Database of digitised images from the Alexander Turnbull Library, the research library within the National Library of New Zealand.
http://find.natlib.govt.nz/primo_libr...TF&dstmp=1276930544695&fromLogin=true
Vietnamese language newspapers from 1890-1955. Not a lot loaded as yet.
http://baochi.nlv.gov.vn
Large database with descriptions and images of ships, passenger lists, diaries kept on board ships and more.
http://www.theshipslist.com/index.html
A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the the royal families of Europe. Index and search facility.
http://www.thepeerage.com/index.htm
Comprehensive website about workhouses covering poor laws, locations of workhouses, plans, photographs and much more.
http://www.workhouses.org.uk
The National Library of Scotland has digitised nearly 1,800 broadsides or single sheet newspapers 1650-1910.
http://digital.nls.uk/broadsides
Some useful resources for anyone researching ancestors associated with whaling.
http://www.explorenorth.com/whalers/index.html
This site has lots of background information on World War One including some transcribed diaries, original photographs and articles. The Association has acquired a major archive of over 6 million soldiers' pension cards which will eventually be digitised and added to the website.
http://www.westernfrontassociation.com
Western Australian Post Office Directories 1893-1949.
http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/find/guides/wa_history/post_office_directories
The West Australian Digital Archive is a subscription site which is available to use within the State Library building. Search the West Australian newspaper which is reproduced in full colour from July 2004 until yesterday.
http://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=e1001654~S2
Packed with information on the counties of Kent, Surrey and Sussex including census transcriptions, maps, photographs and more.
http://theweald.org/home.asp
This website aims to photograph over 1.75 million war graves and memorials from World War One onwards and is being done in collaboration with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. High resolution copies of images can be ordered through the site.
http://www.twgpp.org
The original aim of The War Graves Photographic Project was to photograph every war grave, individual memorial, Ministry of Defence grave, and family memorial of serving military personnel from WWI to the present day. However, due to its popularity we have now extended our remit to cover all nationalities and military conflicts and make these available within a searchable database.
http://twgpp.org
This site gives good background history on the Victoria era mainly in Britain. Particularly useful for family historians are the section on places and social history. For example under social history you will find information on child labour, wages, ragged schools, occupations in census records and more.
http://www.victorianweb.org
A wonderful resource for researching your ancestors in the United States. Part of the World GenWeb Project.
http://www.usgenweb.org
Oral history. History in photographs. A beginners' guide.
http://library.thinkquest.org/C001313/get4.htm
The term “United Empire Loyalists” (often referred to as UEL) refers to the American colonists who remained loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolution, and many of which fought for Britain during that conflict. They fled the United States and settled in what are now the provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Quebec and Ontario. All the archives in these provinces hold records relating to Loyalists, some of which are searchable online.
http://thediscoverblog.com/2014/05/08...mpire-loyalists-finding-their-records
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database has information on more than 35,000 slave voyages that forcibly embarked over 12 million Africans for transport to the americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. It offers researchers, students and the general public a chance to rediscover the reality of one of the largest forced movements of peoples in world history. Includes an African names database.
http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces
a British Catholic weekly journal that has been published continually since 1840. It reports on religion current affairs, politics, social issues, literature and the arts with a special emphasis on Roman Catholicism.
Discover the entire history of the Tablet from 1841.
Every page has been scanned and digitised, each article tagged and extracted, so that you can search the whole archive by content, keyword, topic, location, and date.
http://tablet.archive.netcopy.co.uk
Free searching of the Sydney Morning Herald and Sun Herald 1955-1990 including birth, marriage and death notices. Subscription required to see the full article.
http://archives.smh.com.au
Database of about 32,000 Congregational ministers from the mid 17th century to 1972. It mostly covers England and Wales but includes some ministers serving abroad.
http://surman.english.qmul.ac.uk/index.html
A Guide to Suffolk Pubs past and present. Can search by name or by village. No historical information but approximate dates. Includes names of known pubs that are now closed.
http://www.suffolkcamra.co.uk/pubs
South African and Rhodesian Military casualties are commemorated on this web site.
http://www.southafricawargraves.org/search/index_advanced.php
This online database, from the Universities of Reading and Southampton, has details of soldiers serving the English crown from 1369 to 1454 and includes the names of men-at-arms and archers who served at famous battles such as Agincourt. The information is taken from records held at the National Archives at Kew.
http://www.icmacentre.ac.uk/soldier/database
There's lots of information here for those with Sheffield ancestors including transcriptions of parish records, school records, directories, BMDs and more.
