Links about Genealogists
- Here's the homepage for the GeneaBloggers group, and you may also find the BlogFinder useful.
- I like the titles of these ones! The Professional Descendant; Tree Rings;
- Here's a design style I can only aspire to.
- Found this page - it's a Black Sheep Sunday post from "Ancestor Soup" which talks with a sneaking admiration about her ancestor, I think!
- More birds - Genealogist Humour
- Blogging Demotivator
Genealogy News
- There was a petition to lift restrictions on access to historic BMD records
- Profits to be made out of Genealogy
Magazine sites - genealogy topics, published in UK
- Ancestors (the National Archives)
- Also the BBC site
Items about families, social history etc.
- BBC Timeline of British History
- BBC Britain from Above site - aerial photographs from archives, charting changes.
- Search the 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Brittanica
- British History Online (& much family history data available here on Londoners)
- Blog of fascinating snippets from the Times online Archives, e.g. the news of Queen Victoria's death was broken in January 1901.
- The Victorian Farm was a fascinating BBC program - like watching Beamish come alive! Here's a site for the Acton Scott Farm.
Military History
- The Long, long Trail - about the Fourteen-Eighteen War, includes details about battalions
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission CWGC
- *NEW* Excellent guide to what's available online for this area; UK-MFH
- Bletchley Park has a great website now!
- Times Online Archive has a set about the Somme; some amazing insights.
- Remembrance for Poppy Day 2008
- Aquila Kids' mag - page on WWII
Useful Search Tools
- Excellent service on UK GDL, a list of useful sites - find out about the stories, not just the BMD's
- Historical Trade Directories - searchable here, but be patient!
- modern OS maps and Victorian maps available to search by postcode/town at British History Online.
- FreeBMD to find dates for registrar certificates...then
- Share your BMD info with others- currently free to join!
- DeceasedOnline - database on burial records, UK-wide.
- IGI Familysearch - if that's down, use the old site address.
Sites where material is available for a fee (though they each have some free areas):
- Family Relatives, Ancestry, Find My Past, Origins Network.
Searching for Scottish Family History
- Keekin for Kin
- Scotlands People - the main source of BMD certs (post 1855) and parish records
- Scots origins - free help in searching for Birth & Marriage records
- Weavers in Perth
- Article about Perthshire records available during 2010?
- Scottish Documents
- Scottish Census transcriptions for the years 1841, 1871
- Early Census transcriptions for the Border counties
- Various images and information about Scottish counties on Scotlandsplaces.gov.uk
- News blog about resources available to researchers with Scottish Ancestry.
- Recently a 1939 ID register has been made available - useful if you don't know much about a branch of your family tree & don't know where to start. Only available to search for details of people who are now deceased.
Searching for family history in County Durham
- What more do you need, but GENUKI?
- Old parish records on new IGI site (browse through images for each parish, no search function)
- Durham Records Online have a few interesting general pages of history as it relates to immigrants to Durham; Railways within Durham; and Miners' Bonds.
- Durham Wills online - expected to be finished in September 2010, but interesting reading even now.
- Local History Societies - Durham, Cleveland, and even Spennymoor!
- Durham forum on Rootschat.com
Searching for family history in Ireland
- Irish National Archives (free 1911 Census, and 1901 Census available June 2010?)
- Public Record Office for Northern Ireland
- Civil Registration data on FamilySearch (pilot)
- Early Irish records on the 1641 Depositions Project from Trinity College
- e-books which may help with researching the Irish.
