Related links
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| Family Records Resources section | All the links used in the guides and topics on this website and more. | |
Browse or join the Rootsweb mailing list |
The page on Rootsweb where you can sign up for or browse genealogy mailing lists. | |
| ScotlandsPeople |
Offers access to indexes to and images of Scottish birth, death and marriage registers, and census records; and indexes to the parish registers of births/baptisms and marriages/proclamation of banns. There is a charge for using the database. | |
| DocumentsOnline |
Search more than 1 million wills proved by the Prerogative Court of Canterbury between 1384 and 1858, as well as more than 5 million Medal Index Cards from the First World War. Documents are delivered in PDF format, and cost £3.50 to download. | |
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| National Archives Census section |
Census records from 1841 to 1901 - images of documents available to download for a fee. | |
| Scottish Documents |
You can search the index on this site to find Scottish Wills from 1500 to 1875. Soon you will be able to buy a digitized image of a will, for £5 - the site allows you to register for updates. | |
| Ellis Island website |
This site allows you to search a database of the names of all the immigrants and passengers who passed through Ellis Island and the Port of New York. You can the view the original "Ship Manifest" (passenger list) with your ancestor’s name on it. | |
| Moving Here |
Moving Here celebrates, explores
and records why people came to England, and what their experiences
were and continue to be. The website offers online versions of original material, including photographs, personal papers, government documents, maps and art objects, as well as a large collection of sound recording and video clips, family history guides and the opportunity to add "your story". |
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| National Archives Catalogue of Records |
The catalogue of records held by The National Archives. | |
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| A2A (Access to Archives) database |
The A2A database contains catalogues of archives held across England and dating from the 900s to the present day. Search for a name or a place and see if you find any new clues to follow up. | |
| Scottish Archives Network |
SCAN - the Scottish Archive Network will offer a similar service to the English A2A project. There is lots of interesting information on the site, although the database is not up yet. | |
| National Library of Wales |
The National Library of Wales has several catalogues/online resources including: Geoweb (printed materials); CAIRSweb (non-print material) and ISYSweb (minor databases). | |
| Ancestry.co.uk |
Access to English, Scottish and Welsh census records, Birth, Marriage and Death indexes and British Army First World War pension records. Images of these documents are available to download for a fee. | |
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| freeBMD |
Search for the index entries of the birth, marriage or death of your ancestor. The index is being transcribed by volunteers so it is growing all the time. It covers the years 1837 to 1901 but only some years are complete. | |
| Familysearch.org |
The website of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - perhaps better known as the Mormon Church. The Church has gathered a lot of genealogical records on microfiche and microfilm which can be accessed in their family history centres worldwide. | |
| Commonwealth War Graves Commission |
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission website allows you to search a database of soldiers who served and died in the the first or second world wars. | |
| Cyndi’s list |
Cyndi’s List is deservedly famous for its amazing indexes of links to genealogy websites. Links are sorted by topic and alphabetically and are constantly being added to and updated. If you can’t find it here, it probably isn’t on the web yet. | |
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| Genuki website |
A very useful website - full of advice and with links for each county of the British Isles. Click on a map to locate the area you are interested in and you will be given lots of links to local family history information, mailing lists etc for that locality. | |
| Familia website |
This website is a directory of family history resources held in public libraries in the UK and Ireland. You can find out which local libraries and record offices hold the information you want to access. | |
| Rootsweb
free pages |
If you are quite new to genealogy you might like to look at the personal websites hosted on Rootsweb free pages. You might find someone already searching your family name - although of course this doesn’t necessarily mean that you are related. | |
| Google |
One of the best search engines around. | |
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| Altavista |
Another long established search engine to try - AltaVista also has directories so that you can browse by category. | |
| Windows Live |
Search engine | |
| Lycos |
Search engine | |
| Ask |
A slightly more unusual search engine, which as well as posting your results, will offer suggestions to help pinpoint what you are looking for. | |
| Yahoo! |
Search engine, also has a directory that you can browse. | |
