordshire Churches (http://herefordshirechurches.co.uk)

This is MINE *proudly

[lozaras]

I've not visited it yet but this site has "details of 28,600 Devonians from the 1840s"

Friends of Devon's Archives (www.foda.org.uk)

"The information comes from Tithe Apportionments, documents which recorded the intricate details for what was a church tax and which became increasingly unpopular in the non-conformist parts of Devon.
....
Landowners, their occupiers, lessees, the name of the land holding and the acreage are listed."
Teignmouth Gazette/News article by John Balment on 29/08/09

EDIT - I've been to the site now and it's great - everything it says it is - it shows who rented what to whom at the time. Very interesting to see the family links.

[GenieDi]

Internet Archives Parish Register list (http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=Registers%20AND%20Parish&page=1)

Some Parish Records

[WendyPusey]

Isle of Wight Family History Society (http://www.isle-of-wight-fhs.co.uk/)

Good site for Isle of Wight BMDs. Mother's maiden names added to all births.

[kiterunner]

Thanks everyone who has posted on here.

Another one:

List of missing census pieces (http://www.findmypast.com/helpadvice/knowledge-base/census/#issues)

[Bydand]

Ulster Ancestry, brilliant for anyone with ancestors who came from the nine counties of the kingdom of Ulster, Antrim, Armagh, Down and Derry, Fermanagh and Tyrone and of course the two which are now in the south, Donegal and Cavan. And Monaghan.

Ulster Ancestry (http://www.ulsterancestry.com/)


Barbara

[Nana Anna]

Somerset Record Office (http://www.somerset.gov.uk/archives/)
Interment.net (http://www.interment.net/)
Building History (http://www.buildinghistory.org/)
British Library Integrated Catalogue (http://catalogue.bl.uk/F/?func=file&file_name=login-bl-list)
Wiltshire Wills Catalogue (http://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/heritage/)

[Muggins in Sussex]

Historic Cornish Placenames

Interesting looking new site - includes satellite images

An Index to the Historical Place Names of Cornwall (http://cornish-place-names.wikidot.com/start)

[Langley Vale Sue]

Transcribed Canadian census records for 1901, 1906 (only for Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan), 1911 and 1851/2 for Quebec & Ontario and 1851 for New Brunswick.
This is an ongoing project.
Automated Genealogy - Indices to Canadian Censuses (http://automatedgenealogy.com/)


Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid. Over 3 million interment records in Ontario.
Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid (http://www.islandnet.com/ocfa/homepage.html)


Ontario marriages 1800 - 1926
Marriages in Ontario (http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~maryc/ontmarr.htm)


Lots of Ontario records on here.
Granny's Genealogy Garden (http://granniesgenealogygarden.com/)


British Home Children. A site dedicated to children sent to Canada under the Child Migrant Scheme 1870 - 1957
The British Home Children (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~britishhomechildren/)


Canadian Genealogy Centre, library & archive Canada. Lots of useful information on here.
Canadian Genalogy Centre (http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/genealogy/index-e.html)


Searchable list of online Canadian genealogy resources & history information.
Global Genealogy - Canada (http://globalgenealogy.com/countries/canada/searchable-data.htm)
Also
Canadian Genealogy (http://www.canadiangenealogy.net/)


Digitised books about Canadian places & people. Easy to search.
Our Roots (http://www.ourroots.ca/e/)


Ongoing Passenger lists indexing project to Quebec (incl. Montreal) and Halifax between about 1900 - 1921
NFHS Passenger List Indexing Project (http://members.shaw.ca/nanaimo.fhs/#mozTocId46239)

[Matty]

Lancashire Online Parish Clerks Project (http://lan-opc.org.uk/)


Lancashire Parish Records on line.. free I transcribe for them along with many other volunteers.

