Genealogical Information

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Major Sites

The Internet has become an indispensable tool for genealogists. It enables them to exchange information about methods and to publish results quickly. A number of sites have appeared which include a great deal of information and also many links. It will take you a long time to examine all parts of any of these. In general, they are very reliable and their authors are experts. If you want to start your study with a smaller site before looking at these larger ones, try Norman Buckley's Help with Genealogy. An example of what developments we might expect in the next few years can be seen at Cheshire BMD where the indexes of the Cheshire Register Offices can be seen on-line.

• GENUKI i.e. U.K. + Ireland Genealogy
• Mark and Cyndi's Genealogy Page – with a very extensive set of genealogical links
• GenDocs – Genealogical Research in England and Wales – a very extensive site
• The Genealogy Homepage with further links
• UKAncestor – A family and local history directory, specific to the U.K. and including forums, projects, transcriptions and links
• Genealogy Online – Web Sites for Genealogists – with an Australian angle
• FindMyPast (formerly 1837online.com) – access to the births, marriages and deaths indexes, images of censuses of England and Wales (1841-1911), and various military and parish records (requires payment)
• FreeBMD (free)
• "FamilTrackers" – World Genealogy Exchange
• McKirdy Index – "Analytical Genealogical Finding Aid to the Statutory Registers of Death for Scotland 1855-1875"

• Surname Profiler Project – Database resulting from a research project at University College, London
• A Set of Surnames Lists (organised by county)
• Numbering systems in genealogy
• Cousins – explains the relationships between cousins (e.g. "second cousin once removed") and complications involving intermarrying
• Consanguinity (in a French context but the arithmetic holds good everywhere)
• Heraldry for Genealogists
• Barbara's Registratiuon Web Page – England and Wales Birth, Marriage, and Death Certificate Information
• RootsWeb – including free web pages for storing genealogical information
• FamilyBMD.com: "Making family history research easier"
• Victoria County History

• Family History (Journal of the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies) – contents and availability of back numbers

• Ireland
  • Directory of Irish Genealogy

• Norman Buckley's Help with Genealogy – "the basics to get you started on your own family tree"

Nobility

• Italian Nobility

Calendars

• The Double-Year Convention and the Change of Calendar in 1752

Counties

• County Directories

• Association of British Counties
• Country associations:
  • Gazetteer of British Place Names
  • The Huntingdonshire Society
  • The Friends of Real Lancashire
  • The Yorkshire Ridings Society

• Old occupations (from site of The Langham Genealogy Page)
• The Pubs, Inns and Taverns Index for England, 1801-1900

There is also a growing interest in the history of one's home. When and under what circumstances was it built? Who lived there previously?

• Home Reunited UK

• Acts of Parliament

• Ordnance Survey – including a section on historical mapping
• Old Maps
• Old Ordnance Survey Maps
• Some Historical Maps
• The Tithe Maps of Wales

• Nineteenth Century Photography for Genealogists – including notes on types of photographs and how to date them

• You discover that in 1832 your ancestor left his children one hundred pounds each – is that a lot or a little? Find out.

• Telephone directories can now be useful in genealogy:
  • Newspaper article (The Daily Telegraph, Wednesday, September 20th, 2006);
  • Telphone directories (at ancestry.co.uk).

• Victoria History of the Counties of England
• The Archive CD Books Project

• Hereditary Diseases
  • Porphyria – Article 1; Article 2

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