Chris E's "Recommended Research Websites"
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Achives | Descriptions of archives in over 250 UK universities and collages; name search facility. | Click for website | 250 Universities | ||
Adoption | First port of call for anyone searching for, or making contact with, birth and adopted relatives, or researching an adoption that took place in the UK. | Click for website | Adoption Research Reunion UK | ||
Archive – Scotland | Scottish Archive Network | Click for website | Single electronic catalogue of more than 20,000 collections of historical records held by 52 Scottish archives. | ||
Archive (Ireland) | National Archives of Ireland | Click for website | Census 1901 and 1911 and survivals 1821-1851; tithe applotment books 1823-1827; soldiers wills 1914-1917; calendars of wills and administration 1858-1922 | ||
Archive (TNA) | The National Archives | Click for website | Resources to help find UK records, including topical research guides, catalogue, digitised records, collection of WWI letters, diaries, maps etc. | ||
Archive (USA) | National Archives and Records Administration : | Click for website | USA TNA Information on American genealogy along with links to records. | ||
Archive-Indexes USA | US Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management. | Click for website | General Land Office Records – 5,000,000 federal land title records issued between 1788 and present | ||
Archives | Holds a large number of archives of regional, national and international importance. | Click for website | York / Borthwick | ||
Archives | Parliamentary Archives | Click for website | Explore over 500 years of the UK parliament. | ||
Archives / Library | New York Public Library Digital Collections : | Click for website | A constantly growing collection including photographs of early New York. | ||
Archives NSW Australian | New Sth Wales Australia | Click for website | Links to Census data, Convicts, Immigration and Shipping, Maps and Plans plus much more. | ||
Australia | My Ancestors.com | Click for website | A free link library for genealogy and ancestry records in Australia. A good informative site but ads can be a bit annoying. | ||
Births, Marriages & Deaths | GRO – UK General Record Office | Click for website | free search birth, marriage and death indexes. Buy online certificates | ||
Calculating money value | Measuring Worth | Click for website | Purchasing Power of British Pounds from 1270 to Present | ||
Canadian Records | Genealogy and archival research: Royal Canadian Mounted Police | Click for website | Royal Canadian Mountain Police | ||
Cemeteries | Over 2.5 million inscriptions and three quarters of a million online images. | Click for website | Australian Cemeteries Index | ||
Collection | (Connected Histories) 25 major digital resources for the period 1500-1900 and allows searching of names, places and dates. | Click for website | Worldwide selection of resources from 16th to 20th Century | ||
Convict Registers | Search prison, convict etc. records to see if the black sheep in your family are included. | Click for website | Black Sheep Ancestors – United States, UK and Canada. | ||
Criminal – London | The Old Bailey | Click for website | Proceedings at the court 1674-1913; nearly 200,000 London criminal trial records. | ||
Directory | Historical Directories of England and Wales : Historical Directories of England and Wales | Click for website | Digital library of local / trade directories. | ||
Family History & Heraldry | Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies : | Click for website | School of Family History founded in 1961. | ||
Forces | Details of regimental museums. | Click for website | Army Museums Ogilby Trust : | ||
Forces | Military genealogy resources plus military data | Click for website | Forces War Records | ||
Genealogy Websites | A vast site containing the largest collection of free genealogy sites for United States research. | Click for website | Access Genealogy : USA | ||
Genealogy Websites | I Dream of Genealogy – Search over 60,000 free genealogy databases from the US, Canada, Ireland, Europe, Australia and more. | Click for website | United States, Canada, Ireland, Europe, Australia and more. | ||
Genealogy Wiki | ISOGG Wiki | Click for website | A genetic genealogy encyclopedia. | ||
Graves | The largest searchable resource for searching GPS cemetery data. | Click for website | Billion Graves | ||
Graves | Find a Grave Searchable database of graves. | Click for website | Find a Grave | ||
Great War | Long, Long Trail | Click for website | The British Army in the Great War of 1914-1918. Including where to find records and how to interpret them. | ||
Indexes USA, Canada, UK, Europe. | A large collection of free indexes from around the world, including USA, Canada, UK, Europe. | Click for website | USA, Canada, UK, Europe. | ||
Indexes | Debt of Honour Register and online index | Click for website | Commonwealth War Graves Commission | ||
Indexes | Online Genealogy Index (OGI) | Click for website | A simple and efficient way of finding genealogical data online. | ||
Indexes | The Ryerson Index | Click for website | The Ryerson Index is a free index to death notices appearing in Australian newspapers. The period covers from the Sydney Gazette in 1803 to the present day. | ||
Indexes USA states | US Gen Web Project | Click for website | Evolving free website with no registration or login required to access over 3,000 linked websites and much, much more. | ||
Irish research | Irish Genealogy Toolkit | Click for website | Free and independent guide to finding your Irish ancestors with Wiki. | ||
Library (Ireland | National Library of Ireland | Click for website | Online searchable catalogue of holdings; plus online images of Catholic parish registers. | ||
Library (Wales and Millitary) | National Library of Wales | Click for website | Online catalogue of over 4 million entries; WWI programme of remembrance. | ||
Library Australia | Trove (National Library of Australia) | Click for website | Australian online resources – books, images, historic newspapers, maps, music, archives and more. | ||
Library British | Catalogue of over 12 million books, serials, printed music and maps; newspaper catalogue of over 52,000 newspaper and periodical titles; India Office Select Materials. | Click for website | Books, Newsapers & Maps | ||