[Joan of Archives]

I have loads here's a few :

Greenwich Workhouse (http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Greenwich/Greenwich.shtml)

The Workhouse (http://www.workhouses.org.uk/)

The Rossbret Workhouse Site (http://www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses/)

The Victorian Web (http://victorianweb.org/index.html)

Victorian London (http://www.victorianlondon.org/publications/westlondon-1.htm)

Will Transcriptions Online (http://www.willtranscriptions.co.uk/index.htm)

census occupations (http://www.census1891.com/occupations-m.htm)

Unconsecrated burials of Britain (http://www.thegranthams.co.uk/paul/graves/)

Photographers of Great Britain & Ireland 1840-1940 (http://www.cartedevisite.co.uk/)

Old Occupations (http://rmhh.co.uk/occup/index.html)

Old Handwriting (http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~oel/handwriting.html)

Norfolk Online Access to Heritage (http://www.noah.norfolk.gov.uk/)

Old maps of London (http://www.londonancestor.com/maps/maps.htm)

Find a Grave (http://www.findagrave.com/index.html)

Charles Booth Poverty Map of London (http://booth.lse.ac.uk/cgi-bin/do.pl?sub=view_booth_and_barth&args=531000,180400,6,large,5)

Date an old Photograph (http://www.cartes.freeuk.com/time/date.htm)

Dating old Buildings (http://www.buildingconservation.com/articles/dob/dob.htm)

Causes of Death in the Late 19th Century (http://courses.wcupa.edu/jones/his480/notes/deth-dic.htm)

Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (http://www.antiquusmorbus.com/English/English.htm)

Commonwealth War Graves Commission (http://www.cwgc.org/)

:)

[borobabs]

Spotted this one posted elsewhere its very good


Hope this site helps a few:
Individual Insolvency Register Search (www.insolvency.gov.uk/eiir)
It goes back to the 1930's.

[Mary from Italy]

Useful websites for Warwickshire:

Pickard's Pink Pages for Warwickshire (http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/index.html)
Warwickshire's Past Unlocked (http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/web/corporate/pages.nsf/Links/390E7E13C395FF6C80256B7B00377A8B)
Warwickshire Online Parish Clerks (http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/opc/opc.html)
Windows on Warwickshire (http://www.windowsonwarwickshire.org.uk/)
Warwickshire BMDs (https://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/Indexes/birthind.nsf/Search?openform)
Warwickshire Tithe Apportionments Database (http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/corporate/TitheDemo.nsf/WebByParish?OpenView)
Warwickshire County Record Office (http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/Web/corporate/pages.nsf/Links/DEEC2EB9DB9499B780256A330054CA30)
Coventry Collections (http://www.coventrycollections.org)

[Macbev]

Perth, Western Australia now has Police Gazettes 1876-1900 online at

Western Australia Police Gazette (http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/find/western_australian/police_gazettes)

Hosted by the State Library in Perth, the same site also hosts the Australian Newspapers Beta site
Historic Australian Newspapers (http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home)
and the West Australian Post Office Directories,1893-1949
Western Australian Post Office Directories (http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/find/guides/wa_history/post_office_directories)

[Sally]

Just stumbled across this one, which is free and seems to be an absolute wealth of information for those searching for ancestors who emigrated to America. (Just avoid the inevitable link to the not so free Ancestry at the top)

Olive Tree Genealogy (http://olivetreegenealogy.com)

[Muggins in Sussex]

Women of Vision - Index and History of Nuns and Sisters of the Catholic Church in Australia 1838-1918 - includes a database with about 14,000 entries

Women of Vision (http://www.stbedes.melb.catholic.edu.au/home/br/)

[Mary from Italy]

Oh yes, I remember searching that for Libby's Agatha :)

[sassy annie]

Just wanted to endorse Macbev's listing for the historic Australian newspaper's site. It is searchable by family name and is just excellent - I've found some great info from the 1800's on my ancestors on there.

