Lots of information on ships, passenger lists, shipwrecks and more.
http://www.hotkey.net.au/~jwilliams4/ships.htm
A collection of databases from the Western Australian Museum including shipwrecks and shipwreck artefacts.
http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/research/databases/all
A University of Oxford project which includes digitised material relating to World War One submitted by members of the public. Content includes maps, diaries, postcards, poems, letters, memorabilia and more.
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa
Photographs relating to World War One submitted to Flickr.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/greatwararchive
A digital repository of obituaries published in newspapers, journals, magazines and bulletins in Australia. The site is hosted by the National Centre of Biography at the Australian National University. You can help to expand this database by submitting scanned obituaries.
http://oa.anu.edu.au
Database of about 32,000 Congregational ministers from the mid 17th century to 1972. It mostly covers England and Wales but includes some ministers serving abroad.
http://surman.english.qmul.ac.uk/index.html
National Library of Australia has digitised portraits of convicts taken at Port Arthur in 1874.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an11590418
This site has local history material for Kent including digitised photographs, maps and directories.
http://hereshistorykent.org.uk
Searchable database of burials in Nelson in New Zealand's south island.
http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/cemeteries-database-2
Search for places in Central and Eastern Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. Results give name variations of the town, coordinates and other places within a 10 mile radius.
http://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/LocTown.asp
This site by Cathy Day is no longer available but has been archived by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.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
Directory of Australian archives. You can also search collections and some material has been digitised.
http://www.collectionsaustralia.net.au
Search a wide range of historical texts.
http://books.google.com.au/bkshp?hl=en&tab=wp
The owners of this site maintain a database of over 550,000 police officers who served in the Metropolitan Police between 1829 and 1945. Contact them for a search of the database and you will receive a report for a small fee.
http://www.policeorders.co.uk
A transcription of European residents in the 1851 census for Bombay excluding Bombay City and Island. Transcribed from a copy in the India Office Records at the British Library.
http://valmayukuk.tripod.com/1851bombaycensus
This association helps to conserve the graves of Europeans and Anglo-Indians buried in South Asia. They have transcribed many memorial inscriptions and you can search the unified index by name on this site.
http://www.bacsa.org.uk
This site has free transcriptions of a variety of sources including many passenger lists. Content is mainly for Canada and the United States but there is other material available as well.
http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/index.shtml
A one-stop shop for digital Australian content including historic newspapers, photographs, maps, web pages and more. There is also some New Zealand content.
http://trove.nla.gov.au
Digitised historic maps of India.
http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~poyntz/India/maps.html
Database of 45000 goldminers in New Zealand 1861-1872.
http://www.kaelewis.com
Free searching of the Guardian newspaper archive from 1899 to 1999.
http://century.guardian.co.uk
Digital library of 18th and 19th century journals from the Bodleian Library in Oxford.
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej
Blog from Audrey Collins who is a Family History Records Specialist at the National Archives at Kew.
http://thefamilyrecorder.blogspot.com
Gazetteer of place names in the Northern Territory giving a brief history, latitude and longitude and link to map.
http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/placenames
Digitised maps on Trove.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/map?q=
Brief history of metropolitan suburb and country town names in Western Australia. River names are also included.
http://www.landgate.wa.gov.au/corpora...Australian+Place+Names+and+Addressing
Combined archives catalogue for most of the local authorities in the Horizons region of New Zealand's north island.
http://archivescentral.org.nz
A web portal for finding which archives are available to the public throughout Ireland.
http://www.iar.ie
Lots of useful background information on the port cities of Bristol, Hartlepool, Liverpool, London and Southampton.
http://www.portcities.org.uk
Lots of links for UK family history resources as well as a section on the British abroad.
http://www.ukgdl.org.uk
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
This site has a collection of historic photographs submitted by users around the world with the stories behind them. Old photographs can also be viewed overlaid on Streetview so you can compare the old with the new.
http://www.historypin.com
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
Use the Advanced Wills Search on the left of the screen to search for wills 1540-1858. Includes Wiltshire but also some parts of Berkshire, Dorset and Devon. Searching is free and wills can either be purchased from the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre or downloaded for a fee.
http://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/heritage/index.php
Information on how to order copies of wills for England and Wales. The National Probate Calendar 1861-1941 can be searched on Ancestry and is available at the State Library and in many public libraries.
http://www.justice.gov.uk/guidance/co...ts/probate/copies-of-grants-wills.htm
Some useful resources for anyone researching ancestors associated with whaling.
http://www.explorenorth.com/whalers/index.html
A large collection of historical directories for Scotland is available through the Internet Archive.
