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
Free searching of 1901 England and Wales census. Pay-per-view to see original image.
http://www.ukcensusonline.com/census/1901.php
This site provides historical facts, figures, data, records and reports about the Duke of York's Royal Military School. It is a potpourri, a collection of odds and ends having to do with the school's history including the early history of the institution that was once known as the Royal Military Asylum.
The Duke of York's Royal Military School was founded in 1801 and opened its doors in August 1803 as a haven to the orphaned children of soldiers who had fallen in the Great War with France that began in 1793 and ended with the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
The Royal Hibernian Military School (1769 – 1924), Phoenix Park, Dublin, was originally the Hibernian Asylum created by the Hibernian Society, a philanthropic organization founded in Dublin in 1769 following the Seven Years War. The Society petitioned the King for a charter, which was granted. The Society’s aim was to help the orphaned children of soldiers who fell during the war, its services later being extended to the destitute families of soldiers leaving Ireland for overseas service.
This is an archived site so will not be updated.
http://www.achart.ca/hibernian/index.html
This website includes transcriptions of parish records for about 90 towns and villages in and around the Forest of Dean as well as photographs, inquests, maps and historical articles. You need to register to search and can also add your own surname interests.
http://www.forest-of-dean.org.uk
Comprehensive website full of useful information about lunatic asylums and mental hospitals. It mainly covers England and Wales but has spread to include some parts of Scotland and Ireland and even has some overseas material.
http://www.studymore.org.uk/4_13_ta.htm
The Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain website includes the 1851 Anglo-Jewry Database containing nearly 29,000 records of Jewish people living in Britain in the mid-nineteenth century. Material has been taken from the 1851 census with additional data added.
http://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/index.htm
Part of the international Gravestone Photographic Resource. Cemeteries included for WA are Henley Brook and Northam. Brief details are given and you are able to request a free copy of gravestone images.
http://www.gravestonephotos.com/public/country.php?country=Au&scrwidth=1280
Volunteers have visited cemeteries taking photographs of gravestones. You will find details of names and ages from the website and can request free copies of gravestone images. Coverage is best for the UK but also includes Australia, Canada, Cyprus, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Malta, New Zealand, Spain and the USA.
http://www.gravestonephotos.com/?r=1&width=1280&browser=1440
Some full, some partial passenger lists to South Australia, Victoria and N.S.W. Some passenger names link to further information.
http://graememoad.com/web/Ancestors/Ships_Index.html
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
Information on migration from Wales to various parts of the world through history. Other Wales social history is also explored on this website. Now archived so you will need to search within the site.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/history/sites/themes
Searchable database of churches in England, Scotland, Wales and the Isle of Man.
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/churchdb
Former ships of the Royal Australian Navy with history and photograph. Site includes history of bases, squadrons and traditions. Some reference material online.
http://www.navy.gov.au/history
Online Cheshire wills index. Copies of wills may be ordered for a small charge.
http://archivedatabases.cheshire.gov....RecordOfficeWillEPayments/search.aspx
Online indexes to Hertfordshire apprentices, deaths, marriages, poor law records and more. Click on Hertfordshire Names Online to search across all databases at once.
http://www.hertsdirect.org/services/l...ulture/heritage1/hals/indexes/indexes
History of the British slave trade including digitised pro-abolition petitions. One for Manchester includes 2,000 names. Unfortunately the search box does not retrieve names on the petitions.
http://ia201120.eu.archive.org/ukparl...e.parliament.uk/slavetrade/index.html
Lots of information on over 260 towns and villages in Wiltshire including a history of the area, 18th and 19th century maps, population figures taken from the 1801-2001 census returns, information on churches and schools, photographs and more.
http://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/community
Free searching of passenger lists for people coming into New York.
http://libertyellisfoundation.org/passenger
A useful list of nicknames and diminutives. Male and female forenames are listed separately.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohfulton/CommonNicknames.pdf
This site has an alphabetical list of over 92,000 passengers and crew. There are also lists of arrivals and departures arranged chronologically giving the name of ship with date and port of arrival or departure. Some shipping for New Zealand is also included.
http://www.ozships.net/ozships
Searchable database of digitised Australian newspapers. Not yet complete but worth checking regularly as it is being updated all the time. Coverage will eventually be 1803 to 1854.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home
Searchable database of Buckinghamshire casualties from World War One with biographical details and photographs of war memorials, plaques, graves etc.
http://buckinghamshireremembers.org.uk
A comprehensive gateway for Hampshire family history resources.
http://website.lineone.net/~mcgoa/alpha.html
History of the Royal Air Force which includes a detailed timeline and histories of individual squadrons with their badges.
