Berkshire GENUKI site

• Appleford Bishop's Transcripts extracted by Denis.
• Berkshire BMD indexes produced by the county's Family History Societies.
  
• Berkshire Family History Society.
• Berkshire FHS Members Web Sites - Sorry, not currently available.
• Fiche publications (see Oxfordshire below).
• Berkshire Record Office.
• Our picture gallery : St. Mary's Parish Church, Shinfield.
  • Also the villages of East Hagbourne and Ardington, which used to be in the county before boundary changes
• War Graves in Old Reading Cemetery (formerly Reading Remembrance Trust) has information about Reading Men and Woman who lost their lives during the Great War.
• The Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre holds many Berkshire Wills, including those from the Peculiar Court to the Dean and Canons of Windsor, the Dean of Salisbury and the Cons. Sarum Index.
• Nick Hidden has produced about 1,000 will abstracts for Hungerford and Wantage.

Cheshire GENUKI site

• Cheshire BMD indexes - produced by the Family History Society of Cheshire this wonderful facility that is still being developed.
• Cheshire and Chester Archives and Local Studies have the Wills Database Online.(this is no longer searchable on their website, but FndMyPast have copies of Cheshire Wills)
• Cheshire Parish Register Project.
• Cheshire's Tithe Maps Online.
• The Family History Society of Cheshire Excellent range of publications available.
• The North Cheshire Family History Society. They had an excellent range of publications available, but owing to insufficient support the Society has been wound up. It is now part of The Family History Society of Cheshire
• Our Picture Gallery:
  • Bowdon, St. Mary's Church With description of Bowdon from Charles Balshaw's Stranger's Guide & Complete Directory to Altrincham, 1855.
• Cheshire Photographs - Carl's Cam An exceptional site that includes photos of many of the war memorials in Cheshire. With surname and other indexes, so easy to search.

Derbyshire GENUKI site

• The Andrews Pages Picture Gallery : Derbyshire is elsewhere in this website.
• Ashbourne - several pages about the town are in the picture Gallery. Navigate via the Index.
  
  
• Bakewell Old House Museum
• Belper Research explores one or two very particular areas in Belper, and some local families connected to those places. This attractive site also includes numerous parish register and other transcripts.
• Bishops Transcripts - BT's for Derbyshire parishes are held by the Staffordshire Record Office.
• Bonsall - photographs and cards in our Picture Gallery. Here is a selection:
  • St. James Parish Church, Bonsall.
  • The Cross, Bonsall - four postcards (1 of 2 pages).
  • Bonsall, the Water Fountains.
  • Bonsall, Nether Green.
• Bonsall : Kelly's Directory, 1891 : including Upper Town & Slaley.
  • Also see the widely acclaimed Bonsall History Project. The project is aiming to produce a comprehensive history of the village.
• Bygone Industries of the Peak Index to articles first published in the Peak Advertiser.
  
  
• Census Transcripts for NW Derbyshire are available on Liz Sparke's site.
• Chatsworth House: Historic servants and staff (1700-1934). With database of many people who have worked there.
• Chesterfield and District Family History Society
• Clay Cross, Derbyshire - one of several web sites maintained by Neil Wilson. Another is White's Directory (see below).
  
• Clowne Village - old photographs and other village info.
• Cromford, Derbyshire: A collection of 19th century trade directory transcripts.
• Cromford - Friends of the Cromford Canal - Restoring the Historic Waterway.
  
  
• Darley (North Darley) : Darley Dale, Darley Moor, Hackney, Hackney Lane & Two Dales : Kelly's Directory, 1891.
  • Darley Dale : St. Helen's Church.
  • Darley Dale War Memorial. Names and photographs of the memorial.
  • The Romping Lion - The story of the Dakeyne Disc Engine (site no longer available).
    
