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| Search Sites |
| Genealogy Searching Centre Links to Search Pages |
| GenPage Finder Access millions of genealogical records spread all across the Internet with one easy search! GenPageFinder is a search engine which indexes the contents of genealogical web pages. It offers search results surrounded by their immediate context and free from non-genealogical clutter. |
| ABC Genealogy Contains writing and publishing guides. |
| Genealogy Databases Worth Searching |
| Family Tree Searcher Enter your ancestor information just once to search family trees at multiple online genealogy databases. This free service will create the best searches based on your ancestry. This site also includes hints for searching genealogy online. |
| Genealogy Search Australia Well organized collection of genealogy links (not limited to Oz). |
| Genealogy: Advice for Effective Searches The Online Advice feature will ask you questions about what you already know about your ancestry. Your answers to the questions help create a customized plan on what you might do and where you might look in order to develop your research more fully. This feature emphasizes online records so that it is easier to perform your research using your computer. All in all, this makes your Internet searching more effective. The advice feature will provide suggestions tailored to your ancestry on census records, birth records, marriage records, death records, obituaries, ship manifests, naturalization records, and church records. |
| Obituary Daily Times Interactive Search. The Obituary Daily Times is a daily index of published obituaries across the world. The archives are fully searchable online. Search the archives to find a publication date of an obit. You can then refer to the newspaper to get a copy of it (at the library or directly with the newspaper itself). There are currently over 9,000,000 database entries. |
| Rootsweb WorldConnect (free) Database More than 420 million names on file. Submit Your Family Tree (also free). |
| RootsWeb Surname List Over a million surnames listed (free). |
| The Internet Surname List 50,000 surnames listed (free). |
| Gen Circles (commercial database, search for free) |
| Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild |
| The Ships List (immigration reports, newspaper records, shipwreck information, ship pictures, ship descriptions, shipping-line fleet lists and more; as well as hundreds of passenger lists to Canada, etc). |
| Castle Garden (free access to a database of 10 million immigrants from 1830 through 1892). |
| Relative Links The Top 20 Genealogical Sites |
| A One-Step Portal for On-Line Genealogy - many tools and search forms for genealogists (recommended) |
| Worldwide Genealogy Links and Chat - looks like an interesting site to explore. |
| Genealogy Dictionary - lots of links. |
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| Documents |
| Historical Text Archive This site publishes high quality articles, books, essays, documents, historical photos, and links, screened for content, for a broad range of historical subjects. |
| Family Old Photos - over 9000 photos, representing over 20,000 surnames.... and thousands of families... |
| The Archive CD Books Project - The Archive CD Books Project exists to make reproductions of old books, documents and maps available on CD to genealogists and historians |
| Delph Books: Antiquarian & Secondhand Books, strong on Northern Topography / Local History and Parish Registers for Yorkshire and Lancashire. |
| Abe Books Buy from book sellers around the world |
| Google Book Search - Hints and Tips - Google Book Search is already a very useful resource, but in some respects it is still not very user-friendly. This page contains a collection of a few useful hints and tips for finding and using material. |
| Parish Chest: online bookstore for UK Genealogy. Well indexed. |
| London Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section |
| Archive Books - ever growing collection of free scans of old books |
| Books We Own is a list of resources owned/accessed by individuals who are willing to look up genealogical information and e-mail or snail mail it to others who request it. This is a free service - volunteers may ask for reimbursement of copies and postage if information is provided via snail-mail. The project began in 1996 as a way for members of the ROOTS-L mailing list to share their resources with one another. Today, there are over 1500 volunteers. |
