UK Genealogy - Useful Web Links for Family History in England

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Useful Genealogical WebLinks for Family History in UK

Old Historic Maps (not now free)	Down-Loadable Maps from the Victorian era, for most Towns & Villages.
Old Clinical names & Disease	Ever growing list of archaic names & terminology for illness & disease
Value of Old Money	Want to know what our ancestors wage was worth? and what it would buy?
Old Trades & Occupations	Jobs, Professions & Rank found in old documents
Old but simple Latin meaning	useful Latin phrase translation for Wills, Parish & Manorial documents
UK History by Month / Day What Happened on this Day?	Lots of UK history for each day, only go here if you have time to spare ! Historical facts about days in the past. Sorry this site appears to be closed
CommonWealth War Graves	Have you checked for all your missing names? Lost in wars last century.
Family Tree Magazine WebSite	Has an index to help you find that faintly remembered story in your old mags
Familia Organisation British Library British Library -Online National Library Ireland National Library Scotland Welsh National Library	Lists of useful information about U.K. Libraries and their holdings British Library entry page View facsimiles of selected old newspapers (growing collection) free for now As it says - Irish National Library Scottish National Library Welsh Library website
FreeBMD	As the name says - Free info on GRO Birth, Marriage & Death index
FreeREG	Similar to above - Free info from Parish & non-conformist Registers.
COCP Cornwall Online Census Project	Excellent site run by volunteers, has 1841 1851 1861 1871 1891 census details for Cornwall & Devon borders (1841 & 1891 complete, other years progressing nicely) now starting 1901 census - please volunteer to transcribe
Free Trade Directories	Trade directories for most counties, such as Kelly's & Pigot's FREE online at Leicester University, with search engine & page print facility. Well done LU, this is how the public should receive old & out of copyright information, free - not copied to a CD and charged £30 for each directory.
Dating Old Photographs Dating Old Photographers	How to date Old Photographs, with working example images. Find which Photographer worked which Town and when, growing list.
Ships Lost to Storm or War Memorials of "Lost at Sea" National Maritime Museum Mariners List	A giant list of Lost Ships, with where when & how. Lost an ancestor at sea? A List & Info of Memorials around the world to those Lost at Sea. "The Research Centre" at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK Masters, Mariners & Seamen - Did your family go to Sea? Excellent site.
Access to Archives A2A Historical Manuscripts Archon Manorial Documents Register National Archivist Documents Online PRO GRO BMD Index 1837 online Wills Online PRO	P.R.O. section has ever growing list of searchable documents. Brilliant! An improving archive from the Historical Manuscripts Commission Partly Online (growing) plus location of other manorial records. Private company, Pay per View site with some PRO records but growing. Government PRO site, bit pricey, growing list of PRO categories. No useful info for free, difficult to search, pricey. wait for FreeBMD to complete? This part of Documents Online now has over 1 million WILLS
Baptist Historical Society Baptist History & Heritage Congregational History Methodist Information Site Quaker Genealogy Resources Quaker Family History Society	No online sources, but info on where to find Registers etc. Assorted printed sources and archives at Oxford. Some History, plus links to other congregationalist sites. Methodist ancestor? You should visit this site. Information about access to Quaker records & registers : limited Research Guide & Location of records
Hospital Records Workhouse & Poorlaw Info	Guide to available Hospital records Massive site full of information on Workhouses & the poor law
East Yorkshire FHS Cornwall FHS Nigel J Ellis's WebSite	Some very useful sites for my own Genealogys location.

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