    
• Derby, Old Photos Of, 1880-1960.
• Derbyshire Ancestral Research Group.
• Derbyshire Archaeological Society, with an On Line index. See List of Journals
• Derbyshire Book Reviews & Summaries: read Julie Bunting's reviews of books about the county on Rosemary Lockie's page.
• Derbyshire Criminal Records, researched by Jean Durbin [broken link].
• https://www.derbyshiredales.gov.uk/ has tourist information from Derbyshire Dales District Council.
• Derbyshire Family History Society, includes application form and publications lists.
• Derbyshire Local Studies Libraries (Derbyshire County Council Leisure & Culture - Libraries):
  • Chesterfield LSL
  • Derby Local Studies & Family History Library (re-located to Riverside Chambers);
  • County Hall LSL at Matlock (Moved, and became a joint service with County Record Office on 12 Feb 2013).
• Derbyshire's Parishes, 1811 - Ann's searchable alphabetical listing, with descriptions of parishes in the county - this page is linked into the GENUKI site for Derbyshire (see above).
  • John Palmer's Derbyshire Place Names Index is a companion to Derbyshire's Parishes, 1811.
• Derbyshire Parish Registers at the Society of Genealogists. Also Derbyshire Marriage Licences.
• Derbyshire Record Office, Matlock (Became a joint service with County Hall LSL on 12 Feb 2013).
• Dethick, Lea and Holloway : Kelly's Directory, 1891.
• Discover Derbyshire and the Peak District is a wonderful resource for those keen on walking. It is non-commercial and based on Discover Derbyshire Supplements published by the Derby Evening Telegraph, written by the site's compiler, Denis Eardley.
  
  
• Funeral Garland at Matlock Church describes an ancient custom that accompanied the burial of a maiden.
  
  
• The Gentleman's Magazine Library, English Topography Part III, Derbyshire - Dorsetshire (1893). A collection of articles submitted to the magazine between 1731 and 1868, varying in both length and subject. Full transcription of Derbyshire.
  
  
• Hadfield Genealogy.
  
  
• Journeys. Mike and Patricia Spencer's journeys around Derbyshire contain a good deal of local history.
  
  
• Kelly's Directory Index, 1891 - originally transcripts of entries for Matlock and a few surrounding parishes, it has now expanded considerably to include a good many Derbyshire parishes.
  
  
• Matlock and Matlock Bath - the complete web site for those interested in genealogy or local history.
  • Peter Aspey describes Matlock Bath's Great Rutland Cavern (The Nestus Mine or Nestor Mine) and the Great Masson Cavern, from his own experience of living at the Heights of Abraham.
• Melbourne Historical Research Group have some interesting information about clearances, market gardeners, etc. You can support them by becoming a patron for a small sum.
• Memorials - A Walk Through Derbyshire's Past - photos of memorials in Derbyshire Churchyards, mostly to the north and east of Matlock. Includes Darley Dale, Ashover, Shirland, Ault Hucknall and North Wingfield. (site not available, Jan 2018)
  
  
• North West Derbyshire Marjorie Ward's site has information, including census transcripts, about Chapel-en-le-Frith, Glossop, New Mills, Mellor and other places in this part of the county. Her site is still available on Rootsweb
  
  
• Old Local History and Mining Site - maintained by Neil Bridgewater.
  
  
• Parish Registers. There are two sources for CDs aimed at Family Historians. They mostly concentrate on different areas of the county:
  • Val Neal's CDs - new copies are no longer available.
  • Ancestral Archives of Derbyshire - some of their CDs are available through Derbyshire Family History Society but their web site is no longer available
• The Pentrich and South Wingfield Revolution Group - there was a good deal of civil unrest in the early part of the nineteenth century. Some 35 Derbyshire men, known as the 'Pentrich Martyrs,' went to trial on 16 Oct 1817 as revolutionaries, including Jeremiah Brandreth.
• Pigot's Directory of Derbyshire, 1835, transcribed by Rosemary Lockie.
• Photographs - Andy Savage's site has over three thousand large photographs of Derby and Derbyshire.
• Photographers & Photographic Studios of Derbyshire, an ongoing study of 19th and early 20th Century Derbyshire studio photographers by Brett Payne
• Photographers, Matlock & Matlock Bath - on this website.
• Probate Records for Derbyshire, Abstracts of, on Rosemary Lockie's GUKUTILS site, are easily searchable by surname.
  • The Matlock Calendars on this site include a few pre 1858 surnames
    
    
• Rosemary Lockie's Wishful Thinking Web Site has a good deal of excellent information about Derbyshire. There is a mass of interesting material for the genealogist and local historian.
• Rowsley (Great Rowsley) : includes Alport and Stanton Woodhouse : Kelly's Directory, 1891.
  • Rowsley Association website - "for the ex-Railwaymen and their families from the area".
    