http://www.raf.mod.uk/history
The Lancashire Record Office website has digitised maps and images and a database of Lancashire police 1840-1930. There are also details of Anglican, roman Catholic and Non-Conformist church registers and transcriptions held.
http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/librarie...ecord-office/search-the-archives.aspx
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
Select SEAX to search the Essex Record Office online catalogue which has indexed personal names and also includes a large amount of digitised material including baptism, marriage and burial registers, wills and photographs. The parish registers and wills are mostly from the 16th and 17th Centuries with some entries in the early 19th Century.
http://www.essex.gov.uk/Libraries-Arc...ecord-Office/Pages/Record-Office.aspx
compare features and read reviews of genealogy software packages that have been submitted by users.
http://www.gensoftreviews.com
Database of over 50,000 Church of England clergy in England and Wales during the period 1540 to 1835.
http://theclergydatabase.org.uk
Some background and history and a message board to post requests for assistance. Links to other sites of interest.
http://britisharmedforces.org/li_pages/index.htm
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
Searchable database of births, marriages and deaths from South Tyneside from 1837 onwards. Not yet complete so worth checking regularly.
http://www.southtyneside.info/applications/2/registersearch
Dawn and New Dawn were magazines published by the New South Wales Aborigines Welfare Board. The magazines contain a lot of information useful to family historians such as birth, marriage and death details and photographs. You can search under name, place, keyword or date.
http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/collections/exhibitions/dawn/index.html
This site has transcribed names from various cemeteries in Tasmania as well as information on Tasmanians casualties from the Boer War and World War Two.
http://www.gravesoftas.com.au/home%20page.htm
Lots of useful links for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
http://website.lineone.net/~mcgoa/contents.html
Detailed guide to Jewish genealogy research on the FamilySearch website.
https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Jewish_Genealogy_Research
This page on the London Metropolitan Archives website has a range of useful guides to researching ancestors in London.
http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things...ion/Pages/Information%20leaflets.aspx
A (now archived) web site for research resources relating to Caribbean Studies and the history of Black and Asian peoples in the UK.
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/...0110215133617/http://www.casbah.ac.uk
EPPI - Enhanced Parliamentary Papers on Ireland. Digitised English Parliamentary Papers that deal with Irish matters. Some 19th Century British pamphlets also available on this site.
http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi
The Isle of Wight Record Office has two online databases with plans to include more in the future; paupers receiving poor relief in 1868 and 1875; and alehouse licences issued at the Newport Borough Quarter Sessions 1766-1819.
http://www.iwight.com/Council/OtherServices/Record-Office/Databases
AIATSIS has digitised historic annual reports from the Chief Protector of Aborigines and Commissioner of Native Welfare.
http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/collections/exhibitions/remove/index.html
This ABC website has stories and photographs submitted by users about life in Australia since 1945.
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/makingaustralia
London police - including Middlesex, some of Essex, surrey, Hertfordshire and Kent. History, time-line, photographs, and research tips.
http://content.met.police.uk/Site/history
Click on the link at the bottom of the page for a listing of 200 people buried at Kenwick Pioneer Cemetery.
http://www.gosnells.wa.gov.au/About_o...ric_interest/Kenwick_Pioneer_Cemetery
Using this site you can search for surnames and make contact with other people researching the same name.
http://rsl.rootsweb.ancestry.com
This website has digitised family history material from Tower Hamlets Archives Collection which has been indexed. The material includes Bethnal Green Congregational Church baptism register 1860-1945, Princelet Street synagogue, Spitalfields marriage register 1897-1907, Bow parish apprenticeship register for 1803 and several rate books.
https://www.ideastore.co.uk/local-history-archives-online
Photographs of Dundee taken in the latter part of the 19th Century.
http://photopolis.dundeecity.gov.uk
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
Website of the London Metropolitan Archives which includes an online catalogue of their holdings. Many of the family history records at LMA have been digitised and are available on the subscription database, Ancestry. This can be searched at many libraries including the State Library of Western Australia.
http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things...ropolitan-archives/Pages/default.aspx
The Returned & Services League of Australia (WA Branch) has digitised copies of their publication, the Listening Post, from December 1921 to December 1959. Each issue is available as a downloadable PDF and is searchable.
http://www.rslwahq.org.au/News/Listening-Post.aspx
Photographs and biographical information on soldiers who were killed during the First World War. There are also honour rolls for the other states.
http://wa.ww1anzac.com
Index of Parkhurst boys supplied to the WA Genealogical Society by Andrew Gill. Parkhurst boys were juvenile offenders sent to Australia from Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight. This index has lots of information on each boy taken from the Parkhurst Prison register and from the Guardian's reports in WA.
