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
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
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
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
Search over 17 million posts on message boards at Ancestry.
http://www.ancestry.com/community
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A Society that is involved with researching the genealogy or family history of people from the German-speaking parts of Europe who have emigrated over the centuries and settled in the United Kingdom. The Society also has Australian members.
http://www.agfhs.org.uk
Searchable database for passenger lists from 1855 onwards. Information has been transcribed by volunteers mostly from records in the State Records Authority of New South Wales.
http://mariners.records.nsw.gov.au
Free searching of nonconformist records 1567-1840 (RG4 and RG5) and pay-per- view for image or full details.
http://www.bmdregisters.co.uk
Searchable database of births, marriages and deaths contributed by users.
http://www.ausbdm.org
History of the British slave trade, research guides and more from the National Archives (UK).
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/slavery
Register on this site and you are then able to search for ancestors in family trees submitted by other members.
http://www.genesreunited.co.uk
Searchable database of historic photographs of England held by the National Monuments Record.
http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/default.aspx
Family history resources for South Africa including passenger lists.
http://www.sagenealogy.co.za
Message board for towns and villages in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Search by surname and village for fellow researchers. Site includes maps and shows villages nearby.
http://www.curiousfox.com
Plenty of information on researching your family tree from the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/library/family_history_tracing
Australian family history search engine. Here you can find links to information on convicts, ships, passenger lists, family trees and more.
http://www.searchwhateveraustralia.com.au
Searchable database of South Australian passenger lists for more than 1,100 ship arrivals 1803-1853.
http://www.familyhistorysa.info/shipping/passengerlists.html
Search and download documents from workhouses and poor law unions across England and Wales. These items are free to download.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/workhouse.asp
A list of Chapman codes for counties in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland as well as country codes. Use Edit - Find to search for a particular code.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~wlsgfhs/ChapmanCodes.htm#Countries
Website for the family history magazines, Family Tree Magazine and Practical Family History. You can search the back issues for subjects and there is also a family history forum, list of surnames being researched and more.
http://family-tree.co.uk/index/index_list.php
This website contains photographs of over 180 Wiltshire churches and thousands of images of gravestones, war memorials etc. All names are searchable.
http://www.oodwooc.co.uk
Free registration enables you to search for other people researching the same ancestors and to view family trees.
http://www.geneanet.org
Searchable database of births 1864-1877, marriages 1864-1930 and deaths 1864-1877 and 1908-1955 in Nova Scotia, Canada.
https://www.novascotiagenealogy.com
A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the the royal families of Europe. Index and search facility.
http://www.thepeerage.com/index.htm
Search by the name of a person or by the name of a public house and county to find details of who was living in pubs throughout England at the time of the 1881 census.
http://www.1881pubs.com
Search three 19th century gazetteers - Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1872), Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1885) and Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887).
http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions/index.jsp
Ulster Ancestry is an Independent Family Research Organisation & genealogy centre. Free access to index to Primary Valuation for Ulster.
http://www.ulsterancestry.com/search.html
Searchable database of migrants who arrived in Western Australia at ports of Fremantle or Albany.
http://welcomewalls.museum.wa.gov.au
Search British First World War medal index cards, British Prisoner of War records, wills from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1384-1858, Royal Navy service records 1873-1923 and more.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline
From this site you can link through to lists of convicts in Tasmania with contact details for people researching them. There are also lists of convict ships, crew and convict guards, convict record abbreviations and more.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~austashs/convicts/con_main.htm
Australian-based general family history site with good Western Australian content. Try text search - name, location, etc. Compiled by contributors.
http://www.genealogics.org/index.php
Family history gateway for Ireland with a separate page for each county. Many county pages include transcriptions of births, marriages and deaths, directories etc. There is also a surname list with names of researchers.
http://www.irelandgenweb.com
Huge searchable database of publicly submitted family trees which contains over 480 million names.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com
The National Library of Wales has quite a lot of online family history content. Select Family History - Search Archival Databases for online indexes to marriage licences 1616-1837, court records 1730-1830, pre-1858 wills and more. Select Digital Mirror for digitised content including maps.
