A Society that is involved with researching the genealogy or family history of people from the German-speaking parts of Europe who have emigrated over the centuries and settled in the United Kingdom. The Society also has Australian members.
http://www.agfhs.org.uk
Transcribed parish records including baptisms, marriages, burials,census, monumental inscriptions, post office directories and more.
http://www.opcdorset.com
Lists brides from all over the world submitted from family trees. Use with caution as a guide only.
http://brideindex.info
This website has transcriptions of census returns, deaths, electoral registers and more for Winchcombe in Gloucestershire.
http://uk.geocities.com/thecattery@btinternet.com
This site includes a National Database of Mining Deaths in Great Britain which contains names of about 160,000 people who died or were injured in mines in Great Britain 1849-1972. Gives name only but you can email the compiler with a donation for more information. There is also information on the history of mining, mine location maps and photographs.
http://www.cmhrc.co.uk/site/home/index.html
View photographs of several hundred churches in this beautiful area of England which covers six different counties.
http://www.allthecotswolds.com
When this database is complete it will have free transcriptions of 12 million entries in Cheshire's parish registers and bishops' transcripts 1538-1871.
http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~cprdb
Website with history of the parish of Weeke in Hampshire. Includes transcripts of parish registers and census returns and information about the Winchester Union Workhouse.
http://www.weekehistory.co.uk/index.htm
Transcriptions of births, marriages and deaths in Cheshire from 1837 onwards taken from the local register office indexes. Part of the UKBMD Project.
http://www.cheshirebmd.org.uk
Database of Australian pioneer doctors from 1700s - 1875. Includes ships' surgeons, convict doctors, general practitioners and medical specialists.
http://www.medicalpioneers.com
Births, marriages and deaths index 1837-2002, maps and more.
http://www.isle-of-wight-fhs.co.uk
Information on British settlers who emigrated to South Africa in 1820 and their descendants.
http://www.1820settlers.com
Lots of information on the British navy from the time of Nelson including an extensive list of ships, details of men who fought at Trafalgar and officers of the Napoleonic Wars.
http://www.ageofnelson.org
Searchable database for passenger lists from 1855 onwards. Information has been transcribed by volunteers mostly from records in the State Records Authority of New South Wales.
http://mariners.records.nsw.gov.au
Genealogies of Ceylon families with Dutch forebears as published in the Journals of the Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon since 1908.
http://www.dutchburgherunion.org
Transcriptions of births, marriages and deaths from the local register office indexes plus census records and more.
http://www.ukbmd.org.uk
Passenger lists 1800-1900, shipboard diaries, information on immigration schemes and photographs of ships which sailed to and from New Zealand.
http://www.yesteryears.co.nz/index.html
Free searching of nonconformist records 1567-1840 (RG4 and RG5) and pay-per- view for image or full details.
http://www.bmdregisters.co.uk
Searchable database of births, marriages and deaths contributed by users.
http://www.ausbdm.org
Transcriptions of births, marriages and deaths in the West Midlands from 1837 onwards taken from the local register office indexes. Part of the UKBMD Project.
http://www.westmidlandsbmd.org.uk
Oral history. History in photographs. A beginners' guide.
http://library.thinkquest.org/C001313/get4.htm
History of the British slave trade, research guides and more from the National Archives (UK).
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/slavery
Register on this site and you are then able to search for ancestors in family trees submitted by other members.
http://www.genesreunited.co.uk
Transcriptions from war memorials in England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Channel Islands and the Isle of Man plus background information on the Boer War and First and Second World Wars.
http://www.roll-of-honour.com
Database with births, marriages and deaths and census information for Northern Ireland. Some information is available free of charge with pay-per-view for more details.
http://www.emeraldancestors.com/index.asp
Dictionary of old occupation names.
http://rmhh.co.uk/occup/index.html
Searchable database of historic photographs of England held by the National Monuments Record.
http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/default.aspx
Information on immigration to Victoria and Australia. Includes information on ships, personal stories and detailed statistics on migrants from various countries.
http://museumvictoria.com.au/ImmigrationMuseum/DiscoveryCentre
Family history resources for South Africa including passenger lists.
http://www.sagenealogy.co.za
Message board for towns and villages in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Search by surname and village for fellow researchers. Site includes maps and shows villages nearby.
http://www.curiousfox.com
History of Catholicism in Britain. Good for finding resources. Society holds an index of 14,000 nuns and Lancashire Catholic beneficiaries index. Membership is available for a fee.
http://catholic-history.org.uk
Fairly new site so there are not many transcriptions at the moment. There are detailed descriptions of parishes, some photographs and links to directories.
