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  1. Online Cheshire wills index. Copies of wills may be ordered for a small charge.
    http://archivedatabases.cheshire.gov....RecordOfficeWillEPayments/search.aspx
    Tags: by family_history (02 Dec 2014)
  2. 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
    Tags: by family_history (31 Dec 2002)
  3. Includes some family history information and contacts.
    http://chinainc.yolasite.com
    Tags: by family_history (15 Jun 2017)
  4. The Chinese Naturalisation Database is based on the naturalisation records and the Colonial Secretary's Correspondence held by the State Records Office of New South Wales.
    http://arrow.latrobe.edu.au/store/3/4/5/5/1/public/naturalisation.htm
    Tags: by family_history (16 Feb 2017)
  5. This database includes interments from the following cemeteries: Addington, Akaroa Anglican, Akaroa Catholic, Akaroa Dissenters, Avonhead, Barbadoes Street, Belfast, Bromley, Diamond Harbour, Duvauchelle, Kaituna, Le Bons Bay, Linwood, Little River, Lyttelton Anglican, Lyttelton Catholic, Lyttelton Public, Lyttelton RSA, Memorial Park, Pigeon Bay, Port Levy (St Pauls Anglican), Ruru Lawn, Rutherford, Sydenham, Waimairi, Wainui, Yaldhurst.
    Records from the Banks Peninsula area are now included, but some older entries are very brief.
    Note: There are only a small number of Barbadoes Street Cemetery records in the database.
    This information is compiled by the Cemeteries Administrator of the Christchurch City Council. The database is updated monthly with new records.
    http://heritage.christchurchcitylibraries.com/Cemeteries/index.asp
    Tags: by family_history (16 Feb 2017)
  6. Website with details of the McLean family in South Australia. The family arrived as free settlers on the Navarino in 1837 in Holdfast Bay (Glenelg) and there are now many descendants all over Australia.
    http://christinaanddonaldmclean.com
  7. This database, which is part of the Library of Congress website, has digitised American newspapers 1836-1922.
    http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov
  8. Database of over 50,000 Church of England clergy in England and Wales during the period 1540 to 1835.
    http://theclergydatabase.org.uk
    Tags: , by family_history (27 Nov 2014)
  9. 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
  10. The City of Edmonton Archives has digitised many of their historic photographs.
    https://archivesphotos.edmonton.ca/Presto/home/Default.aspx
    Tags: by family_history (08 Feb 2010)
  11. This site is a finding aid for the City of London burials where you can view the original images of registers. Only limited years available so far; 1856 to 1859.
    http://haywain.net/family/burials.php
  12. 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
    Tags: by family_history (27 Nov 2014)
  13. A wonderful collection of digitised maps of Sydney. Maps can be downloaded as PDF versions.
    http://www.photosau.com.au/CosMaps/scripts/home.asp
  14. This website includes an online index to the York Assizes 1785-1851. The index gives the person's name, age, place of origin and date of trial. The records are held at York Reference Library which offers a look-up service.
    http://www.yorkfamilyhistory.org.uk
    Tags: by family_history (07 Feb 2010)
  15. Medway Council has quite a lot of digital content on its CityArk website including parish registers from the Rochester Archdeaconry area, North Aylesford licensing registers, Port of Rochester shipping registers, hospital records, burial records and more. The digital content is not searchable so it has to be browsed.
    http://cityark.medway.gov.uk
    Tags: by family_history (13 Sep 2010)
  16. Pay for use site. Approved pension applications of widows and other dependents of Civil War veterans who served between 1861 and 1910. Ultimately, the Civil War Widows' Pensions project will digitise, index, and make available approximately 1,280,000 Civil War and later widows’ files. Many of the widows and families are from Europe - some still living there.
    http://www.fold3.com/page/3496_civil_war_widows_pension_applications
  17. 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
    Tags: by family_history (31 Dec 2002)
  18. 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
    Tags: by family_history (31 Dec 2002)
  19. This website has lots of photographs and facts and figures about the people who lived and worked as coastguards around the Irish coastline between the 18th and early 20th centuries.