[Katarzyna]

For those with Yorkshire rellies



Paver's Marriage Licenses for the year 1567 to 1628. (http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/Transcriptions/YKS/PaversIndex.html)

[Nana Anna]

Just found a new one on me, not sure if it has been mentioned before:

http://www.southernlife.org.uk/

HISTORY OF THE VILLAGES OF HAMPSHIRE AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES

[GenieDi]

http://www.findagrave.com/

a lot of war graves are photographed on here

[Durham Lady]

www.twgpp.org

for photos of war graves and cemeteries.

[JessBow]

Not to buy UK certs, but good for overseas Register office addresses

http://www.bmd-certificates.co.uk/gro.html

[Joan of Archives]

World War 1 cemeteries :

http://ww1cemeteries.com/

[Muggins in Sussex]

Links to free newspaper archives.

Covers very many counties as well as the UK

http://xooxleanswers.com/newspaperarchives7.aspx

[garstonite]

I found this site-- good for foreign countries....put in surname and place
.allan:)

www.geneanet.org

[Muggins in Sussex]

The HathiTrust Digital Library

http://www.hathitrust.org/

Over 4 million books included so far. I searched for Brighton and found 907 publications.

The newer publications do not have the full text, but you can arrange the results by date

[garstonite]

google merseyside aliens for 1300 plus immigrants to liverpool 1879 to 1912 who stayed in the city .......allan

[Muggins in Sussex]

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - 1.7 million names

http://www.cwgc.org/debt_of_honour.asp

[Muggins in Sussex]

Census finder

http://www.censusfinder.com/

[Joan of Archives]

http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/ehoc/alphabets.html

http://www.silvercollection.it/englishsilvermarksXS.html

[Muggins in Sussex]

http://www.onlineparishclerks.org.uk/ - and this page

http://www.genuki.org.uk/indexes/OPC.html

[Viv in Herts]

Thanks for Australian newspapers link Bev, very easy to use.
Viv

[Muggins in Sussex]

Free Genealogy Tools - useful links to free databases

http://freegenealogytools.blogspot.com/

[Muggins in Sussex]

Genlinks - http://www.jaydax.co.uk/genlinks/index.html

Not a collection of links, as the name suggests, but lots of useful information, including a history of Parish Records

[GenieDi]

http://openlibrary.org/

http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home

Two sites posted on a rootsweb list, look a bit handy.

[kiterunner]

Thanks to Garstonite for this one:

http://www.gravestonephotos.com/index.php

[kiterunner]

1911 census of Ireland:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/

(thanks to Brenda)

[Joy Dean]

http://www.terryaspinall.com/suffolk-surname-list/index.html

You will find information about the county, links to village and town web sites, listings of Parishes and Hundreds, Suffolk Registration Districts, Various Resources Look Ups and Census Look Ups and Parish Records Look Ups (the Suffolk Look-Up Exchange).

On the opening page of the Parish Records Look Ups List you will find helpful information which I urge you to read, you will also find a link to Roy Stockdill's 'Guide for Beginners' - this is especially useful if you are new to research in the UK. You will also find information on Getting Started at the BBC Family History web site www.bbc.co.uk

If you are unsure about the information that can be obtained from a Parish Register entry, do read John McLinden's interesting article 'The Parish Register' which explains exactly what can be gained from this source.

All of these services are provided by kind volunteers who, like you, are family historians - there are no professional researchers named anywhere on this web site. We are more than happy to help with ideas and suggestions and to show you where and how to obtain information, but we cannot do the research for you.

News relating to this web site will be announced on the Suffolk Rootsweb Mailing List and on the Suffolk pages of www.rootschat.com

For the last few years I had a great deal of amazing help and advice from a dear friend whose family history was deeply rooted in the area of south Suffolk where I live, his name was Ray Erle Long 1946-2008. His enthusiasm and knowledge for his Suffolk origins was immense. His legacy to family historians is his own website The Cosford-Database and the continuation of this web site. Thank you Ray.

