Selected Genealogy Resources
This page last updated Friday, 14 October 2005
The following is a collection of some of my Internet Genealogy related page links by category
Nottinghamshire information and Families
Lincolnshire information and Families
Yorkshire information and Families
Hampshire information and Families
Norfolk information and Families
Derbyshire information and Families
Warwickshire information and Families
Northamptonshire information and Families
Essex & Cambridgeshire Sites/Information
Medieval (older period) Genealogy Sites
Nottinghamshire information and Families
Baedeker's Old Guide Books - maps and town plans for all over Great Britain in 1910.http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/
Picture Past - Over 19,000 images dating back to 1850s covering Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. Derby and Derbyshire.
John Piercy's History of Retford (1828)
Gleanings from the Nottingham & Newark Journal
Images, history and records of North East Nottinghamshire
Full list of Convicts tried at Nottingham Borough Quarter Sessions Court and transported
Nottinghamshire Stray Marriages, 17th Century Parish Registers, 1891 Census Strays, Notts Marriage Licences
Direct links to all archive services in the West Midlands Listings of all places where archives are held in the West Midlands
Newark surnames interests
http://www.old-maps.co.uk East Markham map
Lost Mansfield - An early 17th-century survey of copyhold land ownership in the parish, an index of local references in Quarter Sessions minutes from the same period, and a listing of owners and main occupiers of houses in the town, made in the 1730's.
Cuckney and Holbeck - A few photographs and details from Whites 1832 directory.
Newark - summary of the town's history and geography
Rotherham Home Page has information on Worksop and on Workhouses in Workshop and generally. There is also info on Sheffield and Rotherham.
White's Directory information - Details of about 100 Cuckney traders who were resident in the parish in 1832.
Normanton on Soar History site
Pigots Directory of Nottinghamshire1830 Lists of the people and their addresses plus who they voted for in the 1754 election to Parliament of two Burgesses to represent the town of Nottingham
Geoff Bradley's Genealogy Site - Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire families and information
Cornelius Brown's History of Nottinghamshire (1896)
Shops and Businesses past & present of Retford a Market Town in North Nottinghamshire
The Pilgrim Father's - The story begins hundreds of years ago in 16th Century Bassetlaw, in North Nottinghamshire England, where church congregations, in the villages of Babworth, Scrooby & Sturton-le-Steeple wanted to reform the church system in England - they were called Separatists and believed in greater freedom of worship and religious tolerance.
The Guy's of Bottesford - Nottinghamshire Marriage Licence Bonds (1701), Parish Records for Bottesford, Eastwell, Elston, Hoton and Long Clawson Returns of Owners Of Land Nottinghamshire 1871
The Nottinghamshire Archives - There are more than 5 miles of documents housed at Nottinghamshire Archives, ranging from the 12th to the 20th century. They include both official and privately owned archives.
Harvard Law School Deeds Project - Nottinghamshire
The Thoroton Society Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire - Index
The Virtual Nottingham site (Maps, information, etc.)
GENUKI Nottinghamshire - Information about Nottinghamshire, Archives, Church Records, Civil Registration and Nottinghamshire related Genealogy. GENUKI Nottinghamshire Parish Map A reference to a Joseph Quibell resident owner of land at Stokeham
Nottinghamshire Family History Society - Over 7,000 membership interests, Book lists, 1841/51 Census searches and other services.
Nottinghamshire Genealogy Society - Internet based genealogy society for Nottinghamshire. Membership is free to anyone anywhere in the world, who shares the vision of making information regarding family history, geography and history of the county of Nottinghamshire, freely available to anyone via the Internet.
Nottinghamshire Local History Association
Nottinghamshire WorldGenWeb Project
Genealogy and Nottinghamshire, England - Very interesting page devoted to the county of Nottinghamshire
IGI batch numbers for Nottingham
East Midlands History (With links to several Nottinghamshire sites)
Rod Neep - Family History and Genealogy of Neep/Knapp Family. Lots of other information including free lookups of baptisms, marriages and burials in Nottinghamshire parishes for which Rod has transcripts or indexes.
