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Stop Press 2010 ! !
At the bottom of this page are details and links to:
British
newspapers 1800 - 1900
British Convict Transportation
Registers Database
(over 123,000 convicts sent to Australia between 1787 and
1867).
Since
the 13th
January 2009 our 1911
http://www.1911census.co.uk/.
THE LANCASHIRE ON-LINE PARISH CLERK
http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/indexp.html
THE PARISH CHEST
http://www.parishchest.com/
IRELAND 1911 CENSUS
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/
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below is the personal view of Peter Joslin
Family History Research Web Sites
As things change so quickly on the internet
I cannot vouch for the up-to-date accuracy of all the data below!!
A Google search will find what you are looking for if my link
fails.
www.google.co.uk
www.familysearch.org
This site still has to be top of my 'Favourites' list, and
it's completely
FREE to use.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints web site.
The world-wide I.G.I. & Ancestral Search
is on-line plus the whole catalogue of the Churches holdings.
It lists the research aids that you can purchase (Census CD’s,
UK vital records, microfiche and Pedigrees)
The excellent family history program P.A.F.
software is free to download.
The latest data to be added to the site is the whole of the
1881 census for the British Isles,
the 1881 census for Canada and the 1880 census for
the United States of America,
The site has links to thousands of pedigrees that have been
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http://www.ancestry.com
A
very rich site for researchers with lots of family trees
and message boards for most surnames.
You can get a lot of data free but to go further you will have
to subscribe.
I think it is well worth it for me; so I have been a
subscriber for many years now.
UK records include indexes and pages for the 1901, 1891, 1881,
1871, 1861, 1851 & 1841 census for
England Scotland & Wales. The USA Census from 1930
back to 1790 is also fully indexed.
Some Canadian BMD and the 1911 census are indexed. And
Immigration records
with all the above data it is simple to download an image,
print it or email it to a friend |
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http://www.rootsweb.com
ROOTS. The
Internets first genealogy mailing list and still the largest
and best.
This is massive
FREE site for all people interested in family
history research,
you will have to visit it yourself to see why it's become so
popular
The
Free BMD
section alone has over 180 million names indexed from what was
known as
St. Catherine’s index of Births Marriages & Deaths. the
English & Welsh GRO
All the data has been transcribed by volunteers that love
family history.
http://freebmd.rootsweb.com
you may need to turn off, or reconfigure your computers
firewall. |
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http://www.findmypast.com
This on-line research site has proved very useful to family
historians who don’t have access to the GRO index
(the old St Catherine’s index) of Births Deaths and Marriages
from 1837 to 2004)(This site was 1837online)
You can now buy images of the pages of the Surname, Year and
Quarter that you are interested in.
The latest addition to this great site is the indexed
England & Wales census.
And you can now search for your ancestors in certain
Military Records (WW1, WW2, Boer war etc)
and the FFHS data from the National Burial Index NBI.
Link to 1911 census
This is my highly recommended site and it's easy to use. |
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http://www.britishorigins.com
Specialists in English and Welsh Genealogy, Over 7
million of the Boyds marriage index 1538 - 1840,
Over 67,000 Marriage Allegations, Canterbury and Bank of
England Wills and lots more.....
Pay to View site; The latest addition is the 1841 and 1871
census for England and Wales,
Cambridgeshire, Devon and Gloucestershire, Essex & Suffolk are
the first counties but the rest will follow...
A very worth while site, it's not expensive to join for a
years subscription (£34.50) I am a member
This gem for genealogists is in association with the Society
of Genealogists
www.sog.org.uk |
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http://www.ukbmd.org.uk
This is a site for the future; Family History teams are busy
transcribing registrars original GRO indexes
that are held at register offices in England and Wales, they
are then checked with the original certificates
and corrected when needed, they then add the Christian names,
year of the event and name of the Mother
on the Birth from 1837 onward and the age at Death on the
Death index from 1837 onward.
With Marriage entries you find the exact Spouse and the
Church or Office that the event took place at.
The Births, Deaths and Marriages indexes they are then put
on-line for you to search 'free of charge'.
The Lancashire data is to be found at
http://www.lancashirebmd.org.uk
You can
then print off an application for the certificate in
seconds.
Some counties are well advanced with the project; Cheshire was
the first and set the standard.
when it is complete this will be the definitive GRO Index,
for FREE! |
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http://www.historicaldirectories.org
This is site devoted to old local trade directories in
England and Wales,
the directories are fully searchable and cover a period 1750 -
1919.
This marvellous project by the University of Leicester has
already saved me a lot of leg-work.
