British History Online is a digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles
Burke’s Peerage is the definitive guide to the genealogy and heraldry of the Peerage and Landed Gentry of the United Kingdom, the historical families of Ireland and the Commonwealth of Nations, the Imperial, Royal and mediatised families of Europe, the Presidential and distinguished families of the United States of America, and other prominent families worldwide
The 1911 census lists, for every member of each household; name, age, sex, relationship to head of the household, religion, occupation, marital status and county or country of birth
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission war records databases record the details and commemoration location of every Commonwealth casualty from the First and Second World Wars
Cyndi’s List is a comprehensive, categorized, and cross-referenced list of links that point you to genealogical research sites online, and has been a genealogy starting point for more than 15 years! Cyndi’s ListCyndi's List is a comprehensive, categorized, and cross-referenced list of links that point you to genealogical research sites online, and has been a […]
The advent of high quality digital cameras at affordable consumer prices has provided some great opportunities as well as a number of potential problems
The LDS international search site includes records spanning billions of names across hundreds of collections including birth, marriage, death, probate, census, land, military, International Genealogical Index and more
GenProxy offers Internet Services for Genealogists, and the most useful pages include: Web site Creation Trades – old jobs, trades, occupations & professions with an explanation or indication of what the task entailed
Despite its name, this site may be helpful for finding passenger lists, vital records, census material, and naturalization records for many nationalities
The Historic Hospital Admission Records Project (HHARP) is the result of a partnership between Kingston University’s Centre for Local History Studies and various hospital archives in London and Glasgow
Historical Directories is a digital library of local and trade directories for England and Wales, from 1750 to 1919 originally organised by the University of Leicester
This website contains 25+ million cemetery records, transcripts, and burial registers, from tens of thousands of cemeteries across the world, all contributed by genealogists, cemeteries, government agencies, and private organizations
The Ireland General Register Office (Oifig An Ard-Chláraitheora) is the central civil repository for records relating to Births, Marriages, and Deaths in Ireland
The Online Genealogical Index (aka OGI) helps researchers avoid manually searching through multiple sites to find the correct locations and year ranges
These sites aim to extract and preserve the records from the various parishes and to provide online access to that data, FREE of charge, along with other data of value to family and local historians
A fully searchable website – by Name, Location, and other – detailing all the court cases that were dealt with at the Old Bailey in London between 1674 and 1913
A certificate (also known as an extract) – an officially certified paper copy of a register entry – or Copies – a copy of the record entry in the form of a digital image
A vast collection of 1,000 years of UK government records, or links to where records are available, including: The existence & location of over 2,800 hospital records in the UK