The Guilliatt Family - The latest information about the Guilliatt family in the UK and the United States as well as well as the "Blaggs of East Markham" and descriptions of several descriptions of Nottinghamshire Villages and Towns (Elkesley, Ordsall, East Markham, West Retford, Tuxford, Worksop, Retford)
The Hoyle Family of Bunny and Nottingham
The Burley and Swinburn(e) families of North Wheatley
The Orwins of Nottinghamshire
Check out Old Nottingham History, Nottingham Caves & Robin Hood at the Pansoft web site
Nottinghamshire Historic Buildings and Archaeology
Hugh Winters Web Page - Lots of files and list of Genealogical information (Too much to describe here)
The Nottinghamshire Surnames List - List of Nottinghamshire Surname Research Interests compiled by Hugh Winters (All of mine are here!)
Nottinghamshire Mailing List - Discussion list for people with Nottinghamshire research interests. Send a message to NOTTSGEN-D-request@rootsweb.com and put the word subscribe in the body of the message to subscribe to this list in digest mode.
Nottinghamshire Lookup Exchange - List of reference works, microfiche, etc. on Nottinghamshire for which volunteers are willing to conduct specific searches.
The Newark Advertiser Newspaper
The Nottinghamshire Post Newspaper
BELPER, Derbyshire UK -A Brief Insight
Derbyshire - Records of Marriages in Individual Parishes
Lincolnshire information and FamiliesLincolnshire Archives - Includes list of deposited parish registers and bishops' transcripts
British Gen Web site for Lincolnshire
http://www.le.ac.uk/elh/pot/lincers.html
Lincolnshire Commercial Directories
Boston Union - Extracts from Boston It's Story and People by Geo. S. Bagley.
An Index to the 1332 Lay Subsidy Rolls for Lincolnshire, England
Nan Clark's Lincolnshire Genealogical Research
Fiona Poulton's Homepage - dedicated to family history in and around Grimsby, (North East Lincolnshire being the new political boundaries.) Fiona is currently Chairperson of the local family history group, which is part of the Lincolnshire Family History Society.
David Pacey's Page - Information on Lincolnshire Deanery and Census Districts
Lincolnshire Family History Society
Isle of Axholme Family History Society
Lincolnshire Gazetteer - A gazetteer of 905 towns, villages & hamlets in Lincolnshire.
Lincolnshire Genealogy Forum Message Board
LINCOLNSHIRE Rootsweb mailing list. People can subscribe to the list in mail mode by sending a message to: ENG-LINCSGEN-L-request@rootsweb.com that contains the word subscribe and nothing else. If you prefer digest mode, you should send the command instead to ENG-LINCSGEN-D-request@rootsweb.com.
Lincolnshire Genealogy Forum web page
Yorkshire information and Families
York Archaeology Bridgemasters, also includes glossary of unusual terms, and a gazetteer of York street names
Barnsley Family History Society also http://communities.msn.co.uk/BarnsleyFamilyHistorySociety
The Yorkshire Archaeological Society
Rotherham Local Studies Library
UK. ENG-SHEFFIELD - Connected with mailing list for those researching ancestors in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. (Web site where you can find FAQs, Look up offers, and other helpful info.)
Sheffield area Rootsweb mailing list. People can subscribe to the list in mail mode by sending a message to: ENG-SHEFFIELD-L-request@rootsweb.com that contains the word subscribe and nothing else. If you prefer digest mode, you should send the command instead to ENG-SHEFFIELD-D-request@rootsweb.com
Hampshire information and Families
Hampshire County Freecen project - part 1891 census
Hampshire Lookup Exchange - List of reference works, microfiche, etc. on Hampshire for which volunteers are willing to conduct specific searches.