Funding was from the National Lottery so you can access and
search the site
FREE of charge. |
http://www.friendsreunited.co.uk
is a
great site and is aimed at reuniting you with friends from the
past hundred years,
your schools, workplaces, neighbours and armed forces friend
are all catered for.
The sister site;
http://www.genesconnected.com
is a
site which gives you a chance to build your family tree (and
keep it confidential)
but the names can be searched by other researches.
The site receives about 40,000 names every day. (membership
about £7) |
http://www.familyrelatives.org
This very friendly and progressive site seems to have been
produced by people who had a passion for
family history not just for making money. It gives more than
it's competitors' and should do very well
Claims to have access to over 300 million records for England
& Wales (Pay to view site) |
www.a2a.org.uk
This
site has access to over 10 million catalogue entries from 408
record offices in England,
a fantastic
FREE
searching aid with a very sophisticated search
engine,
key in a surname or place name and you are in for a surprise,
Documents, Quarter Sessions, Wills, Details of societies and
organisations.
This site is now hosted by the National Archives website |
http://www.documentsonline.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
Public Record Office Wills on-line,
Key in the surname of the person you want and see all the
Canterbury wills that are available,
you are able to down-load up to five wills at a time and the
cost is £3.50 per will.
You need Acrobat Reader to view and print, it's a free
download.
A recent addition is the fully searchable list of Medal Rolls
for all the WW1 servicemen and
a register of RN Seaman 1853-1923 also the Merchant Navy
Seaman of WW2 who qualified for medals |
http://www.familyrecords.gov.uk
This site is free and is a quick route to A2A,
British Library, GWGC, Family Records Centre,
General Register Office of England and Scotland, The Imperial
War Museum, Welsh
and the Scottish and Northern Ireland Archives etc.
Clicking on General Register Office you will be able to order
copies of English and Welsh
certificates of Births, Deaths and Marriages 1837 - 2004 at £
7.00 each on-line by credit card.
(Delivery is about 20 working days at the moment, March
2006)
order direct at
www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/ |
http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/
Containing almost 50 million names, The General Register
Office for Scotland's contract with
Origins.Net for ScotsOrigins service expired 31 Aug 2002
The GRO( S) has instead contracted with Scotland On Line to
create a new "ScotlandsPeople" service,
as "the official online source of parish register, civil
registration and census records for Scotland."
The above site is pay to view and down-load, you can enter the
site and have 24 hours to locate and
down-load a certain amount of data or images. The Scottish
site allows you to search all the
fully indexed 1901, 1891, 1881, 1871, 1861, 1851 census
plus the old parochial Church records 1553 - 1854
Plus their ‘St Catherine’s index’ of Births 1855 -
1905, Marriages 1855 - 1930 & Deaths 1855 -
1955.
This is the site that will host and market our UK 1911
census on the first day of 2012 |
www.1901census.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
A number one site for family history research in the world for
quite some time.
I use the voucher payment system as these stay current for six
months.
The data is free to subscribers of Ancestry.com |
http://genforum.genealogy.com/joslin/
Will
take you directly to the JOSLIN message board,
from this page you will be able to check previous requests for
data on Joslin's. AND post yours!!!
Type on other surnames or other spellings of our surname to
fully check for all messages.
FREE |
http://www.genuki.org.uk
From
this site you can go into any County or Family history
Society,
It has a vast amount of data available, many links to other
societies and research aids.
FREE |
http://www.cwgc.org/
The
Commonwealth War Graves Commission site has been given a face
lift, a data base of over 1.7 million.
Searches for British and Commonwealth war dead from all
conflicts includes civilians war casualties.
FREE |
http://www.genfair.com/
Online Shop for family history, Lots of Family History
Societies are represented on this site,
you can buy microfiche, books, renew subscriptions etc.,
Well worth a visit, the services are mostly by return of post
for thing that you may want to buy.
This good site has now been taken over by the FFHS and you
are connected automatically. |
http://www.ffhs.org.uk
They
have given this site a new look, apart from contacts to all
the member societies,
this site has all the federations publications that are
available,
The federation has launched it's own 'Pay to Download' site
(December 24th 2002)
Berkshire, Birmingham and Midland, Cleveland/North
Yorkshire/South Durham, Cornwall, Glamorganshire,
Leicester and Rutland, Lincolnshire and Wiltshire societies
have agreed to place data into the project.
While it is still a young site, it will, I am sure, provide
interesting data to some of you in Family History in
years to come. It's expanding all the time but you will need a
£5.00 voucher or Credit Card to try:
http://www.familyhistoryonline.net
This is now a part of FindMyPast. They currently hold about 62
million records and growing. |
http://www.ellisislandrecords.org.
