Disclaimer
The links from this page are provided as a starting place for other sources of useful information. However, I'm not involved with these web sites, and the links to them do not indicate any endorsement of these web sites or companies.
I check the links regularly, but if you find one which is not working please let me know. If a site fails one check, it remains on the list in case the problem is temporary. The second time it fails it is removed.
Surname Indexes
Family Search. A searchable world wide IGI database on the Net. What more can I say.
Family Research Link On this site you will find an entire copy of the indexes of Births, Marriages and Deaths for England and Wales from 1837 to 2001. These images are available to search, view (including zooming in on those awkward-to-read names), save to disk and print for a modest charge
FamilyRecordsGov.uk This site aims to help you find the government and other records you need for your family history research.
Flight's in Newfoundland [With thanks to Colleen Haynes who brought the site to my attention] Baptisms Marriages Surname History
Genforum. Searching for an ancestor? Post the details on this page.
Internet Genealogical Directory. Online databases and family trees.
Family History - General.
The British Library. Not much on family history, but an amazing site. Select Digital Library, then Treasures Digitisation. Or search - The catalogue of the British Library is online.
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey London 1674 to 1834. 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.
BT Phone Net - Look up for finding UK telephone numbers (need Surname and Area)
Canadian Military Heritage Project
Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter. A weekly newsletter on the web or by email.
The Federation of Family History Societies. List of all member societies, help with your research, books and CD-Roms for sale, etc.
Genuki. The UK Genealogy index.
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet.
Getting Started on Family History. From Genuki pages. New to Genealogy? Start here.
Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section. SOURCES FOR BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH AT GUILDHALL LIBRARY. Index of returns from parishes in England and Wales recording collections made towards the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral after the Great Fire of London
The National Register of Archives
Images of England. Pictures of English buildings - cathedrals, stately homes, castles, monuments. Part funded by the Lottery Fund. An ongoing project, completion 2002. At present the site provides only an introduction and a few photographs.
The Village Labourer 1760-1832.: A Study in the Government of England before the Reform Bill.
Greenwood's Map of London 1827. If you love maps, or had ancestors in London then this is the site for you. Zoom facility with street names clearly shown. Selection can also be made by place name.
Money and Coinage in Victorian Britain
NSW Family History Index - Includes useful information on getting started and details of the New South Wales information available
Postcode Search UK Search for anywhere in the UK by Postcode
Documents - online - The Public Record Office online catalogue.
Quaker Corner. A repository of resources for enhancing your Quaker genealogical research.
Ships Searchable databases Passenger lists, etc.
Tagish Directory of Local Authorities on the Web
Up My Street Type in a postcode, find all about the area - house prices, schools etc.
Victorian Census Project. The Victorian Census Project at
Staffordshire University aims to computerise a number of source documents and related
materials relating to Great Britain in the mid-nineteenth century. These sources
includes:-
The early and mid-nineteenth century census abstracts.
Vital registration statistics.
The returns of the Poor Law Commissioners.
Pigot's Typology of England and Wales.
Various other nineteenth-century documents of both a statistical and literary nature.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Provides a searchable war graves database.
First World War.com Covers all aspects of the First World War.
Newsgroups
New ones crop up regularly, and a full list can be found in the soc.genealogy
section of newsgroups/usenet.
These are the ones I use regularly
soc.genealogy.britain
soc.genealogy.computing
soc.genealogy.misc
soc.genealogy.surnames.britain