DON'S TOP 30 ENGLISH GENEALOGY WEBSITES
©Copyright 2008 by Donald R. Snow
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WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION TO CLASS
- Instructors are Elder and Sister Donald R. and Diane M. Snow of the England London Mission, London Family History Centre (
snowd@math.byu.edu , dms34@juno.com )
- These notes with active Internet links are posted on the Utah Valley Technology and Genealogy Group website http://uvtagg.org under
Class Outlines , Don's Listings , and
are linked on the London Family History Centre website
http://www.hydeparkfhc.org under Events . Many other class notes for
family history are linked on both sites also.
- This class will discuss and show the links (URL's) to 30 websites that are very helpful for English family history research.
- This list is divided into categories with a few websites listed in two or more categories; many others could
also have been so listed
- Narrowing down the list of websites to 30 is like having to live within a budge and there are lots of others that I would like to have included.
- A dollar sign $ means that the site is commercial and requires payment to use it fully, but frequently the index is free and some FHC's have access to these commercial sites free.
INSTRUCTIONS AND HELPS
PORTALS, GATEWAYS, OR COLLECTIONS OF LINKS
REPOSITORIES AND SEARCHES
DATABASES
- http://www.familysearch.org -- Contains several databases including IGI, some censuses, and the FHLC
- http://www.freebmd.org.uk -- Volunteer effort to index Civil Registration of births, marriages, and deaths
- http://ukbmd.org.uk/ -- UK BMD, links to many county Civil Registration databases
- http://www.genuki.org.uk/ -- Databases and links to many others regarding genealogy in the UK and Ireland
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http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers.htm -- Hugh Wallis' IGI Batch number website, includes UK and Ireland
- http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ -- British History Online - medieval and modern history, many databases, documents, and maps
- http://rootsweb.com/ -- Many databases, family trees, FH lists, websites, message boards
- http://members.aol.com/rprost/passenger.html --
Online passenger lists to and from the UK and elsewhere
- $ http://www.ancestry.co.uk/ -- Censuses, BMD, immigration/emigration, many databases
- $ http://www.findmypast.com/welcome.jsp --
Censuses, BMD, National Burials Index, passenger lists leaving the UK, military records, records of British India
- $
http://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/user/subscriptions.php -- The Genealogist - Censuses, BMD, and other items
- $ http://www.originsnetwork.com/ -- Origins Network for British, Irish, and Scotch records; many databases; free index
MAPS, GAZETTEERS, AND DIRECTORIES
CONCLUSION
- There are many more good websites for English family history research and the section of portals above will
lead you to many.
- Can also find many by Google searches for terms you are interesting in
ASSIGNMENT
- Click on some of these links and see what kinds of things are there.
- Find the distribution of a surname of one of your ancestors in the UK from the website shown under Maps and
Gazetteers. Which counties is it most common in? Which ethnicity?
- Go to http://wiki.familysearch.org and find something
of interest to you for English research.
- Try a Google search for terms like 'London marriage indexes' and see what you find.
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