Interior and exterior photographs plus detailed descriptions of over 600 churches in Suffolk.
http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/churchlists.htm
Search the Rootsweb mailing list archives for information about your ancestors or to make contact with others researching the same family.
http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com
The Rootsweb site is a great resource for making contact with other family historians. There are mailing lists, message boards, surname lists, family trees and more.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com
An Italian surname database where you can submit your own Italian surnames and make contact with others researching the same names.
http://www.gentedimaregenealogy.com/data.html
Contemporary accounts of the Irish famine in publications such as the Illustrated London News, the Cork Examiner and Punch.
http://adminstaff.vassar.edu/sttaylor/FAMINE
This website has oral histories of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust and is part of the British Library's Archival Sound Recordings site.
http://sounds.bl.uk/Browse.aspx?categ...seby=Browse+by+interviewee&choice=A-C
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
This is a very detailed website packed with information on the First World War. It includes information on how to go about researching a soldier as well as unit histories, war diaries and much more.
http://www.1914-1918.net
Information on the first fleet with further links and references.
http://www.ulladulla.info/historian/ffstory.html
This website contains two databases; one is an index of over 23,000 Welsh merchant seamen covering the period 1800 to 1945 and the other is a database of over 3,000 Welshmen in the Royal Navy between 1795 and 1815.
http://www.welshmariners.org.uk
An online index of Irish merchant seamen during the period 1918-1921. The database has over 23,000 records which were extracted from index cards in Southampton Civic Archives. There are photographs of many of the men which can be ordered from the archives in Southampton.
http://www.irishmariners.ie
Online archive of Victorian government gazettes covering the period 1836 to 1997 from the State Library of Victoria. Includes the New South Wales Gazette, the Port Phillip Gazette and the Victoria Government Gazette.
http://gazette.slv.vic.gov.au
Database of Irish placenames which gives details of the townland, civil parish, barony and county for each place. You can listen to the pronunciation of some placenames.
http://www.logainm.ie/?uiLang=en
This site has lots of useful information on how to trace your South Asian roots. Part of the British "Moving Here" website.
http://www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/roots/asian/asian.htm
This site has lots of useful information on how to trace your Caribbean roots. Part of the British "Moving Here" website.
http://www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/roots/caribbean/caribbean.htm
This site has lots of useful information on how to trace your Irish roots. Part of the British "Moving Here" website.
http://www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/roots/irish/irish.htm
This site has lots of useful information on how to trace your Jewish roots. Part of the British "Moving Here" website.
http://www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/roots/jewish/jewish.htm
An archive of memories of World War Two submitted by the public.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar
Headstone transcriptions for cemeteries around Australia.
http://www.ozburials.com/index.htm
This site has information about medals available to defence force personnel with photographs of each type of medal.
http://www.defence.gov.au/medals
Database of headstone photographs submitted by volunteers. You can search by name within each province. There are not many images at present but this is an ongoing project. There are also links to similar projects in Ireland and the United States.
http://canadianheadstones.com
Digitised index cards from Captain Lionel Challis' Peninsula Roll Call with biographical details on over 9,600 British officers who served in the Peninsular War 1808-1814. Information has been compiled from Army lists, gazettes, dispatches, regimental records and other offical records.
http://www.napoleon-series.org
Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720-1940.
http://www.dia.ie
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
Addresses and links to online indexes where applicable for all local register offices in England and Wales.
http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/REG/regoff.html#B
Searchable database of digitised New Zealand material including the six volume Cyclopedia of New Zealand which was published between 1897 and 1908. This contains a lot of biographical entries as well as providing a snapshot of life in New Zealand at the turn of the century.
http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-corpus-cyclopedia.html
Search for cemeteries throughout Australia and then see their location on Google Maps.
http://www.auscem.com/auscemlist.php
View photographs, maps, objects and artworks held at various archives, libraries and museums around Australia including State Libraries, the Australian War Memorial, the National Trust etc. Search under keyword for people, places, ships and more. Also included in the database are Flickr images submitted by the public.
http://www.pictureaustralia.org
Database of about one million Australians who served in the defence forces and the merchant navy during World War Two.
http://www.ww2roll.gov.au
Search for members of the Australian armed forces in a variety of databases including the Roll of Honour. Also included is a military glossary, information on Australian military units, war diaries and official war histories. Look under People - Family History for a really useful range of Information Sheets.
http://www.awm.gov.au
Selected family history websites arranged by category on the National Library of Australia site.
http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/genelist.html
Searchable database of over 48,000 names of convicts sent to New South Wales, Tasmania and Western Australia between 1788 and 1868. This database is part of the free content on the subscription database Ancestry.com. You will need to register to access it. Alternatively, you can access everything on the subscription database free of charge within the State Library building.
http://www.ancestry.com.au/search/db.aspx?dbid=5517
View maps of places in England, Scotland and Wales mostly from the 19th and early 20th century.
http://www.old-maps.co.uk
Information about life in Britain taken from census data. Various themes are explored such as Population, Life and Death, Industry, Work and Poverty etc. There are also descriptions of places from travel writers and gazetteers as well as a collection of historical maps.
http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/index.jsp
A combined catalogue of holdings in archives throughout England and Wales.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a
Over 200 years of proceedings from London's famous court. Use it to find criminals, judges, witnesses etc.
