For information about
records held in The National Archives, visit the Public
Record Office site which has links to various Government sites
such as Government Family
Records, plus the 1901
Census of England & Wales & the National
Statistics Registration Services. Searching the census site is
free, but you have to pay for any copies whereas the General
Register Office for Scotland charges for both the searches and
the copies. The Free BMD
site provides free access to the Civil Registration index information
for England & Wales for the period 1837 to 1983.
The Family
Research Link site provides free searching of the indexes of
birth, marriages & deaths for England and Wales from 1837 to 2001 held
at the Family Record Centre (FRC), but you have to pay to see the
resulting view of the index pages.
When you have the index references you can then order a copy of a
certificate online from the
General Register Office site.
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 Friends
Reunited web-site, genesconnected,
is growing, but again searching can be tedious.
The Ancestry.com
& Genealogy.com sites also have
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 pay-per-view databases on-line.
The England
GenWeb Project is a site to help researches 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.
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
it 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 it's library, the Subject &
Surname Index from it's 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.