http://www.kent-opc.org
An online guide to comparing monetary values from then and now.
http://www.measuringworth.com
A collection of indexes to British newspaper reports about people including criminals, police, railway workers, miners, doctors, sailors, publicans and more. Once a name has been found the newspaper report can be ordered for a small fee.
http://www.blacksheepindex.co.uk
Plenty of information on researching your family tree from the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/library/family_history_tracing
Find your ancestor who fought on the English side at Trafalgar.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/trafalgarancestors
Australian family history search engine. Here you can find links to information on convicts, ships, passenger lists, family trees and more.
http://www.searchwhateveraustralia.com.au
Searchable database of South Australian passenger lists for more than 1,100 ship arrivals 1803-1853.
http://www.familyhistorysa.info/shipping/passengerlists.html
Search and download documents from workhouses and poor law unions across England and Wales. These items are free to download.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/workhouse.asp
A list of Chapman codes for counties in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland as well as country codes. Use Edit - Find to search for a particular code.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~wlsgfhs/ChapmanCodes.htm#Countries
New site which will contain transcriptions of baptisms, marriages and burials, census records, maps and photographs.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~engleiopc/html/parish_list.html
Website for the family history magazines, Family Tree Magazine and Practical Family History. You can search the back issues for subjects and there is also a family history forum, list of surnames being researched and more.
http://family-tree.co.uk/index/index_list.php
This website contains photographs of over 180 Wiltshire churches and thousands of images of gravestones, war memorials etc. All names are searchable.
http://www.oodwooc.co.uk
Free registration enables you to search for other people researching the same ancestors and to view family trees.
http://www.geneanet.org
Surname distribution map for Italy. Text is in Italian.
http://gens.labo.net/it/cognomi
Maps of Buckinghamshire villages, photographs and information on parish registers.
http://www.bucksgs.org.uk/index.htm
There is a lot of digitised material available on this site including the 1871-1911 censuses, immigration, naturalisation, land, military records and more.
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/index-e.html
Comprehensive information on East Perth Cemeteries where many Western Australian pioneers are buried. Names are listed in the Burial Register.
http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/graves/home.htm
This website has lots of information on Thames watermen and lightermen including lists of names transcribed from various sources.
http://www.parishregister.com/aboutstp.html#articles
Searchable database of births 1864-1877, marriages 1864-1930 and deaths 1864-1877 and 1908-1955 in Nova Scotia, Canada.
https://www.novascotiagenealogy.com
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
Census transcriptions for England, Scotland and Wales 1841-1891. Not yet complete so check the coverage for the county of interest. Coverage is particularly good for Cornwall and parts of Scotland.
http://www.freecen.org.uk
Relatively new website so there aren't many transcriptions yet but the site will include transcriptions of births, marriages, deaths, census records, wills and memorial inscriptions.
http://essex-opc.org.uk/index.php
Search by the name of a person or by the name of a public house and county to find details of who was living in pubs throughout England at the time of the 1881 census.
http://www.1881pubs.com
Search three 19th century gazetteers - Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1872), Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1885) and Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887).
http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions/index.jsp
Online bookshop for Tasmanian family history.
http://www.tasfamily.net.au
Database of over 21,000 passengers who embarked at Glasgow and Greenock for non-European ports between 1 Jan 1923 and 30 Apr 1923 and at other Scottish ports between 1890 and 1960.
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/emigration
This site has information on merchant ships registered in Britain 1861-1913. You can find details such as port of registry, year constructed, tonnage, type of vessel and the ship's official number. There are also links to other sites, an index to vessels in books and more.
http://www.crewlist.org.uk/index.html
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
Very detailed website with online records for the parish of Wirksworth in Derbyshire including births, marriages and deaths, wills, census records, directories and more.
http://www.wirksworth.org.uk
Searchable database of migrants who arrived in Western Australia at ports of Fremantle or Albany.
http://welcomewalls.museum.wa.gov.au
Memorial inscriptions mainly from regional New South Wales with images of headstones and information on the cemetery itself.
http://cemindex.arkangles.com
Digitised early Australian newspapers including the Swan River News and Western Australian Chronicle.
http://www.nla.gov.au/ferg
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 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
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
Wonderful collection of records, photographs, directories, histories, indexes and some donated material.
http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/genealog.htm
Gazetteer of the United States, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean.
http://www.bartleby.com
Australian-based general family history site with good Western Australian content. Try text search - name, location, etc. Compiled by contributors.