| Yesterdays Journey - As in any age, people have had to deal with documentation and Officials whether it be for good or bad. Yesterdays Journey records the names of those people who had dealings with those events and the paperwork involved. The documents that sent them back to their legal settlement or let them stay in a new parish. The warrants for their arrest, or the Indentures that gave them a start in working life and the papers that named the fathers of illegitimate children, or the Wills that folks left. They are all here. |
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| General Information and Periodicals |
| Federation of Family History Societies |
| Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet |
| LinkPendium - reportedly by far the largest directory of links on the web (however many links are repeated and many link to pay sites). Good for accessing USA by location and Surname sites. |
| The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (IGI and 1880/1 census - free) |
| Hugh Wallis's Genealogical Web Sites (excellent! search the IGI using batch numbers) |
| Rootsweb - free access to lots of genealogy resources |
| The British Isles Family History Society - USA |
| Dave Lorente's Home Children Web site |
| Ottawa Family History Centre |
| Beginners Guide to Genealogy [UK oriented] |
| Census Finder [Links to free census transcriptions, US, UK, Canada, Native American] |
| MyTrees.com - claims to have the world's largest family tree database. |
| Interment.net - cemetery transcription library (world-wide) |
| familybmd.com - good list of UK archives and links |
| Genealogy Supplies - S & N site for general genealogy supplies |
| Purchasing Power of British Pounds from 1264 to 2006 |
| Workhouses [Rossbret Workhouses Website] |
| Acronyms |
| Kinship Chart - A chart of Consanguinity |
| Internet Brickwall Solutions: A collection of tales of genealogists who overcame research obstacles online. |
| Databases on the Internet and CD |
| Charts and Forms - get the following forms free,
in PDF format: Ancestral Charts, Research Calendars, Research Extracts, Correspondence Records, Family Group Sheets, Source Summaries, U.S. Census Forms, 1790-1930 (plus 1850 and 1860 Slave Schedules and 1890 Veterans Schedules), and UK and Canadian Census Forms. |
| The Honourable East India Company - This website mainly contains birth, marriage and death notices of people who worked for or were associated with the Honourable East India Company and their families, collected from various newspapers and publications. |
| Genealogical Resources on the Internet - There is a wealth of genealogy resources on the Internet that can be accessed through Mailing Lists, USENET Newsgroups, Gopher, World Wide Web, Telnet, and E-Mail. This web site is an inventory of these resources based on personal investigation and the consolidation of information received from others. |
| Genealogy Directory |
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| Military Records |
| Commonwealth War Graves Commission |
| The Long, Long Trail - The British Army in the Great War |
| First World War.com |
| Red Coat Info Lists of Offices who died from 1750 to present day. |
| Canadian Pensioners from the US Civil War - BIFHSGO database |
| Lions, Tinctures and Bearings: Are you entitled to a coat of arms? |
| North-East Diary [England] (1939-1945) |
| Air Ministry Combat Reports (1939 - 1945) |
| Nelson and Battle of Trafalgar |
| Soldiers of Gloucestershire. |
| Canadian Newspapers and the Second World War - During the Second World War, the staff of the century-old Hamilton Spectator newspaper kept its own monumental record of the war. This collection of more than 144,000 newspaper articles, manually clipped, stamped with the date, and arranged by subject, includes news stories and editorials from newspapers, mostly Canadian, documenting every aspect of the war. |
| Family Chronicle - Researching WWII Veterans |
| Family Chronicle - Researching American Civil War Union Records |
| The Agincourt Honour Role: The story of this incredible battle which took place in 1415 and the Honor Roll. Family Chronicle lists over 1,000 of the English participants; the first time this has appeared since 1833. Can you recognize your family names? |
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| Newspapers |
| British Library Newspapers, the national archive collections in the United Kingdom of British and overseas newspapers. |
| The Scotsman Digital Archive (Every issue of The Scotsman from 1817 - 1950). |
| Issues Network - Links to world newspapers (Click on "World News Links") |
| The Herald (The Chronicle Herald & The Mail Star), Halifax, Nova Scotia |
| Canada East (New Brunswick, covers The Telegraph Journal, provincial edition and Saint John edition, Times Transcript and The Daily Gleaner) |
| The Journal-Pioneer (Summerside, Prince Edward Island). |