    
• Shirland : St. Leonard's Church - five photographs (our Derbyshire Picture Gallery).
  • Shirland Parish Church, St. Leonard's interior (our Derbyshire Picture Gallery).
  • Trade Directory extracts of Shirland names.
• South Derbyshire Genealogical Resource Page Brett Payne's excellent site.
• Stanton-in-the-Peak : includes Stanton Lees : Kelly's Directory, 1891.
• Stoney Middleton Rosemary Lockie's extracts of parish records.
  
  
• Tansley : including Matlock Cliff and Lumsdale : Kelly's Directory, 1891.
  • There's more information about Tansley on the village site. The Church Registers are also supposedly available. However, the site about Tansley's Church, formerly maintained by Denys Gaskell, moved to Holy Trinity Church, Tansley and is now difficult to access (June 2022).
• Trusley Estate.
• The Derbyshire Record Society The Society publishes "edited texts, monographs and pamphlets relating to the history of the county".
  
  
• Our Picture Gallery: The Derbyshire section includes an early 20th century picture of Bonsall Cross, images of Ashbourne, Melbourne Church and Steetley Chapel (with descriptions).
  
  
• Wensley (South Darley) : includes Oakerside, Darley Bridge, Cross Green, and Snitterton. Kelly's Directory, 1891.
• Where is it in Derbyshire? Description(s) from "The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland" (1868) Transcribed by Colin Hinson
• White's 1857 Directory of Derbyshire - transcribed by Neil Wilson.
  • Matlock (transcribed by Ann Andrews) is part of The Andrews Pages.
  • Cromford is part of The Andrews Pages.
• Wills for Derbyshire - pre 1858 - can be found at the Staffordshire Record Office.
  (also look under Probate above)
• Wills - The Matlock Calendars are on this site, and also include a growing numbers of pre 1858 surnames
  • Wishful Thinking has provided a helpful transcript of "Calendars of Lichfield Wills and Administrations, 1516-1652", (1892) ed. W.P.W. Phillimore, Index Library, British Record Society, London. But you should be aware that few entries give abode.
    • Recent searches for the web site "UK Books Online and Links", which is where scanned copies of the Calendars of Lichfield Wills and Administrations were originally stored, have failed. However the scans are still available on Eric Youle's site, http://history.youle.info/ (not currently available). They were listed under the 'Sheffield Historical' menu item. When I last looked this was in the LH frame.
• The Wishful Thinking Texts Collection.
• Winster - excellent site maintained by Dawn Scotting (please note that Dawn's site at winster-ancestry.com no longer exists and she has posted her information as a blog).
• Wirksworth John Palmer's site contains virtually all there is to know about the parish. Please note that this site is no longer being updated.
• Wishful Thinking's Derbyshire Index : Memorial Inscriptions, Photos, Book Reviews, Maps, Lichfield Wills (linked above under Wills).
  
  
• Yesterdays - Mike Spencer's amazing collection of information about Derbyshire people, extracted from umpteen sources.

Devon GENUKI site

• Barnstaple.
• White's Devonshire Directory of 1850 Barnstaple, Pilton Parish and part of Bishops Tawton.
• Devon Family History Society.
• Devon Wills Project.
• The Gentleman's Magazine Library, English Topography Part III, Derbyshire - Dorsetshire (1893). A collection of articles submitted to the magazine between 1731 and 1868, varying in both length and subject. Devon extracts have expanded to include more of the towns and villages.
• North Devon Record Office, Barnstaple - in Tuly Street.
• Pigot's Directory, 1830 - Barnstaple, Pilton and neighbourhoods.

Gloucestershire GENUKI site

• Gloucestershire Archives.
• Gloucestershire Family History Society.
• Memorial Inscriptions - Rosemary Lockie's personal collection.
• Our Picture Gallery : Painswick GLS, a Cotswolds town - four photographs and quote from Pigot's Directory of 1844.
• Pigot's 1830 Directory.
• Probate Records.
• The Genealogy of the Cotswolds and Surrounds of England - Allan Taylor has a very extensive web site (site unavailable Jan 2018).