http://www.sheffieldindexers.com
This site has lots of photographs of military graves from around Scotland arranged by region. Some photographs of soldiers are also included.
http://scottishwargraves.phpbbweb.com/scottishwargraves.html
This website has contact details for family history societies throughout Scotland. You can also search across all the full member societies websites by surname or topic.
http://www.safhs.org.uk/index.asp
A great source of information with and A-Z index, regimental pages etc.
http://www.scotsatwar.org.uk
Searchable database of officer cadets who attended the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. Coverage dates for RMA Woolwich are 1790-1793, 1799-1805 and 1820-1939. Coverage dates for RMC Sandhurst are 1800-1946. There are also some staff registers. Brief details are given and the digitised image from the register can be downloaded for a small fee.
http://archive.sandhurstcollection.co.uk
This website has information on part of North West Essex. There are pages for over 30 parishes in the area with photographs, articles and more.
http://www.recordinguttlesfordhistory.org.uk/index.html
Founded in 1954 to bring together all those interested in the history of transport, with particular reference to railways and waterways in Britain, its main objects are to promote historical research and to raise the standard of published history. Publications, interest groups and lots of links.
http://www.rchs.org.uk/trial/gwpf.php?wpage=Home
Transcriptions and photographs of headstones in the cemetery in Florence which closed for burials in 1877.
http://www.florin.ms/WhiteSilence.html
An ongoing project to place transcriptions of Australian trials and links to newspaper articles about them online. Interesting background given to the criminal court system in each state. Search under name, year, offence and place.
https://prosecutionproject.griffith.edu.au
Items of interest from a Scottish family historian.
http://professionaldescendant.blogspot.com
Over 200 years of proceedings from London's famous court. Use it to find criminals, judges, witnesses etc.
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org
Ulster Ancestry is an Independent Family Research Organisation & genealogy centre. Free access to index to Primary Valuation for Ulster.
http://www.ulsterancestry.com/search.html
Information on the six towns in Staffordshire which make up the Potteries. Includes maps, photographs, biographies and more.
http://www.thepotteries.org
The Western Australian Police Gazettes 1876 to 1900 have been digitised and are available on the State Library of Western Australia website. Use them to research police or convict ancestors.
http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/find/western_australian/police_gazettes
This website has lots of digitised material relating to the P&O cruise line including posters, photographs, ephemera and postcards. There are also fact sheets for 2,500 P&O ships.
http://www.poheritage.com
Digitised copy of The Newgate Calendar giving details of crimes and trials of many unfortunates.
http://www.exclassics.com/newgate/ngintro.htm
Searchable database of the New York Times archives. Use advanced search to specify a particular date range. Archives are free for the period 1851-1922 and 1987 to the present.
http://www.nytimes.com
The catalogue of the National Register of Archives for Scotland records details of private records available in libraries, archives etc. in Scotland. Private archives include records of individuals and families, businesses, clubs, landed estates and more.
http://www.nas.gov.uk/nras
The National Library of Wales has digitised the wills of over 190,000 people. These wills are searchable on their website and free to view. They date from the 14th century through to 1858.
http://cat.llgc.org.uk/cgi-bin/gw/chameleon?skin=profeb&lng=en
Horseracing history online. Image archive and database of horses, jockeys, owners, horse racing information.
http://www.horseracinghistory.co.uk/hrho/jsp/index.jsp
Has examples and tips to assist you to read different styles of handwriting.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/palaeography
The National Archives Digital Microfilm means that you can download some of the most popular records from The National Archives at Kew as PDFs. Please note that these files are quite large so you will need a broadband connection.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/digital-microfilm.asp
Search British First World War medal index cards, British Prisoner of War records, wills from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1384-1858, Royal Navy service records 1873-1923 and more.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline
The National Archives of Scotland website includes detailed guides on a range of family history topics including crime, emigration, military records, wills etc.
http://www.nas.gov.uk/default.asp
This tool allows you to search and view digitised historical photographs of the UK and Ireland. Starting with the Dixon-Scott collection, which holds more than 14,000 photographs taken in the 1920s-1940s, we will be adding new photographic resources in time. You can search by location and view images for free.
http://labs.nationalarchives.gov.uk/w...ndex.php/2012/04/collections-on-a-map
Test new products on this 'lab' site at the National Archives. Users are encouraged to give feedback which will help to determine the future of TNA's website.
http://labs.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wordpress
Website of The National Archives for the UK. Search their catalogue, read their research guides, order online material through Documents Online, listen to podcasts and more.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Digitised index cards from Captain Lionel Challis' Peninsula Roll Call with biographical details on over 9,600 British officers who served in the Peninsular War 1808-1814. Information has been compiled from Army lists, gazettes, dispatches, regimental records and other offical records.