    http://www.coastguardsofyesteryear.org/news.php
    Tags: by family_history (08 Dec 2009)
  20. A database of over 130,000 images from the London Metropolitan Archives and Guildhall Art Gallery.
    http://collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk
  21. Collect Britain is part of the British Library's website and includes some medieval maps, a database of English accents and digitised copies of the Penny Illustrated newspaper.
    http://www.collectbritain.co.uk
    Tags: by family_history (31 Dec 2002)
  22. This website contains details of over 6,000 films showing life in the British colonies. Over 150 films are available to view online.
    http://colonialfilm.org.uk
  23. An invaluable index to the Colonial Secretary's Papers for New South Wales held at State Records New South Wales. References are given for the NSW Archives microfilm reel numbers. Most of these microfilm reels are also available at the State Library of Western Australia and other major libraries.
    http://colsec.records.nsw.gov.au/indexes/colsec
  24. 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
  25. May 29, 2014, marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Empress of Ireland near Sainte-Luce-sur-mer, Canada. Of the 1,477 people aboard, 1,012 perished in 14 minutes. Website includes history of the ship, the story of the sinking and its aftermath, passenger and crew lists, passenger portraits and stories.
    http://www.empress2014.ca/seclangen/home.html
  26. This site has a searchable roll of honour with the names of over 1.7 million men and women who died in Commonwealth forces during the two world wars. The place of burial or commemoration is given. In July 2014 a large number of digitised records relating to deaths, burials and identifications were added to the website.
    http://www.cwgc.org
  27. Thousands of digitised historical and genealogical publications are available through this site.You are able to search across the whole archive.
    https://www.myheritage.com/research/c...0100/compilation-of-published-sources
  28. This site offers combined searching of a range of databases - some free and some subscription sites. It includes London Lives, Origins.net, Proceedings of the Old Bailey, British History Online, British Museum Images, Charles Booth Archive, Clergy of the Church of England Database, House of Commons Parliamentary Papers and more.
    http://www.connectedhistories.org/Default.aspx
  29. This site is produced by an interest group of the Queensland Genealogical Society. It lists convicts and convict ships being researched by their members and has useful information on topics such as prison hulks and machine breakers. There are also links to online newspapers.
    http://www.convictconnections.org.au
    Tags: by family_history (12 Jun 2011)
  30. National Library of Australia has digitised portraits of convicts taken at Port Arthur in 1874.
    http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an11590418
    Tags: by family_history (28 Aug 2011)
  31. Fully updated guide to researching Western Australian convicts. PDF format. Available on the Friends of Battye website.
    http://www.friendsofbattyelibrary.org.au
  32. This index may assist researchers to access medical journals that have been copied as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP).
    http://grthom.info/medjour.html
  33. The British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database has been compiled from the British Home Office (HO) records which are available in the State Library as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) microfilm collection. You can find details for over 123,000 of the estimated 160,000 convicts transported to Australia in the 18th and 19th centuries.
    http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/resources/family-history/convicts
    Tags: by family_history (14 Jun 2016)
  34. Various links to online convict information.
    http://www.hotkey.net.au/~jwilliams4/cons.htm
  35. Convict ships, convict tales, pensioner guards and more
    http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/convicts/index.html
  36. Joint catalogue. Copac gives you details of materials in over 70 institutions. This includes all the UK copyright libraries:

    •The British Library
    •University of Cambridge Library
    •The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
    •National Library of Scotland
    •National Library of Wales/Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
    •plus Trinity College Dublin Library
    http://copac.ac.uk
  37. Cork City Council Genealogy pages. Online indexes relating to Cork including one to O'Kief, Coshe Mang - Cork material. Online directories (see under tab: places), electoral districts, etc.
    http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/genealogy
  38. Cornucopia is an online database of information about more than 6,000 collections in the UK's museums, galleries, archives and libraries. Browse by theme or search across the whole database by keyword.
    http://www.cornucopia.org.uk
  39. This site has searchable databases of transcribed parish registers plus muster rolls, hearth taxes, apprentice indentures and much more.