Lancashire GENUKI site

• Burnage - As it used to be - currently unavailable
• John Rylands University Library of Manchester
• Lancashire BMD
• Lancashire Directory, 1858 : Burnage is onsite
• Lancashire Red Rose Collections allows you to search in databases which are provided and maintained by the Reference Departments within Lancashire County Library
• Lancashire Parish Register Society
• Lancashire Record Office and LANCAT
• Lancashire Wills - on-line index, transcribed by the Latter Day Saints
• Manchester City Council's Burial Records - "800,000 records are available relating to Manchester General, Gorton, Philips Park, Blackley and Southern cemeteries"
• Manchester & Lancashire FHS
• OnLine Parish Clerks project for the County of Lancashire
  • Salford
• Salford Hundred Ancestry, Annals and History - Burials at Barton on Irwell Wesleyan Chapel include some LEATHERs and ROGERS. There's also a search facility of the Chronology for the Salford Hundred A.D. 48 - 1886. [Dec 2020 - this link is currently unavailable]
• Salford Local History Library at Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Peel Park, Salford
• Our Picture Gallery :
  • Broughton High School, Salford in 1931
  • Market Street, Manchester
  • The Shambles, Manchester

now part of Powys

Montgomeryshire GENUKI site

• Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society have a range of publications that are continually being added to
• National Library of Wales
• Newtown in the first half of the nineteenth century
• Powys County Archives County Hall, Llandrindod Wells
• Powys Family History Society.
  • In 1999 and 2000 Ann transcribed part of the 1861 census for the District of Newtown, MGY - piece numbers RG9/4247 to RG9/4253 - and these, along with many other publications, are available from the society
• Have a look at the Probate records of Herefordshire, which is adjacent to MGY
• Our Picture Gallery :
  • Mochdre, St. Asaph's parish church
• North Wales BMD indexes
• Mel Locki has transcribed numerous parish registers from across the border e.g. Alberbury and Condover in Shropshire

Nottinghamshire GENUKI site

• Bassetlaw Museum has a fascinating collection of photographs and postcards of their part of Nottinghamshire.
• Beeston
• Nottinghamshire Archives
• Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections, University of Nottingham

Oxfordshire GENUKI site

• FHS Publications on fiche, includes many Berkshire parishes. Excellent range available
• Bodleian Library : scanned images of selected years from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine and Notes and Queries. [Dec 2020 - this link is currently not working]
• Our Picture Gallery : Two villages that were formerly in Berkshire.
  • Ardington - Holy Trinity Church Four photographs, a postcard and a Crimean War hero
  • East Hagbourne & St. Andrew's Church

Shropshire GENUKI site

• Lydbury North Mark George's site (the web mistress has an interest in the Swains who lived there in the 19th century).
• Shropshire parish registers - Mel Lockie's transcripts

Surrey GENUKI site

• The Andrews Pages: Godalming, Surrey now has its own index within this website
  
  
• See Godalming: : A selection of interesting facts about the town
  • The Godalming Murders in 1817
    
    
• Godalming Museum
  • Also see a little about "Jack" Phillips, the wireless operator on the Titanic, who was born in Godalming
  • Read Titanic passenger list
    
    
• Godalming Trust
  
  
• Surrey History Centre, formerly the RO, Guildford Muniment Room and the Guildford LS Library
  
  
• Our Picture Gallery, Godalming section includes:
  • Godalming, SS. Peter & Paul Parish Church and Church House, 1907
  • Godalming, Borough Road and Frith Hill, 1914
  • Godalming, High Street, 1910 - an Edwardian postcard
  • Godalming, The Old Forge, Pound Lane, about 1910
  • Godalming, Railway Station, 1905

Wiltshire GENUKI site

• The Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre holds many Berkshire Wills, including those from the Peculiar Court to the Dean and Canons of Windsor, the Dean of Salisbury and the Cons. Sarum Index
• Wiltshire BMD indexes

