This site has photographs of gravestones, church register transcriptions, newspaper extracts and more.
http://www.eggsa.org
State Library of Tasmania's heritage digital collection which includes transcriptions and images from other organisations such as the Tasmanian Family History Society.
http://eheritage.statelibrary.tas.gov.au
This site includes information on the history of Scotland as well as the Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland 1892-6.
http://www.electricscotland.com
Free searching of passenger lists for people coming into New York.
http://libertyellisfoundation.org/passenger
The information was sourced from the nominal rolls of the New Zealand Contingents published in the Appendices to the House of Representatives. It contains the names, contingents, companies, registration numbers, ranks, embarkation details, addresses, next of kin and occupations of every New Zealand soldier who joined the New Zealand contingents that sailed to the South African War. Note that some New Zealand soldiers enlisted with British, Australian or South African forces and will therefore not appear on this database.
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/war/new-z...n-the-south-african-boer-war/database
Online Encyclopedia of Melbourne which includes information on Melbourne's history.
http://www.emelbourne.net.au/home.html
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
Brief information on thousands of Australian shipwrecks.
http://oceans1.customer.netspace.net.au/easw.html
This useful aid is part of the FamilySearch website and enables you to search for places in England on an 1851 map. Boundaries are shown for county, parish, civil registration district, rural deanery, poor law union and hundred. It lists smaller places within each parish, shows the extent of parish registers and much more. By selecting Layers you can also switch to a modern Google map, Streetview or satellite image.
http://maps.familysearch.org/#search
Subtitled Resident Aliens in the Late Middle Ages this database has the names of foreigners who travelled to England in medieval times.
https://www.englandsimmigrants.com
This database of English regional accents is part of the Archival Sound Recordings website from the British Library. People interviewed are usually describing some aspect of life in their part of England.
http://sounds.bl.uk/BrowseCategory.aspx?category=Accents-and-dialects
Searchable database of historic photographs of England held by the National Monuments Record.
http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/default.aspx
Statistics on relative deprivation in small areas in England. Interesting to note how areas do or do not change over time.
https://www.gov.uk/government/statist...s/english-indices-of-deprivation-2015
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
A useful timeline showing medical epidemics in the UK.
http://kdfhs.org.uk/index.php?option=...m_content&view=article&id=1&Itemid=30
The geographical area covered by this site is the rural area of Eastern Essex sandwiched between the Towns of Chelmsford, Maldon, Wickford and the coast. There are over 130 pages on this site containing details of thousands of people and the background to their lives.
http://www.essex-family-history.co.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
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
Has a page detailing available church records and some useful links. Research assistance is available for a fee.
http://www.esfh.org.uk
Lots of background information on emigration from the following countries:- England, France, Germany, Italy, Norway and Sweden. Covers topics such as reasons for emigration, methods of travel, passenger lists, research possibilities etc.
http://www.european-emigration.com
Explore millions of items from a range of Europe's leading galleries, libraries, archives and museums. Books and manuscripts, photos and paintings, television and film, sculpture and crafts, diaries and maps, sheet music and recordings, they’re all here. No need to travel the continent, either physically or virtually!
http://www.europeana.eu
Includes interactive graveyard plans for Ireland. Click into a plot to see an image of the grave and transcription. Searchable database of names has best coverage for Derry (Londonderry) but the graveyard plans seem to cover most of Ireland.
http://www.discovereverafter.com
Theme-based histories and online catalogues of Surrey History Centre. There are searchable indexes.
http://www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk
This database from the University of Manchester focuses on people involved in small business in the north west of England 1760-1820. This area includes Manchester, Liverpool, Lancaster, Preston, Wigan and Macclesfield. People appearing in records such as court records, wills, business records etc. have been indexed with entries linking to the original digitised documents.
http://www.northwestfamilybusiness.arts.manchester.ac.uk/PersonSearch.aspx
Transcribed information from English and Welsh deeds. There is a surname index as well as a county index and some material is also available for purchase.
http://www.familydeeds.org/index.php
Links to Australian genealogical and historical societies arranged by state.
http://www.coraweb.com.au/society.htm
Auckland City Libraries website has a list of e-resources which includes electoral rolls, passenger lists, cemetery records and more.
http://www.aucklandcitylibraries.com/...ibrary/topicpages/Family-history.aspx
This site by Cathy Day is no longer available but has been archived by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. There is a lot of transcribed information here for those researching British, European and Anglo-Indian family history in India, Burma, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
http://web.archive.org/web/20061005045008/members.ozemail.com.au/~clday
Family history research by Robert Atkins. Family names include Atkins, Greene, de Castilla, Couper, Broun and Sewell.
http://atkinsgenealogy.id.au
Updated website for the Family History Society of Rockingham and Districts which is affiliated with the WA Genealogical Society.
http://fhsrd.org.au
This website has a wonderful range of databases including early South Australian births 1836-1854, marriages 1836-1855 and deaths 1836-1842+, passenger lists 1803-1853 and more. There is also a lot of historical information including a timeline.