    http://www.cornwall-opc.org
  40. View photographs of several hundred churches in this beautiful area of England which covers six different counties.
    http://www.allthecotswolds.com
  41. Information on and photographs of county-owned mental hospitals built in Britain 1810-1948. Arranged by county.
    http://www.countyasylums.com
  42. Wonderful collection of records, photographs, directories, histories, indexes and some donated material.
    http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/genealog.htm
    Tags: by family_history (31 Dec 2002)
  43. 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
    Tags: by family_history (26 Nov 2014)
  44. Part of the British Library Online Gallery, this site has over 1200 digitised historical maps of London from 1570 to 1860.
    http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/crace/index.html
    Tags: by family_history (17 Jul 2009)
  45. 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
  46. A digital collection of more than 500 broadsides or single sheet newspapers which were sold during the 18th and 19th centuries at public executions.
    http://broadsides.law.harvard.edu
  47. Diane Oldman has spent years researching Western Australian ex soldiers who served in the Crimean War. Many of them came to WA as part of the Enrolled Pensioner Force. She currently has a database of over 250 men and their details are gradually being added to this excellent website.
    http://crimeanwar-veteranswa.com
  48. Transcriptions of births, marriages and deaths in Cumbria from 1837 onwards taken from the local register office indexes. Part of the UKBMD Project. Please note that this site is not yet complete so it is important to check the coverage. Cumbria was formed from the old counties of Cumberland, Westmorland and parts of north Lancashire and north Yorkshire.
    http://www.cumbriabmd.org.uk/index.php
  49. This site has links to transcriptions from parish records, directories, lists of people liable for hearth and window tax and more.
    http://edenlinks.rootsweb.ancestry.com/1gp/RECORDS/TRANSINDEX.HTM
  50. 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
    Tags: , by family_history (31 Dec 2002)
  51. Converts the value of money from past years to its value in 2005.
    http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/currency/default0.asp
    Tags: by family_history (21 Jan 2013)
  52. Discusses how much old monetary values would be worth today.
    http://www.projects.ex.ac.uk/RDavies/arian/current/howmuch.html
    Tags: , by family_history (31 Dec 2002)
  53. This project has conducted mass digitization of primary sources relating to the First World War from the Libraries, Special Collections and Archives of Wales.
    http://cymru1914.org
    Tags: by family_history (22 Oct 2015)
  54. The world's largest gateway to family history resources with international coverage.
    http://www.cyndislist.com
  55. Their archive link includes some obituatries.
    http://www.dailynews.lk/2012/07/24/main_News.asp
  56. Daisy Bates (1859-1951) observed and worked with Aboriginal people for many years and copies of her papers are held at the State Library of Western Australia. Digital copies are available on the University of Adelaide site.
    https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/handle/2440/69252
    Tags: , by family_history (06 Oct 2015)
  57. The Chinese Maritime Customs Service (until 1912: the Imperial Maritime Customs Service)

    The Chinese Maritime Customs Service was an international, although predominantly British-staffed bureaucracy (at senior levels) under the control of successive Chinese central governments from its founding in 1854, until 1950 when the last foreign Inspector-General resigned.
    The project has prepared a database of the career details for all staff listed in the annually-published Service List. (See also the details of 125 careers which published by the Customs in the late 1930s).
    Americans (United States), Austrians, British, Chinese, Danes, French, Germans, Italians, Japanese, Norwegians, Other Asians, Other Europeans and North and South Americans, Portuguese, Swedes, Russians, Unidentified nationality
    http://www.bristol.ac.uk/history/cust...resources/servicelists/databases.html
  58. A collection of databases from the Western Australian Museum including shipwrecks and shipwreck artefacts.
    http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/research/databases/all
  59. 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
  60. Information on old public houses mainly for the southern counties of England.
    http://www.deadpubs.co.uk/index.shtml
    Tags: by family_history (06 May 2011)
  61. Dead Reckoning is the definitive guide to family history research in Western Australia. Originally published in 1997, it has now been thoroughly updated and published online. It explains what family history resources are available in the State Library of Western Australia and the State Records Office and includes links to catalogue records and websites.
    http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/dead_reckoning
  62. Index to death notices in Yorkshire newspapers mostly for the early 1900s. Searchable database of 50,000 absentee voters from the Leeds 1914-18 electoral roll, most of whom were serving in the military.
