Family History Web Addresses

Family History Web Addresses

Birth, marriages and death records (BMD) 1837 to date & census and more - charged) Available to members in Family History Society of Cheshire Resource Centre at Alderley Edge (moving shortly).

Scottish records www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk

BMD, Parish Registers & Census. charged.

Federation of Family History Societies www.familyhistoryonline.net

Most records compiled by the FFHS now available on www.findmypast.com - see above

National Burial Index 3 available for purchase from here

Family Relatives www.familyrelatives.org

Claim over 400 Million records, including army, navy and parish records - charged

Ancestry www.ancestry.co.uk

4 billion family history records, international including census, BMD, military, emigration and immigration. Subscription fee but some free information, 14 day trial offered. Available in Cheshire libraries.

Genealogist www.thegenealogist.co.uk

Search site, covers data (births, marriages, deaths, census and more) from 1837 to 2005. Also has articles on genealogy. Charged. Now available to members at FHSC Resource Centre, Alderley Edge (moving shortly).

Genes Reunited www.genesreunited.co.uk

Some free information and facility to enter data and draw family tree. Charges for detailed information.

FreeBMD www.freebmd.org.uk

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.

UK BMD www.ukbmd.org.uk

Links to web sites that offer on-line transcriptions of UK births, marriages, deaths and censuses, and a wide range of other indexes and transcriptions.

Ordering certificates http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/default.asp

Best way to obtain certificates. The certificate contains an image of the original entry.

Census

1901 census http://www.1901censusonline.com/

1911 census http://www.1911census.co.uk/

Earlier years (from 1841) available on Find My Past, Ancestry etc.above

Wills http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/courtfinder/forms/pa1s_0405.pdf

(Application for a probate search and information about applications)

General enquiries (eg Directory enquiries) www.192.com

The Church of Latter Day Saints (The Mormons) http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp

Good advice on searching family history. Site includes IGI (see below) and free 1881 census

International Genealogical Index (IGI) http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp and select ‘Search’

Genuki www.genuki.org.uk/

Vast amount of data and links to topics useful for family historians and how to find information for particular areas

Email (free) subscriptions:

Rootsweb www.rootsweb.com/

Cyndi’s list www.cyndislist.com

Surname profile www.surnameprofiler.org

Recommend free download of Acrobat Reader ( .pdf files) and DJVU plugin.

Other useful tools for family history researchers:

Keepass. A password management system to store all your passwords created to access websites.

One master password is needed to access the database. Available from http://keepass.info/

Calisto. A free program which is useful for checking dates for days of the week, and which will display most common calendars. Covers the calendar change in Britain in 1752. Available from http://homepages.tesco.net/~jk.calisto/calisto/index.htm

Parloc. A freeware UK parish locator program. It enables you to locate any one of nearly 15,000 UK parishes. It will produce a list of parishes in any County or a list of parishes within a given radius of any other parish. Available from http://www.parloc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/parlocdl.html

Revised February 2011