Immigration, Ships, Passenger Lists
Land Records
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Maps, Gazatteers, Calendars
- 1660-1892 England and Wales Map
- CuriousFox.com
50,000 counties, towns, villages and hamlets with contact boards, surname lists
and links to the exact location on old maps and modern maps.
- English Calendar
Ecclesiastical Calendar, Old and New style dating, day of the week, and Regnal years
- English Probate Jurisdiction Maps and Guides
- Gazetteer of British Place Names
- Genuki-United Kingdom and Ireland Maps
- Genuki Gazetteer
The Genuki Gazetteer covers the whole of England, Ireland, Wales, Scotland and
the Isle of Man
- Greenwood's Map - Place Names
- Huntingdon Parish Map
- Interlink Bookshop - England Wales Maps
- Lancashire Gazetteer, Joseph Aston, 1808
- Greater Manchester County - Gazatteer of Local Government Areas
- Lancashire Maps
- LookupUK
- Lincolnshire Maps
- Lost London Street Index
An index of London street name changes
and those that are no longer in existence
or shown on maps
- Map of John Snow's London in 1859
A historical map of Victorian London during the time of Dr. John Snow (1813-1858)
the prominent epidemiologist and anesthesiologist
- Motco Image Database
London Maps from 1705-1862
- Multimap.com
Find a present day house, street or place in the UK
- Old Maps of Britain
Providing access to Britain's most extensive digital historical map
archive. Find out where your ancestors used to live or check out what
your neighborhood looked like over a hundred years ago.
- Ordinance Survey Maps
Detailed maps ov small regions (some as detailed as one inch to one mile)
showing roads, hills, streams etc. noting the name of each by their old or historic names.
- The Commercial
Directory For 1816–17 (Manchester)
- UK Online Telephone Directory
- UK Postal Codes
- UK Street Map Page
- Victorian London A-Z Street Index
Index contains 61,000 references
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Mailing Lists, Bulletin Boards
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Military Records
- British War Memorial Project
Search more than 98,000 photos of
British servicemembers' gravestones by name, unit service number, service
branch, cemetery, county and country
- Boer War Deaths-Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire
- CWGC-Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Its duties are to mark and maintain the graves of the
members of the forces of the Commonwealth who were killed in the two World Wars,
to build memorials to those who have no known grave and to keep records and
registers, including, after the Second World War, and a record of the Civilian
War Dead. Online Searchable database.
- Cornish War Memorials
- Huntingdonshire Roll of Honor
- Lincolnshire Military Resources
- Military-Genealogy.com
Database of Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914 to 1919
- Military Badge Identification Website
- POW Research Network
Japan
Database of Deceased POW's and Testimonies of POWS
- WW I Soldiers Deaths
- World War I Campaign Medals
- Genuki-United Kingdom and Ireland Military Records
- Land Forces of Britain, the Empire and Commonwealth
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Newspapers and Journals
- Bath Chronicle Georgian Newspapers
Database contains eleven completed years (1770, 1782, 1784, 1785, 1786,
1788, 1789, 1792, 1793, 1798 & 1799) and one almost complete year
(1780). However, one other year (1794) is now at an advanced stage of
preparation. Included are all places within 5 miles of Bath,
most of the places within 10 miles, and other major places
(except Bristol) up to 15 miles away. Since Bath is situated in
north-east Somerset and is close to the counties of Wiltshire &
Gloucestershire, this is reflected in the abstracts. Places include
Bradford on Avon, Chippenham, Chipping Sodbury, Frome, Melksham, Newton
(St Loe), Norton St Philip; Radstock, Rode (Somerset), South Stoke,
Trowbridge, and Devizes.
- Cyndi's List - Newspapers
- Somerset Newspapers Indexes
Currently 12 West Country newspapers have been indexed.
In general only names from Somerset/Dorset/Devon/Cornwall have been
included. For the Bridgwater Advertiser 'The Alfred' 1832, only Somerset, Devon
and Dorset entries have been included. Each year's index contains around
3000-5000 names.
- Old Liverpool Newspapers online
- The Guardian, The Observer Digital Archive
- United Kingdom Newspapers
- The Collections of the British Library Newspaper
Library
- The London Gazette
Searchable online database for the London Gazette, one of the official newspapers
of record in the United Kingdom.
- Search the London
Gazette Archive
This archive contains all London Gazettes of the 20th Century (to 1997), the war
years (1914-1920, 1939-1948), and all 20th Century Honours and Awards published
in the London Gazette.
- Internet Library of Early Journals
A digital library of 18th and 19th Century journals
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Poorhouses/Workhouses
Research Aides
- AncestorSuperSearch.com
Precision searchengine for selected English genealogical data pre 1930.