    http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jeffery.knaggs/YD.html
    Tags: by family_history (31 Dec 2002)
  63. Database of information from cemeteries in the UK. The collection is strongest for Scotland and London but it is worth checking the database coverage regularly. You can do a free search and view the name, date of burial and cemetery. You will need to pay to view more detailed information. Cremation registers are also included.
    https://www.deceasedonline.com/servlet/GSDOSearch
  64. This website has been archived as part of the National Library of Australia's Pandora archive. It includes historic court cases from 1788-1855 for New South Wales and also other states.
    http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/24695/2...33/www.law.mq.edu.au/scnsw/index.html
  65. Lots of lists including passenger lists, school rolls, directories, lighthouses and barmaids! Many relate to Wellington but other parts of New Zealand are also covered.
    http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ourstuff
  66. This site has information about medals available to defence force personnel with photographs of each type of medal.
    http://www.defence.gov.au/medals
    Tags: by family_history (13 Jul 2009)
  67. Digitised county, municipal, parish, town and pastoral maps for New South Wales.
    http://parishmaps.lands.nsw.gov.au/pmap.html
    Tags: by family_history (30 Oct 2011)
  68. Free index to prisoners which will eventually cover the period 1761-1888. You can note the reference number and contact Derbyshire Record Office for copies of the original entries.
    http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/leisure/...llection/prisoner_records/default.asp
    Tags: by family_history (31 Aug 2009)
  69. Index to wills in Derbyshire 1858-1928.
    http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/leisure/...ollection/derbyshirewills/default.asp
    Tags: by family_history (02 Nov 2009)
  70. News from Darbyshire Record Office.
    https://recordoffice.wordpress.com
    Tags: , by family_history (16 Jun 2015)
  71. This is site from the National Archives of Australia about post-war migration to Australia. You are invited to register and share your stories or tag and make comments about the photographs.
    https://www.destinationaustralia.gov.au/site/index.php
  72. The German Emigrants Database is a research project concerned with European emigration to the United States of America. The database comprises information on emigrants who left Europe for the United States of America between 1820 and 1897, 1904 and 1907 primarily from German ports.
    http://www.deutsche-auswanderer-datenbank.de/index.php?id=275&L=1
    Tags: by family_history (17 Aug 2017)
  73. The archive collections of the Devon Record Office, the local studies materials and the Devon and Cornwall Record Society collection from the Westcountry Studies Library reading room, are now housed together at the Devon Heritage Centre. Includes parish material, hospital and school records and other records relating to Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Cornwall. There are guides and catalogues.
    http://www.devon.gov.uk/record_office.htm
  74. Blog of Australian genealogist and author, Shauna Hicks.
    http://diaryofanaustraliangenealogist.blogspot.com.au
    Tags: , by family_history (16 Feb 2016)
  75. This website has details on over 120 Irish families who lived in Stafford during Victorian times.
    http://www.staff.ljmu.ac.uk/socjhers/stafford
  76. Over 3,000 biographies of New Zealanders who have made their mark in some way. it only includes biographies of people who are deceased.
    http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/default.asp
    Tags: by family_history (12 Oct 2009)
  77. This site has a collection of transcribed original accounts of London arranged under various themes.
    http://www.victorianlondon.org
    Tags: by family_history (11 Jan 2012)
  78. Digitised books, journals and reports in Indian languages, English, Portuguese, etc. Links to current newspapers. Try a subject search or search under title which seems to be a keywoed search. Eg: Title search on Hooghly ("On the Hooghly" a detailed personal account of the Hooghly pilot service Bengal 1878-1913).
    http://www.dli.gov.in
  79. This site has lots of information for anyone researching ancestors in the Netherlands or Belgium including indexes to births, marriages and deaths, passenger lists etc. Most of the material is in Dutch or French with some introductory material in English.
