Search page for Fawkner Memorial Park, Northern Memorial Park and Coburg Pine Ridge Cemeteries.
http://www.fcmp.com.au
This website is definitely worth visiting for anyone researching Manchester ancestors. It has a lot of detailed information about historical sources and events in the Manchester area and includes some transcriptions.
http://www.manchester-family-history-research.co.uk/index.html
This is the website for the Australian Family Tree Connections journal. It has details of surnames being researched, postings about missing ancestors and more.
http://www.aftc.com.au
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 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
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
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
This site has searchable databases of transcribed parish registers plus muster rolls, hearth taxes, apprentice indentures and much more.
http://www.cornwall-opc.org
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 lots of links both to general UK genealogy sites and to sites specific to counties and parishes.
http://www.ukisearch.com
Wisconsin Historical Society website has oral histories, images, a genealogy index and more. Select Research to see the databases available.
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org
Rookwood Cemetery in Sydney has burials dating from 1867 and has a searchable database. You will need to register first.
http://rookwoodcemetery.com.au
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
Searchable 8 inch to a mile map of London from 1830.
http://www.motco.com/MAP/81003
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
The US National Archives and Records Administration is a great starting point for United States family history research.
http://www.archives.gov/genealogy
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
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
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
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 pages on all aspects of Irish family history research including migration, workhouses, censuses and census substitutes etc.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~fianna/guide
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
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
A guide from the FamilySearch wiki on preserving digital records.
https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Whit...Your_Family_History_Records_Digitally
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 offers enhanced searching of a range of different online databases. There are also translating tools and resources on the holocaust.
http://stevemorse.org
A wonderful resource for researching your ancestors in the United States. Part of the World GenWeb Project.
http://www.usgenweb.org
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
Some useful resources for anyone researching ancestors associated with whaling.
http://www.explorenorth.com/whalers/index.html
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
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
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
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
Free searching of the Guardian newspaper archive from 1899 to 1999.
http://century.guardian.co.uk
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
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
Search a wide range of historical texts.
http://books.google.com.au/bkshp?hl=en&tab=wp
Directory of Australian archives. You can also search collections and some material has been digitised.
http://www.collectionsaustralia.net.au
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
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
Searchable database of burials in Nelson in New Zealand's south island.
http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/cemeteries-database-2
A new search tool available on the Guild of One-Name Studies site which allows you to track down where an Anglican wedding took place in England or Wales using the General Register Office index reference. This project is quite new so results are best for areas in the East End of London, especially Stepney, Mile End, St George in the East, Whitechapel and Shoreditch.
http://www.marriage-locator.co.uk
Searchable databases from the national Archives of South Africa
http://www.national.archsrch.gov.za/sm300cv/smws/sm300dl
Searchable name indexes for prisoners, police, wills, apprentices, workhouse records and more from the Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent Archive Service. Free searching with the option to purchase transcripts.
http://www.staffsnameindexes.org.uk/StartPage.aspx?
Search catalogues of libraries, museums and archives across the county of Norfolk.
http://www.noah.norfolk.gov.uk
This website has information on the nearly 2000 convicts transported between 1788 and 1868 to Australia, Gibralta and Bermuda. It includes a searchable convict database and gives information about the whereabouts of trials.
http://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/convictssearch.aspx
An easy way of searching for your ancestors using Google. It works best if you add the name of someone else associated with the person such as a spouse.
http://randymajors.com/p/ancestorsearch.html
Melbourne General Cemetery, Springvale Botanical Cemetery, St. Kilda Cemetery and Necropolis.
http://www.deceasedsearch.com/index.php
This link searches the four Cemeteries operated by Millingtons – Cornelian Bay, Kingston Regional, East Risdon and Cambridge. Pontville Catholic Cemetery will be added to the database in the coming months.
http://www.millingtons.com.au
Name search available.
http://www.launceston.tas.gov.au/lcc/index.php?c=30&burial_record=1051706
If your deceased relative was a Barnardo’s boy or girl, whether in the UK or as part of migrations to Australia or Canada, this service is available. It is quite expensive, but monies raised support Barnardo's charities.
http://www.barnardos.org.uk/what_we_d...re/history/family_history_service.htm
Lists "missing" ancestors last known to have gone off to the goldrushes in California. Includes contact details for researchers.