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3Ascottishdirectories
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
Search the online catalogue of West Sussex Record Office where almost all of their collection is listed.
http://www.westsussex.gov.uk/leisure/...rchives/collections_and_archives.aspx
Adelaide Cooperative History publishes articles and databases to enhance the understanding of South Australian history, especially in the early days of the colony's life. A selection of indexes plus articles giving background context.
http://www.ach.familyhistorysa.info
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
Selected notices and articles indexed from Irish newspapers and overseas newspapers referring to Irish immigrants.
http://www.irelandoldnews.com
The Nominal Roll of Vietnam Veterans lists approximately 61 000 men and women who served in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), Australian Army and Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in Vietnam, or in the waters adjacent to Vietnam, during the conflict between 23 May 1962 and 29 April 1975.
http://www.vietnamroll.gov.au
An online exhibition about British child migrants produced by the Australian National Maritime Museum and the National Museum Liverpool.
http://www.britainschildmigrants.com
Over 2,000 photographs and photographed artworks relating to Australian shipping 1870-1930.
http://photosau.com/DuftyCollection/scripts/home.asp
This site has lots of photographs of military graves from around Scotland arranged by region. Some photographs of soldiers are also included.
http://scottishwargraves.phpbbweb.com/scottishwargraves.html
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
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
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
This website lists free records of over 35,000 inmates of the Bedfordshire Gaol from 1801-1901. Listings frequently include great details and physical descriptions.
http://apps.bedfordshire.gov.uk/grd
Mocavo is a metasearch engine for family historians. It searches a number of free on-line databases. At present there is a heavy focus on North America.
http://www.mocavo.com
UK wide site with information from various local history societies and other suppliers.
http://www.genfair.co.uk
Information on old public houses mainly for the southern counties of England.
http://www.deadpubs.co.uk/index.shtml
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
This website is campaigning for a Boer War Memorial to be erected in Canberra. It also has a lot of information on the Boer War including information on nurses, war correspondents, medals, engagements, casualties and more. Australians can register details of their ancestor's service in the Boer War as part of the Boer War Memorial Descendant Database Project.
http://www.bwm.org.au
This site has photographs of gravestones in Canadian cemeteries and is both searchable and browsable. Most provinces and territories have some material available.
http://www.gravemarkers.ca
This website has lots of digitised material relating to the P&O cruise line including posters, photographs, ephemera and postcards. There are also fact sheets for 2,500 P&O ships.
http://www.poheritage.com
A selection of case files from the Society. No identifying information - but transcriptions give an idea of how these children were treated.
http://www.hiddenlives.org.uk/cases
Various New Zealand indexes.
http://shadowsoftime.co.nz
List of graduates 1870 - 1971
http://shadowsoftime.co.nz/university.html
New Zealand passenger lists. A work in progress.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nzbound
The information resource for brass bands world-wide. Includes vintage photographs, information about brass bands past and present, and allows researchers to submit their names of interest.
http://www.ibew.co.uk
Pay for use website or subscription. Allows a search under name or town name and indicates what type of record (such as directory or document or article) is available.
http://www.clockswatches.com/reply/online.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
The State Records Office has digitised a large number of Western Australian maps.
http://www.sro.wa.gov.au/collection/maps-online
A wonderful resource for researching your ancestors in the United States. Part of the World GenWeb Project.
http://www.usgenweb.org
This site offers enhanced searching of a range of different online databases. There are also translating tools and resources on the holocaust.
http://stevemorse.org
Website of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland which has over 300,000 digitised images and media from museums, libraries, archives, galleries and the media. Free to search and view thumbnail images.
http://www.scran.ac.uk
This site has lots of links to family history resources for Scotland organised into areas such as marriages, censuses, poorhouses etc. There are also some useful county maps showing parish boundaries.
http://www.scotlandsfamily.com/index.htm
This site has information on which parishes are covered by the 2nd edition of the British Isles Vital Records Index available on CD-ROM. This index has details of over 10 million christenings and nearly 2 million marriages in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. There are also some transcriptions for a few English counties; mostly gazetteer entries plus the Return of Owners of Land for Oxfordshire 1873.
http://genoot.com/lib/index.html
Lots of information about the Bath & Avon Family History Society. Online content includes the South Gloucestershire Burials Index.