My grateful thanks go to Terry Aspinall whose dedication has restored the web site for all Suffolk researchers

[Joy Dean]

http://www.militaryandfamilyresearch.co.uk/index.htm
Professional military record research

We perform research into the careers of officers and soldiers for the
period 1790 - 1920 and provide reports and/or copies of documents for
numerous clients in the UK and Worldwide.
Our research also extends to publicly available World War 2 information such
as Prisoner of War records and War Diaries.
We come highly recommended by Regimental museums

[GenieDi]

Thanks for reminding me of the Suffolk one Joy, I had added my Suffolk name to it, but the email and name are well out of date!

[FamilyHistoryAddict]

Not sure if this has been posted before but I am finding it extremely useful!

http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=waypoint;s=waypointsOnly;c=1416598;w= 0


Cheers, FHA

[kiterunner]

Yes, we've got a separate thread about it, but thanks. Certain people on here have been making a lot of use of it over the last few days!

[Maureen M]

I dont know if this site is already on here, very useful for some Dublin and Kerry baptisms and marriages.

http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/

[Muggins in Sussex]

Google News Archive Search

http://news.google.com/archivesearch

Now seems to bring up more UK results than last time I looked at it.

[kiterunner]

From Allan:

http://liverpoolremembrance.weebly.com/

[kiterunner]

ManxBMD (i.e. Isle of Man online BMD indexes):

http://www.manxbmd.com/

[BlueSavannah]

Ive found this website very useful for Sheffield research and Ive just offered to transcribe for them :)

www.sheffieldindexers.com

[Muggins in Sussex]

Three useful collections of links:-


http://www.pricegen.com/english_genealogy.html

http://www.ormond.t83.net/

http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mtoll/

[garstonite]

don`t know whether we have this
http://comp.uark.edu/~mreynold/recint7.htm
a translation of Latin to Christian names
allan:)

[Finbar]

Liverpool In The Long 18th Century (http://web.mac.com/keithjtinkler/Liverpool18thCentury/PierHead.html) is well worth a look.

Contains 18th c. Pollbooks, Directories, Lists of Bankrupts, Maps, and many other goodies.

[Astoria]

Cumberland and Westmorland Newspaper Transcriptions

http://www.cultrans.com/

[Langley Vale Sue]

Just come across this site about Pubs that are no more. Mostly London and the South of England. I've just found a pub in Exeter where a relative was listed in 1881. Hope it helps someone else.

http://deadpubs.co.uk/index


Edit: Just looked more closely and some of the pubs are still in existence!

[Finbar]

British History Online - Good for old maps, documents, County, town and parish histories, pipe rolls, and many other things.
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/

British Armed Forces - Excellent galleries of military insignia.
(http://www.britisharmedforces.org/pages/nat_british_badge_gallery.htm)http://www.britisharmedforces.org/pages/nat_british_badge_gallery.htm

Asplin Military History Resources - An excellent site for Victorian military history. Boer War nominal rolls, medal rolls, and many other resources.
http://www.britishmedals.us/kevin/intro.html

[Bella]

For Derbyshire
http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~spire/Yesterday/index.htm

[Finbar]

Lancashire Lantern - Local History resources, image archive etc.

http://www.lantern.lancashire.gov.uk/

[marquette]

The Royal County of Berkshire History - lots of interesting info about place names, famous people etc.

http://www.berkshirehistory.com/


Family history links for Berkshire families, Nash, A'bear, May

Di

[Tilly Mint]

Not sure if this has been mentioned - Irish Mariners..found some of mine here!

http://www.irishmariners.ie/searchdatabase.php

[lozaras]

I just came across this, I don't know if this has been added anywhere, it has old photos of places - you just type in the placename in the searchbox.

http://www.francisfrith.com/cley/photos/the-old-windmill-1933_85835/

[Finbar]

Bingandgoogle.com - A useful site which gives results from both search engines on the same page.