http://membership.wags.org.au/members-data/public-data/parkhurst-boys
Searchable database of Gaelic place names in Scotland. You can search under English or Gaelic name, postcode etc. and also view the place on a modern map.
http://www.gaelicplacenames.org/index.php
Website of the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney. Most of the useful information for family history is under the Collections & Research tab. Try the Research Guides which cover topics such as child migration, convict ships, pictures of ships in the Australian trade and more.
http://www.anmm.gov.au
The National Maritime Museum (UK) is at Greenwich. Online content includes ship images and plans, maps and charts, naval uniforms and more.
http://www.rmg.co.uk
Search page for Norwegian newspapers at the National Library of Norway. Right-click on page and select "translate to english". Newspapers will be in Norwegian, of course.
http://www.nb.no/nbsok/search.nbdigital?lang=no
Searchable database of places throughout Australia. Gives latitude and longitude and shows location on map.
http://www.ga.gov.au/place-names
Searchable database of place names in New South Wales giving brief description and latitude and longitude.
http://www.gnb.nsw.gov.au/place_naming/placename_search
Geographical information including State Gazetteer, Suburbs and Rural Localities List and related information for South Australia.
https://www.sa.gov.au/topics/housing-...ad-and-place-names/place-names-search
Brief history of names of streets, suburbs, parks and other places of interest in the Australian Capital Territory.
http://www.planning.act.gov.au/tools_resources/place_search
Online searching of the cemetery and crematorium records of Ashhurst Cemetery, Kelvin Grove Cemetery and Terrace End Cemetery in Palmerston North.
http://www.pncc.govt.nz/services/onli...ervices/cemetery-and-cremation-search
The Royal Australian Navy has digitised their Navy Lists 1905-1985. Available in PDF.
http://www.navy.gov.au/media-room/publications/navy-list
Search the Libraries and Archives catalogue of the National Archives of Singapore for photographs, oral histories, maps, manuscripts and more.
http://search.nlb.gov.sg
This website gives information on over 200 facilities providing care for children in Western Australia from 1920 onwards. It outlines the types of records available and the location of those records.
http://signposts.cpfs.wa.gov.au
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
Study of the membership of the English convents in exile. Database may be searched by the name of the nun (both her name in religion and her surname) and name of convent.
http://wwtn.history.qmul.ac.uk
Also includes an alpabetical list of Customs Officers serving on the Isle of Wight plus a link to a list of coast guard officers 1816-1832 and more.
http://www.customscowes.co.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
Search across several cemeteries in Brisbane. You need to include at least the initial letter of a first name as well as surname.
http://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/commun...ng-grave-search/grave-location-search
Searchable archive of the Belfast Gazette which is an official newspaper of record publishing legal and government notices. Useful for obituaries, military appointments and awards, insolvency records etc.
https://www.thegazette.co.uk
This site has lots of background information on the Boer War 1899-1900. It includes articles, photographs and biographical details of 15-20% of those involved in the war.
http://www.angloboerwar.com
This site has information about the society and lots of links as well as downloadable files of cemetery transcriptions, indexes to personal notices in local newspapers, divorces, school registers and more.
http://www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au
Descriptions of over 52,000 records held by the Bank of England Archive. The 'Name search' allows to you see biographical information about key people and organisations associated with the Bank. There are no links to actual documents. The archive does hold files relating to staff.
http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/archive/Pages/default.aspx
Australian government national database of ships wrecked in Australian waters. You can also search for aircraft, relics and more.
http://www.environment.gov.au/topics/...ustralian-national-shipwreck-database
View historic maps of Bristol. Users can also submit their own images and information.
http://www.bristol.gov.uk/page/planni...-building-regulations/know-your-place
This online guide from the State Library of Western Australia outlines standards for preserving digital objects such as photographs, sound recordings etc.
http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/digital_treasures
This is a beta site with online content drawn from archives and other sources around Wales. Users are also encouraged to add their own digital content including family trees.
http://www.peoplescollectionwales.co.uk
Transcriptions and photographs of headstones in the cemetery in Florence which closed for burials in 1877.
http://www.florin.ms/WhiteSilence.html
This is the site of the Ulster Historical Foundation. There are indexes to births, marriages and deaths for Antrim and County Down which are free to search and pay-per-view to see the full details. There are more resources such as wills and directories available to members.
http://www.ancestryireland.com/search-irish-genealogy-databases
This site has images of churches, cemeteries and gravestones as well as cemetery transcriptions. All information has been submitted by volunteers and the historic cemeteries are in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Burma.
