| LIST OF USEFUL ADDRESSES
Below are a list of useful addresses for those researching GREAT BRITAIN and other areas of the world.
www.familysearch.org
www.ancestry.com
www.rootsweb.com
http://www.cindislist.com/
United Kingdom
www.ancestry.co.uk
www.census.pro.gov.uk
http://freebmd.rootsweb.com
http://freecen.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl
http://ukbdmcorpex.com
www.freebmd.org.uk
www.bmdindex.co.uk
www.ukbmd.org.uk
www.thegenealogist.co.uk
www.1837online.com ... NOW www.findmypast.com
www.a2a.org.uk
www.familyrelatives.com
www.familyhistoryonline.net
www.origins.net
www.britishorigins.com
www.englishorigins.com
www.genuki.org.uk
www.documentsonline.pro.gov.uk
www.a2a.pro.gov.uk
www.phillimore.co.uk
www.entertainer-genealogy.org.uk
www.theatremuseum.vam.ac.uk
www.rootsweb.com/~engwgw/index.html
British Genealogy
http://www.british-genealogy.com/forums/index.php
To order BMD Certificates - www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content
The National Archives, Kew - www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Family Record Centre - www.pro.gov.uk
British Record Society - www.britishrecordsociety.org.uk
Society of Genealogists - www.sog.org.uk
Federation of Family History Societies - www.fhs.org.uk
Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies - www.ihgs.ac.uk
Heritage Services - www.consignia.com/heritage/
College of Arms - www.college-of-arms.gov.uk
Guildhall Library - www.ihrinfo.ac.uk/gh
Bodleian Library - www.bodley.ox.ac.uk
British Library - www.bl.uk
Public Library Network - www.earl.org.uk/familia
Borthwick Institute of Historical Research - www.york.ac.uk/inst/bihr
Commonwealth War Graves Commission - www.cwgc.org
Ministry of Defence - www.army.mod.uk/ceremonialandheritage/museums_main.html-ssi
Fleet Air Arm Archive 1939-1945 - www.fleetairarmarchive.net
Fleet Air Arm Museum - www.fleetairarm.com
National Maritime Museum - www.nmm.ac.uk
National Railway Museum - www.nrm.org.uk
People's History Museum - www.nmlhweb.org/
Royal National Lifeboat Institution - www.lifeboats.org.uk
Royal Airforce Museum - www.rafmuseum.org
Royal Marines Museum - www.royalmarinesmuseum.co.uk
Royal Naval Museum - www.royalnavalmuseum.org
Royal Naval Submarine Museum - www.rnsubmus.co.uk
Royal College of Nursing - www.rcn.org.ik/learning/archives
History of Medicine - www.wellcome.ac.uk
Police History Society - www.policehistorysociety.co.uk
House of Lords - www.parliament.uk
Huguenot Society of GB - www.huguenotsociety.org.uk/
Huguenot Library - www.ucl.ac.uk/library/huguenot.htm
Independent Order of Odd Fellows - www.oddfellowsco.uk/
You can now search and download the service registers of more than 500,000 seamen who joined the Royal Navy between 1873 and 1923. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/royal-navy-service.asp
Guide to the records of crafts and trades at the National Archives
http://www.nas.gov.uk/guides/crafts.asp
DIRECTORY - There is a searchable digital database (FREE) for all UK Trade - Post Office Directories etc. on www.historicaldirectories.org
Three search methods: by location/decade/keyword. Location will give list of all related directories, once directory selected you can refine your search by name, trade etc. and will show number of hits in that particular edition, use 'next hit' button to view all pages containing the word searched - these will be highlighted.
England and Wales
The General Register Office, P.O. Box 2, Southport, Merseyside PR8 2JD
www.statistics.gov.uk/registration/default.asp
e-mail: certificate.services@ons.gov.uk
Wales
www.archivesnetworkwales.info
National Library of Wales - www.llgc.org.uk
Scotland
The General Register Office for Scotland, New Register House, 3 West Register Street, Edinburgh EH1 3YT
www.gro-scotland.gov.uk
www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
www.scotsgenealogy.com
www.gro.scotland.gov.uk
www.scotsroots.com
www.scotsfind.com
http://www.scotsfind.org/processes_access/processes.pdf
www.scotsorigins.com
http://edina.ac.uk/StatAcc/
http://www.nas.gov.uk/ National Archives for Scotland. Note some matters relating to military/regiments etc, are at the Imperial War Museum, The National Archives at Kew and the National Army Museum. Naval records of some Scottish ancestors in the TNA.
http://www.genuki.org.uk/ has a section on Scotland: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/Genealogy.html
http://www.cyndislist.com/scotland.htm
www.rootsweb.com/~sctwgw/
GRO Scotland - www.open.gov.uk/gros/
National Archives of Scotland - www.nas.gov.uk
Scottish Association of Family History Societies - www.safhs.org.uk
Gathering of the Clans - www.tartans.com/
http://censusfinder.com/scotland3.htm
http://www.scotlandsfamily.com/directories.htm
www.scotlandsclans.com/shiplists.htm
http://www.electricscotland.com/bible/brown/index.htm
Northern Ireland
The General Register Office, Oxford House, 49/55 Chichester Street, Belfast BT1 4HL
www.groni.gov.uk
www.proni.gov.uk
The Public Records Office of Northern Ireland holds documents from the public and private sectors, including church, tithe and school records, valuation books, emigrant letters, landed estate records and microfilm copies of the 1901 Census for Northern Ireland.
