For Ireland researchers. A collection of digitized maps of Dublin and Ireland, viewable in Google map format, a revised and improved townland database, scans and extracts from a number of directories, a database of Catholic parishes as they were during the mid 1830s, Catholic and civil parish links for over 1,000 parishes, and map coordinates to over to 2,000 churches and chapels. All free to access....
http://www.swilson.info
British and Irish Furniture Makers Online (BIFMO) is a searchable and freely accessible online database, comprising the Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, 1660-1840, and London Joiners’ Company apprenticeship bindings and freedom admissions, 1640-1720. A collaboration between the Furniture History Society (FHS) and the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), the first phase of this project has developed the database thanks to generous funding from the Furniture History Society and its membership. An ongoing project.
https://bifmo.data.history.ac.uk
Provides a great deal of information about land transfers – including images of titles. Follow the link then Scroll down the page to Historical searching and select the video tutorials. They are very helpful.
https://www.sailis.sa.gov.au/home/public
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
Foundation of Eastern European Family History Studies.
Maps, information about changing boundaries, religions, immigration/emigration, etc. Some transcriptions. Encompasses Austro-Hungarian Empire, Polish, Russian, German, Russo-German, Baltic, Hungarian and Jewish Research and more.
http://feefhs.org
Over 30,000 pages of previously unseen diaries from the Second World War – hidden histories of a million wartime women – are available online from the Royal Voluntary Service Archive & Heritage Collection. Handwritten - search by town or county.
These million ordinary women who volunteered for the charity, previously known as the Women’s Voluntary Services (WVS), played a vital role on the Home Front.
https://www.royalvoluntaryservice.org...ce-diaries-of-wartime-women-go-online
Lists of Latin words that are useful for deciphering records. From Familysearch website.
https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Latin_Genealogical_Word_List#I
A searchable table of entries in the WA Biographical Index. Provided by the Western Australian Genealogical Society. The original index is held at the State Library of WA. Be aware that information is from various sources and may not be fully accurate.
https://membership.wags.org.au/member...c-data/878-wabi-wa-biographical-index
Researching Northern Territory history.
http://www.historicalsocietynt.org.au/index.htm
Researching Northern Territory history and family history.
http://www.gsnt.org.au
Gives brief history of suburb or town, latitude and longitude and location on map of places in Queensland.
https://www.dnrm.qld.gov.au/qld/environment/land/place-names/search
Website dedicated to researching Australian and New Zealand American Civil War veterans. Some descendants have been identified.
http://www.acwv.info
Resources and advice on researching Australian army history and personnel.
https://www.army.gov.au/our-history
The Illustrated London News is a subscription site which is available to use for no charge within the State Library of Western Australia building and from home for SLWA members. Search over 150 years (1842-2003) of British and world events in this weekly illustrated newspaper.
http://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=e1001682~S2
The British Newspaper Archive is a subscription site which is available to use for no charge within the State Library of Western Australia (SLWA) building. It consists of millions of pages of digitised historical newspapers from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales held at the British Library. You can register so that you can save searches, create lists and correct text in a similar way to Australia's Trove website. Select parts 1 -5 from the "content set" on the search page to search across all databases.
http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/find/eresources/a2z/B/british_newspaper_archive
19th Century British Library Newspapers is the old name for British Library Newspapers Parts I-V. This is a subscription site which is available to use for no charge within the State Library of Western Australia (SLWA) building and from home for SLWA members. It includes newspaper titles 1800-1900 from all over the UK. Select parts 1 -5 from the "content set" on the search page to search across all databases.
http://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=e1001959~S2
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
The West Australian Digital Archive is a subscription site which is available to use within the State Library building. Search the West Australian newspaper which is reproduced in full colour from July 2004 until yesterday.
http://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=e1001654~S2
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
Searchable database of digital content from New Zealand. Includes newspapers, magazines and journals, letters and diaries and Parliamentary Papers from the 19th and 20th centuries.
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast
Fully updated guide to researching Western Australian convicts. PDF format. Available on the Friends of Battye website.
http://www.friendsofbattyelibrary.org.au
Website of the QARANC Association (Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps). Includes a very useful section on researching British Army nurses.
http://britisharmynurses.com/web/index.html
Family history research by Robert Atkins. Family names include Atkins, Greene, de Castilla, Couper, Broun and Sewell.
http://atkinsgenealogy.id.au
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
Search the UK Hansard reports of debates in Parliament 1803-2005.
