www.ancestry.co.uk subscription site with all UK census information up to and including 1901, access to BMD and other records Ancestry.com leads directly into US information.

www.findmypast.co.uk GRO register of Births, Marriages and Deaths plus links to all UK census information. Also Soldiers that died in the Great War. Now includes access to the 1911 census.

www.freebmd.org.uk as yet incomplete transcription of UK birth, marriage and death certificates from 1837.

www.freecen.org.uk as yet incomplete free transcription of the UK censuses


www.freereg.org.uk as yet incomplete transcription of UK parish registers

www.ukbmd.org.uk provides links to web sites that offer on-line transcriptions of UK births, marriages, deaths and censuses.

www.nationalarchives.gov.uk website of the National Archives (ex Public Records Office and Historical Manuscripts Commission).

www.1901censusonline.com direct link to the 1901 census site.

www.genuki.org.uk UK and Ireland genealogy. Links to a multitude of sites containing genealogical information.

www.familyhistoryonline.net/database Federation of Family History Societies.

www.familysearch.org website of the Church of Jesus Christ and the Latterday Saints (Mormons). Access to mostly US records but UK census and some other records.

www.bmdregisters.co.uk the Official Non-Parochial BMDs Service for records of birth, baptism, marriage, death and burial taken from non-parish sources

www.deceasedonline.com the central database for UK burials and cremations

www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/ database contains catalogues describing archives held locally throughout England

www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk the official government source of genealogical information for Scotland

isys.llgc.org.uk/index.htm National Library of Wales site including marriage bonds (1616-1837)

www.rootsireland.ie the Irish Family History Foundation’s online research service

www.rootsweb.com “The oldest and largest genealogical website” says it all.

www.cyndislist.com links to an enormous number of genealogical websites worldwide.

www.nationaltrustnames.org.uk the findings of a project based at University College London (UCL) that is investigating the distribution of surnames in Great Britain, both current and historic –1881 and 1998

www.cwgc.org Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Lists war dead from the two world wars plus where they are buried or which memorial lists them.

www.oldbaileyonline.org historical court records from the Old Bailey

www.postalheritage.org.uk/collections the British Postal Museum and Archive including appointments from 1851 to 1956

www.castlegarden.org America’s first immigration centre

www.ellisisland.org site for Ellis Island, the immigration centre in New York

www.immigrantships.net passenger lists from immigrant ships all over the world.

http://www.nmm.ac.uk/researchers/library/research-guides/ National Maritime Museum research guides give useful information on tracing people

www.mun.ca/mha/holdings/searchcombinedcrews.php The Maritime History Archive at the Memorial University of Newfoundland holds merchant navy crew lists from the 19th and early 20th centuries

www.workhouses.org.uk resources available on workhouses.

www.bl.uk/collections/britishnewspapers1800to1900.html British Library Newspaper Library

www.sea-archives.org.uk the Naval and Maritime Libraries and Archives Group (NMLAG). Websites of the member groups.

www.historicaldirectories.org a digital library of local and trade directories for England and Wales, from 1750 to 1919.