The Hampshire Surnames List - List of Hampshire Surname Research Interests compiled by Chris Broomfield
Hampshire Mailing List - Discussion list for people with Hampshire research interests. Send a message to HAMPSHIRE-D-request@rootsweb.com and put the word subscribe in the body of the message to subscribe to this list in digest mode.
Hampshire Genealogical Society - Family History Research in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
GENUKI Hampshire - Information about Hampshire, Archives, Church Records, Civil Registration and Nottinghamshire related Genealogy.
History of Hampshire And Isle Of Wight Villages
Norfolk information and Families
White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1845 (Transcribed by Nigel Pendall) A reference to Joseph Quibell Vict and brewer Leather Bottle at Cranwich
Derbyshire information and Families
Transcription of the Pigots directory 1835 for the whole of Derbyshire.
Marriage index for Derbyshire - Parishes completed so far are: Alvaston - 1614 - 1812, Chellaston - 1570 - 1812, Derby, St. Peter's - 1558 - 1812, Kirk Langley - 1654 - 1812, Normanton - 1769 - 1810, Osmaston - 1743 - 1812, Willington - 1698 - 1812
Derbyshire Family History Society
Northeast Derbyshire site
Warwickshire information and Families
Transcriptions of early surveys of Warwick town and a listing of Inns and Taverns as transcribed from the 1874 White's directory of the county Warwick
Northamptonshire information and Families
Northamptonshire Look-up Exchange
Northamptonshire Family History Society
The Northampton Museum has a page devoted to military collections including information about the regiment
University of Leicester historical directories
Old London maps on line http://www.motco.com/MAP/
First edition historical maps of Great Britain dated between 1846 and 1899. This site allows you to view historical maps simply by entering a place name, an address or a grid reference.
The UK Street Map Page - Address searching and street map facilities for the UK
The Virtual Nottingham site (Maps, information, etc.)
London Street Maps on the WWW - A comprehensive streetmap of London, UK. Just enter the name of a London street to see a map of that street and its surroundings.
GENUKI - Information about Census Registration Districts, also Index of Places in England and Wales. For each place listed, this index shows the county and registration district in which they were situated during the years 1837-1930.
An English Parish Register Search Engine - Very useful.
The UK Ordnance Survey - On-line gazetteer for locating those hard to find places
Another gazetteer site for finding places (Based upon Parish table from the 1911 census)
London Directories Newspaper extracts Pictures, etc.
Diary of Samuel Pepys
Essay on burial of the plague dead in early modern London by Vanessa Harding
An image database containing 20,000 works from the Guildhall Library and Guildhall Art Gallery London
Wages and Cost of Living in the Victorian Era - By James Skipper, Houston, Texas, and George P. Landow, Professor of English and Art History, Brown University
Victorian London Research - GenDocs On-Line Victorian London Research Aids, Census Information Etc.
Greenwood's 1827 Map of London
Lost London Streets - An index of London street name changes and those that are no longer in existence or shown on maps - Free search and lookup service.
The history of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets - If you're interested in Bethnal Green, Bow, Bromley-by-Bow, the Isle of Dogs, Limehouse, Mile End Old Town, Poplar, Ratcliff, St. George's in the East, Shadwell, Spitalfields, Wapping, Whitechapel - or any of the other hamlets that make up the borough - you'll find articles here to tell you about their history.
Poplar and Limehouse area - extract from Collins Illustrated Atlas of London, 1854
Middlesex England Parish Records - contains "some" parish marriage records in Middlesex County, England between 1563 and 1895. The data came from books at the Gainesville (FL) University Library West, which were arranged by parish, and then by date.