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com
Searchable database of burial, cremation and memorial records for Enfield Memorial Park, Cheltenham Cemetery, Smithfield Memorial Park and West Terrace Cemetery in Adelaide. Maps show the location of graves.
http://www.aca.sa.gov.au/Records
Use RecordSearch to find the digitised service records of Australian men and women who served in World War One plus passenger lists, naturalisation records and more.
http://www.naa.gov.au
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
Picture search of Wanneroo collections.
https://wanneroo.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/MSGTRN/PIC/BSEARCH
Founded in 1954 to bring together all those interested in the history of transport, with particular reference to railways and waterways in Britain, its main objects are to promote historical research and to raise the standard of published history. Publications, interest groups and lots of links.
http://www.rchs.org.uk/trial/gwpf.php?wpage=Home
Search for people who are buried at Fremantle, Karrakatta,Pinnaroo,Midland and Guildford cemeteries from 1899 onwards.
http://www.mcb.wa.gov.au
Searchable database of RAAF casualties from WW2 and other conflicts such as the Vietnam war. Photographs are included for some casualties.
http://www.raafdb.com/search.asp
Search for other people's unwanted birth, marriage or death certificates or list your own.
http://www.certificate-exchange.co.uk/index.php
Search historical indexes for births 1853-1914, marriages 1853-1942 and deaths 1853-1988 as well as church baptisms, marriages and burials 1836-1853. Now free to search index - please note that the the Digger CDROMs at the State Library have births to 1920.
http://www.bdm.vic.gov.au/home/family+history/search+your+family+history
The website of the National Railway Museum in York, England has a step-by-step guide to researching your railway ancestors. Under Railway Stories is information on the 20,000 railway workers who died in World War One.
http://www.nrm.org.uk/ResearchAndArchive.aspx
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
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
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
Indexes to the Old Age Pension claim forms for Northern Ireland and Donegal. There is a small charge for ordering documents.
http://www.ireland-genealogy.com
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
CemSearch is a genealogy site designed specifically for people who are "in search of their roots" in a 10 county area in south-central Ontario.
http://cemsearch.ca
Search newspapers available online.
http://news.google.com/newspapers
Includes some wonderful examples of advertising through the years. Browse through themes or search the catalogue.
http://www.hatads.org.uk
An ongoing project to place transcriptions of Australian trials and links to newspaper articles about them online. Interesting background given to the criminal court system in each state. Search under name, year, offence and place.
https://prosecutionproject.griffith.edu.au
This site has lots of information for anyone researching people from the Isle of Man including transcriptions of baptisms, marriages and burials, census records and WWI material.
http://www.imuseum.im/Home.mth
Search over 130,000 digitised images of buildings, archaeology and industry in Scotland. Also includes some building plans and diagrams.
http://www.rcahms.gov.uk
This website contains images from the NLI’s collection of Catholic parish register microfilms. The registers contain records of baptisms and marriages from the majority of Catholic parishes in Ireland and Northern Ireland up to 1880. You may search under a Parish name - or explore via the map.
http://registers.nli.ie
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
Diane Oldman has compiled lots of detailed information about sappers and miners in Western Australia during the 19th century. This site is a work in progress and will continue to grow as more research is done.
http://sappers-minerswa.com
The databases featured and included in the combined search are:
Community Memory - a database of plaques and public memorials throughout the City.
Dublin Directory 1647-1708 - a database of Dubliners compiled from a variety of sources.
Ancient freemen of Dublin (1461 to 1491, and 1564 to 1774) - a database of all those on the who were entered into the Freedom of the City by the City Assembly.
Dublin City Electoral Lists 1908 to 1915 - a database of all those registered to vote in municipal elections.
Dublin City Electoral Lists 1938 to 1964 - a database of all those registered to vote in local elections
Dublin Graveyards Directory - a database with details of all graveyards in the Dublin area.
Cemetery Burial Registers (Clontarf, Drimnagh, and Finglas) - a database of those buried in three now closed cemeteries which are under the control of Dublin City Council.