http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php
Searchable database of passenger lists for people leaving British ports 1890-1960. View free results list and pay per view for transcripts or images of passenger list. Part of the Findmypast UK subscription site which is available to use free within the building at the State Library of Western Australia.
http://www.ancestorsonboard.com
Includes online catalogue, various indexes including Somerset wills 1812-1857, research guides, digitised postcards and photographs and more.
http://www.somerset.gov.uk/archives
Transcriptions of parish registers and historical directories for some counties of England and Wales. Searchable database of death and burial information transcribed from gravestones at several South Australian cemeteries.
http://parishmouse.com
Searchable database of 1000s of English and Welsh historical property deeds.
http://www.familychest.co.uk/default.htm
Searchable database of 3,000 British, Irish, Scottish, Welsh and other European volunteers in the South American wars of independence 1810-1890.
http://www.bris.ac.uk/hispanic/latin/research.html
Information on researching your family history from the National Archives of Australia.
http://www.naa.gov.au/services/family-historians/index.aspx
Searchable database of immigrants to the United States commemorated on a wall of honour. They can have arrived in the US through any port.
http://www.wallofhonor.com
Search India Office records including births, baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials for mainly British and European people in India c1600-1949.
http://indiafamily.bl.uk/UI/About.aspx
Website for the family history magazine "Ancestors" published by the National Archives in the UK. You can search back issues of the magazine here.
http://www.ancestorsmagazine.co.uk/index.php
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
Convict ships, convict tales, pensioner guards and more
http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/convicts/index.html
Searchable database of nearly 10,000 convicts transported to the Swan River colony 1850-1868.
http://www.fremantleprison.com.au/Pages/Convict.aspx
Search the catalogue, explore the subject guides, find out what's on and more.
http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au
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
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
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
Search for cemeteries throughout Australia and then see their location on Google Maps.
http://www.auscem.com/auscemlist.php
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
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
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
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
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
Searchable database of over 600,000 soldiers who enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War. Many of the attestation papers have been scanned and give details such as date of birth, birthplace, next of kin, occupation and regimental number. The reverse side of the form includes a physical description.
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/cef/index-e.html
Use this site to find the LDS microfilm batch numbers for the International Genealogical Index. You can check each parish to see which baptism, marriage and burial records have been microfilmed and then search the IGI within that particular microfilm.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hughwallis
The Archives Wales website has an online catalogue of historical resources in 21 archives throughout Wales as well as information on how to go about researching your family history.
http://www.archivesnetworkwales.info
This website is a wonderful resource for those researching ancestors in Western Australia's Avon Valley. Jan James has collected information from burial registers, headstones, funeral directors etc. and you can search the index on this site. You then need to contact her for more information. The site also includes a Gypsy Surname Index of Great Britain.
http://avonvalleycollection.bravehost.com
This wiki is hosted by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and contains user-submitted articles about family history.
https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Main_Page
Searchable database of deeds with many available to purchase either as orginals or transcripts. Most are in England and Wales but there are also deeds available from the rest of Britain and overseas.
http://www.familychest.co.uk
This wonderful website has digitised photographs, drawings, maps, audio and objects relating to Staffordshire's past. You can explore the database by theme, by selecting an area on an interactive map or by doing a text search. You are also able to log in and create your own albums. In addition, there are links to other Staffordshire websites.
http://www.staffspasttrack.org.uk
Information and links for those researching ancestors in South Africa.
http://www.genealogyworld.net/interest.html
This website has a number of different military databases; Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-1919; Army Roll of Honour 1939-45; National Roll 1914-18; De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-24 and Men of the Battle of Waterloo 1815. Register for free searching and pay-per-view for the full record which gives the soldier's regiment, rank, number, date of death and theatre of war.
http://www.military-genealogy.com
This is a social networking site for ex British Merchant Navy seamen which includes a large database of ship images. Select Gallery and you can search by ship name for images of passenger ships, cargo ships, tankers, ferries, container ships and more.
http://www.merchant-navy.net/forum/index.php
This site has over 10,000 searchable passenger lists, mostly for people emigrating from Britain to the United States.
