Genealogy Links
1837online.com - Part of an independently owned business that provides access to the UK birth, marriage and death indexes over the Internet.
ancestry.co.uk - maintains an extensive archive of UK records including England and Wales Census records along with civil, ecclesiastical and emigration records.
ancestry.com - US Census records, US BMD, immigration and obituary records.
The British Library - has records of the British Administration in India and the Far East as well as a huge newspaper collection.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Here details can be found of all the Commonwealth soldiers who have died in the First and Second World Wars. Search the Debt of Honour Register.
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet - An excellent directory of genealogical links.
Digital Library of Historical Directories - a digital library of eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth century local and trade directories from England and Wales.
FamilySearch IGI Internet Genealogy Service - the IGI online.
Family Records Centre (FRC) - The FRC provides access to some of the most important sources for family history research in England and Wales, including births, marriages and deaths and census returns.
The Federation of Family History Societies - can put you in touch with a group in the area you are researching.
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.
FreeCEN - aims to provide free Internet access to a searchable database of the 19th century UK census returns.
FreeREG - aims to provide free Internet searches of baptism, marriage, and burial records, which have been extracted from parish registers and non-conformist church records in the UK.
GENDEX - WWW Genealogical Index - The Genealogical Data Exchange.
The General Register Office for Scotland - The official government source of genealogical data for Scotland.
The General Register Office, Ireland - Records for the whole of Ireland before 1921 and for the Republic from 1922.
The General Register Office, Northern Ireland - Records for Northern Ireland after 1922.
GENUKI - UK and Ireland Genealogy - GENUKI is the genealogical information service for the UK and Ireland, containing a large structured tree of information.
GRO Online Certificate Ordering - the General Register Office for England and Wales online certificate ordering service.
Guild of One-Name Studies - A one-name study is a project researching all occurrences of a surname. Check out the on-line Register of One-Name Studies.
Historical Directories - Historical Directories is a digital library of local and trade directories for England and Wales, from 1750 to 1919, both as scanned images and searchable text.
The Modern Records Centre - has trade union, employers' and trade association archives.
The Principal Registry of the Family Division - holds copies of decree nisi in England and Wales, from 1858.
Public Record Office (PRO) - The Public Record Office at Kew in London.
RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative - The Internet's oldest and largest free genealogy community.
Scotlands People - The official government source of genealogical data for Scotland. Downloadable Scottish Records (Births, Marriages, Deaths and Census). Certificates are also available to order here.
The National Archives (TNA) - Wills 1384-1858, Service records before 1923 along with information on pensions, pay lists, musters, medal entitlement, ships' logs, operation files, etc. Staff records of many railway companies up to 1948, and other bodies including the Metropolitan Police, Customs & Excise, merchant seamen and coastguards. Trial records and other criminal records. WW2 internment lists.
The National Archives of Ireland - many Irish census records were destroyed, but NAI hold the complete census returns for 1901 and 1911.
The National Archives of Scotland (NAS) - Indexes to Scottish wills and testaments. Scottish divorce cases after 1830.
The National Library of Scotland - includes Scottish emigrant information.
The National Library of Wales -
The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland - original Irish wills before 1900 were largely destroyed in 1922, but were copied into books locally. Here are held indexes, copies and later wills.
Scottish Documents - purchase Scottish wills and testaments online.
The Society of Genealogists - has a large library of resources available free to members. Non-members must pay a search fee.
Surname Profiler - This website allows users to search the databases that UCL have created, and to trace the geography and history of their family names.
UKBMD - provides links to many web sites that offer on-line transcriptions of UK births, marriages and deaths. Many sites offering UK census transcriptions are also linked from here.
User Mailing Lists Hosted by RootsWeb - You can subscribe here to mailing lists for a huge number of surnames here.