The following websites are some of  my favourites.

 

Absent Voters Lists  http://www.leeds.gov.uk/ Excellent site giving World War 1 Leeds absent voters and their regiments  

 

Acronyms  http://www.oz.net/~markhow/acronym-uk.htm 

 

Appleby one-name study group http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Woods/2434/ 

 

Ancestry http://www.ancestry.com/

 

Architectural Heritage UK http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk  Photographs by the National Monuments Board include cathedrals, castles, stately homes, inns, medieval barns and industrial buildings

 

BDM for Australia  http://www.coraweb.com.au/bdmau.htm

 

Books

http://www.localhistory.co.uk/la/index.htm 

http://www.oz.net/~markhow/library.htm

http://globalgenealogy.com/gazette.htm     Canada's on line gazette

 

British History Online www.british-history.ac.uk

 

Calendars

http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/index.html?year=&country=9

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/easter/   Date calculator

 

Convict listing http://istg.rootswweb.com/index2.html ships and passenger lists

 

Cumbrian Genealogy http://jennylittle.members.beeb.net/index.htm

 

Currency Converter

http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/current/howmuch.html tells you what a sum is worth now, useful for wills, house purchase, clothes etc

 

Deaths  http://dnausers.d-n-a.net/leodis-leeds/Certainty.html There is a really excellent article on deaths and burials in Leeds on Keith Feeney's site.

 

Family History online http://www.familyhistoryonline.net/database/index.shtml

 

Family Search http://www.familysearch.org

 

FreeBMD http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/

 

Genuki http://www.genuki.org.uk/

 

Graves http://www.findagrave.com/

 

Historical Directories http://www.historicaldirectories.org/

 

Lancashire Wills are indexed  http://www.xmission.com/~nelsonb/lws.htm

 

Lancashire http://www.northofthesands.org.uk

 

Leeds http://dnausers.d-n-a.net/leodis-leeds/Certainty.html There is a really excellent article on deaths and burials in Leeds on Keith Feeney's site.

 

LONDON

 

The East of London Family History Society http://www.eolfhs.org.uk/eolintro.htm

 

The National Archives http://www.documentsonline.nationalarchives.gov.uk//

 

UTAH 300,000 burial transcriptions, along with search ability of death certificates.

http://history.utah.gov/research_and_collections/cemeteries/index.html

 

New Zealand and Australia http://fhr.kiwicelts.com/index.php

 

 

Society of Genealogists http://www.sog.org.uk/index.html  

 

Surname Distribution www.spatial-literacy.org/uclnames/surnames.aspx

 

The Victoria Times Colonist (Victoria British Columbia) archives from 1858 - 1910 are now on line and searchable.  http://britishcolonist.ca/

Contains all the issues of the British Colonist (also called The Daily British Colonist, the Daily Colonist, and other variants) from its first issue in 1858 to June of 1910.  

 

Victorian London http://www.victorianlondon.org/frame-maps.htm

 

Wales

Cambrian Index on line http://www.swansea.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=8464

 

War Memorials National Inventory of War Memorials http://www.ukniwm.org.uk/

 

YORK

York Minster Library Art Gallery Building Exhibition Square York YO1 7EW Tel 01904 611 118

http://www.libcat.yorks.ac.uk

 

Borthwick Institute http//:www.york.ac.uk

 

Yorkshire Film Archive http://www.yorkshirefilmarchive.com

 

Yorkshire Dales

My favourite site is Christine Amsden's http://www.dalesgenealogy.com/

 

 

For more about ANY place in the UK go to GENUKI

 

 

 

Admiring my mother's  Baltimore Millennium Quilt, depicting our family tree.

Double click on photos to enlarge.

Census Dates

 

The 1841 census was undertaken on 7 June,

1851 (30 March),

1861 (7 April),

1871 (2 April),

1881 (3 April),

1891 (5 April) and

1901 (31 March.)  

 

The census returns were for all the population as at midnight on those dates.

British History Online is the digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust, it aims to support academic and personal users around the world in their learning, teaching and research.

 

http://www.british-history.ac.uk

http://www.footnote.com

 

CORONERS’ LAW RESOURCE  CORONERS'  RECORDS

 

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New Zealand Index records are available for free, on line searching at http://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.identityservices.govt.nz/home/

 

The search is simple to use and effective. It allows One-Name searching on a surname for the whole of the available time period which begins 01 Jan 1840.

 

In contrast with UK records the New Zealand Index Records give additonal

information:

Birth shows names of both parents.

Death has either Age or Death Date.

Marriages show names of bride and groom.

 

The Devon Wills Project aims to provide a consolidated index of Devon wills, administrations, and inventories. Its goal is to compensate, as far as possible, for the disastrous loss of Devon wills in World War II. The index will include original documents, probate copies, transcripts, and abstracts. Nearly 25,000 of these are already indexed at the project's website, which is well worth a search if your one-name study has a presence in Devon.

 

 http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/DevonWillsProject/

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http://members.shaw.ca/nanaimo.fhs/

 

New Zealand Index records are available for free, on line searching at http://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.identityservices.govt.nz/home/

 

Irish 1911 census site

 http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/about/newcounties.html

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/

 

http://www.davekinggenealogy.co.uk/probate/index.htm#Other

New Zealand records https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/search/

 

An excellent website on Westmorland is by Nancy McLaughlin at

 

http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~enzedders/links.htm

 

This page gives all the local links

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