More databases will be added as they are completed.
http://databases.dublincity.ie
Ulster Ancestry has some bits and pieces to assist your research and a list of the Townlands of Ulster. Also a series of free pages sorted by date and document type.
http://www.ulsterancestry.com/ua-free-pages.php
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
Search the historical indexes online for Queensland births 1829-1915, marriages 1829-1940 and deaths 1829-1985.
https://www.qld.gov.au/law/births-dea...-and-divorces/family-history-research
Lots of resources for researching in Limerick. Digitised indexes, family histories (1769-1925), directories etc.
http://www.limerickcity.ie/Library/LocalStudies
Family history information and advice from Waterford County Council. Links to cemetery and other indexes.
http://www.waterfordcouncil.ie/en/Resident/Research,Family,History
Early Irish birth and marriage indexes. Irish Genealogist (journal) index. Searching is free but full information is available only to members.
http://www.irishancestors.ie
Pay-for-use site. However, after registering you are able to do searches for free.
The Irish Family History Foundation has been the coordinating body for a network of county genealogy centres on the island of Ireland for over twenty five years. The genealogy centres’ databases include parish church records of baptisms, marriages and deaths, census returns and gravestone inscriptions. Millions of these records are searchable online.
http://rootsireland.ie
Use this site for searching indexes and ordering certificates for Northern Ireland.
http://www.nidirect.gov.uk/general-register-office-for-northern-ireland
Theme-based histories and online catalogues of Surrey History Centre. There are searchable indexes.
http://www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk
Has a page detailing available church records and some useful links. Research assistance is available for a fee.
http://www.esfh.org.uk
Archives 1914-1918: during the First World War, 10 million people, servicemen or civilians, were captured and sent to detention camps.
The belligerent countries involved provided lists of prisoners to the ICRC, wich created an index card for each prisoner and detainee. Now, you can search through all 5 million of them.
http://grandeguerre.icrc.org
Includes Roman Catholic and Protestant births, marriages and deaths as well as directories, maps and more. All information is freely available.
http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com
Searchable database of births, marriages and deaths in New Zealand. Information available includes births that occurred at least 100 years ago, stillbirths that occurred at least 50 years ago, marriages that occurred 80 years ago and deaths that occurred at least 50 years ago or the deceased's date of birth was at least 80 years ago.
https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/Home
Information about the Heraldry & Genealogy Society of Canberra Inc. Website includes their online catalogue, a research interests register, a Boer War database and more.
http://www.hagsoc.org.au
Free searching of 1901 England and Wales census. Pay-per-view to see original image.
http://www.ukcensusonline.com/census/1901.php
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
Transcriptions and photographs of gravestones from Jewish cemeteries. Most are in London, with one each in Hampshire, Oxfordshire, Yorkshire and Hong Kong. A lot of additional information on individuals has been included from other sources. This site allows you to find International Genealogical Index(IGI) batch numbers for towns and villages in the British Isles and North America. You can also search the IGI for a surname within a specific town or village.
http://www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org
Information on migration from Wales to various parts of the world through history. Other Wales social history is also explored on this website. Now archived so you will need to search within the site.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/history/sites/themes
Searchable database of churches in England, Scotland, Wales and the Isle of Man.
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/churchdb
Online indexes to Hertfordshire apprentices, deaths, marriages, poor law records and more. Click on Hertfordshire Names Online to search across all databases at once.
http://www.hertsdirect.org/services/l...ulture/heritage1/hals/indexes/indexes
History of the British slave trade including digitised pro-abolition petitions. One for Manchester includes 2,000 names. Unfortunately the search box does not retrieve names on the petitions.
http://ia201120.eu.archive.org/ukparl...e.parliament.uk/slavetrade/index.html
Free searching of passenger lists for people coming into New York.
http://libertyellisfoundation.org/passenger
Searchable database of digitised Australian newspapers. Not yet complete but worth checking regularly as it is being updated all the time. Coverage will eventually be 1803 to 1854.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home
Searchable database of Buckinghamshire casualties from World War One with biographical details and photographs of war memorials, plaques, graves etc.
http://buckinghamshireremembers.org.uk
Home page of the Guild of One-Name Studies with contact details for members who are researching surnames. One-name studies are where members attempt to collect all occurrences of a surname worldwide.