Ellis Island passenger lists millions of immigrants entering
the United States,
Searches are free but you have to register but this is again
FREE,
you can download all the records you need or keep them on the
site in your own folder. |
http://www.sog.org.
Visit the the Society of Genealogists and it's on-line
bookshop, also visit the Guild of one name studies, for
the pay to view area for such items as Boyd’s marriage index
which was left to the S.O.G. by Percival Boyd
click
http://www.britishorigins.com
I was a
member of the 'Society of Genealogists' for over ten years and
often visited it's wonderful research
facility at: 14 Charterhouse Buildings, Goswell Road, London
EC1m 7BA, if you ever get the chance to visit
the society you will be amazed at what recourses they have
(the cost to non-members) is £10.00 for 4 hours
It's worth every penny, I just wish I didn't live 250 miles
away (I would still be a member if I lived in London) |
http://www.192.com
UK
Directory for finding people today, Directory enquiries, and
Electoral rolls 2005 etc.
You have to register then you can have a limited access to
parts of the massive database of the UK for free.
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http://www.esfh.org.uk
for JOSLIN'S IN ESSEX
Essex Society for Family History, Details of the
service offered are available at the society's website.
I have been a member of this Society for many years, their
quarterly magazine alone is worth the subscription.
http://www.essexcc.gov.uk
Essex County Council web site then click 'Archives' then
'SEAX' for on line services for family History
The modern search rooms at Chelmsford are second to non (and
the staff are marvellous too) |
http://www.suffolkfhs.co.uk
for JOSLIN'S IN SUFFOLK
The premier family history society covering the whole of
Suffolk
I have been a member of this Society for many years, their
quarterly magazine is worth the subscription.
http://www.suffolk.gov.uk
Suffolk County Record Office at Ipswich, Bury St. Edmunds &
Lowestoft |
http://www.gazette-online.co.uk
The
London, Edinburgh & Belfast Gazettes are the official
newspapers of records in the United Kingdom.
Several legal notices, including insolvency notices, are
required by law to be published in the London,
Belfast and Edinburgh Gazettes.
I located my fathers awards during World War 2, you can search
for events in both world wars. |
http://www.PhotoLondon.org.uk
London's libraries, museums and
archives possess a treasure house of modern and historic
photographs
of London. The photoLondon website exists to
highlight and promote these collections.
The site also provides background information on photography
in London.
You are able to copy old photographs of the area that your
ancestors lived in.
How nice it would be if Essex County Record Office were able
to offer this service.
While on photographs for family history you may find what you
need on
http://www.francisfrith.com/us/
This
is a commercial site and you will need to pay for old photos
from the 'Frith' collection |
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Family
History Software
For over twenty years now
Brother's Keeper (BK5)
has been my preferred family history programme
and I still use the old DOS version in Windows XP every day,
(not on Vista)
when I want a report or display that BK5 can't give me, I will
use my BK5 data in programs like
Family Tree Maker 2006
and
Personal Ancestral File
(PAF).
No one family history programme gives me all the features that
I need on the computer.
Brother's Keeper is Shareware and is free to download
and try for yourself, register later if you like it.
PAF can be downloaded
free of
charge
from the LDS site
http://www.ldscatalog.com/
Family Tree Maker 2006
will cost up to £30.00 depending on the version.
The latest
Brother's
Keeper 6.3
has been released and is on CD ROM.
versions 5 and 6 can also be downloaded from the internet from
John Steeds page
(It can take up to an hour to download the programme depending
on the speed of your modem
as BK6.3 as it's over 7mb)
http://www.bkwin.net
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UK Supplier of Family
History Programs and data disks for your Computer |
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S&N
Genealogy Supplies.
Phone 01722 716180
Susan and Nigel are established as the UK's number one
supplier of genealogical software,
they have a vast stock of programs and data disks for family
historians
Census image sets of CD Rom or DVD disks for all counties of
England and Wales.
http://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/
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Other suppliers can be found
advertising in the excellent monthly
'Family Tree Magazine'
http://www.family-tree.co.uk
and the latest modern "Your FamilyTree" magazine by
future publications
http://www.yourfamilytreemag.co.uk
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The State Library of Queensland has just re-released the
British Convict Transportation Registers Database (over 123,000
convicts
sent to Australia between 1787 and 1867).
The original underlying software has been changed as it did not cope
adequately with the amount of traffic experienced - the new system
is much better equipped to cope with demand.
A new feature of the database is the ability for researchers to post
comments on a chosen convict’s record.
