| Genealogy Research Links |
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directly useful resources on the web. They are broken
into several general areas: |
General
online search resources
Tameside
online resources
Births Marriages and Deaths
Censuses
Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Services
Societies
Starting Family History
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| Online
Search Resources |
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The
Genealogist
Online parish records and much more for a subscription.
Family
Records
An excellent site produced by the key players
in family history records. It has a good guides
section and another about the various records
that we rely on. All in all, great use of
taxpayers' money!
Family
Search
This online genealogy database has been created
and is maintained by the Church of the Latter
Day Saints and has been much improved recently
with additional features, although the family/pedigree
link options are not always illuminating. But
particularly useful is the searchable International
Genealogy Index of parish records. An excellent
alternative
search facility has been created by Hugh Wallis
which is faster and allows much greater query
flexibility. The site also has census
databases for 1881 in the UK and 1880 in the
US and Canada.
GENUKI
Perhaps the most useful resource for research
in the United Kingdom and Ireland, particularly
its county mailing lists. I have primarily used
the sections for Cheshire,
Derbyshire,
Lancashire
and Yorkshire
in England and Midlothian
in Scotland. Also especial thanks to the Lancashire
Parish Register Society.
Search
the lists
You can search the messages archived on the various
GENUKI lists.
Cheshire
Wills
A searchable data base of wills from 1492 to 1940.
Copies cost £3 each, plus postage.
Public
Records Office
Access to information on English records, including
A2A (Access
to Archives) a database containing catalogues
describing archives held throughout England and
dating from the 900s to the present day.
Ellis
Island
An online database of people emigrating to the
United States in the late 19th and early 20th
century.
Tameside
Burials and Cremations
The local authority is gradually putting all its
burial and cremation records as a searchable database
on the web.
Hospital
Records
A joint project by the Wellcome Trust and the
PRO. Database tells you what records are available
and where they are kept.
Researching
Military Records
Useful guide at Rootsweb and links to the various
PRO leaflets.
Online
Parish Clerk
The OnLine Parish Clerks project for the County
of Lancashire aims to extract and preserve the
records from the various parishes and to provide
free online access to that data.
White's
Directory 1857
Searchable directory of the county of Derbyshire.
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General
Records Office
BMD certificates can be ordered online at the
same cost as at a register office if you have the
GRO reference.
Scots
Origins
This online database will allow searches of all
official records in Scotland and to order digitised
copies. I found it very useful when I began researching
there, but two warnings - first, it is a commercial
operation so there is a cost. Second, giving Scottish
naming patterns, basing your research entirely on
the information here could quickly lead you astray!
The English
Origins site boasts Boyd's Marriage Index 1538-1840
of over 3.5 million names, including Lancashire
and Yorkshire and Marriage Licence Allegations Index
1694-1850, plus other databases.
Mancuniensis
Genealogical information about the Salford Hundred.
North
West Derbyshire and North East Cheshire resources
Includes censuses and other information online.
Disley.net
Census and parish records for Disley, Lyme Handley;
Taxal & Whaley in Cheshire.
Curious
Fox
An easy to use contact site for anybody researching
UK genealogy, family or local history. 50,000 counties,
towns, villages and hamlets with contact boards,
surname lists and links to the exact location on
old maps and modern maps.
North
West Derbyshire and North East Cheshire
A useful searchable site including the 1841 census.
Old
Bailey Trials 1674 to 1834
A fully searchable online resource, containing accounts
of over 100,000 criminal trials held at London's
central criminal court.
Moving
Here
200 years of migration to England. The ultimate
online database of original sources recording the
migration experience.
Trade
Directories
The University of Leicester is creating an online
library of trade directories for England and Wales.
Military
Memorials
Database of memorials from the Indian Mutiny, the
Boer War, the Kabul Residency and others.
National Roll of the Great War
The National Publishing Company produced 14 regional
volumes which profiled the services of 100,000 people
who survived or died in WWI. This volume covers
Manchester. Thanks to Martin Briscoe for making
it available.
Acts
of Parliament
The law of interest to family historians.
Vision
of Britain
A useful site funded from Lottery money that
paints a social picture of the UK based on information
from the censuses from 1801 to 2001.
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| Tameside
Online Resources |
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Ashton
Territorials
Records of the men who served in the 9th
Bn. Manchester Regiment during WWI.
Denton
Roll of Honour
Searchable database of the men from Denton wounded
or killed in WWI.
Tameside
Burials and Cremations
The local authority is gradually putting all its burial
and cremation records as a searchable database on
the web. |
Tameside
War Memorials
A searchable database of memorials in Tameside.
Alternatively, try 'Carl's
Cam' photos for genealogists' with names in alphabetical
order.
Tameside
Image Library
Searchable images of Tameside that can be ordered
online.