http://www.bafhs.org.uk/index.htm
A guide from the FamilySearch wiki on preserving digital records.
https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Whit...Your_Family_History_Records_Digitally
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
Includes a searchable database of over 16,000 names of householders paying hearth tax during the 17th century in the counties of Durham, Kent, Surrey and the West Riding of Yorkshire. There are also maps of these counties - both geographic and statistical. An authoritative site from the Centre for Hearth Tax Research at Roehampton University.
http://www.hearthtax.org.uk
This website has lots of information for anyone researching postal worker ancestors. There are information sheets, online exhibitions and podcasts as well as the online catalogue of the museum which is in London.
http://www.postalheritage.org.uk
This site has a database of all recipients of the George Cross, the highest civilian honour.
http://www.gc-database.co.uk/index.htm
The National Archives of Scotland website includes detailed guides on a range of family history topics including crime, emigration, military records, wills etc.
http://www.nas.gov.uk/default.asp
This site has lots of interesting snippets taken from Liverpool newspapers including photographs, advertisements, transcriptions of marriages and obituaries and much more. There is also a timeline of Liverpool history.
http://www.old-liverpool.co.uk
Cemetery headstone transcriptions for a number of New South Wales cemeteries.
http://members.webone.com.au/~sgrieves/cemeteries_australia.htm
Lots of information on W.A. police from early years of the colony. go to 'Museums and Stories' then click on 'Historical snippets' to access a list of known early police officers. If your man is listed it is worth contacting the Society as they have a wonderful collection of material.
http://www.policewahistory.org.au/HTML_Pages/Museum.html
Information on the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) on the State Library of Western Australia website.
http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/find/guides...tory/australian_joint_copying_project
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 background information on the city of Wolverhampton. Selecting Resources - Indexes will take you to transcriptions of parish registers for Wolverhampton.
http://www.wolverhamptonhistory.org.uk
Website of the Cambridgeshire Family History Society. Online content includes indexes to baptisms and burials 1801-1837, a strays index, information on parishes and more.
http://www.cfhs.org.uk
ADM26 record the remittances made to relatives etc. from the pay of members of the Royal Navy after the 1795 Navy Act. A work in progress
http://www.1812privateers.org/ADM26/ADM26.html
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
This site has lots of transcriptions including street directories, photographs, census, the Return of Owners of Land for 1873 and more.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~monfamilies/monfh.htm
Mailing list for the discussion of Australian and New Zealand genealogy.
http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/AUS/GENANZ.html
Digitised version of the 1884 Napier's Commission which includes evidence from crofters. The full title of the report is 'The Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Condition of Crofters and Cottars in the Highlands and Islands'.
http://www.highland-elibrary.com/index.html
This project from the University of Glasgow has information on civil registration in Scotland 1855-1939. It explains how the statistics were collected, gives biographies of some of the officials involved and looks at the social history of this period. As well as birth, marriage and death, headings include census, health and disease, war and national registration etc.
http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/scottishwayofbirthanddeath
The catalogue of the National Register of Archives for Scotland records details of private records available in libraries, archives etc. in Scotland. Private archives include records of individuals and families, businesses, clubs, landed estates and more.
http://www.nas.gov.uk/nras
Explore the history and culture of the Scottish highlands on this website from the Highland Council. Content includes maps and plans, photographs, audio and more.
http://www.ambaile.org.uk
This page has hundreds of links to online historic newspaper archives from around the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_online_newspaper_archives
This site includes information on the history of Scotland as well as the Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland 1892-6.
http://www.electricscotland.com
Searchable index to names appearing in directories, almanacs, electoral rolls and police gazettes for the Otago region.
http://marvin.otago.ac.nz/oni/basic.php
Search birth, marriage and death indexes for Gloucestershire. Not yet complete so the coverage should be checked.
http://ww3.gloucestershire.gov.uk/bmd/MainMenu.aspx
Ships that arrived in South Australia between 1836 and 1851 (60,000 local and overseas families and individual passengers).
http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/fh/passengerlists/BoundforSouthAustralia.htm
A lovely photographic archive of Leeds, Yorkshire. There are guided tours organised by location or theme and prints can be ordered through the website.
http://www.leodis.net/default.aspx
Test new products on this 'lab' site at the National Archives. Users are encouraged to give feedback which will help to determine the future of TNA's website.
http://labs.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wordpress
