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Useful websites
Please post on here to add any you know of and we will sort them out into some sort of order!
A few to start off with: Ancestry UK Ancestry worldwide Findmypast 1911 census of England and Wales Scotland's People FamilySearch FreeBMD Genes Reunited |
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This is a good site for anyone wanting information on ancestors based in the Sheffield area.
Sheffield Records Online |
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I've not visited it yet but this site has "details of 28,600 Devonians from the 1840s"
Friends of Devon's Archives "The information comes from Tithe Apportionments, documents which recorded the intricate details for what was a church tax and which became increasingly unpopular in the non-conformist parts of Devon. .... Landowners, their occupiers, lessees, the name of the land holding and the acreage are listed." Teignmouth Gazette/News article by John Balment on 29/08/09 EDIT - I've been to the site now and it's great - everything it says it is - it shows who rented what to whom at the time. Very interesting to see the family links. |
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Isle of Wight Family History Society
Good site for Isle of Wight BMDs. Mother's maiden names added to all births. |
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Ulster Ancestry, brilliant for anyone with ancestors who came from the nine counties of the kingdom of Ulster, Antrim, Armagh, Down and Derry, Fermanagh and Tyrone and of course the two which are now in the south, Donegal and Cavan. And Monaghan.
Ulster Ancestry Barbara |
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Historic Cornish Placenames
Interesting looking new site - includes satellite images An Index to the Historical Place Names of Cornwall |
Transcribed Canadian census records for 1901, 1906 (only for Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan), 1911 and 1851/2 for Quebec & Ontario and 1851 for New Brunswick.
This is an ongoing project. Automated Genealogy - Indices to Canadian Censuses Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid. Over 3 million interment records in Ontario. Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid Ontario marriages 1800 - 1926 Marriages in Ontario Lots of Ontario records on here. Granny's Genealogy Garden British Home Children. A site dedicated to children sent to Canada under the Child Migrant Scheme 1870 - 1957 The British Home Children Canadian Genealogy Centre, library & archive Canada. Lots of useful information on here. Canadian Genalogy Centre Searchable list of online Canadian genealogy resources & history information. Global Genealogy - Canada Also Canadian Genealogy Digitised books about Canadian places & people. Easy to search. Our Roots Ongoing Passenger lists indexing project to Quebec (incl. Montreal) and Halifax between about 1900 - 1921 NFHS Passenger List Indexing Project |
Lancashire Online Parish Clerks Project
Lancashire Parish Records on line.. free I transcribe for them along with many other volunteers. |
Spotted this one posted elsewhere its very good
Hope this site helps a few: Individual Insolvency Register Search It goes back to the 1930's. |
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Perth, Western Australia now has Police Gazettes 1876-1900 online at
Western Australia Police Gazette Hosted by the State Library in Perth, the same site also hosts the Australian Newspapers Beta site Historic Australian Newspapers and the West Australian Post Office Directories,1893-1949 Western Australian Post Office Directories |
Just stumbled across this one, which is free and seems to be an absolute wealth of information for those searching for ancestors who emigrated to America. (Just avoid the inevitable link to the not so free Ancestry at the top)
Olive Tree Genealogy |
Women of Vision - Index and History of Nuns and Sisters of the Catholic Church in Australia 1838-1918 - includes a database with about 14,000 entries
Women of Vision |
Oh yes, I remember searching that for Libby's Agatha :)
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Just wanted to endorse Macbev's listing for the historic Australian newspaper's site. It is searchable by family name and is just excellent - I've found some great info from the 1800's on my ancestors on there.
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Just found a new one on me, not sure if it has been mentioned before:
http://www.southernlife.org.uk/ HISTORY OF THE VILLAGES OF HAMPSHIRE AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES |
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Not to buy UK certs, but good for overseas Register office addresses
http://www.bmd-certificates.co.uk/gro.html |
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Links to free newspaper archives.
Covers very many counties as well as the UK http://xooxleanswers.com/newspaperarchives7.aspx |
I found this site-- good for foreign countries....put in surname and place
.allan:) www.geneanet.org |
The HathiTrust Digital Library
http://www.hathitrust.org/ Over 4 million books included so far. I searched for Brighton and found 907 publications. The newer publications do not have the full text, but you can arrange the results by date |
google merseyside aliens for 1300 plus immigrants to liverpool 1879 to 1912 who stayed in the city .......allan
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Thanks for Australian newspapers link Bev, very easy to use.
Viv |
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