Family Records Centre
The Family Records Centre in London provides access to sources for family
history research in England and Wales, including indexes of births, marriages
and deaths, copies of Prerogative Court of Canterbury (PCC) wills 1383-January
1858, census returns, and indexes of legal adoptions since 1927. It is run
jointly by the General Register Office (GRO) and The National Archives (TNA).
http://www.familyrecords.gov.uk/frc/
Familysearch You can search millions of names on this site, which is produced by the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Includes the IGI (International
Genealogical Index), the 1881 British Census, and much more. You can find the
nearest Family History Centre, run by the Church, by clicking the 'Library' tab.
http://www.familysearch.org
Genuki The main gateway site to sources for the UK and Ireland with links to
gateways for worldwide information. An entry point to a vast amount of
information.
http://www.genuki.org.uk
Historical Directories A digital library of eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth century
local and trade directories from England and Wales. This is a project on
progress being carried out by the University of Leicester. http://www.historicaldirectories.org/
Moving Here
Online resources that record and illustrate the migration of Caribbean, Irish,
South Asian and Jewish people to England over the past two centuries. Includes a
'Roots Gallery' giving guides to tracing ancestors.
http://www.movinghere.org.uk
Origins.net
You can search online databases of major records and see results for a small
fee. Origins.net links you to 'English Origins', 'Irish Origins' and 'Scottish
Origins' and also includes 'Origin Search', a specialist search engine which
crawls the web specifically for genealogical information.
http://www.origins.net/
Parish Finder You can find the location of a parish, calculate distances between parishes
and list all parishes within a specified distance of any parish.
http://www.parishfinder.co.uk/
Proceedings of the Old Bailey
A fully searchable digitised collection of all surviving editions of the Old
Bailey Proceedings from 1674 to 1834 (to be completed by spring 2004). This is
'the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever
published, containing accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials held at London's
central criminal court'.The site also includes historical background and
information about associated records (other books and documents about crimes
tried at the Old Bailey).
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org
Public
Record Office Click 'PRO Homepage', then 'Start your research', then click each menu
option here for different aspects of family history information.
http://www.pro.gov.uk
Scottish
Archive Network
Aims to provide a single electronic catalogue to the holdings of more than fifty
Scottish archives. Includes digital resources. For the site's 'Family History
Guide' click 'Research Tools'.
http://www.scan.org.uk/
Society of
Genealogists Details of the society, including access to, and holdings of, its library
(in London), in particular the list of countrywide parish registers held there.
http://www.sog.org.uk
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Click ‘Debt of Honour Register’ for personal and service details and
places of commemoration of the 1.7 million members of the Commonwealth forces
who died in the First and Second World War.
http://www.cwgc.org
Public Record Office: Documents Online:
WW1 Campaign Medals You can now search online the 'Medal Rolls Index', known as the 'Medal
Index Cards (MIC)', for the First World War. Every officer and soldier of the
British Army and Royal Flying Corps who saw active service overseas was entitled
to a campaign medal in the First World War. The medal 'roll' which records these
awards is therefore the most complete listing of those who fought in the war.
The roll is being published online in batches, alphabetically by surname.
Surnames beginning with A and B are available online now. However, cards for
women and for individuals who were 'Mentioned in Despatches' will be available
towards the end of the publication project. Some transcribed information is
available free. For the full information you can pay a small charge to view the
digitised image of the original card. It is recommended that you
click the 'read more...' link on the site for help before starting your search. http://www.documentsonline.pro.gov.uk/
Roll of Honour List of known war memorials in Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and
Huntingdonshire and Peterborough, and searchable databases of many people
recorded on them. Includes photographs. http://www.roll-of-honour.com/
Births, Marriages and Deaths - English and Welsh Register Offices You can order birth, marriage and death certificates from the local register
office at which the birth, marriage or death was registered. This section of the
Genuki site gives the local register office addresses. Certificates cost
slightly less if ordered from the relevant
local office than if ordered by post, telephone or fax from the General
Register Office (but cost the same if ordered online from the GRO with the
index reference numbers). http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/RegOffice/
Family History Online
On-line records compiled by Family History Societies. Indexes (or fuller details
of the entries) for baptisms, marriages, burials, monumental inscriptions, and
census returns. http://www.familyhistoryonline.net/
FamilyRecords.gov.uk: Topics
Topics include 'Adoptions', giving details of where to go for information and
what information is available; 'Births, Marriages and Deaths', giving dates of
civil registration, what details are on certificates, and how to obtain
certificates; and 'Religious Records', giving
details of dates, parish registers, non-conformist registers, Roman Catholic
registers and Jewish records. http://www.familyrecords.gov.uk/topics.htm
Family
Research Link - has reverted to the name 1827online.com. See above.
Familysearch You can search millions of names on this site, which is produced by the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Includes the IGI (International
Genealogical Index), the 1881 British Census, and much more. You can find the
nearest Family History Centre, run by the Church, by clicking the 'Library' tab.
You can find guidance to genealogical records for many countries by clicking the
'Search' tab and then 'Research Guidance' or 'Research Helps'. http://www.familysearch.org
FreeBMD This is a project to add to the Internet the births, marriages and deaths
indexes from 1837, when civil registration began, to 100 years ago. This is a
huge task and at present only a small percentage of the total number of records
are on the site. The project seeks more volunteer transcribers. http://freebmd.rootsweb.com
FreeREG This is a project to provide free Internet searches of baptism, marriage,
and burial records that have been transcribed from parish and non-conformist
church registers in the UK. http://freereg.rootsweb.com/
IGI The IGI (International Genealogical Index), along with other databases, is
available on the Familysearch site. http://www.familysearch.org
UKBMD Gateway site linking to all major births, marriages and deaths site. You can
find sites relating to individual counties and sites with national coverage.
http://www.ukbmd.org.uk
1901 Census The census returns are online on this Public Record Office web site.
Searching the census indexes is free but there is a charge for viewing an image
of a census return or a transcript of details from a return. http://www.census.pro.gov.uk/
Censusfinder Links to free census records online. The UK section includes some street
directories and other records in addition to selected census records. http://www.censusfinder.com/
Family History Online
On-line records compiled by Family History Societies. Indexes (or fuller details
of the entries) for baptisms, marriages, burials, monumental inscriptions, and
census returns. http://www.familyhistoryonline.net/
Borthwick Institute of Historical Research Prerogative Court of York wills before 1858. See the essential general
information on the opening pages thenclick 'Family history research'
then 'Probate Records'. At the end of this page there is also a link to a useful
'Simple guide to probate jurisdiction'. The Prerogative Court of York granted
probate in cases in which the testator had goods in the north of England (the
ecclesiastical province of York) in more than one jurisdiction within a diocese,
or in more than one diocese within the province, or in both the northern and
southern provinces. http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/bihr/
Directory of Probate Registries
Addresses and telephone numbers of registries in England and Wales. Members of
the public can go to any probate registry and request to read a copy of a will
for £5. The new national 'Probate Records Centre' in Birmingham, which now holds
all wills from 1858, will scan the will and send it back to the registry within
one hour of the initial request. http://www.courtservice.gov.uk/cms/3798.htm
Public Record Office: Documents Online: Wills Prerogative Court of Canterbury (PCC) wills, 1384-1858. More than 1 million
are online - you can search for wills and, for a fee, view images online. The
Prerogative Court of Canterbury was the most important of the courts that proved
wills. It dealt with the relatively wealthy individuals living mainly in the
south of England and most of Wales (the area that was originally the
ecclesiastical province of Canterbury). http://www.documentsonline.pro.gov.uk/