This comment field is a great way for researchers to share their
notes on a convict’s life. http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/info/fh/convicts
To write a comment simply find your convict on the
database,
click on the link under “Don’t have a login?”
and then signup for a “One Search Guest” account.
Example of a comment written:
"Thomas Dowse was born in Hackney, London in 1809. In
1824, at the age of 15 he was convicted at the Old Bailey for theft
and sentenced to death, which was later commuted to transportation
for life.
He spent the next few years onboard English hulks (the Bellerophon
and the Euryalus) awaiting transportation.
In January 1828 he arrived in New South Wales onboard the convict
transport Florentia.
After receiving his pardon he made his way to Moreton Bay.
Between 1862 and 1869 he became Town of Clerk of Brisbane .
Thomas died on 9 November 1885 and is buried in Toowong Cemetery .
Dates of conviction are continuing to be added to
each record - this will be an ongoing project.
SAMPLE FOUND BY Peter Joslin 08/05/2009.
Thomas
Josselyn, one of 176 convicts
transported on the Mary, 28 August 1821. Details: Sentence details:
Convicted at Suffolk, Liberty of Bury St Edmunds Assizes for a term
of life. -- Vessel: Mary. -- Date of Departure: 28 August 1821. --
Place of Arrival: New South Wales. -- Source: Australian Joint
Copying Project. Microfilm Roll
British Newspapers 1800-1900 Online
The following article is from
Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter and is copyright by Richard W.
Eastman.
It is re-published here with the permission of the author.
Information about the newsletter is available at
http://www.eogn.com.
“British Newspapers is a joint effort between the
British Library and Gale, Cengage Learning
to make available digitised versions of key nineteenth-century
British newspapers.
The online collection presently contains several million articles
from forty-nine local and national newspapers.
This database offers online access to a key set of primary sources
for the study of nineteenth-century history.
“For the forty-nine titles selected, every front page, editorial,
birth and death notice,
advertisement and classified ad that appeared within their pages for
the time period available is now accessible from what is a virtual
chronicle of history for this period.
Users of the database are able to search every word on every page.
“The aim was to select a number of London and
regional titles, covering as much of the UK as possible.
London titles include The Morning Chronicle, The Illustrated
Police News and a number of Chartism newspapers. Regional newspapers
include: The Northern Echo, Western Mail, The Newcastle Courant, The
Ipswich Journal, and The Bristol Mercury. In all,
forty-nine titles from the nineteenth century are included. Of those
titles,
The Penny Illustrated Paper and The Graphic
are made available as titles that can be viewed freely without any
subscription.
“To access the millions of articles in this
database,
you will need to first register as a user and then purchase either:
A 24-hour pass for £6.99 that provides you
access to 100 articles over that period.
A 7-day pass for £9.99 that provides you
access to 200 articles over that period.
“You can view complete articles from the Penny
Illustrated Paper and The Graphic free of charge.”
You can find British Newspapers Online at:
http://newspapers.bl.uk/blcs/
and you can find a list of the 49 titles at
http://www.gale.cengage.com/tlist/Blcs_Titles.html.
THE LANCASHIRE ON-LINE PARISH CLERK
http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/indexp.html
The site has a list of parishes in the county of Lancashire at or
around the end of the 19th century.
It is not a complete list of townships or chapelries.
Where a small Rose symbol is seen alongside the name of a
parish,
a web page is available for that parish.
Where there are two Rose symbols, this indicates that some
records for that parish
are also available online.
A link without a Rose symbol is an email link to the OPC responsible
for that parish.
For other counties on this free project click on:
http://www.onlineparishclerks.org.uk/
THE PARISH CHEST
http://www.parishchest.com/
Parish Chest sponsors British Genealogy, a completely FREE
on-line forum and resource website,
so if you have run into a brick wall, pop along to the forum and ask
for some help.
Parish Chest is an Aladdin's Cave bursting with parish registers,
family tree charts,
census records, directories, books and maps, etc.
Just about everything that is needed to help trace your ancestry and
build a family tree.
Direct link to our own:
Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Society to help you research
your Lancashire ancestors.
IRELAND 1911 CENSUS
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/
The household returns and ancillary records for the censuses of
Ireland of 1901 and 1911,
which are in the custody of the National Archives of Ireland,
represent an extremely valuable part of the Irish national heritage.
All thirty-two counties for 1911 are now available on this site.
We have decided to make the material immediately available,
in the knowledge that the vast majority of our users will be able to
find what they want.
Corrections and improvements will be ongoing,
and we are very grateful to all users who have submitted corrections
to us.
1901 Census material, with all data transcribed, will be
launched between early and mid-2010.
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