http://one-name.org
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
The Inner Temple Admissions Database provides biographical information about past members of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, one of the four London-based Inns of Court. Members have included courtiers, politicians, writers, adventurers and overseas students, as well as barristers and the judiciary. Select Inner Temple Archives to see what is available including a searchable database of admissions 1547-1920.
http://www.innertemple.org.uk/history/the-archives
Searchable database of births, marriages and deaths from South Tyneside from 1837 onwards. Not yet complete so worth checking regularly.
http://www.southtyneside.info/applications/2/registersearch
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
Detailed guide to Jewish genealogy research on the FamilySearch website.
https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Jewish_Genealogy_Research
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
A (now archived) web site for research resources relating to Caribbean Studies and the history of Black and Asian peoples in the UK.
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/...0110215133617/http://www.casbah.ac.uk
London police - including Middlesex, some of Essex, surrey, Hertfordshire and Kent. History, time-line, photographs, and research tips.
http://content.met.police.uk/Site/history
Using this site you can search for surnames and make contact with other people researching the same name.
http://rsl.rootsweb.ancestry.com
This tool allows you to search and view digitised historical photographs of the UK and Ireland. Starting with the Dixon-Scott collection, which holds more than 14,000 photographs taken in the 1920s-1940s, we will be adding new photographic resources in time. You can search by location and view images for free.
http://labs.nationalarchives.gov.uk/w...ndex.php/2012/04/collections-on-a-map
Website of the London Metropolitan Archives which includes an online catalogue of their holdings. Many of the family history records at LMA have been digitised and are available on the subscription database, Ancestry. This can be searched at many libraries including the State Library of Western Australia.
http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things...ropolitan-archives/Pages/default.aspx
The Returned & Services League of Australia (WA Branch) has digitised copies of their publication, the Listening Post, from December 1921 to December 1959. Each issue is available as a downloadable PDF and is searchable.
http://www.rslwahq.org.au/News/Listening-Post.aspx
Searchable database of Gaelic place names in Scotland. You can search under English or Gaelic name, postcode etc. and also view the place on a modern map.
http://www.gaelicplacenames.org/index.php
Website of the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney. Most of the useful information for family history is under the Collections & Research tab. Try the Research Guides which cover topics such as child migration, convict ships, pictures of ships in the Australian trade and more.
http://www.anmm.gov.au
Search page for Norwegian newspapers at the National Library of Norway. Right-click on page and select "translate to english". Newspapers will be in Norwegian, of course.
http://www.nb.no/nbsok/search.nbdigital?lang=no
Searchable database of places throughout Australia. Gives latitude and longitude and shows location on map.
http://www.ga.gov.au/place-names
Searchable database of place names in New South Wales giving brief description and latitude and longitude.
http://www.gnb.nsw.gov.au/place_naming/placename_search
Geographical information including State Gazetteer, Suburbs and Rural Localities List and related information for South Australia.
https://www.sa.gov.au/topics/housing-...ad-and-place-names/place-names-search
Brief history of names of streets, suburbs, parks and other places of interest in the Australian Capital Territory.
http://www.planning.act.gov.au/tools_resources/place_search
Online searching of the cemetery and crematorium records of Ashhurst Cemetery, Kelvin Grove Cemetery and Terrace End Cemetery in Palmerston North.
http://www.pncc.govt.nz/services/onli...ervices/cemetery-and-cremation-search
Search the Libraries and Archives catalogue of the National Archives of Singapore for photographs, oral histories, maps, manuscripts and more.
http://search.nlb.gov.sg
The original aim of The War Graves Photographic Project was to photograph every war grave, individual memorial, Ministry of Defence grave, and family memorial of serving military personnel from WWI to the present day. However, due to its popularity we have now extended our remit to cover all nationalities and military conflicts and make these available within a searchable database.
http://twgpp.org
Study of the membership of the English convents in exile. Database may be searched by the name of the nun (both her name in religion and her surname) and name of convent.
http://wwtn.history.qmul.ac.uk
Searchable database of officer cadets who attended the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. Coverage dates for RMA Woolwich are 1790-1793, 1799-1805 and 1820-1939. Coverage dates for RMC Sandhurst are 1800-1946. There are also some staff registers. Brief details are given and the digitised image from the register can be downloaded for a small fee.
http://archive.sandhurstcollection.co.uk