Yorkshire GENUKI site

• Yorkshire BMD - produced by the county's Family History Societies are collaborating with the local Registration Services.
• Bradford Family History Society. Although I am not a member, they have some good publications
• Borthwick Institute, York
• Calverley, a repository of genealogical and historical data concerning the villages of Calverley Parish in the West Riding of Yorkshire
• CD ROM versions of old and rare books and modern photographs are produced by Colin Hinson
• Eric Youle Although this link does not seem to be working properly, has some excellent family history reference material for Sheffield and Hallamshire (with a little on Derbyshire). See his Historical Material [Dec 2020 - this link is no longer working]
• Sheffield Indexers. Includes links for Yorkshire | Cheshire | Derbyshire | Durham | Lancashire | Lincolnshire | Nottinghamshire | Westmorland/Cumbria
• Sheffield Records Online
• The Lordship of Tong, parish of Birstall. A brief description of the Yorkshire village, dated 1822, where several of Ann's ancestors lived*
  Also see the Baines Directory entries for the same year
• West Yorkshire Archive Service hold many documents. They also have lists of publications. This is the link for the Bradford Archive Service
• Yorkshire Nonconformists - an indexed register of baptisms, marriages and deaths for Northowram for 1644-1702 and 1702-52 written by Rev Oliver Heywood & T Dickenson*
  *both the above sites are transcripts by Colin Hinson

• Midlands Historical Data helps to preserve old, out of print books and maps by creating digital copies which are available to buy. Anthony Abrahams concentrates on four counties of the West Midlands of the UK - Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, and Worcestershire. There are quarterly/annual subscriptions or pay-as-you-go options.
  • He also includes material from throughout the UK as well as such morsels as several years of "The Gentleman's Magazine" (Derbyshire and Devon extracts are published elsewhere on The Andrews Page. Go to The Gentleman's Magazine Library)
    
    
• Newspapers in the East Midland and East of England >See NEWSPLAN on their menu
  Which newspapers have been preserved and where to find them
  
  
• Picture the Past is a project digitising the photos of Derby City Libraries and Derby Museums, and Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Libraries. The biggest photo resource on Derby and Derbyshire, and one of the biggest such resources in the country.

Sorted alphabetically by title

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• Access to Archives, now Discovery at the National Archives - lists archived documents held across England, dating from the 900s to the present day
• A-Z of British Genealogical Research
• Arms (coats of):
  • College of Arms - Granting of Arms has a little about what qualifies you to be granted arms, though having arms does not necessarily mean an individual was knighted. The power to grant the arms remains with the sovereign of the day.
    
  • Wikipedia - Grant of Arms
    
  • Practical Guide to Petitioning for a Grant of Arms (workshop) Go down to "Heraldic Myths Busted"
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• Baths, Turkish - see The Victorian Turkish Bath Databank Under V below.
• BMD
  • BMD - Find My Past
    Now has more that 1000 years of historical records; the site has changed considerably since first going live as 1937online. Search the ONS indexes of Birth, Marriage and Deaths indexes for England and Wales from 1837 to 2002, as well as British nationals overseas from 1761 to 1994. Also all UK census images, including 1911 and 1921 as well as the 1939 Register, parish registers and a great deal of other genealogy info. Directories, military history, travel, migration, newspapers and social history are all covered. Links to overseas material. Some records are free but you will need to pay a subscription to access most of the record collections on Findmypast.
  • Go to gov.uk/ for post July 1837 English and Welsh birth, marriage, civil partnership, death, adoption and commemorative certificates. You can now order a certificate on line.
• Books
  • Books that are out of print - search for those titles that have eluded you all these years
    • Also try www.booklovers.co.uk/
  • Chapel Books - books and documents for the genealogist and local historian researching England, Wales and Scotland
  • The History Press publish many books about local history
  • Book Restoration - The Otter Bookbinding restores antiquarian books
• Bridgeman Art Library has examples of the work of a variety of artists
• Britain from Above (1919 - 1953) is a wonderful site of aerial photographs
• British Library, Explore the Catalogue - simple searching and ordering of documents from the British Library's extensive collections (the "integrated" Catalogue has been removed from the site)
• British Listed Buildings
• British Red Cross - VAD Nurses (First World War)