The Hackney Archives Web Page. City of Westminster Archives Centre - The City of Westminster covers a major part of central London, extending from Paddington in the north to Pimlico in the south and from Hyde Park and Knightsbridge in the west to Covent Garden and Strand in the east. It includes Queen's Park and Bayswater, Maida Vale and St John's Wood, Mayfair and Belgravia, and Soho and St James's. London Metropolitan Archives (Formerly Greater London Record Office)
Index of churches - by parish (Southwark London)
Abney Park Cemetery -- Search Engine (Use the site form to search through the burial files at Abney Park Cemetery Archive in Hackney)
London Borough of Brent Cemeteries & Mortuary unit - Limited online information and search service
Finsbury Reference Library - The London Borough of Islington was formed in 1965 from the amalgamation of the old Metropolitan Boroughs of Islington and Finsbury. Islington and Finsbury share a rich and fascinating history, as is revealed in the Borough's archives, held at Central and Finsbury Reference Libraries. Local history publications, maps, postcards, prints, framed pictures and greetings cards are sold at both libraries. Photographs, cuttings, maps, electoral registers, street directories, parish records, rate books and census returns can be consulted BY APPOINTMENT ONLY.
Cockney Rhyming Slang Dictionary
Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section
London Ancestor - A Journal of source data for Genealogy and Local History in Greater London, containing extracts and transcripts from manuscripts, directories, ephemera, maps and other difficult to find and out-of-print material, mostly pre 1880 and whenever possible pre 1837. Areas covered include Bethnal Green, Chelsea, Mile End, Southwark, Spitalfields, Wapping, Westminster, WhitecHapel
London and North Middlesex FHS - The London & North Middlesex Family History Society was formed in 1978 to bring together people living in the City of London, Marylebone, and the London Boroughs of Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey and Islington, or whose ancestors lived in the area, and who are interested in researching their family history wherever that might be found.
East of London FHS http://eolfhs.rootsweb.com/
Steve James Web Page (Ancestors in the City of London)
Newgate Prison - A list of Inmates, Victims and those associated with the prison
Parish records - "Certified under the burial laws amendment act 1880"
Essex & Cambridgeshire Sites/Information
Pigot's 1839 Directory of Cambridgeshire
General UK Sites/Information
Index of Black Sheep, Police and WW2
Records of more than 100,000 trials at the Old Bailey (1674 to 1834)
http://www.british-genealogy.com
The A2A database was last updated in May 2003 and currently contains more than 4.5 million catalogue entries from 322 record offices and other repositories.
Public Records Office - Information about the Family Records Centre, Genealogy section
England and Wales Birth, Marriage, and Death Certificate Information
The Public Record Office on-line documents site
GENUKI Public Record Office Information - Lots of information about working at the PRO and whats available.
General Register Office for Scotland
Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts - Manorial Documents Register Archon
Historical Manuscripts Commission - Archives in Focus
http://www.statistics.gov.ukThe Bucks Surname List, as it existed at the end of May 2001
Trade Directories etc. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~pobjoyoneill/index.htm
470,000 names from trade directories from 40 counties in or around 1848.
Probate Records - A Guide to obtaining copies of Probate Records
Postal history http://www.home.gil.com.au/~ears/index.html
Mining Deaths In Great Britain - Database contains 70,700 names of people who died or were injured (1850-1908) in coalmines in Great Britain.
Burying a person in a woollen shroud - This page gives a good explanation
Workhouses - A good general reference on Poor Law matters.
Information about the parish-based system of handling the poor and the poor law reforms that changed the system and established "unions".
The Pubs, Inns and Taverns Index for England 1801-1900 A non profit-making project to index all the licensed premises in England for the 19th Century. If you have any details of such premises, contribute them to: pubsindex@drones.ndirect.co.uk
Royal Mail - Post Codes Online The Royal Navy Site
The Circus, Theatre & Music Hall Families Page
Gypsies and Travellers - Resources on the world wide web
Gypsy collections at the university of Liverpool
UK Electoral Roll - Useful information, although a charge is payable!