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org
The 1901 and 1911 censuses for Ireland, including images, are freely available on the National Archives of Ireland website.
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie
Search the catalogue, explore the subject guides, find out what's on and more.
http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au
Western Australian Post Office Directories 1893-1949.
http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/find/guides/wa_history/post_office_directories
Searchable database of nearly 10,000 convicts transported to the Swan River colony 1850-1868.
http://www.fremantleprison.com.au/Pages/Convict.aspx
Convict ships, convict tales, pensioner guards and more
http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/convicts/index.html
Index to Devon wills up to 1857.
http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/DevonWillsProject
Official website for Scotland with births, marriages and deaths, census records plus parish registers and wills. Recent additions include Roman Catholic records and RC British Army records from the Bishopric of the Forces. Free searching and then pay-per-view for images of documents.
http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
Information on the censuses for England and Wales including the dates they were taken.
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/Census.html
Transcriptions of births, marriages and deaths in Bath and North East Somerset taken from the local register office indexes. Also available are Bath Post Office Directories for 1852, 1872, 1895 and 1912. Part of the UKBMD Project.
http://www.bathbmd.org.uk
Transcriptions of census returns, parish registers, churchwarden accounts, postal directory extracts and more.
http://www.sussex-opc.org
Information on how to apply for birth, marriage and death certificates for the Northern Territory. Indexes are not available online.
http://www.nt.gov.au/justice/bdm/index.shtml
Victoria, Australia in 1847 - lists and links of interest.
http://www.geocities.com/vic1847/index.html
Free searching for Pembrokeshire census records. 1871 and 1891 censuses complete and 1841 and 1881 censuses nearly complete. Subscription required to view full record.
http://www.cenquest.co.uk/Home.htm
Database containing the names of thousands of goldminers in New Zealand 1861-1868.
http://www.kaelewis.com/goldminers/gold-searchpage.htm
Information on how to apply for birth, marriage and death certificates in South Australia. Indexes are not available online.
http://www.ocba.sa.gov.au/bdm
The British Association for Local History. Links to many local history organisations.
http://www.balh.co.uk/index.php
Transcriptions of baptisms, marriages and burials plus parish histories and photographs.
http://www.knightroots.co.uk
Information on and photographs of county-owned mental hospitals built in Britain 1810-1948. Arranged by county.
http://www.countyasylums.com
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
Searchable database of immigrants entering the United States 1830-1892. This pre-dates the Ellis Island immigration database.
http://www.castlegarden.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 website is produced by the Irish Times newspaper. Some information is free and some can be viewed on a pay-per-view basis. Free information includes a surname dictionary, surname histories, place name database taken from the '1851 General Alphabetical Index to the townlands and towns, parishes and baronies of Ireland' and passenger lists. There are also pages for each county and lots of links.
http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor
This site has photographs and transcriptions of gravestones and war memorials in Monmouthshire and Glamorgan in South Wales. There are also some parish records, census records and trade directories. It also includes the 1873 Return of Owners of Land.
http://www.cefnpennar.com/index.htm
Very detailed website with information on British naval vessels from World War One onwards. Includes lists of casualties, ships' service histories, photographs and more.
http://www.naval-history.net
The 1911 census for England and Wales is available from this site. It is free to search and you need to buy credits to view the transcripts or images. Please note that the 1911 census is not yet available on Ancestry.
http://www.1911census.co.uk
Descriptions of market towns in England taken from 'The Penny Magazine' 1833-1848.
http://www.oldtowns.co.uk/find_a_town.htm
Transcriptions of baptisms, marriages and burials for a few Wiltshire parishes with more to come. Also included are census records and directories.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.brown6666/wiltsopc
Official government site listing place names in Victoria.
http://services.land.vic.gov.au/vicnames
The National Library of Australia website includes family history subject guides, Picture Australia (digitised photographs), Historic Australian Newspapers 1803-1954 and Libraries Australia (combined catalogue of Australian libraries).
http://www.nla.gov.au
List of places in Victoria including historic names no longer in use.