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• Calendars Old and New Calendar dates explained
• Census:
  
  • Notes on the 1841 English & Welsh Census, on this website, to help you understand the entries, which were different from those on later census returns
  • Find My Past
  • www.census-online.com. The links page of "Census Online: Your Guide to Online Census Records" which covers most of Great Britain, Canada and the United States
  • 1911 Census, held on 2 April 1911
    • The Instructions to the Enumerators from the 1841 Census
    • A Vision of Britain through Time is an excellent website
      • There is a section on Occupations found in the 1841 census
      • Vision of Britain | Reports of the 1911 Census Summary information from the 1911 Census.
• Churches and Chapels. Where Did your Ancestors go to Church? A Places of Worship Database covering Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Wiltshire and Worcestershire, all in the U.K., provided by Rosemary Lockie.
• Churches and Chapels: Medieval bridge chapels. National Churches Trust. They used to be common in Britain, but very few remain. There is a bridge chapel in Derby and the remains of a one at Cromford, Derbyshire.
• Coal Mining Resource Centre, includes details of mining deaths
• Codes - we list the British Standard County Codes (CCC) for the British Isles. They used to be known as Chapman's Codes as they were drawn up by Colin Chapman
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission - extremely helpful in providing information on those who have died in the two world wars. The war graves include those from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South African and the Indian sub continent. We owe them all a huge debt of gratitude. There are 500 pages of names for the surname Singh, for example.
  • Our Picture Gallery :
    • There are is a section about War Graves, taken on a trip to France & Belgium during the Summer of 1998. Included are photos of Arras, Etaples, Thiepval, The Belfast Tower, the Honlon Cemetery and Dickebusch
• Copyright:
  • Colin Hinson has produced this page on 'Conditions of use for transcribed and other material'. If you use material from web sites you need to be aware of what you can and can't do with it.
  • The Andrews Pages also have our own Conditions of Use which we ask you to respect.
• Crimea Medical Officers Rosemary Lockie's archive, containing transcripts of Returns of Medical Officers, Physicians and Surgeons, &c serving in the Crimea, discovered in the Public Record Office (now the National Archive).
• Cyndi's List of Genealogical Sites on the Internet.
  
  

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• The Domesday Book Online A site designed "to enable visitors to find out the history of the Domesday Book and to give an insight into life at the time of its compilation".
  
  
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• English Coinage. In late September and early October 2022 changes to the coinage in 1696 and what had led up to it suddenly became a talking point, largely because of the UK's new Chancellor of the Exchequer.
  • Monetary Crisis (1690's) & William III's Great Re-coinage of 1696 when King William III's English Government finally decided to replace the hammered silver that had made up most of the coinage in circulation.
  • The Old Bailey Online: Currency, Coinage and the Cost of Living. Pounds, Shillings & Pence, and their Purchasing Power, 1674-1913
  • Gazette Firsts: The history of The Gazette and coinage. The Gazette has been publishing notices relating to new coinage for 350 years.
• English Heritage have placed more than 20,000 previously unseen images on the internet. You can do a simple search by county or place.
  
  
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• Family Tree Magazine
• FamilySearch is maintained by the LDS (this is a new way to search their records)
• Federation of Family History Societies Has details of the National Burials Index and Family History Books
• Find My Past
• FreeBMD "is an ongoing project, the aim of which is to transcribe the Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales, and to provide free Internet access to the transcribed records." (also see BMD above)
• FreeCEN offers access to 19th Century Census Returns
• FreeReg documents historic Parish Registers
  
  
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• GENfair - the Online Family History Fair and Genealogy Bookstore
  GENfair and FFHS Publications Ltd announced some time ago that they'd agreed terms for the purchase of GENfair by FFHS Publications Ltd.
• GENUKI homepage - the starting point for genealogy in the U.K. and Ireland.
  • Genealogy Discussion Groups - mailing lists
  • Surname lists
• The Gillies Archives of plastic surgery is the most complete archive of medical notes from the Great War. The Queen's Hospital, Sidcup, Kent performed plastic surgery of the face between 1917 and 1925, and today's Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup possesses a unique collection of over 2500 case files relating to that era.
• GOONS - Guild of One-Name Studies. Some of our surname interests are listed, including Leather and Stead/Steed(e)