http://immigrantships.net
This site has a lot of information for those with ancestors who were in British India. You can search by name for information transcribed from birth, marriage and death indexes, newspapers, directories, cemetery records and more. There are also images available.
http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/index.php
This is a wonderful resource for researching ancestors who served in the New Zealand military or in an adjunct role such as nursing during the 20th Century. The biographical database has over 120,000 entries, some of which are remarkably detailed. It includes all war dead from 20th Century conflicts as well as some who died subsequently. Family members are able to submit additional content, including photographs.
http://muse.aucklandmuseum.com/databases/Cenotaph/locations.aspx
Research guide from The National Archives on tracing criminals.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ca...ogue/RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=120&j=1
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle was published from 1841-1955 and again from 1960-1963. This website has digitised issues from 1841-1902 and you can search by keyword or browse by publication date.
http://eagle.brooklynpubliclibrary.or...t/Skins/BEagle/Client.asp?Skin=BEagle
This site has online searching of four newspaper titles - the Manchester Guardian, Daily News, News of the World and the Weekly Dispatch. Only limited dates are available.
http://www.uk.olivesoftware.com/Defau...enter=true&AW=1255937295484&AppName=2
This website has a huge amount of information for those doing Jewish family history research. It includes family trees, a holocaust database, research interests and much more.
http://www.jewishgen.org/#
The National Library of Wales has digitised the wills of over 190,000 people. These wills are searchable on their website and free to view. They date from the 14th century through to 1858.
http://cat.llgc.org.uk/cgi-bin/gw/chameleon?skin=profeb&lng=en
This site has links to transcriptions from parish records, directories, lists of people liable for hearth and window tax and more.
http://edenlinks.rootsweb.ancestry.com/1gp/RECORDS/TRANSINDEX.HTM
Dead Reckoning is the definitive guide to family history research in Western Australia. Originally published in 1997, it has now been thoroughly updated and published online. It explains what family history resources are available in the State Library of Western Australia and the State Records Office and includes links to catalogue records and websites.
http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/dead_reckoning
The BBC website has quite a lot of information on Welsh family history research. It includes advice for beginners, information on Welsh naming practices and more.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/history/sites/themes/family.shtml
The BBC website has quite a lot of information on family history research. It includes advice for beginners, historical timelines and more.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/familyhistory
This FamilySearch Research Wiki is full of useful information on how to find births, marriages and deaths in Ireland during the period of civil registration.
https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Ireland_Civil_Registration-_Vital_Records
This website has a searchable database of burials and memorials at Centennial Park, Adelaide since 1938.
http://www.centennialpark.org
This website has a lot of information for the counties of Leitrim and Roscommon including surnames being researched, a townland database, and information from Griffith's Valuation. There is also data transcribed from the 1901 census for the counties of Leitrim, Roscommon, Mayo and Sligo.
http://www.leitrim-roscommon.com/index.shtml
This site has lots of information for those researching Irish ancestry including Irish history, timeline, maps, pages for each county and lots of links.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~fianna/guide/index.html
This pilot project from State Records New South Wales is planning to digitise passenger lists for people arriving in New South Wales during the 19th century. The first to be digitised are the 'Assisted immigrants to New South Wales, 1838-96 and Moreton Bay 1848-59' (NRS 5316). Search using the online indexes and you can then view the digitised passenger list. The microfilm reels are also available in major libraries as part of the Genealogical Research Kit.
http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/state-a...s-and-finding-aids/nrs-lists/nrs-5316
Search for births, marriages and deaths in West Virginia and view scanned images of the original records.
http://www.wvculture.org/vrr
Search thousands of transcriptions for cemeteries in Rhode Island 1647-1900.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rigenweb/cemetery
Choosing 'All - Statewide' directs the search through participating Councils' Graves registers across South Australia.
http://www.berribarmera.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=153
Brisbane City Council cemeteries and crematoria search page.
https://online.brisbane.qld.gov.au/cemeteries/cemeteries_step1.jsp
Searchable database of burial records from the 1850s and cremation records from 1974 for the seven cemeteries in North Shore City.
http://www.northshorecity.govt.nz/cemetery/cemetery_search.asp