| The Guardian (Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island). |
| The Ottawa Citizen |
| The British Library - Holds over 13 million books, 920,000 journal and newspaper titles, 57 million patents, 3 million sound recordings, and so much more. |
| Papers Past (NZ) - from the National Library in Wellington (New Zealand) - has 44 newspapers available with 18 digitalised. |
| Old News Bios - Old News Bios is a database of notices that appeared in old newspapers; mainly births, marriages, deaths, obituaries, and inquests. |
| Guardian and Observer (UK) Digital Archive - This archive will eventually contain the digital reproduction of every page, article and advert published in the Guardian (since 1821) and the Observer (since 1791 – the oldest Sunday paper in the world). Note that there is an introductory offer for a free 24 hour pass. |
| London, Edinburgh, Belfast Gazettes on-line |
| The National Gazetteer of Wales |
| Paper of Record - a Global pioneer of searchable newspaper image documents presented in their original published form. |
| London Gazette Online Archives |
| Guardian and Observer Newspaper On-line. [Searching is free; full access is pay-per-view] |
| Canadian Newspapers and the Second World War - During the Second World War, the staff of the century-old Hamilton Spectator newspaper kept its own monumental record of the war. This collection of more than 144,000 newspaper articles, manually clipped, stamped with the date, and arranged by subject, includes news stories and editorials from newspapers, mostly Canadian, documenting every aspect of the war. |
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| Commercial Sites |
| Ancestry.com |
| Ancestry (UK) |
| Find My Past (was 1837online): BMD Indexes of England & Wales from 1837 plus the 1861 census |
| Genes Reunited Put your family tree online to link to others |
| Lost Cousins - match others using the 1880/1 census indexes |
| The Genealogist BMD and census indexes for England & Wales |
| Family History online Database item sales by individual family history societies (good for pre-1837 UK records) |
| Origins Network Census images and more (limited) |
| GenCircles - people's published trees (pay to access automatically generated matches) |
| Global Genealogy |
| Scotlands People 1861-1901 censuses for Scotland, b to 1905, m to 1930, d to 1955, OPRs from 1553 |
| Juniper Books |
| PRO 1901 census of England & Wales |
| Family History Online |
| Professional Genealogists |
| Family Chronicle |
| K Books This commercial site is a supplier of books, portraits, prints and maps. Inventory includes used, rare, antiquarian and out-of-print items. |
| Parish Chest: online bookstore for UK Genealogy. Well indexed. |
| AllCensus US Federal Census Records for genealogy research on CD |
| ACD Systems, authors of ACDSee (image viewer/editor) |
| Scottish Ancestral Trail - Travel to Scotland for exclusive vacations based on your Scottish ancestors and family history. Itinerary, chauffeur driven travel and accommodation, arranged for you. |
| Pixel Place - For prints of your ancestral charts on paper as wide as 44". The length is only limited by the roll. |
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| DNA Related Sites |
| Testing Companies and Information |
| FT DNA (the most popular testing company) |
| DNA Heritage Informative web-site, testing is performed in duplicate |
| DNA Print Genomics "Ancestry By DNA" slightly different testing methods |
| DNA Worldwide offers general DNA services (and T-shirts!). |
| Ethnoancestry English company with unique testing aimed at UK origins (particularly those in the R1 haplogroup). |
| National Genographic Project 5-year project to map humanity's genetic journey through the ages (this scientific project is directed at deep ancestry rather than more recent (i.e. genealogical) information) |
| Oxford Ancestors |
| Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation Free testing, but not as fast as the commercial companies and you are required to provide a pedigree. This site has Y-chromosome and mt-DNA databases. |
| Databases |
| Ysearch The primary Y-DNA database. |
| YHRD Y Chromosome Haplotype Reference Database. |
| Ybase an open, global resource for genealogists. Anyone can add to it. Anyone can search it (and it's free). |
| mitosearch The primary mtDNA database. |
| Bryan Sykes' Mitochondrial and Y-chromosome data used in his "Blood of the Isles" book (in North America the book is sold as "Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland") |
| Search the SMGF Database |
| Information |
| International Society of Genetic Genealogy - Y-DNA Haplogroup Tree |