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• Handwriting - The National Archives now offer a tutorial in Palaeography to help decipher old handwriting.
• Historical Directories of England & Wales - part of the University of Leicester Special Collections

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• IGI search via the LDS familysearch (this is the new way to search their records)
  • IGI Batch Numbers
    
    
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• None at present

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• Lewis Topographical Dictionaries - Mel Lockie has transcribed the early 19thC "Topographical Dictionaries" of Samuel Lewis
• London Gazette, includes information from WW1 and WW2
• Lunatic Asylums and Mental Hospitals, Index of English and Welsh - based on a comprehensive survey in 1844, and extended to other asylums.

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• Marriages for runaway couples were sometimes conducted over the anvil at Gretna:
  • Gretna Green Blacksmith's Shop
• Marrying by Licence: Marriage Bonds and Allegations, produced by the Borthwick Institute.
• The Manorial Documents Register (MDR), maintained by HMC on behalf of the Master of the Rolls. A more basic search facility than A2A, with some duplication, but contains additional references for some English counties and for all of Wales
• Medieval Genealogy
  
• Methodist Archives and Research Centre at John Rylands University Library of Manchester.
  • Methodist Ministers and Probationers who have died in the Work is now sorted by letter of surname
    

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• Names - Behind the Names, the etymology and history of first names
• The National Archives : The Public Record Office (PRO) and the Historical Manuscripts Commission (HMC) joined together to form a new organisation - The National Archives (TNA)
  • Discovery - at the National Archives It is now possible to download images of many PCC wills 1670-1858, though not adms at present
  • The Manorial Documents Register (MDR) identifies the location of manorial records. The MDR is partially computerised.
    
• National Portrait Gallery - search the collection by artist, portrait or sitter
• The Age of Nelson - "two new massive and authoritative databases covering the Royal Navy officers who fought in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815, and the seamen and marines who fought at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805."
• Newgate Prison. A list of inmates, victims and those associated with the prison, by Jeff Alvey (his original site does not seem to be available any longer but the executions can still be accessed - see link immediately below.
  • List of Executions from 1606, extracted from 'Haydn's Dictionary of Dates'. These were from Jeff Alvey's website.
• Newspaper Library, Colindale - the library closed after 82 years and the repository was relocated to Boston Spa, Yorkshire. The newspapers Colindale held can be read in the British Library Reading room at St. Pancras.
• Newspapers, Australian: "Digitised Newspapers and more". Try the Advanced search
  
  

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• Occupations and Trades:
  • The GENUKI site has excellent links to several sites, including
    • old occupations explained from the USGenWeb Project
  • The Olive Tree's pages
    
• Old Bailey : The Proceedings of the Old Bailey London 1674 to 1834
• Old Maps (1): https://www.old-maps.co.uk/ This was a wonderful site to find where your ancestors were living in the last century with maps dating from about 1883. From 29 Oct 2021 this service was no longer available, but the link will be left for a short time longer.
• Old maps (2). More old maps can be found on the National Library of Scotland's Old Map collection.
• One Place Studies. Links to research about a town or village, created and maintained by either a single genealogist (who may not live there) or a local history group.
• One Name Studies (see GOONS above)
• Ordnance Survey

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• The Parish Chest You can buy Powys FHS publications over a secure server
• The site to Photographs by Julie Woodhouse, who lived in Tansley, is no longer available. Her work included photographs of landscapes from various parts of the world, including many of Derbyshire, and which are/were commercially available.
• Population: Histpop - The Online Historical Population Reports Website, providing access to hundreds of official documents relating to the history of civil registration and the taking of the censuses.
• Postcards
  • Dating old postcards published by Valentine - see the University of St. Andrews website. Go directly to Valentine photographs and postcards
  • Dating old postcards published by Valentine - very useful resource on the Historic Coventry website. Just type in the card number
  • Dating old postcards published by Frith - a list of the numbers of cards published 1894 - 1940 (url not working)
  • Dating old postcards published by Judge - a list of the numbers of cards published 1921 - 1935 (url not working)
  • Raphael Tuck & Sons A free database of antique postcards published by the company
  • Stamps on Postcards - a guide to dating cards, by Michael Day.
  • University of Aberdeen Photographic Archive - The George Washington Wilson and Co. Photographic Collection (G.W.W. on postcards)
    