The British Newspaper Library - Valuable resource for old archive material Catalogue
Familia: launch edition June 1997 - Family History Resources in public libraries in Britain and Ireland
Infospace - Out of date UK Phonebook
Lookup Exchange Homepage - Specific lookup's on listed records by volunteers
Harvard Law School Library Manuscript Division - Medieval and Early Modern English Deeds
Chapman County Codes
Researching Ancestors from the United Kingdom Using the LDS Family History Center's Resources (By Mark Howells)
www.irishorigins.com - Pay per view site
Index To The Marriages In Walker's Hibernian Magazine 1771 to 1812, By Henry Farrar; London, England; 1890, Surnames A-M Surnames N-Z
Royal Munster Fusiliers and Irish Soldiers
Irish Genealogical Society, International (IGSI) - A good starting place
IRLGEN: Tracing Your Irish Ancestors
The National Archives of Ireland
The General Register Office (Oifig an Árd Chláraitheo) - Fee schedule
North of Ireland Family History Society
IreAtlas - Irish Townland's Database
Celtic Earth - This site is an aesthetic repository of Celtic culture.
The Belfast Newsletter is an Irish newsletter that began publication in Belfast in 1737. It was published three times a week during the 18th century. The surviving 18th century issues have been indexed and abstracted
The Ryerson Newspaper obituary index
Index to Kerr's Melbourne Almanac and Port Phillip Directory, 1841
National Archives of Australia
http://shippinglists.museum.vic.gov.au/project.asp
Victorian Births, Deaths and Marriages online searchable index
Public Record Office Victoria - Online searchable immigration database
New South Wales Births, Deaths and Marriages Index to the 1841 Census NSW passenger lists for Assisted Immigrants, 1839-1896
Victorian Divorce Index, 1861 - 1900
Genealogical Society of Victoria
The Heraldry and Genealogy Society of Canberra
Immigration Museum - 400 Flinders Street Melbourne
Australian Family Tree Connections Magazine
Addresses for Australian registrars of Births, Deaths and Marriages
Index to missing people found in Victoria Police Correspondence Records - Compiled by Helen D. Harris OAM
Death And Obituary Notices Index - The Sydney branch of the Dead Persons Society (DPS) is indexing current death and obituary notices from the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD and the DAILY TELEGRAPH. The Web site now contains more than 50,000 entries relating to "Herald" deaths, about 4,500 to "Telegraph" deaths, more than 900 to "Herald" obituaries, and more than 100 to "Telegraph" obituaries. The "Herald" death entries are growing at about 15,000 per month (1,500 current, the remainder historical). An additional index includes about 300 entries from the "RSVP" column of the "Herald," public notices, about 2/3 of which have genealogical content.
Specialist Indexes in Australia: A Genealogist' Guide
Windsor and Eton Express Newspaper. Articles mainly concerned events in the towns and villages of Buckinghamshire and Berkshire, but there are also a fair number of entries from Middlesex, Surrey, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, with strays from Devon, Kent, Ireland and Scotland, etc. Transcripts and indexes from about 200 issues, which have been taken from 1826-1842
NZ Births, Deaths and Marriages
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~janjones/OntarioLinks.htm
http://my.tbaytel.net/bmartin/earlyont.htm
Victoria County, Ontario Genweb Page
Database for burials and memorials in military cemeteries The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has set up an online database containing more than 3 million records that show where veterans have been buried in national cemeteries. The nationwide grave locator contains records of veterans and dependants buried in the VA's 120 cemeteries since the Civil War. It also has records of burials in state veterans' cemeteries and burials in Arlington National Cemetery -- from 1999 to present. The site displays the same information that visitors to national cemeteries find on kiosks or in written ledgers to locate gravesites: name, dates of birth and death, period of military service, branch of service and rank (if known). The information comes from the records of interment, which before 1994 were paper records that were kept at each cemetery. Some cemetery information (such as the identity of next of kin) is subject to the Privacy Act and as such is not included online.