http://www.napoleon-series.org
This site includes a useful medal identifier tool.
http://www.military-medal.co.uk
This is a very detailed website packed with information on the First World War. It includes information on how to go about researching a soldier as well as unit histories, war diaries and much more.
http://www.1914-1918.net
This site has details of funerals around Australia. It currently lists over 300,000 funerals from about 2009 onwards.
http://www.thelastpost.com.au
This site has information about the Society and lots of links to websites with Jewish material available worldwide.
http://jhgswa.org.au
The Irish in Europe Project, founded in NUI Maynooth in 1997, promotes scholarly research on Irish migration to continental Europe in the early modern period. It currently hosts biographical information on about 40,000 Irish migrants, mainly soldiers but also men who had to leave Ireland in order to study for the priesthood.
http://www.irishineurope.ie/vre/index
Family history gateway for Ireland with a separate page for each county. Many county pages include transcriptions of births, marriages and deaths, directories etc. There is also a surname list with names of researchers.
http://www.irelandgenweb.com
Founded in 1961, it offers a wide range of courses on family history, heraldry and related historical subjects. The Institute is famed for its Library, especially the Heraldic collection, and for its publications including the celebrated Phillimore Atlas and Index of Parish Registers
http://www.ihgs.ac.uk
The Inner Temple Admissions Database provides biographical information about past members of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, one of the four London-based Inns of Court. Members have included courtiers, politicians, writers, adventurers and overseas students, as well as barristers and the judiciary. Select Inner Temple Archives to see what is available including a searchable database of admissions 1547-1920.
http://www.innertemple.org.uk/history/the-archives
This site has background information on the city of Wolverhampton. Selecting Resources - Indexes will take you to transcriptions of parish registers for Wolverhampton.
http://www.wolverhamptonhistory.org.uk
The Historic Counties Trust is a Registered Charity which aims to promote public awareness of the history, geography, natural history, architecture and traditions of the historic counties of the UK.The Historic Counties Standard provides a definitive statement of the names, areas and borders of the historic counties of the UK. By providing a definition for the terminology and the names, areas and borders of the historic counties. Maps
http://www.county-borders.co.uk/historiccountiestrust/index.html
Information about the Heraldry & Genealogy Society of Canberra Inc. Website includes their online catalogue, a research interests register, a Boer War database and more.
http://www.hagsoc.org.au
Home page of the Guild of One-Name Studies with contact details for members who are researching surnames. One-name studies are where members attempt to collect all occurrences of a surname worldwide.
http://one-name.org
Search digitised photographs of Cottesloe, Mosman Park and Peppermint Grove from 1900 to the present day.
http://thegrovelibrary.net/history/search-local-images
A University of Oxford project which includes digitised material relating to World War One submitted by members of the public. Content includes maps, diaries, postcards, poems, letters, memorabilia and more.
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa
This site has information on which parishes are covered by the 2nd edition of the British Isles Vital Records Index available on CD-ROM. This index has details of over 10 million christenings and nearly 2 million marriages in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. There are also some transcriptions for a few English counties; mostly gazetteer entries plus the Return of Owners of Land for Oxfordshire 1873.
http://genoot.com/lib/index.html
The Gazetteer of British Place Names lists over 50,000 place-names along with their national grid reference. It lists the historic county and also the names of the most important administrative areas within which each place lies.
http://www.gazetteer.co.uk
Of interest to those with French ancestry.
http://www.french-genealogy.typepad.com
Between 1634 and 1662; 262 "marriagable young girls", were recruited to first sign a contract in France and then be given passage and a small dowry to become the wife of a Quebec settler. Some were sponsored by their church, a company associate or merchant. Others were of minor noble families; cousins or sisters of men already in the colony. This site gives a list of all the women who emigrated under this plan and, where available, further information about the women and their descendants..
http://www.geocities.com/weallcamefromsomewhere/Kebec/filles_marier.html
Blog from Audrey Collins who is a Family History Records Specialist at the National Archives at Kew.
http://thefamilyrecorder.blogspot.com
Newspapers from an area of Ontario, Canada.
http://news.ourontario.ca/newmarket/search
This site has links to family history resources for English counties. The amount of content varies from county to county.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~engwgw
This site has surnames of interest, a message board for members and lots of useful links for those with ancestors in the East of London.
http://www.eolfhs.org.uk
The Down Survey of Ireland was taken 1656-1658 to measure all the land to be forfeited by the Catholic Irish. All surviving copies of these maps have been brought together and digitised on the Trinity College, Dublin website.