Always the chance of one throwing a result up that the other misses. :)

http://www.bingandgoogle.com/

[garstonite]

Just seen this new site on Liverpool-Genealogy website....it covers the Northwest
http://www.northwestfamilybusiness.arts.manchester.ac.uk/Intro.aspx
allan

[Muggins in Sussex]

Day of the week calculator- http://people.albion.edu/imacinnes/calendar//Day_of_the_Week.html

Currency converter - http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/currency/default0.asp#mid - the value of old money

Year of birth from census records calculator - http://www.census-helper.co.uk/

[Muggins in Sussex]

This seems to be brand new - http://www.cumbriabmd.org.uk/

[Babel]

Fully searchable Birth, Marriage & Death certificates for Nova Scotia, Canada - all scanned & free for you to look at.

https://www.novascotiagenealogy.com/

*

Full transcripts of London's Old Bailey court 1674 to 1913 - I found my great-great-grandfather and several great-great-uncles within these records.

http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/forms/formPersName.jsp

*

Searchable Catholic burials in Nova Scotia, Canada

http://www.ccchalifax.com/interm/search.cfm

[Babel]

Two more, this time fully searchable online burial records for the Greater London area:

The Borough of Richmond upon Thames

http://www2.richmond.gov.uk/lbrburials/(S(vvvpqj55atgtxi45jlghk5f0))/Search.aspx

and, even better (because they have scanned in all the original burial registers for you to look at & keep), The Borough of Kingston upon Thames

http://www2.kingston.gov.uk/GraveRecords/

[Muggins in Sussex]

http://www.uk-genealogy.org.uk/cgi-bin/search.cgi?action=loadDB&DB=11

It's free :)

[ElizabethHerts]

Huntingdonshire Huntingdon

Apprenticeships

http://calm.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/ArchiveCatalogue/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Overview.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqSearch=%28%28CreatorName==%27Huntingdon%20Borou gh%20%27%29%29&dsqPos=0&dsqNum=50&PF=Yes

[HarrysMum]

For anyone with family from Cabrach parish in Scotland (like me ) this is unbeatable.

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/stuartpetrie/

[ElizabethHerts]

http://www.staffsnameindexes.org.uk/StartPage.aspx?

[borobabs]

Ye Olde Google Mappe: Researchers make searchable online version of oldest surviving map of Britain


http://www.goughmap.org/

[kiterunner]

Moving non-parish record links over from the parish records thread, one county at a time:

Derbyshire
Kedleston Protestation Roll 1641

http://www.archive.org/stream/derbyshireparish13phil#page/n7/mode/2up

North Derbyshire memorials

http://www.spanglefish.com/awalkthroughderbyshirespast/index.asp

Derbyshire

http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~spire/Yesterday/index.htm

[C J T]

South Derbyshire records

http://southderbyshirebdm.co.uk

And Brett Payne's South Derbyshire records
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brett/sdindex.htm

[Sue from Southend]

Original Databases UK

"This original resource uses photographed gravestones, family Bibles, memorial cards, parish magazines, various school, church, and military publications, as well as other documents and ephemera"

Not a huge database at present but lots of stuff from the more northern counties. I found it easiest to search just using a surname.

http://www.ludomusic.co.uk/oduk/pages/homepage.asp

[Janet]

I can't vouch for this one, just found it tonight, but it looks interesting and was fun to play around with.

http://www.deadfred.com/

[Muggins in Sussex]

Mostly Derbyshire - http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~spire/Yesterday/index.htm

A miscellany of records including cemetery records, workhouse records, court records, bastardy papers, settlement records and lots more

[Muggins in Sussex]

Plymouth and South West Devon

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~terryw/#devon_directories

[marquette]

Parish Registers (baptisms, marriages, burials)

Wills from 14th century (one) to 19th century and inventories, transcribed.

www.langhaminrutland.org.uk

Langham (Rutland) Village History Group.

Very interesting and useful for those with ancestors from Langham.

