Electronic version of 'An index to changes of name: under authority of act of Parliament or Royal licence, and including irregular changes ... 1760-1901'. Name changes were also often advertised in the London, Edinburgh or Belfast Gazettes or in the Times newspaper.
http://www.archive.org/details/indextochangesof00philrich
The Institute of Railways Studies at the University of York has useful background information on railways in Britain. Particularly useful are the historical excerpts from the railway press.
http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/irs/irshome/features/features.htm
An online index to deaths, marriages and divorces appearing in newspapers in the Pittsburgh area.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/allegheny/death-index.htm
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
The Pub History Society website has information on researching publican ancestors in the UK from genealogist, Simon Fowler. There are also some images of pubs, arranged by county, on the Defunct Brewery Livery Project pages.
http://www.pubhistory.freeserve.co.uk/phs/howto.htm
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
This site has links to Australian family history sites.
http://www.cohsoft.com.au/afhc
The US National Archives and Records Administration is a great starting point for United States family history research.
http://www.archives.gov/genealogy
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
This register contains information on the nature and location of manuscripts and historical records relating to British history. Search by corporate name, personal name, family name or place name.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/default.asp
This directory offers a comprehensive listing of record repositories throughout Britain.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archon
Website for the National Library of New Zealand which includes an online catalogue, digital content such as newspapers, Index New Zealand which indexes articles in New Zealand newspapers and magazines and more.
http://www.natlib.govt.nz
This site has transcriptions of passenger lists for people arriving in New Zealand 1835-1910.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~shipstonz/shipstonz.html
Online biographies of over 10,000 Australians who have played a significant part in our history.
http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/adbonline.htm
This site has links to digitised newspapers from around the world.
http://icon.crl.edu/digitization.htm#E
This website has a large amount of digitised material including Griffith's Valuation. This was the first full scale valuation of property in Ireland and was published between 1847 and 1864. It can be extremely useful as a census substitute. There are also digitised books arranged by county and subject in the Reading Room.
http://www.askaboutireland.ie
Maine State Archives has a marriage database covering 1892-1966 and 1977-2009 and a death database covering 1960-2009.
http://www.maine.gov/sos/arc
The Western Australian Police Gazettes 1876 to 1900 have been digitised and are available on the State Library of Western Australia website. Use them to research police or convict ancestors.
http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/find/western_australian/police_gazettes
This page has links to online cemetery websites for New Zealand.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~shipstonz/cemeteries.html
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
This wonderful website contains over 3 million names taken from 240,000 manuscripts. The archives include parish records, criminal records, coroners records, hospital and guild records as well as other miscellaneous records such as fire insurance registers, pollbooks, settlement examinations and much more. There is also background historical information on the City of London.
http://www.londonlives.org/index.jsp
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
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 website has a database of 19th Century Photographers and Allied Trades in London 1841-1901. This contains about 9,000 biographical entries of photographic companies and people working in the photographic industry.
http://www.photolondon.org.uk
The Maritime History Archive in Canada holds about 70% of surviving UK crew lists. Search by the official ship number (which can be located in Lloyds Register of Shipping or through the CLIP website) to find where crew lists are held. Copies of those held at the MHA can be ordered for a fee.
http://www.mun.ca/mha/index.php
A list of record offices in England with phone numbers and, in many cases, web addresses.
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/bicentenary/bilinks.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
This website has some beautiful maps of Hampshire ranging from 1575 to the 1800s. There are also some descriptions of the county and an online gazetteer.
http://www.geog.port.ac.uk/webmap/hantsmap/hantsmap/hantsmap.htm
Database of digitised images from the Alexander Turnbull Library, the research library within the National Library of New Zealand.
http://find.natlib.govt.nz/primo_libr...TF&dstmp=1276930544695&fromLogin=true
Website of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists which includes a very useful passenger list database, a first families index and more. Some areas are accessible to members only.
http://www.genealogy.org.nz/default.aspx
This website gives the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints microfilm numbers for parishes in Scotland for births, marriages and deaths and census records. Microfilms can be ordered and viewed at Family History Centres around the world.
http://www.ktb.net/~dwills/scotref/13300-scottishreference.htm
This website provides free transcriptions of the 1841, 1851 and 1861 census for Scotland. Not all counties are included. You can order a photocopy of the original census image for a small fee.
http://www.maxwellancestry.com/census/default.htm
This website has details of some marriages and burials for Scotland as well as a comprehensive list of Scottish surname variants.
http://www.scotsfind.org/index.htm
An expanded and corrected version of a publication from 1898 with passenger arrivals at Port Chalmers, Otago. Most of the ships also carried passengers for other destinations in New Zealand.
http://www.ngaiopress.com/drhocken.htm
Searchable 8 inch to a mile map of London from 1830.
