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Family History Link
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The A2A website provides free access to catalogue entries for archives held in national, local and specialist repositories. The A2A programme is led by the British Library, the Historical Manuscripts Commission and the Public Record Office. |
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This website is intended to be the first port of call for anyone thinking about searching for or making contact with adopted relatives. |
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A collection of family history data online, including information for beginners. |
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The Archives Hub provides a single point of access to descriptions of archives held in UK universities and colleges. |
Australia and New Zealand Passenger Lists
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Designed to help family historians locate passenger lists for migrant ships to Australia and New Zealand. |
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Explore the history of your region, family and home and get expert tips |
Birmingham and Midland Society of Genealogy and Heraldry
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Family history site for the counties of Worcestershire, Warwickshire and Staffordshire. |
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This site is particularly useful for joining forums for the counties in which you have an interest. |
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Searchable databases of indexes to marriages, wills, witness depositions and apprentice records. |
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A Volunteer Project to document the graves and memorials of British Service Personnel from 1914 to the present day. |
Bromsgrove Branch of the BMSGH
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A website containing a "pot of resources" for family historians including several 1841 census Worcestershire Workhouse transcriptions, a list of the 1841 enumerators for Bromsgrove, a list of "Diseases Through History" - a collection of epidemics, members' surname interest lists and members' websites |
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A searchable 1861 census transcript for Stourbridge & Dudley. |
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This site, gives access to the 1901 census online. The name and address indexes are available to search free of charge, but there is a cost for viewing the images or transcripts. |
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An introduction to help explain the entries on birth, marriage and death certificates. |
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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Search the register of names, service details and places of commemoration for the members of Commonwealth forces who died in the First and Second World War. |
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This site provides details of how to obtain access to probate records. |
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Web Sites
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Site with over 300 pages and 41,700 links to other sites. |
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A database of passenger lists to Australia. |
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Online access to The National Archives' collection of digitised public records, including Prerogative Court of Canterbury wills. |
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A searchable database of immigrants to America 1892-1924. |
Familia - Family History Resources in Public Libraries in Britain and Ireland
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The UK and Ireland's guide to the genealogical resources in public libraries. |
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A website for people tracing their British, European and Anglo-Indian family history in India, Burma, Pakistan and Bangladesh. |
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This site gives information on various topics, such as religious records and immigration, and provides links to bodies who can assist in this research. |
Family Search Internet Genealogy Service
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World's largest collection of genealogical material online, including the 1881 census. |
Federation of Family History Societies
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Includes contact details and links for local Family History societies |
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The General Register Office index of Births, Marriages and Deaths online, for which there is a fee to view. |
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This site is an ongoing volunteer project to computerise the General Register Office Indexes to births, marriages, and deaths for England and Wales 1837-1983. |
Free Genealogy Searches - UK & Ireland
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A collection of links to database where free surname searches can be made, both for the whole of the country, as well as for specific counties. |
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Guide for beginners to Family History, including links to some important online sources for geneaology. |
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One of the largest databases of links on the web to online UK surname databases. |
Genealogy of the Cotswolds and Surrounds
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This site includes census pages of the area, as well as researchers' interests. |
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A site providing research tools and advice for people doing their family history. |
General Register Office for Northern Ireland
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The main records held are the statutory registers of births, deaths, marriages. |
General Register Office for Scotland
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The General Register Office for Scotland is responsible for the registration of births, marriages, deaths, divorces and adoptions in Scotland, and for carrying out periodic censuses of Scotland's population. |
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A large collection of genealogical information pages for England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man. |
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This site provides an online searchable register of one-name studies. |
Immigrant Ship Transcribers' Guild
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This site contains ships' passenger lists and a guide to hundreds of sites with information on passengers, ship type, stories and pictures. |
Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies
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The first centre to provide a school for the study of the history and structure of the family and of subjects generally auxiliary to historical applications. |
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This site has information on asylums, almshouses, prisons, dispensaries, hospitals, reformatories, orphanages, workhouses and other insitutions which may have housed ancestors. |
Irish Family History Foundation
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The IFHF is the coordinating body for a network of genealogical research centres in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland. |
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This site includes a searchable database of surnames and a means of communication between researchers of Jewish ancestors. |
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The memorial database contains records of over 4000 church, cemetery and public memorials to seafarers and victims of maritime disasters, including many important works by prominent sculptors and designers. |
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This site includes guides to relevant sources as well as links to medieval families on the internet. |
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This gives information about the location of local newspapers. |
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This contains some census information, as well as the contact details for all three General Register Offices in the British Isles. |
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This site gives current addresses of the Register Offices in England and Wales. |
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Millions of pages of genealogical data. |
Royal Field Artillery, Worcestershire
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A website dedicated to the men of the Royal Field Artillery in Worcestershire at the time of World War One. |
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The Scots Origins database contains fully searchable indexes of the Old Parish Registers of births/baptisms and banns/marriages dating from 1553 to 1854, indexes to the Statutory Registers of births, deaths and marriages from 1855 to 1898, and the index to census records. |
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The Society of Genealogists offers a unique combination of research material, guidance and support for those interested in family history. |
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Find where your surname comes from with this easy-to-use site. |
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Surname Helper is a surname engine for queries and surname registrations posted on various genealogy sites. |
UK Birth, Deaths and Marriage Exchanges
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The UK Births, Deaths and Marriages Exchange provides a forum for unwanted certificates to be offered to people who might want them. |
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A site for anyone researching ancestors in the UK. |
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An ongoing volunteer transcription project of the births, marriages and deaths in the West Midlands 1837-1950 and beyond. |
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This site provides on-line resources to assist researchers in the quest for their family heritage. |
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Last modification: 15:25:27, 19th January, 2007 by Louisa Mann
Review date: 19th April, 2007
Last modification: 15:25:27, 19th January, 2007 by Louisa Mann
Review date: 19th April, 2007