Di

[Muggins in Sussex]

Irish Church Directory 1862 - http://ireland.anglican.org/about/128

The actual directory is here - http://issuu.com/churchofireland/docs/directory_1862?mode=embed&layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Flight%2Fl ayout.xml&showFlipBtn=true

[Muggins in Sussex]

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sooty/index.htm

Sooty the cat's genealogy pages

[JohnS]

http://cgi.csc.liv.ac.uk/~cprdb/Live/v3.6/database.html
(Database Search)

http://cgi.csc.liv.ac.uk/~cprdb/
(Main Page)

An extensive transcription project of Cheshire Parish Registers being undertaken by Liverpool University and continually expanding.

[tenterfieldjulie]

I'm not sure if these have been posted before but I found these recently and they are listed as the three British Methodist websites:
The My Methodist History website (www.mymethodisthistory.org.uk/?) is linked to the already popular http://www.myprimitivemethodists.org.uk/ launched last year. It will also be linked to the forthcoming My Wesleyan Methodist Ancestors website, with a search facility enabled to scan the network. Julie

[tenterfieldjulie]

http://www.penshurst-online.co.uk/penshurst_registers_ly.html

This is up to 1812, it isn't an index it is the actual registers which can be viewed.
You can scroll through them and magnify them ..
the burial information is wonderful..
Thanks Penshurst online. Julie

[ElizabethHerts]

Northwood Cemetery, Cowes, Isle of Wight

http://www.friendsofnorthwoodcemetery.org.uk/

Searchable database.

[Just Gillian]

Clackmannanshire Cemetery Records 1866 to 2014

http://www.clacksweb.org.uk/community/burialrecords/

Includes scanned images of the burial record books for 1866 to Nov 2005.

[tenterfieldjulie]

A French speaking Canadian friend, who is a genealogist and writer, Janice Hamilton, lives in Montreal. She has shared on FB a link to French records. It is through genealogyensemble.wordpress.com - Jacques Gagne has compiled a pdf doc - which can be downloaded from the link - it is French records available via 92 of the 95 department archives in France. It is written mainly in English. So many Canadians have French backgrounds, but I thought it would be useful to anyone looking for French records.
If you can't access it and would like to, you can look at it on my timeline on FB. Julie

[Janet]

Thanks, Julie. That looks like quite an amazing compilation. I don't know when I'll have recourse to it but you never know, and just the maps alone are very interesting.

[billeastoe]

If, by any chance, anyone's thinking of subscribing to FindMyPast I have one word of advice. DON'T.

They have just "improved" the entire service, and what was, up until Monday, a very good service is now, in my opinion, so bad that I wouldn't particularly want to use it if it was free. From what I've experienced today I will probably end up wasting 90% of the remaining 10 days of my subscription, so I am not a happy bunny.

Ancestry will be laughing all the way to the bank. They'll be quids in.

[JALimestonePlains]

St John the Baptist Anglican Church in Reid Canberra (Australia )Churchyard. Earliest burial is 1844, just under a year before the Church and Churchyard were consecrated. Gravestones have been photographed with inscriptions. Many of pioneer families of what was then called Cranberry or the Limestone Plains are buried in the Churchyard. The foundation stone for Canberra was laid in 1913. Many of the families came form Scotland, England and a few from Ireland.

http://austcemindex.com/index.php?id=921

There is also a book of each burial with a lot of detail. This is not online but I have a copy so can provide information

[kiterunner]

Norfolk wills - images included - 1800 to 1857:
http://www.norfolksources.norfolk.gov.uk/DserveNS/

[LisaWUK]

Tribalpages.com

[Mary from Italy]

This looks as though it might have potential (it apparently contains digitised archives from the India Office):

http://www.qdl.qa/en

[ElizabethHerts]

Lost Hospitals of London

http://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/alphabeticallist.html

[Shona]

Lost Hospitals of London

http://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/alphabeticallist.html

Big thanks for the link. It's brought back memories of making sure one of those lost hospitals is still remembered today in modern street names. I watched the last remnants of the hospital being demolished and fronted a campaign to have the name preserved.