• Public Record Office - UK. See National Archives above

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• Registration Districts for births, marriages and deaths in England and Wales after Sept 1837
• The Royal British Legion supports ex servicemen

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• Slang - UK
• Society of Genealogists - including their publications list.
• St Catherine's Marriage Index
• Surname Web - Details of web sites maintained by other genealogists
  
  
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• The Soldier in Later Medieval England. This database "contains the names of soldiers serving the English crown between 1369 and 1453", and is sponsored by the Universities of Southampton and Reading as well as the Henley Business School. You will need to search for surname variants.
  
  
• U
• U.K. Genealogy Archives
• U.K. maps and London Street Map UK
• U.K. - Lewis Topographical Dictionaries, 1831 have been provided by Mel Locki (1831 of England & Scotland, 1837 of Ireland and 1833 of Wales)
  
  
• V
• Vehicle Registration Numbers, U.K.produced by the Chiltern Vehicle Preservation Group. Unfortunately the link does not work.
• Victorian England
• The poor and Gilbert's Act (1782)
• The Victorian Turkish Bath Databank, a not-for-profit educational project in the UK by Malcolm Shifrin

• W
• War Graves - see Commonwealth War Graves above
• Wills
  • (1) General Information. Please see our Matlock Wills Calendar.
    Although it is primarily concerned with Matlock, it has information for anyone wanting to obtain copies of or learn about wills.
    • The GENUKI website also has some information
  • (2) Post 1858 Wills
    GOV.UK, Wills, probate and inheritance Wills and Probate (1858 to present), including those of serving Soldiers (1850-1986), can be purchased through their site. An easy to us search facility is provided. PDF copies are now available for £1.50 each (August 2019).
  • (3) PCC Wills
    It is now possible to download images of many PCC wills 1670-1858, though not adms at present
    Discovery - at the National Archives
    This replaced DocumentsOnline (formerly PRO-Online) and 'allows you online access to The National Archive's collection of digitised public records, including both academic and genealogical sources'.
    
    
• Y
• Yale University 'British art' website

• ANDREWS
  • What's in a name - The Surname Andrews
    Desmond Holden's article from the Peak Advertiser of 27th October 1997
    
    
• BRYAN
  • Dieter Retz - sadly, Dieter passed away in 2019 and his website is no longer available (http://www.retz.net.au/genealogy/)
    BRYAN's from Matlock Bath, DBY.
    His late wife wrote a book which includes them: "My Moreland Family", by Pamela Marion Retz
    
    
• CLAY
  • Kathryn Morano
    Genealogical Pot-pourri for CLAY family in Wirksworth, DBY, ENG
  • Kelly's Directory, 1891 Clay surname extracts from Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Rutland
  • Clays of Derbyshire.
    David Clay's personal research over many years.
    
    
• DARK(E)
  • Frank Bax has two pages on the DARKES
    • DARK(E) Families of Devon - a page of links
    • DARK(E) Family - UK research - information he has been sent
      
      
• EXELL
  • Exall and Exell Surnames Wills Calendar, Navy Joiners and ONS references of EXELL deaths in England and Wales Sep 1837 - Dec 1904. Also Exall deaths Sep 1837 - Dec 1880
    
    
• MOTTRAM
  • Clive MOTTRAM has a page dedicated to his 2Xg grandfather, George Austin MOTTRAM
    
    
• SMITHIES
  • BMD The first four and a half years of Births, Marriages and Deaths registered in England and Wales (Sep 1837 - Dec 1841), Casualties of War and Wills calendar
    
    
• STEAD
  • Stead-Steed ONS The official web site
  • Fulneck Moravian Church, Settlement and Museum - several Steads, in and around Gomersal, Pudsey and Ockbrook, belonged to this church so this History may be of interest. Also of interest are the Moravian Schools, of which two remain in the UK.
    
    
• YARWOOD
  • Boultbee Family History The YARWOODs and a HATTON married into this family