| Personal Sites | |
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| My Virtual Self | A great site with many names and many reference documents online {*Recommended*} :o) |
| Linter.co.uk | Linter and Lintern names, includes census/bmd references. |
| DavidWright.com | Many names, but based around the Wright family tree. |
| DavidLatter.me.uk | Quite a few names if you can work out the navigation! |
| www.bootman.org | Just Bootmans! |
| FREE Search Sites (genuine databases only!) | |
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| FreeBMD | Civil Registration BMD for England and Wales, (1837-1915) [150million+ records. full search. expanding] {*Recommended*} |
| FreeCEN | Census Data, incomplete but growing (1841-1891) [8,500,000 records. full search. patchy but growing]. {coverage} [fully searchable] |
| FreeREG | Parish Registers BMD for England & Wales, [full search. very incomplete, but growing]. |
| IGI | The morman's (LDS) index. It's almost essential for pre 1837 data, accuracy can be questionable at times, always check the references! [1 billion+ records. full search] {*Recommended*} |
| Witness Index Search | Historical trade publications, books, and marriage witnesses [250,000+ records. full search] |
| FamilyRelatives | Free military records, you pay for the rest! [full search] |
| Joiner Marriage Index | A Marriage Database for Northern England (manual search only) |coverage| |
| Original Indexes | Graham Bell's BMD indexes and local info for NE England parishes. |
| Transcriptions UK | William White's 1837 Directory of the West Riding of Yorkshire. [non searchable] |
| Olive Tree | Eclectic collection of US & Canada historic information. Lots of free, searchable data such as passenger lists, but it can get mixed in with pay-per-view data. |
| Utah Census Records | Census records 1850-1880 for Utah. (300,000 records) |
| Census Online | Ok no data itself, but has some decent links to other, mostly free, sites. |
| Obituary Daily Times | US Newpaper obituaries (1.1m+ records, mostly recent) |
| Obituaries on the Web | Canadian newpapers onlne searches |
| Mount Zion Chapel | Search the Mount Zion Chapel Graveyard, Halifax. (6000 names) |
| FREE Exchanges (swap info or get help from others) | |
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| BMD Exchanges | Swap-shops for BMD certificate details. The most up to date links available anywhere. |
| Lookup Exchanges | Volenteers offering free help to look up information for you! The most up to date links available anywhere. |
| Surname Lists | Is your surname already being researched? Contact the researcher here. {*Recommended*} |
| FREE Genealogy Information (general) | |
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| Roots Web | HUGE database of user-contributed family history info. [*Recommended*] |
| Genuki | Charitable, volenteer ran genealogy site, full of info relating to UK & Ireland. |
| Historic English Counties | General information about HISTORICAL counties in England. |
| Modern English Counties | General information about MODERN counties in England. |
| Trade Directories (NE) | Info on available of Northern England trade directories 1772-1977. |
| USGenWeb | Free access to US censuses. |
| Subscription & Pay-To-View Search Sites | |
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| Ancestory | The only place with all UK censuses (1841-1901). BMD records and others also. Subscribe for a year and get unlimited access to info and images. [*Recommended*] |
| Family History Society | Some bmd, some census, some unique. Free search, 8p to view search results. [64m records. full search]. {coverage} |
| FindMyPast | Complete 1837 to 2004 BMD info. Pay-per-view. Some census/war info. This site used to be called 1837 Online.Com |
| 1901 Census Online | Well transcribed pay-per-view 1901 census. |
| The Genealogist | Census & BMD full search, all searches require credits. (10 free credits offer available) |
| Family Tree Sites | |
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| Genes Reunited | Has a great user community for UK & related counties. You'll find matches with other users quite quickly. However, it's limited in functionality so you may find it best to use other software and just import your tree. {*Recommended*} |
| My Trees | Technically, a very good site with loads more functionality than GR. Perhaps better for US rather than UK users. |
| One Family Tee | Totally free, helps you create your own website and search others. A new site without much of a community. |
| One Great Family | Connects your tree directly to others into one huge tree of 190 million people. Beware, you can import GEDCOMs but NOT export. |
| General Genealogy Links | |
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| Cyndi's List | Search 250,000 genealogy sites! {*Recommended*} |
| All Genealogy Sites Directory | Search nearly 5000 genealogy sites! |
| Genealogy Search | A list of the 150 most visited genealogy sites. |
| Genealogy.org | A list of 100's of genealogy sites. |
| Worldwide Top Sites | A list of the 100 most visited genealogy sites. |
| Ultimate Top Sites | A list of the 60 most visited genealogy sites. |
| Top Trees | A list of the 50 hottest genealogy sites. {*Recommended*} |
| Genealogy Acronyms | Various genealogy societies generally refered to with acronyms. |
| FREE Imigration Record Sites (free but limited) | |
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| Olive Tree | Eclectic collection of US & Canada historic information. Lots of free, searchable data such as passenger lists, but it can get mixed in with pay-per-view data. |
| Immigrant Ships | |
| Ships List | |
| Banat Ship Databse | Over 100,000 names |
| Ellis Island | Technically, a very good site with loads more functionality than GR. However it may not provide quite the number of matches with other users. |
| Gen Forum | |
| Mormon Pioneers | 140,000 References |