http://www.motco.com/MAP/81003
This site is based on a book published in 1897 which described the cemeteries in London. It is arranged by parish and gives updated information on each cemetery.
http://www.londonburials.co.uk
Chronological list of passenger ships arriving in New Zealand 1839-1905. Part of the Perth Dead Persons' Society website.
http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/shipping/mig-nz4.htm#nz4
Chronological list of passenger ships arriving in Victoria 1839-1862. Part of the Perth Dead Persons' Society.
http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/shipping/mig-vic.htm
Chronological list of passenger ships arriving in South Australia 1836-60 including some passenger lists. Part of the Perth Dead Persons' Society website.
http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/shipping/mig-sa1.htm
Chronological list of passenger ships arriving in Queensland 1840-1914. Part of the Perth Dead Persons' Society website.
http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/shipping/mig-qld5.htm#qld5
Chronological list of passenger ships arriving in New South Wales 1837-1899. Part of the Perth Dead Persons' Society website.
http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/shipping/mig-nsw.htm
This site has a lot of transcribed information mainly on the Boer war and India. There are shipping lists for the Boer war, casualty rolls for the Crimean war plus nominal rolls, medal rolls. army marriages and deaths and more.
http://www.britishmedals.us/kevin/intro.html
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
This website has information on photographers in Britain. Some biographies are freely available but most information requires payment of a small fee. There are also examples of cartes de visite and an index of sitters.
http://www.cartedevisite.co.uk
The National Library of Scotland has made freely available historic maps of Scotland, England and Wales which are copyright free and can be used on websites etc.
http://geo.nls.uk/maps/api
Online catalogue indexing records for Aberdeen city and Aberdeenshire including school records, poor relief, burial registers and more. Copies of original documents can be purchased for a small fee.
http://archives.aberdeencity.gov.uk/D...e.exe?dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Index.tcl
Searchable interactive map of New York with detailed information on individual buildings such as year of construction, size etc.
http://gis.nyc.gov/doitt/nycitymap
This website has details of people who became Mormons and emigrated to the United States. Most are European, especially British, but some are from Australia and New Zealand. Information is taken from immigrants' accounts and passenger lists.
http://lib.byu.edu/mormonmigration
This website has biographical information about notable Australian women.
http://www.womenaustralia.info/index.html
This website has all sorts of interesting snippets. Most transcriptions relate to industrial schools in England and Wales but there are also lists of chimney sweeps, convicts who died on prison hulks and more.
http://www.missing-ancestors.com
Digitised historic Swiss newspapers including Journal de Geneve and Gazette de Lausanne. Text is in French.
http://www.letempsarchives.ch/Default...enter=true&AW=1273226722515&AppName=2
Rookwood Cemetery in Sydney has burials dating from 1867 and has a searchable database. You will need to register first.
http://rookwoodcemetery.com.au
Using Google Maps you can pinpoint locations around the world and see map and satellite views. Street View, often showing photographs of individual houses, is also available for large parts of Australia, the UK, the USA, Japan and some parts of Europe.
http://maps.google.com.au/maps
Wisconsin Historical Society website has oral histories, images, a genealogy index and more. Select Research to see the databases available.
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org
Limerick City Council has digitised a variety of papers relating to Quakers in Limerick from the 18th to the 20th Century including baptisms, marriages and burials.
http://www.limerickcity.ie/Archives/R...SocietyofFriendsQuakersLimerickPapers
View back issues of Ancestry magazine (published in Utah) on Google Books.
http://books.google.com/books/serial/FTgEAAAAMBAJ?rview=1&lr=&sa=N&start=0
Index to the Illustrated London News. Copies of this newspaper are held at the State Library of Western Australia and other major libraries.
http://www.iln.org.uk
Family history networking site with thousands of family trees available.
http://www.myheritage.com
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
This website from the University of Galway has information on landed estates in Connacht 1700-1914.
http://www.landedestates.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/index.jsp
This site has lots of links both to general UK genealogy sites and to sites specific to counties and parishes.
http://www.ukisearch.com
This project will digitise and make freely available over 150,000 wills and related archives from County Durham, Tyne and Wear and Northumberland from the 16th Century to the mid-19th Century. They are not yet available but the project is expected to be completed in 2010.
http://familyrecords.dur.ac.uk/nei/index.htm
Transcriptions of marriage records for the following registration districts in mid-Kent 1754-1911: East Ashford, West Ashford, Cranbrook, Elham, Hollingbourne, Romney Marsh and Tenterden.
http://www.woodchurchancestry.org.uk/midkentmarriages
Union history projects.
http://www.unionhistory.info
This website aims to help family historians to identify the correct union, to discover the role their ancestor played in it, and to find out more about trade union history.
http://www.unionancestors.co.uk
This database includes information on 33,026 immigrants whose names appear in surviving records of the Grosse-Île Quarantine Station between 1832 and 1937.
