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
Free searching of 1901 England and Wales census. Pay-per-view to see original image.
http://www.ukcensusonline.com/census/1901.php
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 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
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
History of the British slave trade, research guides and more from the National Archives (UK).
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/slavery
Use this site to search the ACT electoral rolls for 1916, 1917, 1928, 1935, 1943, 1949, 1955, 1959 and 1967.
http://canberraheritageportal.org/default.php
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
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
This website is intended to be the first port of call for anyone thinking about searching for or making contact with birth and adopted relatives or researching an adoption that took place in the UK. Here you can:
•Search for the location of adoption records
•Look for agencies that offer support services in your area
•Learn about your right to make or refuse contact
•Find out about recent changes to the legislation
•Read about searching for and making contact with birth relatives
Information is being added to this site all the time so do keep checking for news and developments.
http://www.adoptionsearchreunion.org.uk/default.htm
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
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
The Albany History Collection houses newspapers, photographs, oral histories and much more. Select Search History Collection for a useful index to articles appearing in the Albany Advertiser.
http://history.albany.wa.gov.au
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
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
Search over 17 million posts on message boards at Ancestry.
http://www.ancestry.com/community
This is the site of the Ulster Historical Foundation. There are indexes to births, marriages and deaths for Antrim and County Down which are free to search and pay-per-view to see the full details. There are more resources such as wills and directories available to members.
http://www.ancestryireland.com/search-irish-genealogy-databases
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
The Anglo Italian Family History Society offers a search facility for the Index of all the records that the Society's volunteers have transcribed. The Index contains approximately 600,000 names extracted from a miscellany of census, birth, baptism, marriage, and death records together with war, military, directories and occupational records. Most of the records are not available on commmercial genealogy sites. More are being added. The service is freely available to Members of the Society. The Society also produces an award-winning journal.
Membership is not expensive.
http://www.anglo-italianfhs.org.uk
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
Digitised reports from the Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives in New Zealand and the Votes and Proceedings. Fully searchable and includes lots of names.
http://atojs.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/atojs
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
Searchable database of births, marriages and deaths contributed by users.
http://www.ausbdm.org
Website dedicated to researching Australian and New Zealand American Civil War veterans. Some descendants have been identified.
http://www.acwv.info
Searchable database of men and women who served in the First Australian Imperial Force 1914-1918. This site gives lots of information on each person including name, address, next of kin, awards, medals, fate etc. and links through to the embarkation lists.
https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/index.html
Resources and advice on researching Australian army history and personnel.
https://www.army.gov.au/our-history
Search for cemeteries throughout Australia and then see their location on Google Maps.
http://www.auscem.com/auscemlist.php
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
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
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
Australian government national database of ships wrecked in Australian waters. You can also search for aircraft, relics and more.
http://www.environment.gov.au/topics/...ustralian-national-shipwreck-database
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
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
Descriptions of over 52,000 records held by the Bank of England Archive. The 'Name search' allows to you see biographical information about key people and organisations associated with the Bank. There are no links to actual documents. The archive does hold files relating to staff.
http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/archive/Pages/default.aspx
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
This searchable database from Bath Record Office has the names of more than 70,000 people who lived in the city of Bath 1603-1990. Copies of original records can then be ordered for a small fee.
http://www.batharchives.co.uk/what_we..._history/bath_ancestors_database.aspx
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
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
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
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
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
Free searchable database of transcriptions of the Belfast 1901 and 1911 censuses.
http://www.belfastfamilyhistory.com/search.php
Searchable archive of the Belfast Gazette which is an official newspaper of record publishing legal and government notices. Useful for obituaries, military appointments and awards, insolvency records etc.
https://www.thegazette.co.uk
This site has information about the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham, England. It includes a free searchable database of burials in two cemeteries dating from the 1830s - Key Hill and Warstone Lane.
http://www.jqrg.org
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
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 Australians who served in the Boer War.
http://www.awm.gov.au/nominalrolls/boer
Brisbane City Council cemeteries and crematoria search page.
https://online.brisbane.qld.gov.au/cemeteries/cemeteries_step1.jsp
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
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
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
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
Search the on-line indexes for summaries of historical birth, marriage, death registrations, and colonial marriage, and baptism records. Please note: registrations available are of limited release dates for British Columbia only.
View and note the necessary index information such as microfilm reel number, registration number, name, in order to access the actual birth, marriage or death registration records.
http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/textual/governmt/vstats/v_events.htm
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
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
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
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
Searchable database of Buckinghamshire casualties from World War One with biographical details and photographs of war memorials, plaques, graves etc.
http://buckinghamshireremembers.org.uk
This collection contains 72,729 issues comprising 603,681 pages and 6,876,356 articles. 1846-2012
The California Digital Newspaper Collection is a project of the Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research (CBSR) at the University of California, Riverside.
http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc
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
Directory of Australian archives. You can also search collections and some material has been digitised.
http://www.collectionsaustralia.net.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
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
Canberra public cemeteries search page.
http://www.canberracemeteries.com.au
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
Searchable database of immigrants entering the United States 1830-1892. This pre-dates the Ellis Island immigration database.
http://www.castlegarden.org
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
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
Searchable database of burials in Nelson in New Zealand's south island.
http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/cemeteries-database-2
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
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
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
This website has a searchable database of burials and memorials at Centennial Park, Adelaide since 1938.
http://www.centennialpark.org
Search for other people's unwanted birth, marriage or death certificates or list your own.
http://www.certificate-exchange.co.uk/index.php
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
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 site has a searchable roll of honour with the names of over 1.7 million men and women who died in Commonwealth forces during the two world wars. The place of burial or commemoration is given. In July 2014 a large number of digitised records relating to deaths, burials and identifications were added to the website.
http://www.cwgc.org
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
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
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
Fully updated guide to researching Western Australian convicts. PDF format. Available on the Friends of Battye website.
http://www.friendsofbattyelibrary.org.au
This index may assist researchers to access medical journals that have been copied as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP).
http://grthom.info/medjour.html
Convict ships, convict tales, pensioner guards and more
http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/convicts/index.html
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 site has searchable databases of transcribed parish registers plus muster rolls, hearth taxes, apprentice indentures and much more.
http://www.cornwall-opc.org
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
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
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
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
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
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
Database of information from cemeteries in the UK. The collection is strongest for Scotland and London but it is worth checking the database coverage regularly. You can do a free search and view the name, date of burial and cemetery. You will need to pay to view more detailed information. Cremation registers are also included.
https://www.deceasedonline.com/servlet/GSDOSearch
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
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
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
Database of over 550 links to Historic Directories of Ireland, available on free and subscription websites, and also includes directories for purchase on CD or download. Sources charging for access, or items for purchase are indicated with a $. Details shown include directory date, title and a direct link to relevant website. Online directories may be available as transcripts, ebooks (pdf, FlipBook etc), images or searchable databases.
http://www.swilson.info/dirdb.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 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
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