Library British History | Digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of Britain and Ireland, with primary focus on the period between 1300 and 1800. | Click for website | Britain & Ireland between 1300 and 1800. | ||
Library Derbyshire | Research Projects, exploring England’s rich local history – Victoria County History (VCH) | Click for website | www.history.ac.uk/.research/victoria-county-history | ||
Library/Archive Canada | Library and Archives Canada | Click for website | Enables you to access Census, Genealogy and Family History, Military Heritage data along with other topics. | ||
Library (Haiti) | Hathi Trust Digital Library : | Click for website | Wide variety of digital collections from around the world including some non-conformist magazines. | ||
Maps | David Rumseys Map Collection | Click for website | Historical collection of maps for the USA and elsewhere. | ||
Maps | Maps of all UK | Click for website | Hosted by the National Library of Scotland. Includes side by side maps | ||
Military | Military Service Records | Click for website | How to obtain more recent service records including personnel who served in WWII. | ||
Millitary WW1 | Western Front Association (WFA) | Click for website | Aims to perpetuate the memory, courage and comradeship of all those on all sides who served their countries in France and Flanders during the Great War. | ||
Newspapers | Google News Archive | Click for website | A large archive of various newspapers from around the world. | ||
Newspapers NZ | Papers Past | Click for website | Digitised full text New Zealand and Pacific newspapers, magazines and journals, books and other formats. | ||
People DataBase | Free searchable database of 11 million immigrants to New York. 1820 – 1892 | Click for website | Castle Garden : New York America’s First Immigration Center | ||
People DataBase | Deceased online – UK burial and cremation records. | Click for website | UK | ||
People DataBase | Searchable database and copies of passenger manifests of ships arriving at Ellis Island from 1892-1924. | Click for website | Ellis Island Immigrants to US | ||
People DataBases | People finder site, including a comprehensive database of current UK residents. | Click for website | 192.com : | ||
Photos | Dead Fred – free searchable genealogical photo archive. | Click for website | USA | ||
Place Names | Gazetteer of British Place Names | Click for website | Find the historic county for one of over 280,000 places in Gt Britain. | ||
Places | Register of One-Place Studies | Click for website | Online studies of the history of particular places. | ||
Research | FreeBMD: search birth, marriage and death records from the GRO Index for England and Wales | Click for website | FreeBMD : | ||
Research | FreeCEN: search UK census returns | Click for website | Search UK census data. For Free | ||
Research | FreeREG: search UK baptism, marriage and burial records | Click for website | Indexed ent’ from many parish & non-conformist regs of England, Scotland and Wales. | ||
Research | Genealogy Search Engine | Click for website | Free genealogy search engine in ass’ with Genealogy in Time magazine. | ||
Research | Family History Fanatics | Click for website | Guides and Training | ||
Research | Virtual reference library of genealogical information of particular relevance to the UK and Ireland. Forthcoming genealogical events on GENEVA. | Click for website | Genuki | ||
Research Guides (USA) | Research Guides – USA | Click for website | Tips and online records for the USA. | ||
Resources | A comprehensive link site for genealogy and family history research in Canada. | Click for website | Canada | ||
Resources | Site which gives free guides, tips, links to free websites and much more. The site is mainly focused on US genealogy, but there are links to the UK and elsewhere. | Click for website | Family History Daily | ||
Resources | Probably the best genealogical research site. | Click for website | Family Search Wiki | ||
Transportation (Tasmania) | Genealogy & Free Databases | Click for website | Site giving information / links to Cemeteries, Convicts, Immigration, Passenger Lists and much more. | ||
Uk Population Study (Cambridge Uni’) | Atlas of Victorian and Edwardian Population 1851 – 1911 | Click for website | An interactive map enabling the user to view various social conditions e.g. Mortality & Health, Households, Socio-economic status etc., between 1851 and 1911. | ||
USA & Canadian Ancestry | Olive Tree Genealogy | Click for website | A free genealogy site which includes Passenger lists, Canadian and US Genealogy links, plus much more. | ||
USA Gazetteer | Home Town Locator | Click for website | 50 State Gazetteers, plus the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and Washington, DC Gazetteers | ||
USA research, includes slavery | USA website with links to all states, & plus various data on subjects re: Historical, Native American, Slavery etc. | Click for website | USA & Free Genealogy Trails volunteer Transcribed | ||
War Memorials UK | Roll of Honour | Click for website | War memorials from across the UK. | ||
Wills & Probate | The Gazette | Click for website | Official Government notices, including wills, probate, civillian and military awards, insolvency, planning and transport notices. | ||
Wills & Probate | Probate | Click for website | Access to post – 1858 England and Wales wills; index of wills for soldiers who died on active service from 1860-1982. | ||
Worldwide Searches | Linkpendium | Click for website | Is a 10,000,000+ resource directory to everything on the web about families worldwide and genealogically relevant information about US states and counties. Also has links to the UK and Ireland. | ||
Worldwide Searches | One Step Web Pages – Unilateral One Stop Shop | Click for website | |||
WW1 | Index cards of 5 million service personnel and civilians captured in WWI and sent to detention camps. | Click for website | Prisoners of WW1 International Red Cross Archive | ||
WW1 & WW2 | WWI / WWII collections plus access to Faces of WWI & Lives of WWII plus War Memorials Archive. | Click for website | Imperial War Museums – Collections | ||