The National Archives and General Register Office for Scotland sites, have links to various Government sites such as births, marriages & deaths and census records, etc. Searching the site is free, but you have to pay for any copies. The Free BMD & Free CEN sites provides free access to the Civil Registration index information for England & Wales for the period 1837 to 1983 and the UK census index from 1841 to 1891. When you have the index references you can then order a copy of a certificate online from the General Register Office site.

If you have details of your ancestors with their census references, you can enter them on the lostcousins site so that other family members can locate you.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints site has search facilities for British birth, marriage & death records, plus individual family tree records or recommended sites.

Most family tree software companies, such as Family Tree Maker, also have their own web-sites where users can upload their family tree data files. Searching is free, but can be tedious if you do not have many facts to reduce the search results down to a manageable quantity. The offshoot of the friendsreunited web-site, genesreunited, is growing, but again searching can be tedious.

The Ancestry site also has family name message boards & free search facilities, but some data is only viewable after paying a subscription.

Various county family history societies have their own web sites, such as Bedfordshire Family History Society, which have links to societies for other counties. The Federation of Family History Societies site has joined with the findmypast site to provide pay-per-view databases on-line.

The England GenWeb Project is a site to help researchers find local resources and reference information. The site has links to sites for various counties, e.g. Befordshire Genealogy. The Roll of Honour link from that site gives details of a large number of War Memorials & Rolls of Honour in Britain and abroad.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission site has search facilities for basic commemorative information about men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died during the two world wars. It also lists civilians who died during the Second World War as a result of enemy action.

The Charles Booth Online Archive is a survey into life & labour in London dating from 1886 to 1903. There are searchable poverty maps & original survey notebooks, plus digitised police notebooks.

The British Library Online Newspaper Archive has facilities to search through its collections of newspapers, magazines, documents & books.

The Society of Genealogists site has some material on-line such as the list of Parish Register copies held in its library, the Subject & Surname Index from its magazine & various information leaflets.

If you ever find documents giving details of an ancestor's wealth, you can relate it to present values by using the Current Value of Old Money site.

When you need folders, software, etc, for your records, or large tree printouts, various companies such as S & N Genealogy Supplies or Genealogy Printers are worth a visit.

Should you ever want to turn your family tree gedcom data files into html format for publishing on your own web-site, there are programs such as GedHTree  (used for the family tree files on this site) or GedPage, which simplify the task.