[ElizabethHerts]

I stumbled across this, but I don't know if it's already been mentioned:

http://reed.dur.ac.uk/xtf/view?docId=ead/dpr/dpr1-3-8.xml

http://familyrecords.dur.ac.uk/nei/data/intro.php
for searching.

[kiterunner]

It's included in this thread, Elizabeth:

http://www.genealogistsforum.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=20445

[tenterfieldjulie]

Re - Letters trying to locate missing people in Victoria etc, Australia

I have just found a Website for HelenOxfordHarris who has trawled through about 1/4 of the 2000 odd boxes at the PRO in Melboure. She has listed letters etc from people outside Australia, trying to find people who had gone missing. Occasionally people were found. Very interesting reading, but very sad too.

[Mary from Italy]

Those are fascinating, Julie, thanks!

[Janet]

Fascinating indeed. Thanks, Julie.

People might want to use a Google trick to search all her indexes at once. It seems to work nicely. In your Google field, type in:

[your search terms] [word space] site:helendoxfordharris.com.au

[Durham Lady]

http://www.durhamrecordsonline.com/

http://www.dmm.org.uk/

http://www.cornwall-opc.org/

http://www.cwgc.org/

http://www.familydeeds.org/

http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/

[Janet]

That familydeeds.org is interesting, Daphne. Only wish I could find any of mine on there!

I'll just repeat what I said in my post #105. For this website too it's very useful to use a Google search such as:

Kitson site:familydeeds.org

This brings you a snippet view of everything "Kitson" on their whole website. You don't have to click in and out of name index, county index, etc.

[ElizabethHerts]

http://www.devon.gov.uk/index/councildemocracy/record_office/information_dalss/parish_register_list/dpr_methodist.htm

[Janet]

Thanks for that, Elizabeth. I see it's not restricted to Devon but gives a lot of general information about the various branches of non-conformists with their various histories presented in very digestible form I thought. Very useful on BMD registrations, the marriage laws, burial practices, etc.

[Lindsay]

I found this site which has some chancery records from the National Archives:
http://aalt.law.uh.edu/

Navigation seems a bit complicated, but here's a page as an example (click on the number on the right and it takes you through to a photo of the document)
http://www.uh.edu/waalt/index.php?title=C78_1689&redirect=no

[ElizabethHerts]

Lindsay, many thanks for that. I wish I could find what I'm looking for.

Record Summary
Scope and content Cause number: 1869 S233.
Short title: Stayt v Sheppard.
Documents: Bill.
Plaintiffs: Thomas Stayt and others.
Defendants: Thomas Sheppard otherwise Thomas Shepard, Fanny Sheppard his wife otherwise Fanny Shepard his wife otherwise Frances Chambers Shepard his wife, Ann Rebecca Purser, William Purser (since deceased) and Sarah Fisher widow (since deceased).
Amendments: Amended by order to revive 1872. Plaintiffs: William Lyne and others. Defendants: Thomas Shepard, Frances Chambers Shepard his wife, Ann Rebecca Purser, Sarah Fisher widow, Eliza Purser and William Simpson. Amended by order to carry on 1882. Mary Ann Fisher spinster made defendant.
Provincial solicitor employed in Oxfordshire, Breconshire, Warwickshire.
Covering dates 1869
Held by The National Archives, Kew

Legal status Public Record(s)
Language English

[Lindsay]

I'm struggling to understand how the site works, Elizabeth. The bit I was looking at seems to relate to rolls beginning C78 but I don't know how National Archives cataloguing works (or even if that has anything to do with it).

On this page http://aalt.law.uh.edu/C78_79.html under 1877 it has 'old part number 233' which might possibly relate to the 233 on your record summary? But that just links to dozens of thumbnail images.