http://www.familyhistorysa.info
Staff from the Family Information Records Bureau can help indigenous people trace their families by accessing government departmental files
http://www.dcp.wa.gov.au/SUPPORTINGIN...es/Searchingforyourfamilyhistory.aspx
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 site has a large selection of free downloadable family tree charts and links to sites for obituaries in the United States.
http://www.obituarieshelp.org/free_printable_blank_family_tree.html
Searchable database of deeds with many available to purchase either as orginals or transcripts. Most are in England and Wales but there are also deeds available from the rest of Britain and overseas.
http://www.familychest.co.uk
Commercial subscription site with births, marriages (including Phillimores) and deaths, directories, military records and parish registers.
http://www.familyrelatives.com
This is the new website for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints where new transcribed records and images are being added regularly. Select Browse our record collection to see what is available.
https://www.familysearch.org/#start
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
This section of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints website has lots of courses arranged by country and by subject.
https://www.familysearch.org/learningcenter/home.html
This wiki is hosted by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and contains user-submitted articles about family history.
https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Main_Page
The V&A Museum website has lots of information on fashion including sections on wedding fashion and dating clothes and photographs from the 1840s through to the 1960s.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/fashion/features/index.html
This site covers the history of women's fashion from 1800 to the present and includes sketches of costumes and hairstyles.
http://www.fashion-era.com/index.htm
Search page for Fawkner Memorial Park, Northern Memorial Park and Coburg Pine Ridge Cemeteries.
http://www.fcmp.com.au
This organisation, based in the UK, exists to support family history societies. The site includes a directory of societies with contact details for England, Wales, Ireland and overseas.
http://www.ffhs.org.uk/index.php
Lots of information on female convicts sent to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) including some photographs, information on convict ships, clothing, infant mortality and much more. Become a member (free) to search the site.
http://www.femaleconvicts.org.au
This site has lots of pages on all aspects of Irish family history research including migration, workhouses, censuses and census substitutes etc.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~fianna/guide
This site has a lot of information for those with ancestors who were in British India. You can search by name for information transcribed from birth, marriage and death indexes, newspapers, directories, cemetery records and more. There are also images available.
http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/index.php
Searchable database of famous graves plus millions of other graves submitted by contributors worldwide.
http://www.findagrave.com/index.html
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
Brings together information about child and youth care facilities in Australia from the 1810s. Includes orphanages, benevolent institutions, asylums, etc. You can use Find and Connect to:
• Read about orphanages, Homes and other residences
• Track down records - where they are, who to contact
• View images of places in the Gallery
http://www.findandconnect.gov.au
Findmypast is a subscription site which is available to use for no charge within the State Library of Western Australia building. It contains material relating to the United Kingdom and Ireland and all Australian states and New Zealand with a small amount of content for the Pacific Islands and Papua New Guinea. The Australian states with the largest amount of material are Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. Content includes passenger lists, almanacs, Blue Books, electoral rolls, government gazettes, police gazettes and post office directories. The Ireland section includes will indexes, directories, cemetery transcriptions, land records and more. The largest collection is Irish prison records which includes information on over 3.5 million people. Most coverage for the United Kingdom is for England and Wales, including 1841-1911 census records. Census transcriptions for Scotland for 1841 through to 1901 are also available. Top content includes births, marriages and deaths including overseas BMDs, armed forces BMDs and BMDs at sea; UK outgoing passenger lists 1890-1960 and British Army service records (also known as Chelsea Pensioner records) 1760-1913.
http://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=e1001846~S2
Blog from subscription database Findmypast with information about records on their site plus lots of hints on getting started and breaking down brick walls.
https://blog.findmypast.com.au
This database includes information submitted by the public on the earliest members of their family to have lived in Australia and was begun in 2001 to mark the centenary of Federation. The site is no longer live and has been archived by the National Library as part of its Pandora archive.
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/10421/2....firstfamilies2001.net.au/welcome.htm
Digitised artwork of First Fleet pioneers held at the Natural History Museum in London.
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/nature-online/first-fleet/index.dsml
Database of convicts who were transported on the First Fleet from the University of Wollongong.
http://firstfleet.uow.edu.au/index.html
As well as a link to their own interesting website, the Fishmongers' Company provides a database of other Livery Companies giving website and contact details.
http://www.fishhall.co.uk
Flickr is a huge photo and video sharing site which is also being used by some libraries and archives. Search under 'The Commons' to view images from places such as the State Library of Queensland and the National Library of Scotland.
http://www.flickr.com
Explore some of the State Library of Western Australia's collections and exhibitions through Flickr.
https://www.flickr.com/people/statelibrarywa
The National Library of Scotland has loaded many of its historic photographs onto Flickr.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlscotland
The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) has loaded many of its historic images onto Flickr including a large collection of glass plate negatives from a photographic studio in Armagh.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/proni
Photographs relating to World War One submitted to Flickr.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/greatwararchive
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
Information on researching your family history from the National Archives of Australia.
http://www.naa.gov.au/services/family-historians/index.aspx
This site has a lot of British military genealogy records covering a wide range of conflicts. Most information is pay-per- view with monthly subscriptions available.
