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Please note that I have no connection with any
of the sites or companies mentioned here, other than membership
of some of the societies. Those listed here are those which I have
personally found useful in the past, or are informative in their
own right. If you wish to suggest any other
sites please let me know.
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OTHER LINKS
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| Mrs Olive Price, 9 Claydon Grove,
Yardley Wood, Birmingham B14 4NB |
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| GENUKI
- Huge site with masses of links for whichever county you
are interested in. |
| ROOTSWEB
- Another huge site with links to thousands of message boards,
from county lists to lists for specific names. There is plenty
of other information on this site as well! |
| CYNDISLIST
- A site built to provide links to other genealogy sites,
there are literally thousands of sites linked through here,
you are certain to find something of interest. |
| GENFAIR
- On-line bookshop for all things genealogical |
| WORKHOUSES
- A site dedicated to workhouses, where many of our families
found themselves through a variety of circumstances. |
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WEBSITES HOLDING SEARCHABLE
DATABASES
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It is important
to remember that, wherever these sites are used and copies
of documents cannot be viewed on-line, then these original
records should be consulted if at all possible in order
to confirm the information shown. Indexes and/or transcriptions
are not always fault free, however hard we try!
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| ACCESS
TO ARCHIVES - Ever-improving
site where you can search the holdings of hundreds of Record
Offices for documents. Records themselves can't be viewed
on-line but you will be able to find the location of items. |
| ANCESTRY.COM
- Huge American based site, millions of records available
covering the US and the UK. SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED.
A UK version is available at www.Ancestry.co.uk
, this offers subscription to the UK records only. The UK
census is now available for 1891 (complete), 1901 (partial)
and 1871 (partial), an index and images are available. |
| BRITISH
HOME CHILDREN - Site for some
- not all - of the children who travelled across to Canada
under the Government sponsored scheme. |
| FAMILYSEARCH
- This site is run by the LDS - holds millions of baptism
and marriage records as transcribed by the LDS, 1880 US census
index, 1881 UK census index and many more records added by
LDS Church members. |
| FREEBMD
- Ongoing site placing transcripts
of the GRO Birth, Marriage and Death indexes on-line. There
are many millions of records already available, and you can
help with the transcription yourself. |
| FREECEN
- Similar site to that above, but
in this case is concerned with placing census transcripts
on-line. Many are already available, but this is a long-term
project and so will grow over the years as more volunteers
are found to help (hint). |
| GENEALOGY.COM
- Another American based site, again
with many millions of US census entries and other records.
At present it does have some US census indexed which Ancestry.com
does not, and so the two sites complement one another. This
may change! SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED. |
| HISTORICAL
DIRECTORIES - This site
is placing searchable copies of Trade Directories on-line.
Many hundreds are already available covering all counties
and periods, and more are planned. An excellent resource
where original pages can be viewed. |
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| PARISH CHEST -
A UK "Genealogical Fair", selling all types of
items such as books, census records, parish transcriptions and
so on |
| UK
BMD - A
site acting as a "portal" to various local authority
sites holding Birth, Marriage and Death indexes. Curiously
there is a heavy bias towards northern counties, but hopefully
more southern counties will become involved in due course. |
| WARWICKSHIRE
ANCESTORS PROJECT - As
the name suggests this holds data on this county only, but
holds an increasing amount of transcripts for both census
and parish registers. Again, you can help by volunteering! |
| 1837ONLINE.COM
- Here you will find images of all
the GRO Birth, Marriage and Death indexes almost up to date.
The pages are only indexes by the first three letters of the
surname, so if you have a more popular surname you may need
to view a few pages before you get the right one, but overall
a great help to those of us who do not live next door to microfiche
versions! PAYMENT REQUIRED. |
| 1901
CENSUS FOR ENGLAND & WALES
- The contents are in the title - this is an index to the
latest UK census available. PAYMENT REQUIRED FOR IMAGES/FULL
PERSON/HOUSEHOLD DETAILS |
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