Kenyon
Letters
An alphabetical index of letters sent to Elizabeth
Hannah Kenyon, Mayor of Dukinfield from soldiers serving
in the First World War kept at Tameside Local Studies
Library. |
| Births,
Marriages and Deaths |
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| Ancerstry.co.uk
An excellent subscription site with a wide range
of resources, including the censuses 1841 —
1901 and WWI records
Find
My Past
M illions of family history records online via pay-per-view,
including the 1911 census.
The
Genealogist
A rival to 1837 Online, by subscription.
General
Records Office
BMD certificates can be ordered online at the
same cost as at a register office if you have the
GRO reference.
Free
BMD
An ambitious and valuable project to provide free
internet access to the Civil Registration index
for England and Wales. It is far from complete,
but is already proving its worth. You can also check
registrar
office details on line.
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Cheshire
BMD Project
An excellent free online service that will eventually
cover births, marriages and deaths from 1837 to
1950. Presently, it has Tameside marriages from
1837 to 1879 and work is under way on births up
to 1862.
Lancashire
BMD
The Lancashire version of the above.
Yorkshire
BMD
The Yorkshire version covering Doncaster, Harrogate,
Hull and Leeds.
North
Wales BMD
Covering Wrexham, Denbeighshire, Gwyneth, Powys
etc.
Lancashire
Online Parish Clerk
The site aims to extract and preserve the records
from the various parishes and to provide online
access to that data, free of charge, along with
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| Censuses |
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Ancestry.co.uk
Has all the UK censuses indexed and available as
scans online, but there is a price to pay. Having
said that, many local studies libraries can provide
access free of charge.
The
Unfilmed 1851 Census
The census records for parts of Manchester were
damaged in a flood and were either unfilmed or impossible
to read if they were. A 14 year project by the MLFHS
has recovered over 200,000 records.
1851
Census
A two percent sample of the 1851 Census is available
to download.
1861
Census
Searchable and available at a cost from 1837 Online.
1881
Census
Part of the Church of the Latter Day Saints website.
1881 for UK and Canada and 1880 in the US.
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1891
Census
An ongoing project to put this online with a database
search.
1901
Census
Information available online for a small fee.
1911
Census
Available from Find My Past at a cost.
1901
Canadian Census
Free online (and ongoing) census site.
Census
Finder
Links to online census databases in the UK and the
US.
Glossop
Information
Liz Sparkes has some Glossop records on her family
history website, including an index for the 1841 and
1861 censuses for parts of the area, the Hearth Tax
for High Peak and the Window Tax. |
| Dictionaries
& Glossaries |
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Dictionary
of Genealogy & Archaic Terms
Don't know your ab fron your ealdoeman? Try this
online genealogical dictionary.
Latin
in Parish Records
Useful to unravel what the priests actually meant!
Latin
Names
Old written records of refer to first names in Latin.
Here is a list of names and their spoken translation. |
Glossary
of Terms used in past times
From assarts through heriots, messuages and tofts
to virgates.
Latin
Dictionary and Grammar Aid
Both Latin to English and English
to Latin.
Archaic
Medical Terms
Got a death certificate and still not sure what killed
them? This Rooysweb page might provide the explanation
you're looking for.
Occupations
A source of information about those obscure occupations
our ancestors had from the Hall Genealogy website. |
| Services |
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Obtaining
BMD from outside the UK
Getting BMD certificates from overseas can be costly
and time-consuming. A fellow LANCSGEN lister can provide
an alternative. This is a not-for-profit service that
might cut you a corner or two. Antony also has other
useful resources on his site, including a parish
records look-up and 1871
census for Hurst, Ashton-under-Lyne. |
Graham
and Jill Hadield's Pages
Need a large family tree printing? This may be the
place. Graham has information about Glossop on his
site, as well as about his family. He also hosts the
Derbyshire
Family History Society pages.
General
Records Office
BMD certificates can be ordered online at the
same cost as at a register office if you have the
GRO reference. |
| Societies |
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Lancashire
Family History and Heraldry Society
Formed in 1973 as the Rossendale Society for Genealogy
and Heraldry (Lancashire), the Society now has twelve
centres in Lancashire, together with one in London
where members meet regularly.
Manchester
& Lancashire Family History Society
Founded in 1964 as the Manchester Genealogical Society,
the Society encourages and supports family history
research in the Greater Manchester area. |
Guild
of One Name Studies
Some genealogists specialise in one surname and yours
may be amongst them.
Derbyshire
Family History Society
Hosted by Graham and Jill Hadfield
Society of
Genealogists
Useful backgorund information. |
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BBC
Family History
Excellent guide to genealogy with useful timelines
and suggested avenues of research.
Roy
Stockdill's Newbie Guide
More detailed information about the sources available,
including an explanation of what the IGI is and
what it isn't! Roy is one of the most experienced
online genealogists, specialising mainly in Yorkshire.
Recommended reading. |
Jumspstart
Family History
Download this E-book guide to family history for free.
Uses a Windows based program, so not for Macs I'm
afraid.
About.com
Lots of useful articles on genealogy. |
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