Free content includes the Japanese Prisoner of War records and a Medieval database.
http://www.forces-war-records.co.uk
This Australian government website is a tribute to children who were in institutional care during the 20th Century. There are photographs and oral histories and people who had this experience are invited to contribute their stories.
http://forgottenaustralianshistory.gov.au
A research project from the University of Tasmania which is collecting data on the lives of 73 000 men, women and children transported to Tasmania. By registering, you are also able to add information.
http://foundersandsurvivors.org
Searchable database of 1000s of English and Welsh historical property deeds.
http://www.familychest.co.uk/default.htm
Directory of free websites for Victorian family history.
http://www.freesurnamesearch.com/search/ausnzp/victoria.html
A collection of free digitised Irish history books. Includes lots of parliamentary papers and local histories.
http://irishstaterecords.blogspot.com.au
Information on some ships and passengers to NSW. Also information about early Hunter Valley and Newcastle settlers mainly prior to 1870.
http://www.jenwilletts.com/index.htm
Search the index for births, marriages and deaths in England and Wales from 1837 onwards. Not yet complete but coverage is very good up to the late 1950s with some entries through to the 1970s.
http://www.freebmd.org.uk
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
Search the digitised collection of photographs of Fremantle and East Fremantle. Includes both historical and present day images.
http://cdm16702.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/myfirst
Searchable database of nearly 10,000 convicts transported to the Swan River colony 1850-1868.
http://www.fremantleprison.com.au/Pages/Convict.aspx
This site has transcribed cemetery records, church records, poorhouse records and much more for the city of Dundee.
http://www.fdca.org.uk/FDCAHome1.html
Photograph gallery and WWI index with background and some biographical information. The main towns are: Strood, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham, and Rainham. Medway is in the County of Kent.
http://www.foma-lsc.org/foma/new/index.html
This site has more than 19,000 transcriptions of gravestones. There are also photographs of graves and some directories etc.
http://www.from-ireland.net
Gale News Vault is a subscription site which is available to use for no charge within the State Library of Western Australia building or from home for SLWA members. It offers combined searching of 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers, 19th Century British Newspapers, Times Digital Archive and the Illustrated London News.
http://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=e1001932~S2
Searchable database of more than 5,000 deaths extracted from police reports in the South Australian Government Gazettes 1845-1941. This includes the Northern Territory until the end of 1910.
http://www.ach.familyhistorysa.info/gazettedeaths.html
This site is a comprehensive modern gazetteer for Scotland which also includes entries from the Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland 1882-1885. There are historical maps showing county boundaries and photographs.
http://www.scottish-places.info
Mailing list for the discussion of Australian and New Zealand genealogy.
http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/AUS/GENANZ.html
This website has useful background information on using census records, birth, marriage and death records and wills. It also has a selection of material relating to Victorian London such as a street index, churches, cemeteries, lodging houses, public houses, institutions and more.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/hitch/gendocs/index.html
Judy Webster's excellent gateway for Queensland records.
http://www.judywebster.com.au/index.html
This site makes it easier to find free digitised or transcribed family history material for the United States.
http://genealogybooklinks.com
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
compare features and read reviews of genealogy software packages that have been submitted by users.
http://www.gensoftreviews.com
Online Database Search
Databases include:
•Newspaper Birth Notices Index from 1960 onwards
•Newspaper Death Notices Index from 1972 onwards
•South Australia Cemeteries Index
•Birth Registration Certificates Index 1842 - 1928
•Death Registration Certificates Index 1842 - 1972
•Marriage Registration Certificates Index 1842 - 1937
http://www.genealogysa.org.au/resources/online-databases.html
A new family history networking site with a variety of interest groups. You need to register if you want to join a group or post comments.
http://www.genealogywise.com
Links to thousands of family history websites for the UK, US, Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
http://www.genealogylinks.net
Free registration enables you to search for other people researching the same ancestors and to view family trees.
http://www.geneanet.org
Use this site for searching indexes and ordering certificates for Northern Ireland.
http://www.nidirect.gov.uk/general-register-office-for-northern-ireland
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
UK wide site with information from various local history societies and other suppliers.
http://www.genfair.co.uk
This site has message boards for a huge variety of topics including individual surnames and countries.
http://genforum.genealogy.com
This is a reasonably priced paid site which is particularly useful for Scottish research.
http://www.genhound.co.uk
This Australian site has podcasts giving advice on genealogy research.
http://geniesdownunder.com.au/index.html
This site has scanned images of old maps for England, Wales and Scotland arranged by county.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~genmaps
Main genealogical gateway for England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.
http://www.genuki.org.uk
This gazetteer covers places in England, Ireland, Wales, Scotland and the Isle of Man and links to other pages on the Genuki site.
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/Gazetteer
