1. GenUKI – Free site, maintained by volunteers. Features county by county descriptions, directions as to how to research each county, and a variety of websites covering specialized interests. Gazetteers, church databases, societies, etc. are also included.
www.genuki.org.uk = main page, containing Regional Page links, Technical Links, and Quick Links
2. The Genealogist’s Internet – Free site, maintained by Peter Christian. Contains pages of links to sites offering a broad spectrum of subjects, including the National Archives. Updated yearly.
http://spub.co.uk/tgi5/links.php = All links mentioned in Peter Christian’s book are included; some are pay sites, but most are free.
3. RootsChat forum, UK – Very popular free forum for discussing UK genealogy.
http://rootschat.com
4. British History Online Records – free site
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/
5. FreeBMD – UK – Free site, with data from July 1, 1837, when official Registrars took over the duty of recording births, marriages, and deaths. Records of some counties have not been fully transcribed; others are completed.
http://freebmd.org.uk
FreeCEN (a related group). Transcriptions of the 1841 through 1891 censuses; some counties are completely done. (Cornwall has been completed)
http://www.freecen.org.uk/
6. Find My Past – fee based – compilation of UK records, many from transcriptions provided by various County Family History societies. Rapidly growing and evolving site, adding collections including some governmental records; images of original documents. Free at the MGS library and at LDS family history centers.
http://www.findmypast.com
7. Eastman’s Newsletter blog, USA – a free blog relating to all aspects of Genealogy, some of which relate to the UK, but all interesting.
http://blog.eogn.com
8. Newspapers – Free access –
Wales = http://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk/en/
Cornwall= http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wbritonad/
West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser newspaper transcriptions from 1837 to 1858 thusfar; includes BMDs published weekly, all court cases, news of suicides and coroner’s inquests, and “local” news often featuring ordinary people.
British Newspapers Online – fee based –
http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
9. The Peerage Records, UK – free
http://thepeerage.com
10. Forces War Records, UK – pay
http://www.forces-war-records.co.uk
11. The Genealogist records, UK – pay site for a wide selection of records –http://www.thegenealogist.co.uk
12. Commonwealth War Graves Records, UK – free http://www.cwgc.org
13. Genes Reunited, UK – pay –
http://www.genesreunited.co.uk
14. Cyndi’s List – England – free – Has extensive links to various sites relating to UK genealogy and history
http://cyndislist.com
15. Genealogy In Time, free magazine – Canadian, with links to the US and UK
http://www.genealogyintime.com
16. National Archives – to access collections, go to
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI
This is also a way to find a good link to research guides–http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/atoz/
They also have a wonderful course on paleography – the study of Secretarial hand, a type of shorthand used by courts and lawyers for all sorts of records, especially wills, with letters a modern reader would not recognize.
Use Discovery to find what is held in County Offices, as well as the N.A.; includes records of land transactions (including by witnesses), court cases, etc. Very good to excellent descriptions of these documents. Also has wills one can order for online viewing at a nominal cost.
17. BMDindex.co.uk – fee-based site with “complete access to GRO records”
Revised 28 March 2015
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