http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/index.html
Gazetteer of the United States, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean.
http://www.bartleby.com
Transcriptions and photographs of gravestones from Jewish cemeteries. Most are in London, with one each in Hampshire, Oxfordshire, Yorkshire and Hong Kong. A lot of additional information on individuals has been included from other sources. This site allows you to find International Genealogical Index(IGI) batch numbers for towns and villages in the British Isles and North America. You can also search the IGI for a surname within a specific town or village.
http://www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org
This website has lots of information for anyone researching postal worker ancestors. There are information sheets, online exhibitions and podcasts as well as the online catalogue of the museum which is in London.
http://www.postalheritage.org.uk
This is a social networking site for ex British Merchant Navy seamen which includes a large database of ship images. Select Gallery and you can search by ship name for images of passenger ships, cargo ships, tankers, ferries, container ships and more.
http://www.merchant-navy.net/forum/index.php
Digital archive of newspaper from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
http://www.britishcolonist.ca
This site has information on blacksmiths, mainly from Australia and the UK. It also includes related occupations such as farriers, wheelwrights and more.
http://blacksmiths.mygenwebs.com
Databases, indexes and links for the Bellarine Peninsular and Geelong area.
http://zades.com.au/gandd/index.php
The Women's Studies Department at Flinders University has indexed selected years of the Australian Women's Weekly magazine. The years covered are 1946, 1951, 1956, 1961, 1966 and 1971. Please note that this is an index only. The magazine itself is held at the State Library of Western Australia as well as other major libraries.
http://socsci.flinders.edu.au/wmst/WWIndex
This website has biographical information about notable Australian women.
http://www.womenaustralia.info/index.html
This site has a lot of transcribed information mainly on the Boer war and India. There are shipping lists for the Boer war, casualty rolls for the Crimean war plus nominal rolls, medal rolls. army marriages and deaths and more.
http://www.britishmedals.us/kevin/intro.html
This site has a lot of information about what life was like for the children of British army soldiers from the 17th through to the 21st centuries.
http://www.archhistory.co.uk
Dedicated to the collection, indexing and preservation of records and histories of families in colonial-era Burma. Subscription membership. Includes some cemetery and BDM transcriptions, directories, histories, contributed family histories, and links to other sites and message boards. Advice is also available.
http://www.angloburmeselibrary.com
An ongoing endeavour to make the registers of baptism, marriage and burial from Church of Ireland parishes available in a digital format. The online version is hosted by the Representative Church Body Library, which will periodically introduce new transcripts of parish registers.
At time of writing this project is still very new but Delgany (Glendalough)Co. Wicklow is available along with Newtownbarry, Co. Wexford. Check the index volume in order to find individuals in the registers.
http://ireland.anglican.org/about/151
Lists some Canadian and US newspapers available to search online. Also lists where newspaper archives are held in Canada.
http://www.theancestorhunt.com
The Almonte Gazette, Almonte, Ontario, Canada. Searchable from 1861-1989.
http://mvtm.ca/mvtm/?page_id=2759
Over 2,000 photographs and photographed artworks relating to Australian shipping 1870-1930.
http://photosau.com/DuftyCollection/scripts/home.asp
Online bookshop for Tasmanian family history.
http://www.tasfamily.net.au
From this site you can link through to lists of convicts in Tasmania with contact details for people researching them. There are also lists of convict ships, crew and convict guards, convict record abbreviations and more.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~austashs/convicts/con_main.htm
An incomplete list of convict ships carrying convicts to Tasmania and Norfolk Island. Gives details of sailing dates and numbers of convicts on board and a list of sources. Some of the convicts on board are listed with contact details for people researching them.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~austashs/convicts/conships.htm
A really useful list of abbreviations used in Tasmanian convict records.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~austashs/convicts/conabbrev.html
Part of the State Library of Tasmania's website. Includes digitised photographs and indexes to newspapers, government records, place names and more.
http://www.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasmemory
Background and general overview of collections and services.
http://www.tanap.net/content/archives/archives.cfm?ArticleID=201#holdings
Miscellaneous indexes and links pertaining to Sydney and NSW.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nswsdps/dps
An index to admissions and discharges 1857-1900 for the Sydney Benevolent Asylum. Original records are held at the Mitchell Library.
http://www.sydneybenevolentasylum.com
Jill Chambers is an expert on those people involved in the swing riots in Britain during 1830-31. She is the author of many books on the topic and her website is very informative. It gives a history of the swing riots, details of those convicted from various counties, details of those detained on various prison hulks and more.
http://www.swingriotsriotersblacksheepsearch.com
