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Other useful web sites for genealogy research in the UK

  • The London burial grounds - a site listing burial grounds in London
  • Genuki - Huge collection of genealogical information pages for England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man
  • Phillimore - Publisher and bookseller of British Local and Family History
  • Scottish Documents - free access to a fully searchable index of over 520,000 Scottish wills and testaments dating from 1500 to 1901
  • The National Archives - web site of the national archives at Kew. Many documents now online.
  • The Guild of One Name Studies - UK-based organisation for one-name studies
  • Old-Maps.co.uk - Providing access to Britain's most extensive digital historical map archive. Find out where your ancestors used to live or check out what your neighbourhood looked like over a hundred years ago.
  • Scottish Roots - BBC guide to tracing your Scottish ancestors
  • The Federation of Family History Societies - Represents and coordinates over 210 family history societies wordwide
  • British Data Archive - Census and other information available to purchase on CD
  • UK Placename finder - "The UK Placename Finder is part of the suite of free internet-based tools provided by this Archaeology UK for the communities of field archaeologists, family historians and placename researchers. The internet-based database holds information on the names of more than 160,000 UK places and provides a number of methods for interrogating the dataset."

  • The 1901 Census of England and Wales.

    Search 32,000,000 people. Includes images of the original enumeration documents. Discover a person's address, age, occupation, where born, relationships and who they lived with. Find out who lived at your address in 1901 - Search 6,000,000 Properties! See who occupied a house, workhouse or Palace on 31st March 1901 as the Victorian era closed and the Edwardian began. Searches are free but access to detailed census information is chargeable.

  • WW1 Online Medal Index & WW2 Seamen's Medals

    WW1 Campaign Medals - More than 5 million index cards to the medal rolls for the British Army and Royal Flying Corps are now available for surnames "A" to "Z". Keep up-to-date with latest developments and availability on the What's New? page. WW2 Seamen's Medals - You can now access records of World War Two Medals claimed and issued to more than 100,000 Merchant Seamen from 1946 to 2002. Each entry gives details of the seaman's name, discharge book number and the medals, ribbons and clasps issued to him, with some entries also listing date and place of birth.

  • Origins.net - British Origins

    British Origins offers access to the most authentic English genealogy collections online, including unique English ancestor records and maps of England and Wales, featuring England and Wales Gazetteer maps, Boyd's marriage records, English census records, burial records, court depositions, apprenticeship records, wills and more, all accessible via a free British and English name search and UK place search. New information includes the 1841 UK census index and Boyd's Marriage index. The Origins Network offers subscription packages to access British Origins, Irish Origins and Origin Search Pro at reasonable prices. Plans are available for a 72 hour access or monthly, quarterly and annual recurring subscriptions. The Origins Network

  • Findmypast.com

    Trace your family tree by searching all censuses from 1841 to 1901 plus the entire copy of Birth, Marriage and Deaths indexes for England and Wales from 1837 to 2002, as well as British nationals overseas from 1761 to 1994. Use the indexes to order the Birth, Marriage and Death certificates you need to piece together your family tree. The search is chargeable. Certificates can be ordered online and can be ordered from outside the UK. Findmypast competes with Ancestry in offering online research resources, but at the moment findmypast is the only source for the 1901 census. Click here.

  • The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints A huge resource of family research information which includes:-

    The 1881 British, 1880 US and 1881 Canadian census returns. International Genealogical Index. The world's largest collection of records with information about births, marriages, deaths, parents and spouses. Information was contributed by individual researchers or extracted from key original records (government or church records). Pedigree and Ancestral data submitted by volunteers and family researchers. Click here to view.

  • Genes Reunited allows you to enter your family tree and link up with potential relatives worldwide. An annual fee is required to email other members and view their trees. Click here.

  • Family History Online

    Federation of Family History Societies. Pay-per-View databases of England and Wales. The FFHS publish on-line records compiled by Family History Societies - quality data from experienced researchers with local knowledge providing more accurate details at fees that give value for money. New data is added regularly and provides much data which is unavailable online elsewhere. Currently 52 million records are held (as at November 2004). Click here.

  • Commonwealth War Graves Commission

    The "Debt of Honour Register" is the Commission's database listing the 1.7 million men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died during the two world wars and the 23,000 cemeteries, memorials and other locations world-wide where they are commemorated. The register can also be searched for details of the 67,000 Commonwealth civilians who died as a result of enemy action in the Second World War. Click here.

  • 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.The recording of births, marriages and deaths was started in 1837 and is one of the most significant resources for genealogical research. The transcribing of the records is carried out by teams of dedicated volunteers and contains index information for the period 1837-1983. The transcription is not yet complete. Please look at the page showing coverage details. Click here.

  • Freecen is a voluntary project aimed at creating a free online searchable database from the UK census returns of 1841 to 1891. Click here

  • The FreeREG Project's objective is to provide free Internet searches of baptism, marriage, and burial records, which have been transcribed from parish and non-conformist church registers in the UK. This is a new project and the database is not yet searchable. Click here.

  • The Parish Register Transcription Society. The Parish Register Transcription Society was formed in April 1999, with the aim of publishing transcripts of Parish Registers and other manuscripts / records of use to researchers in family history. Click here

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