http://www.indian-cemeteries.org
Church of Ireland Parish Registers throughout Ireland (Baptisms, Marriages, Burials & copies). What exists, dates covered, and where to find them
http://ireland.anglican.org/cmsfiles/...ry/registers/ParishRegistersTable.pdf
A downloadable database of nuns in Australia 1838 to 1918.
http://web.stbedes.catholic.edu.au/Other/nuns
This site displays newly digitised material from the National Archives of Australia. It also allows printing of older digital material (such as WWI documents) as one document instead of having to print page by page. To do this, go to the digital copy on the National Archives website (www.naa.gov.au), copy the barcode of the required document, and paste into this site under Barcode retrieval.
http://soda.naa.gov.au
This website lists the Extracted batches for the British Isles that previously formed part of the IGI (International Genealogical Index), the on-line database created by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) and available at familysearch.org.
To search for a particular parish or church, click on the a Country link at left (e.g. 'England'), then on a County name. This displays an index of places (mostly parishes), from which you can either go on to list the data in batch number sequence, or click through to the FamilySearch website.
http://www.archersoftware.co.uk/igi
The project when completed will see the digitization of newspapers from all across Saskatchewan from 1878 through to the mid 1960s. The collection includes newspapers from communities across the province which were published in English, French, German, and Ukrainian.
http://sabnewspapers.usask.ca
This site has background information on the Anzacs as well as the Gallipoli Graveyards index which includes details of 3219 soldiers buried at Gallipoli and 6393 who are listed on memorials.
http://www.anzacs.net
Searchable database of men and women who served in the First Australian Imperial Force 1914-1918. This site gives lots of information on each person including name, address, next of kin, awards, medals, fate etc. and links through to the embarkation lists.
https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/index.html
This site was created for the centenary of WWI. It contains original records from the following: Australian Imperial Force; Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force; Royal Australian Navy; Australian Flying Corps; Australian Army Nursing Service; depot unit personnel; official artists, photographers, war correspondents and historians such as C.E.W. Bean; internees; munitions workers; New Zealand Boer War service records. You can also contribute your own photographs and stories.
http://discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au
Search for the will or probate of any person in the UK who died in or after 1996. Search for the will of a soldier who died while serving in the British armed forces between 1850 and 1986.
https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/#wills
Exploring female experiences of imprisonment during the Irish Civil War (1922-1923). Includes list of names of women and where they were imprisoned.
http://kilmainhamgaolgraffiti.com
The Maritime History Archive collects and preserves documents relating to the history of maritime activities in Newfoundland and Labrador and throughout the North Atlantic world. The agreements and logbooks for voyages terminating in the years 1863 - 1938 are indexed and can be searched. program searches by official number only. (Official numbers can be found in Mercantile Navy Lists or Lloyd's Registers.)The databases accessed by this search will inform the visitor whether a particular archive has the crew agreement. They will not provide any information on the agreement's contents. To obtain that data he or she will need to contact the appropriate institution. Also Index of Newfoundland Captains, 1820-1889
http://www.mun.ca/mha
Links to historical Indian newspapers and journals online.
http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Newspapers_and_journals_online
Historical Jewish newspapers from around the world. Languages include Hebrew, Yiddish, English, Russian, French, Hungarian, Judeo-Arabic.
http://web.nli.org.il/sites/JPress/English/Pages/default.aspx
This online resource provides free access to historic Cambridge (Boston USA) newspapers and is a project of the Cambridge Public Library Archives and Special Collections.
This collection contains 6,346 issues comprising 59,070 pages, and 669,406 articles. Newspapers include the Cambridge Chronicle (1846-1923), the Cambridge Press (1887-1889), the Cambridge Sentinel (1903-1912), and the Cambridge Tribune (1887-1923).
This collection also contains 40,634 subject cards and 13,099 obituary cards that index Cambridge newspapers published between 1950 and 2008.
http://cambridge.dlconsulting.com
This collection contains 72,729 issues comprising 603,681 pages and 6,876,356 articles. 1846-2012
The California Digital Newspaper Collection is a project of the Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research (CBSR) at the University of California, Riverside.
http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc
Large collection of historical papers, books, directories, etc. from the colonies of the Netherlands. Browse by region or subject to see what may be available.
http://colonial.library.leiden.edu/cgi-bin/ubl.exe
Digitised reports from the Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives in New Zealand and the Votes and Proceedings. Fully searchable and includes lots of names.
http://atojs.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/atojs
Vietnamese language newspapers from 1890-1955. Not a lot loaded as yet.
http://baochi.nlv.gov.vn
Digitised Finnish newspapers. In Finnish.
http://digi.lib.helsinki.fi/sanomalehti
Background and sources for surviving registers.
http://www.genguide.co.uk/source/roman-catholic-registers-and-records/30