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~surreal/victowns
A unique collection of photographic, printed, manuscript and audiovisual material covering all aspects of the culture of travelling showpeople; their organisation as a community, their social history and everyday life.
http://www.nfa.dept.shef.ac.uk
Lots of information on Norfolk Island and its convict settlements.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ausnorfo
A very comprehensive website for Rushden and District in Northamptonshire. Includes census transcriptions, wills index, workhouse records, trade directories, church and chapel register transcriptions and more.
http://www.rushdenheritage.co.uk
This site has a combined online catalogue for more than 50 archives in Scotland. Digital content is also available in the Virtual Vault including a database of passengers who emigrated from western Scotland to Australia 1852-1857.
http://www.scan.org.uk/index.html
Search over 17 million posts on message boards at Ancestry.
http://www.ancestry.com/community
Website of the Archives Office of Tasmania which includes an online database of archives, a photographic database and name indexes to convict, departure, naturalisation records and more.
http://www.archives.tas.gov.au
Information on the Gloucestershire regiment including a searchable database of over 40,000 soldiers who served in World War One.
http://www.glosters.org.uk
Free historical maps of Australia, London and some other parts of the UK. The site also includes some maps of Gallipoli.
http://archivemaps.com/mapco
Lists of Australian soldiers who served in the Boer War along with background information on the war. Part of the Perth Dead Persons' Society website.
http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/military/index.html
Waikumete Cemetery is the main cemetery for the Auckland region. Scroll down to Genealogy Online Search to search their records.
http://www.waitakere.govt.nz/cnlser/cm/index.asp#genealogy
The Great Britain Family Names Profiling website has surname distribution maps for Great Britain in 1881 and 1998.
http://gbnames.publicprofiler.org
Database of over 160,000 UK place names many of which are also linked to maps.
http://www.digital-documents.co.uk/archi/placename.htm
Search for births, marriages and deaths in the London borough of Tower Hamlets. Indexes are incomplete but cover 1837-1996 (births), 1837-1900 (marriages) and 1862-2004 (deaths). Certificates can be ordered online.
http://www.thbmd.co.uk
Part of the State Library of Tasmania's website. Includes digitised photographs and indexes to newspapers, government records, place names and more.
http://www.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasmemory
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
Searchable database of the New York Times archives. Use advanced search to specify a particular date range. Archives are free for the period 1851-1922 and 1987 to the present.
http://www.nytimes.com
Website with information about the SS Asturias II which operated as a migrant ship 1946-1952. Includes photographs, passengers' stories and some passenger lists with more to be added later.
http://www.ssasturias.net
Historical information on battlefields in England and Scotland.
http://www.battlefieldstrust.com/resource-centre
Free searching of the Sydney Morning Herald and Sun Herald 1955-1990 including birth, marriage and death notices. Subscription required to see the full article.
http://archives.smh.com.au
Thousands of photographs of England's built heritage. Includes houses, bridges, windmills, churches and more.
http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk
Select Passenger index to search the database of over 800,000 names of passengers arriving in Fremantle between Jan 1921 and Jan 1950. You will need to log in first or search as a guest user. You can also use Name Search and select Immigration and Naturalisation Records to find information on people arriving in Australia. For example, many arrivals under the Assisted Passage Migration Scheme can be found in this way.
http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/recordsearch/index.aspx
Database of Australians who died during the Boer War compiled by members of the Heraldry & Genealogy Society of Canberra Inc.
http://www.hagsoc.org.au/sagraves/index.php
Transcriptions of many parish registers in Somerset.
http://www.parkhouse.org.uk/transcr/tcontent.htm
Burial records from thousands of cemeteries worldwide.
http://www.interment.net
Transcriptions of Gloucestershire inquests 1722-1838.
http://www.genebug.net/glsinquests.htm
Information about the First World War with a searchable database of names of soldiers commemorated on war memorials and plaques in Britain.
http://www.ukniwm.org.uk
Digital library of material relating to the history of Britain including many of the Victoria County History series.
http://www.british-history.ac.uk
Ongoing indexing of ships Masters and Mates active from 1851-1911.
http://www.history.ac.uk/gh/capintro.htm
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
Maps of London from the mid-twentieth century.
http://www.maps-of-london.com
An incomplete list of convict ships carrying convicts to Tasmania and Norfolk Island. Gives details of sailing dates and numbers of convicts on board and a list of sources. Some of the convicts on board are listed with contact details for people researching them.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~austashs/convicts/conships.htm
Find out where your family name is now concentrated. Twenty-six countries included.
http://www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames
Transcriptions of births, marriages and deaths in Wiltshire from 1837 onwards taken from the local register office indexes. Part of the UKBMD Project.
http://www.wiltshirebmd.org.uk
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
