England & Wales – Links

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ENGLAND AND WALES GENEALOGY WEBSITES

FreeBMD Project, free Civil Registration index information for England and Wales, 1837-1983. Not complete; ongoing indexing: http://freebmd.rootsweb.com

UK Online Parish Clerks projects, so far covering Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Essex, Hampshire, Lancashire, Somerset, Sussex, Warwickshire, Wiltshire: http://www.onlineparishclerks.org.uk

General Register Office (GRO), Life Event registration information, Directgov: http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Governmentcitizensandrights/Registeringlifeevents/index.htm
To order GRO certificates on-line: http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates

England and Wales Birth Certificate Information, details and history for certificate headings, etc. Barbara Dixon: http://www.dixons.clara.co.uk/Certificates/indexbd.htm

Historical Directories, England and Wales. http://www.historicaldirectories.org/

Selected Commercial (pay) Genealogy Sites for England and Wales. Some of these sites may include information for Ireland and Scotland as well. Some may include free information and free searches.

Connected Histories, search through a number of website holdings including  British History Online, British Museum Images, Charles Booth Archive, Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540-1835, Convict Transportation Registers Database,  House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, John Foxe’s The Acts and Monuments Online,  John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera, John Strype’s Survey of London Online,  London Lives 1690-1800, Nineteenth Century British Pamphlets, Origins.net,  The Proceedings of the Old Bailey Online, 1674-1913. Incudes research guides including one for Family History:  http://www.connectedhistories.org

One-Step Webpages, Stephen P. Morse, search tool for 1841-1901 UK census: http://stevemorse.org

The Old Bailey Online, 1674-1913: http://www.oldbaileyonline.org

Executions in England from 1606:http://www.fred.net/jefalvey/execute.html

Roy Stockdill’s ‘Famous Family Trees’ blog, Find My Past: http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/category/famous-family-trees

British Record Society, publication of indexes to hearth taxes, probate: http://www.britishrecordsociety.org

Hearth Taxes Online: http://www.hearthtax.org.uk/index.html

Introduction to Manorial Records: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ManuscriptsandSpecialCollections/ResearchGuidance/Manorial/Introduction.aspx

The Manorial Documents Register, The National Archives of the UK (TNA): http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/mdr/default.htm

ENGLISH and WELSH PLACES

Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516, outlines 2,400 places, 2,600 markets, 3,000 fairs, indexes of persons and institutions involved. Centre for Metropolitan History: http://www.history.ac.uk/cmh/gaz/gazweb2.html

Cotswolds parish churches, genealogy and researchers’ interests:http://members.shaw.ca/panthers1/tayfam.html

Colne Valley (Huddersfield area), Yorkshire, Steve Whitwam’s Family History site: http://www.whitwam.freeserve.co.uk/intro.htm

Bradford World War I, Yorkshire, includes a name index from many sources, including newspapers, but also council minutes, or employment (including police) or relief records. Kathryn Hughes: http://www.bradfordww1.co.uk

LONDON -

London, genealogical resources, GENUKI: http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/genuki/LND/

LondonRoll or ROLLCO, records of Apprentices and Freemen in the City of London Livery Companies, 1400 – 1900: http://www.londonroll.org

London Surname List, Hugh Winters: http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/london.html

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