    http://www.geneaknowhow.net/digi/resources.html
    Tags: , by family_history (12 Jun 2011)
  80. Richard Heaton has produced this handy index to British and Irish digitised newspapers.
    http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.a.../~dutillieul/BritishandIrishNews.html
  81. This website provides links to U.S. state archives and their digitised records.
    http://www.digitalstatearchives.com
  82. This site is an online archive relating to the history of Ireland. It includes the Irish Emigration Database.
    http://www.dippam.ac.uk
  83. Database of over 550 links to Historic Directories of Ireland, available on free and subscription websites, and also includes directories for purchase on CD or download. Sources charging for access, or items for purchase are indicated with a $. Details shown include directory date, title and a direct link to relevant website. Online directories may be available as transcripts, ebooks (pdf, FlipBook etc), images or searchable databases.
    http://www.swilson.info/dirdb.php
    Tags: by family_history (21 May 2014)
  84. 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
  85. An alphabetical listing of old medical terminology which can be especially useful for interpreting information given on death certificates.
    http://www.sedgleymanor.com/diseases/diseases_front_page.html
  86. Domesday Book was William the Conqueror’s great survey of England of 1086. The easiest way to get started is to simply search by place name or post code; from there you can zoom and pan around the map to further investigate Domesday. Place names have been automatically extracted and located on the map, so some errors may occur.
    http://labs.nationalarchives.gov.uk/domesday
    Tags: by family_history (20 Oct 2010)
  87. This excellent site is a wiki initiated by the Guernsey Society with information about Guernsey's people, places and heritage. A lot of family trees have been submitted and there is information about parishes, houses, culture, emigration and much more.
    http://www.guernsey-society.org.uk/donkipedia/index.php5?title=Main_Page
  88. This page has links to family history resources for Dorset such as societies, mailing lists, on-line transcripts, surname interest lists and more.
    http://www.thedorsetpage.com/Dorset_Home.htm
    Tags: by family_history (27 Nov 2009)
  89. Transcribed parish records including baptisms, marriages, burials,census, monumental inscriptions, post office directories and more.
    http://www.opcdorset.com
  90. Transcriptions and photographs of headstones from various cemeteries in Dublin.
    http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/dublin/photos/tombstones/markers.htm
    Tags: by family_history (24 Oct 2011)
  91. Starting in 2001 the JFK Trust began to compile a most comprehensive database of Irish emigration to the United States, in conjunction with the Balch Institute in Philadelphia, the Ellis Island Restoration Commission in New York and the Battery Conservancy in New York. Access to the database is free through this website. Printouts are available for a small fee
    http://www.dunbrody.com
  92. 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
    Tags: by family_history (31 Dec 2002)
  93. A very detailed, informative website which looks at the history of mining in the north of England. Included is mining company information, employment statistics, details of mining disasters and much more. The names of people who lost their lives are given and there are links to mining reports, newspaper accounts and maps.
    http://www.dmm.org.uk/mindex.htm
  94. Parish and census records for County Durham with a few records from adjoining parishes in Yorkshire and Northumberland. Searching is free and you pay to download.
    http://www.durhamrecordsonline.com
  95. This site offers an easy way of finding English parish registers which are available online.
    http://www.dustydocs.com.au
  96. 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
    Tags: , by family_history (31 Dec 2002)
  97. 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
  98. This site has details of hundreds of burials at East Perth Cemetery where many of Western Australia's early pioneers are buried. Most are for the period up to 1899 although burials in existing vaults and graves continued up to 1924.
    http://www.eastperthcemeteries.com.au
  99. Dick Eastman's newsletter is the most prolific and popular genealogy blog. He is based in the United States but reports on websites, events etc. worldwide.
    http://blog.eogn.com
    Tags: by family_history (05 Oct 2010)
  100. On this website you will find not only many extracts of Births, Marriages, Deaths etc transcribed from various newspapers but also various news stories, book extracts, church records, records of deceased seamen and the names of over 25,000 Presbyterians who served during the Great War of 1914-1919.

    While in the News Extracts section the Birth, Marriage and Death transcriptions may be of the most immediate interest to those researching their family history there is a wealth of information contained in the general "clippings" which include court reports, inquests, subscriptions lists (some of which contain 100s of names) and many other items of general historic and social interest.
    http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~econnolly
    Tags: by family_history (04 May 2015)

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