Very confusing - I only stumbled across a document relating to someone on my tree by chance googling.

[Mary from Italy]

That looks interesting.

You can use Google to search the site; enter your search term followed by:

site:aalt.law.uh.edu

[Lindsay]

Ah, thanks, Mary.

[lyndenh55]

http://www.kingston.gov.uk/directory/20/a_to_z/f
link to kingston upon thames burials images
urbiton also available

[lyndenh55]

http://www.mkheritage.co.uk/shhs/registers.htm

shows parish registers bmds for st lauds sherington bucks with images

[kiterunner]

Oswestry Cemetery Project (http://oswestrycemeteryproject.org.uk/home.html)

[ElizabethHerts]

Perth burgh burial registers, 1794-1855

http://www.pkc.gov.uk/article/3887/Perth-burgh-burial-registers-1794-1855?pkcFirstName=Peter&pkcSurname=Bruce&pkcAlternativeNames=false&pkcpageno=0&pkcsortfield=id

They have been very useful to me.

[Muggins in Sussex]

http://archive.spectator.co.uk/

[James18]

Am I right in thinking that this site (https://www.searchelectoralroll.co.uk) is no longer free for basic searches? I don't remember the 'Buy Credits' button being where the results used to be displayed. :confused:

[kiterunner]

Looks like it, yes.

[James18]

Looks like this (https://www.freeelectoralroll.com/) is currently the best (only?) site for free electoral rolls. It does provide full addresses, rather than only the first line and then having to pay to view the rest.

[maggie_4_7]

It may already be in this thread somewhere I did search but nothing came up.

Australian Cemetery Index

http://austcemindex.com/

[Muggins in Sussex]

The Down Survey of Ireland

http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/

[Janet]

It's worth underscoring the usefulness of the free Fulton History site, fultonhistory.com, for old newspaper searches. I've used it for years, with sometimes spectacular results.

Pivot to Digital: A visit with the man who has digitized more newspaper pages than the Library of Congress (https://harpers.org/blog/2017/09/pivot-to-digital/)
The article in the above link makes me aware once again of the enormous amount of material available there, and has opened my eyes to how much more is being constantly added.

One hint I would pass on to anyone wanting to mine its database is that I don't find its own search engine particularly user-friendly. But there is an easy alternative. Use your regular Google search in any browser, and after your search terms add a word space followed by site:fultonhistory.com (with no word space after the colon).

You can also use the built-in search engine on Fulton History as described here by Kiterunner:
You don't have to be a member of ancestry or FMP to use the Fulton History site and it is free. I hadn't come across it before I saw it on that Rootschat thread. Just click on the link below and when the page loads, click where it says "Enter" or "Press here". Then you should see a page with search boxes on the left and you can enter the name you are looking for, and it might work best if you select "the exact phrase" from the dropdown menu. Then click on "Search" and you should get a list of newspapers that it has found matches in, and you can click each one in turn to see the newspaper page containing the article.

http://fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html

If you want a good comparison, you could for instance try searching each way with the name of my relative, children's book author Helen Fuller Orton, and you'll clearly see the difference.

[DanWaters]

Hi,

I found the sites on ThisIslandWiki which has sites for Guernseyand Jersey, very useful for finding relatives, a lot of the records go back to around 1530, and seem to be cross references to other family pages : https://www.theislandwiki.org/index.php/Main_Page

Another site I have found useful is Parrishmouse (https://www.parishmouse.co.uk/) it contains Parrish records for a lot of counties, although it is incomplete, it is quite useful.

Dan

[Glen TK]

The internet archive has hundreds of books devoted to parish records, county pedigrees and town/county histories. They can be searched and viewed on the site or downloaded in several formats for offline use.

Bit of an odd site to link to as the homepage search isn't deep enough, the link should land a level or two deeper, As an example a simple search of Lincolnshire Pedigrees has resulted in me downloading several books already and I haven't really scratched the surface yet.

https://archive.org/search.php?