http://www.genealogics.org/index.php
Transcriptions of baptisms, marriages, burials, census returns, memorial inscriptions and more.
http://wsom-opc.org.uk/index.php
International site listing census records found online.
http://www.census-online.com
Website for the town of Leighton-Linslade, formerly Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire and Linslade in Buckinghamshire, and surrounding villages. Includes transcriptions of census records, trade directories and more.
http://www.leighton-linslade.com/index.html
Main genealogical gateway for England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.
http://www.genuki.org.uk
Packed with information on the counties of Kent, Surrey and Sussex including census transcriptions, maps, photographs and more.
http://theweald.org/home.asp
Directory of free websites for Victorian family history.
http://www.freesurnamesearch.com/search/ausnzp/victoria.html
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
Huge searchable database of publicly submitted family trees which contains over 480 million names.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com
The National Library of Wales has quite a lot of online family history content. Select Family History - Search Archival Databases for online indexes to marriage licences 1616-1837, court records 1730-1830, pre-1858 wills and more. Select Digital Mirror for digitised content including maps.
http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php
Searchable database of passenger lists for people leaving British ports 1890-1960. View free results list and pay per view for transcripts or images of passenger list. Part of the Findmypast UK subscription site which is available to use free within the building at the State Library of Western Australia.
http://www.ancestorsonboard.com
Transcriptions of thousands of births, marriages and deaths in Yorkshire taken from the local register office indexes. Part of the UKBMD Project.
http://www.yorkshirebmd.info
Hampshire Record Office holds a wide variety of historical archives for the county of Hampshire. The online catalogue is almost complete and includes 10,000 digitised images. There is also a list of parish register holdings for the county.
http://www3.hants.gov.uk/archives
Includes online catalogue, various indexes including Somerset wills 1812-1857, research guides, digitised postcards and photographs and more.
http://www.somerset.gov.uk/archives
Transcriptions of parish registers and historical directories for some counties of England and Wales. Searchable database of death and burial information transcribed from gravestones at several South Australian cemeteries.
http://parishmouse.com
Searchable database of 1000s of English and Welsh historical property deeds.
http://www.familychest.co.uk/default.htm
Searchable database of 3,000 British, Irish, Scottish, Welsh and other European volunteers in the South American wars of independence 1810-1890.
http://www.bris.ac.uk/hispanic/latin/research.html
Information on researching your family history from the National Archives of Australia.
http://www.naa.gov.au/services/family-historians/index.aspx
Large database with descriptions and images of ships, passenger lists, diaries kept on board ships and more.
http://www.theshipslist.com/index.html
Index of gravestones from some counties in England plus a few in other parts of the world.
http://www.gravestonephotos.com
Online information includes Comprehensive Gazetteer for England and Wales 1894-5 and parish registers for some counties particularly Cornwall and Derbyshire.
http://www.uk-genealogy.org.uk
Searchable database of immigrants to the United States commemorated on a wall of honour. They can have arrived in the US through any port.
http://www.wallofhonor.com
Surname distribution maps for England and Wales (1891) and the United States (1920).
http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/default.aspx
A huge range of free transcribed historical directories for Belfast.
http://www.lennonwylie.co.uk
This database on the Archives Office of Tasmania's website contains the names of 500,000 people found in Tasmania in the 19th century from birth, marriage and death records and other sources.
http://portal.archives.tas.gov.au/menu.aspx?search
Through this site you can make contact with volunteers around the world willing to do lookups in their local area. You will need to read the FAQs before making contact.
http://www.raogk.org
Learn about the lives of patients in Victorian and Edwardian times. This site has a collection of resources relating to the early years of hospitals for sick children; the Hospital for Sick Children at Great Ormond Street, the Evelina Hospital, the Alexandra Hospital for Children with Hip Disease and Glasgow's Royal Hospital for Sick Children. Formerly the Small and Special website which covered the Great Ormond Street hospital only.
http://hharp.org
19th Century German passengers to South Australia.
http://passengerlist.tripod.com/germanytoaustralia/index.html
Search India Office records including births, baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials for mainly British and European people in India c1600-1949.
http://indiafamily.bl.uk/UI/About.aspx
Database containing the details of 720,000 Icelandic people. Those appearing in the database have free access which includes more than 95% of all Icelanders born after 1703 as well as 50% of those who lived 874-1703.Sources include church records.
http://www.islendingabok.is/IServlets/index.jsp
Transcriptions of births, marriages and deaths in Staffordshire from 1837 onwards taken from the local register office indexes. Part of the UKBMD Project.
http://www.staffordshirebmd.org.uk