Includes many helpful links to Californian genealogy sites.
http://www.californiagenealogy.org/goldrush
Links and some in-house indexes to sources of German genealogy. Much of content relates to United States but many general sites for German research are included.
http://www.germanroots.com/index.html
Website listing individuals from Shetland and their descendants, including some from Australia. Encourages researchers to share their Shetland trees.
http://www.bayanne.info/Shetland
This excellent site is a wiki which has been set up to collect and share information about Jersey's people, places and heritage. There is lots of information on the history and culture of Jersey. Select the Family research section to find family trees and much more.
http://www.guernsey-society.org.uk/donkipedia/index.php5?title=Jerripedia
Select Online Catalogues & Databases to search the various indexes such as the Victuallers Database, Tithe Apportionments and the Calendars of Prisoners. Many of Warwickshire's parish records are now available on Ancestry.
http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/cro
Digital copies of this journal are available free 1981-2007 and are searchable.
http://collections.carli.illinois.edu...4/index_aug_sag.php?CISOROOT=/aug_sag
Search for marriages in Western Australia 1906-1965 under either husband's or wife's name. This is a project of the Perth Dead Persons Society
http://www.wamarriage.info
Free searchable database of transcriptions of the Belfast 1901 and 1911 censuses.
http://www.belfastfamilyhistory.com/search.php
Search burial records for the following Belfast cemeteries; Belfast City Cemetery 1869-, Roselawn Cemetery 1954- and Dundonald Cemetery 1905-.
http://www.belfastcity.gov.uk/burialrecords/index.asp
This website from the Irish Family History Foundation includes a searchable database where you can search over 18 million Irish parish register transcriptions. Register first and searching is free but you will need to pay to see the full record. Please note that not all counties are covered.
http://www.rootsireland.ie
A range of in-depth research guides to the collections held at The National Archives in Kew, Surrey.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/research-guide-listing.htm
Website of The National Archives for the UK. Search their catalogue, read their research guides, order online material through Documents Online, listen to podcasts and more.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
This detailed website is full of information about military nursing during the two world wars. It includes a section on how to research a nurse, lists the recipients of medals, lists hospitals in the UK and more. There is also the World War One diary of the matron-in-chief of the British Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders.
http://www.scarletfinders.co.uk
This Australian site has podcasts giving advice on genealogy research.
http://geniesdownunder.com.au/index.html
The Webster Signature Database, a repository for information about people who made and signed scientific instruments preserved in collections worldwide.
http://historydb.adlerplanetarium.org/signatures
Searchable database of famous graves plus millions of other graves submitted by contributors worldwide.
http://www.findagrave.com/index.html
Add your family tree to TreeView on the Genealogist.co.uk site. This is free to use once you register, whether or not you have a subscription. You need an invitation to search other users' trees.
http://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/nameindex/start_tree.php
A searchable database of advertisements placed in the Boston Pilot newspaper for missing friends and relatives who had emigrated from Ireland to the United States 1831-1921. There are over 37,000 records and many of them give details of place of origin and other family members.
http://infowanted.bc.edu
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 website is a wonderful guide to researching Irish family history with very clear explanations of the various topics and lots of useful links. The author, Claire Santry, also has a blog accessible from the site.
http://www.irish-genealogy-toolkit.com/index.html
Search Western Australian Births 1841-1932, Marriages 1841-1936 and Deaths 1841-1971.
http://www.bdm.dotag.wa.gov.au/_apps/pioneersindex/default.aspx
This site helps you to make contact with other family historians who are researching the same ancestors by finding matches using census data. The following censuses are included:- England and Wales 1841, 1881 and 1911, Ireland 1911, Scotland 1881, United States 1880 and Canada 1881.
http://www.lostcousins.com
The State Records Office of Western Australia's website has information about its archives for family historians and you can also search the online catalogue, AEON (Archives Explored Online). Wills have been indexed in their catalogue and there is a large collection of digitised maps.
http://www.sro.wa.gov.au
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
The most popular search engine available. Try adding ~genealogy to your search to limit it to results relating to family history.
http://www.google.com.au
British Society. Has news, information, education classes, FAQs and referrals to professional researchers. Some unique online databases available for members. See:
http://www.sog.org.uk/online/datsets.pdfhttp://www.societyofgenealogists.com
This website has contact details for family history societies throughout Scotland. You can also search across all the full member societies websites by surname or topic.
http://www.safhs.org.uk/index.asp
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
Allows searching of many indexed records by County.
http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/search.htm
Network of Archives and Libraries of the Catholic Church.
This online catalogue allows you to search for information about the archives and manuscripts held at:
Scottish Catholic Archives
Diocese of Westminster Archives
Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales
Royals Scots College, Spain
Royal English College, Spain
Society of Jesus, British Provincial Archives
The Archives do include church registers.
http://archives.catholic-heritage.net/default.aspx
The Roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London was first published in 1861.
The College has a near-complete collection of obituaries, making it a valuable biographical resource for those interested in medical and social history, and for family historians.
Selected historical entries, as well as Volume XII can be read freely online, and a searchable index to all printed entries is also available.
http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk
Online index allows searching for burials over three cemeteries. You can then purchase a copy of the burial record as long as the burial was at least 75 years ago. Information may include date of death, cause of death and address.
http://www.belfastcity.gov.uk/burialrecords/search.asp