Republic of Ireland
Office of the Registrar General, Joyce House, 11-13 Lombard Street East, Dublin 2
www.groireland.ie
Ireland
www.irishorigins.com
www.rootsweb.com/~irlwgw/
IRELAND CENSUS INFORMATION - County Antrim 1851 Census irishgenealogy.net/antrimgen.html#CENSUS2
Irish Ancestors: Census - scripts.ireland.com/ancestor/browse/records/census/index.htm
National Archives Dublin - www.nationalarchives.ie
PRO N. Ireland - www.proni.nics.gov.uk
GRO N. Ireland - www.nics.gov.uk/nisra/gro/
Irish Manuscripts Commission - www.irmss.ie/
Representative Church Body - www.ireland.anglican.org
Channel Islands
Guernsey - www.societe.org.gg/
Jersey - www.societejersiaise.org
Jersey - www.judicialgreffe.je
Channel Islands Family History Society - http://user.itl.net/~glen/index.html
Isle of Man
www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Contrib/manx/famhist/genealogy
GRO Douglas - www.gov.im/infocentre
Manx Hational Heritage - www.gov.im/mnh
Manx Douglas - www.isle-of-man.com/interests/genealogy/sources.htm
Family History Society - www.isle-of-man.com/interest/genealogy/fhs
Anglo-French
Anglo-French Family History Society - www.anglo-french-fhs.org/home.htm
Anglo-German
Anglo-German Family History Society - www.feefhs.org.uk/frgagfha.html
Australia
www.rootsweb.com/~auswgw/
http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/genelist.html
http://www.nla.gov.au/infoserv/family.html
- national library of Australia which has a genealogy page
http://www.naa.gov.au/
national archives of Australia
http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/
births deaths marriages for New South Wales
http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/staterecords/
has good data/links re convicts
http://www.list.jaunay.com/ausnzpassengers/
http://www.pcug.org.au/~croe/ozb/oz_boer0.htm
Australians who served in the Boer War
http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/conflict.htm
Australian War Memorial - the Boer War is included.
Anglo-Boer War
Search GOOGLE for similar Boer War Sites for Canada, New Zealand, India.
Some 25,000 Boers were transported to prisoner of war camps in India.
http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Boer/index.html
http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-conflicts-periods/other/units-boerwar.htm - other colonial units listed
http://ladysmith.kzn.org.za/ls/41.xml
http://www.angloboerwar.com/units/natal_volunteers.htm
Andy Williams - http://www.zuluwar-usuthu.com/Colonials.html
Austria - www.rootsweb.com/~autwgw/
Belgium - users.skynet.be/sky60754/familiekunde/
Canada - www.rootsweb.com/~canwgw/index.html
Denmark - www.dis-danmark.dk/indexuk.htm
Finland - www.open.org/~rumcd/genweb/finn.html
France - francegenweb.org/
Germany - www.rootsweb.com/~wggerman/
Iceland - nyherji.is/~halfdan/aett/aettvef.htm
Italy - www.rootsweb.com/~itawgw/
Netherlands - www.rootsweb.com/~nldwgw/
Norway - www.rootsweb.com/~wgnorway/index.html
Census Information - digitalarkivet.uib.no/index-eng.htm
Poland - www.rootsweb.com/~polwgw/polandgen.html
Spain - members.aol.com/balboanet/spain/index.html
Sweden - www.montana.edu/sass/sweden.htm
Switzerland - www.rootsweb.com/~chewgw/
Malta
Civil registration started in Malta in 1863. For certificates
www.certifikati.gov.mt or pubreg.civilstatus@gov.mt
Director Public Registry, 197 Merchants Street, Valletta CMR 02, Malta (tel. (356) 2122 5292 and (356) 2123 8210).
LDS
Availability of digital records - http://www.lds.org/library/display/0,4945,40-1-3384-9,00.html
Eli WIGGILL Story - http://www.olsenfamily.us/Powellfami/WiggilBentley/EliWiggill.html
Index to some of the genealogical data available on the Internet - www.gendex.com/gendex/
Free Translation
www.freetranslation.com/
babel.altavista.com/tr??
Putting up a Web Page - free web space servers
www.angelfire.lycoscom/
www.cybercities.com/
expage.com/
www.fortunecity.com/
www.freeservers.com/
geocities.yahoo.com/home/
www.tripod.lycos.com/
[Further Web Site Addresses will be included in due course.]
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