| Journal of Genetic Genealogy (A Free Open-Access Journal) |
| Haplogroup Calculator Translates your Y-STR results into possible haplogroups. |
| Haplogroup Description |
| List of genetic genealogy topics (Wikipedia) |
| Growing the Family Tree The Power of DNA in Reconstructing Family Relationships [PDF] |
| Genetic and Quantitative aspects of Genealogy - Monograph mainly concerned with the classification, graphic representation, measurement and coding of human relationships. |
| Y-DNA Haplogroup Tree |
| Y-DNA Testing Comparison Chart |
| Castles of my mind Genealogy (All Companys' Comparison Chart - lots of charts) |
| Ask the Geneticist - The mission of AsktheGeneticist is to answer questions about genetic concepts, and the etiology, treatment, research, testing, and predisposition to genetic disorders. |
| Ian Logan's mtDNA electronic bookshelf |
| Y-Utility: Y-DNA Comparison Utility, Ysearch Mode [McGee TMRCA utility] |
| Kerchner's DNA Testing & Genetic Genealogy Info and Resources Page - Many, many good links, especially for the beginner. |
| The DNA Ancestry Project |
| Genealogy Mailing List |
| Genetics / DNA Glossary |
| Genetic Genealogy - comprehensive list of genealogical DNA links - recommended |
| Life: A Study of Genetics and Molecular Biology - beginners guide to DNA |
| I have the Results of My Genetic Genealogy Test, Now What? - pdf file |
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| General Software |
| AVG Anti-virus |
| Zone Alarm Firewall |
| Sygate Firewall (use the search option to search for sygate) |
| Adaware Spyware remover |
| Spybot Spyware remover |
| WinHTTrack, free software for downloading an entire Web site, or parts thereof |
| GENViewer, from MudCreek, is superb software for viewing of gedcom files, or directly from software such as The Master Genealogist, Legacy and PAF. |
| GENMatcher, from Mudcreek, GENMatcher quickly compares two genealogy files for matches, or one genealogy file for duplicates. GENMatcher is a Windows-based application that is used to find matches and duplicates in GEDCOM and PAF 3, 4, 5, TMG 4.x, Legacy, and Family Tree Maker genealogy files. Compare files between any of the supported file formats. Files do not have to be the same format to be compared. |
| Parish Locator, free software used to locate more than 15,000 parishes in the UK, covering the period from mid 1500s to ca. 1837 |
| Crayon.net is a free Web based service to place your favourite on-line newspapers in one screen. It has an database of worldwide newspapers, and allows you add newspapers not listed and customize for content of interest to you |
| On This Day, Second Site and TMG Utility are companion programs for users of The Master Genealogist. On This Day shows Birth, Marriage, Death, and Burial events that occurred on the current day, in any year, for everyone in the database. Second Site creates a web site from a TMG database. TMG Utility makes various modifications to TMG version 5 datasets. They are written by John Cardinal. |
| ACDSee is superb software for viewing, editing and organizing all image formats |
| Mr. Mirror is a simple and reliable program for backing up your data, or your entire hard drive. It also works with networked computers |
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| Suggested Web Sites from BIFHSGO Meetings |
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| Titus One-Name Study, by Bill Arthurs, 10 May 2003 |
| RootsWeb Enter the surname of interest and click 'Search'. You can limit the hits by entering given name, spouse etc. |
| Geneaology.com Genealogy Forum This is a message board. Just enter a surname and click 'Find' to view various dialogues on that surname. |
| Ancestry.com Genealogy Forum This is another message board. |
| US GenWeb Census Project This project is far from complete, but more census records appear each week. Some have actual page images, and others have listed inventories. |
| Census Online This site contains partial census records from Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the United States. |
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| Usenet Groups |
| Not only is there a wealth of information
available on Web sites, one can also benefit by subscribing
to Newsgroups. PC users can use Outlook for this purpose. Some
useful newsgroups to get you started are listed below: |
| soc.genealogy.britain |
| soc.genealogy.computing |
| soc.genealogy.ireland |
| soc.genealogy.medieval |
| soc.genealogy.methods |
| soc.genealogy.surname |
| soc.genealogy.surnames |
| soc.genealogy.surnames.canada |
| soc.genealogy.surnames.ireland |
| soc.genealogy.uk |
| soc.genealogy.uk+ireland |
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