Current database status: 1.46 million English birth and census events 1755-1891
Example search with positive result: john fletcher Birth Cheshire 1825-1845
- BBC - Family History
Offers tips for getting started in family history, bloodlines, history of your
region, timelines, history trails, wars and conflicts, archaeology and much more
- Blank Census Forms
- British Counties, Parishes, etc. for Genealogists
- CuriousFox.com
- exploregenealogy.co.uk
Excellent site with tips and how-to's on ancestors abroad, basics of genealogy, death records,
family resources, marriage records, middle ages records and research consideration. There are
also tips for Australia and Canada
- FamilyRecords.gov.uk
This site, provided by the aims to help you find the government records and other
sources you need for your family history research.
It is divided into two main sections: Topics and Partners. In the topics
section you will find information on Births, Marriages & Deaths,
Census, Migration etc. In the partners section, you will find information
on each member of the FamilyRecords.gov.uk consortium.
- FamilySearch.org Research Guidance
- FamilySearch.org Research Helps
- UK Counties
Counties of England, Wales and Scotland prior to the 1974 Boundary Changes
- Administrative Areas for British Isles
- Research-Investigating Your Family Tree
The General Register Office (GRO) provides the first steps in researching family history, including
information about birth, death and marriage records and certificates, parish records and much more
- Rigistration Districts in England and Wales (1837-1974)
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Societies and Organizations
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Surname List
- By Shire
- General Surname Websites
United Kingdom Government
Visitation Records
- The
Visitation of the County of Devon, 1531, 1564, 1620
- The Visitation of Devon in 1564
- The Visitation of the County of Dorset, 1623
- The Visitation of the County of Gloucester, 1623
- The Visitation of the County of Hertford, 1572, 1634
- The Visitation of the County of Kent, 1619
- The Visitation of London, 1632, 1635
- The Visitation of the County of Norfolk, 1563, 1613
- The Visitation of the County of Somerset, 1623
- The Visitation of the County of Wiltshire, 1623
- The Visitation of the County of Worcester, 1569
- Download gedcom of Visitation of Devon
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Voting Registers
Wills, Probate and Court Records
Lancashire Will Search
Wills from mid sixteenth century to the early nineteenth century. Current Record count - 248660.
Lincolnshire Probate Records
London Wills 1609-1810
London Signatures currently includes 10,000 Archdeaconry Court of Middlesex
Wills (AM/PW), covering the period 1609 -1810. You can
also buy a digital copy of the will direct from the web, for just 4GBP (around
6.75 US dollars).
National Archives Wills Search
The complete collection of more than 1 million PCC wills is available for searching online.
Abstracts of Probate Documents
A collection of about 1000 abstracts of probate documents relating to people residing
in the neighbourhood of the towns of Hungerford and Wantage in Berkshire
Proceedings of the Old Bailey London 1674-1837
A fully searchable online edition of the largest body of texts
detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing accounts of
over 100,000 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.
Contains 100,621 trials, from April 1674 to October 1834
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Miscellaneous
- A-Z of British Genealogical Research
- British Counties, Parishes, etc. for Genealogists
- British Date Calculator (Feast Days and Holidays)
- British Isles GenWeb
- Channel Islands - Cyndi's List
- Corporation of London
- Doomsday Book
- England & Wales Vital Document Courier
Service
and Family History Research Services
Has many links to GenDoc on the internet such as
street index, cemeteries, institutions, census indexes,
churches and parishes.
- Essex Lookup Exchange
- Genealogy Gateway
- Genuki-Occupations
Includes old and obsolete occupations and an explanation of each
- Genuki - Periodicals
- Hertfordshire - Gazatteer of
Markets and Fairs to 1516
- How to research your ancestors from the United Kingdom
- Interlink Bookshop - England Wales Books
- Lancashire Surnames
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Directory of medical licences issued by the Archbishop of Canterbury 1535-1775
- Parish Locator
A program that can be downloaded to enable you to locate any
one of over 15,000 UK parishes. It will produce a list of parishes in
any County or a list of parishes within a given radius of any other parish
- Queen Victoria's Journals
- Surfing Links - English and Irish Resources
- The Federation of Family History Societies based in the British Isles
- The Society of Genealogists Bookshop
- UKbirth-adoptionregister.com
The Contact Register has been founded by Missing Links UK in association
with LookupUK.com as the ultimate resource for all adopted people, birth
parents, brothers, sisters and extended natural family members, wishing contact
with one another, to be able to register their interest.
- UK Genealogy
Links to Archives, Libraries, Societies, Mailing Lists, Surname Lists, and County Research
- United Kingdom General - Cyndi's List
- United Kingdom & Ireland Index- Cyndi's List
- War Memorials of Warwickshire
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