South African Genealogy
General Genealogy Sites
50 million historical records at the National Archives, from Civil War battles to family immigration files. http://www.archives.gov/aad
Pilot site from the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust.
www.courtservice.gov.uk Probate service England and Wales
www.english-heritage.org.uk/viewfinder (Photo's of old Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, etc - Cookham & Long Crendon mentioned)
Genealogical Research Aids - Diseases, Birthdates, Calendars, Occupations, Maps
Bank of England Records www.bankofengland.co.uk
The Clergy of the Church of England Database project
www.capefam.freeserve.co.uk/militaryimages.htm
This Ellis Island database of 22 million individuals contains the names of approximately 12 million immigrants who actually were processed through Ellis Island, the names of about five million who arrived as first- or second-class passengers and went through immigration formalities onboard their ships, plus another five million U.S. citizens returning from abroad and ship crew members. This database covers approximately 71 percent of all passenger arrival records of the U.S. during the 32-year period from 1892 to 1924.
The Romany & Traveller Family History Society Website
Military Images Web Site
A new version of Personal Ancestral File (4.0) is available for free download from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints website
IGI Batch number search
RootsWeb Mailing Lists -- Interactive Search This can be used to search all the Rootsweb lists such as HAMPSHIRE-L, IRELAND-L, NOTTSGEN-L, etc.
ARCHON - is the principal information gateway for UK archivists and users of manuscript sources for British history
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet - The best place to start researching genealogy on the Internet!
Genealogy Gateway
Vicki Lindsay's List of Mail List groups on the Internet
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
Mariners Index World Wide and Index of Ships World Wide 1851 - 1900
German Site with lots of download files (Wise to check copyright before downloading!)
Free Births, Deaths and Marriages
www.1837online.com Full GRO Index - 5 pound minimum search for 50 pages
USA Place Name finder - Useful for finding County names, Cemeteries, etc.
Early Modern English Dictionaries Database
Translating Latin terms - From Bert's English Genealogy Page. The Middle English Dictionary Latin-English Dictionary Latin Dictionary translator
Occupations and their meaning
http://www.gendocs.demon.co.uk/trades.html
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/#Occupations
http://www.rmhh.co.uk/occup.html
Genealogy technical words/expressions
Glossary of old words - The words in this glossary were extracted from Langdale's Topographical Yorkshire Dictionary by Ron Long (USA) and from the Bulmer's History and Gazetteers of the East and North Ridings of Yorkshire by Peter Nelson (USA) and consequently have a "slant" towards Yorkshire, however some of the words are universal throughout England.
Tony Langham's Occupations Descriptions
The Olive Tree Genealogy Homepage also has some good sections on Obsolete Occupations
as well as on Diseases
Weights and Measures and the Relative Value of Money over time
The Unofficial Family Tree Maker FAQ List
World Family Tree CD lookup's - The CD's are the Family Tree Maker CD's that people own and are willing
to do lookups on for you.
Medieval (older period) Genealogy Sites
OLD-ENGLISH-L, the RootsWeb mailing list - subscribe to digest mode by sending the SUBSCRIBE message to:
OLD-ENGLISH-D-request@rootsweb.com
Companion site for OLD-ENGLISH-L and OLD-ENGLISH-D
Medieval and Early Modern Palaeography - click on Do Palaeography on the left. Putting the cursor over each word gives you the transcription and other information.
Cambridge University on-line palaeography course 1500-1700 with graduated lessons and interesting reading material. (Works best at 1024 x 768 resolution.) Parts can be down loaded as PDF files.
Victoria County History series (Includes the names of manors and their owners - an ongoing project see the guide to published volumes)
Examples of Letters of the 17th Century found in Parish Registers
Medieval Genealogy online dictionaries and tutorials (in the sections on Latin vocabulary and handwriting)
Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid
Information, including bibliography and links to online sources, for medieval English genealogy
The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable by E. Cobham Brewer from the New and Enlarged Edition of 1894
Old English courses and Old English fonts - fonts archive
Old and Middle English instruction OEL given names project
Internet Medieval sourcebook
Medieval source material on the internet
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