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/da...s/grosse-ile-immigration/index-e.html
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
This website has digitised photographs of West Sussex from archives, museums and libraries. You can also search the West Sussex Record Office catalogue.
http://www.westsussexpast.org.uk
This site has searchable databases of transcribed parish registers plus muster rolls, hearth taxes, apprentice indentures and much more.
http://www.cornwall-opc.org
Archival film footage from British Pathe. Includes film of celebrities, artists, events from around the world. Has a good search facility.
http://www.britishpathe.com
Offering online tuition in palaeography for historians, genealogists and other researchers who have problems reading manuscript historical records written in Scotland in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.
http://www.scottishhandwriting.com
This website offers guidance in the deciphering of manuscripts and other old documents that were printed in old typefaces or written in old handwriting styles. Languages covered here include English, German, Dutch, Italian, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.
http://script.byu.edu
Has examples and tips to assist you to read different styles of handwriting.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/palaeography
Includes links to many police force websites, museums and police-related historical societies. Several publications are listed as well as the contents pages of the Police History Society Journal.
http://www.policehistorysociety.co.uk
While the contact details are no longer up-to-date, this site gives a good idea of what items are available at various police archives or museums. The guide was originally published by the Police History Society.
http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/history/po...cing/police-archives-guide/index.html
Background information on WW2. Countries involved, people, equipment, battles. Thousands of photographs.
http://ww2db.com/index.php
Comprehensive image library containing a local history and archives database, showcasing streets and buildings from c. 1850 to the present day. Images are being added on a regular basis
http://www.buryimagebank.org.uk
Great Southern Family History Society. South Western Australia. Katanning, Broomhill, Cranbrook, Dumbleyung, Gnowerangup, Kojonup, Tambellup, Nyabing, Wagin, and Woodanilling are included. Indexes to births and marriages from the Great Southern Herald from 1917 - 1930 are available on this site. Also members' interests and research service.
http://members.westnet.com.au/gsfhs
This website has photographs of the plaques in King's Park, Perth, honouring the Western Australian soldiers who died during World War One.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.a...densfamily/Photos/HonourAve/index.htm
Digital archive of newspaper from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
http://www.britishcolonist.ca
Interactive maps of England and some interactive coverage of Great Britain. Includes an overlay for administrative districts.
http://www.magic.gov.uk
Digitised copy of The Newgate Calendar giving details of crimes and trials of many unfortunates.
http://www.exclassics.com/newgate/ngintro.htm
Crime and punishment in England in Victorian times. Includes background information on the society of the time, case studies and a database of some prisoners. Some information on Bedford, Cambridge, Ely and Huntingdon gaols is included.
http://vcp.e2bn.org
Items of interest from a Scottish family historian.
http://professionaldescendant.blogspot.com
The State Museum at Majdanek, Poland, holds documents including prisoner details, memoirs, letters and reports.
http://www.majdanek.pl
The International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen serves victims of Nazi persecutions and their families by documenting their fate through the archives it manages.
http://www.its-arolsen.org/en/homepage/index.html
This website indexes the names of people appearing in wills for Surrey and some other counties. Some of the wills have also been transcribed.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~engsurry
A guide to Polish genealogy with information on the history, culture and geography of Poland. It includes a list of Polish surnames, a gazetteer and more.
http://www.polishroots.com/Home/tabid/37/Default.aspx
Website for the Polish State Archives which includes a database (PRADZIAD) giving the location of the holdings of church and civil registration records.
http://www.archiwa.gov.pl/lang-en/news.html
This site has message boards for a huge variety of topics including individual surnames and countries.
http://genforum.genealogy.com
Genealogical gateway for the Channel Islands with separate pages for each island.
http://genuki.weald.org.uk/CHI
Genealogical gateway for the Isle of Man.
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/iom
Genealogical gateway for England with information for the whole of England as well as pages for each county.
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng
Genealogical gateway for Wales with information for the whole of Wales as well as pages for each county.
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal
Genealogical gateway for Ireland with information for the whole of Ireland as well as pages for each county.
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/irl
Genealogical gateway for Scotland with information for the whole of Scotland as well as pages for each county.
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct
This site indexes passenger ships sailing to Australia and New Zealand up to 1914.
http://www.findboatpics.com
The City of Edmonton Archives has digitised many of their historic photographs.
https://archivesphotos.edmonton.ca/Presto/home/Default.aspx
Lambeth Palace Library is one of England's oldest libraries and has a large collection of material relating to the Anglican church. Go to Digital Resources for an online collection of English and Welsh church plans.
http://www.lambethpalacelibrary.org
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
