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Links to useful websites

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Family and Local History

General

Genuki the essential site for UK and Ireland genealogy

Rootsweb extensive site, links to mailing lists etc.

LDS (Mormon) Church resources the familysearch site – IGI, Ancestral File, Library Catalogue etc.

The National Archives at Kew – including catalogue

General Register Office order birth, marriage and death certificates from 1837 to present day

Acts of Parliament relating to the registration of births, marriages and deaths -19th and 20th centuries

Family Records links and information for main UK archives

The Society of Genealogists England’s most extensive family history library

Manorial Documents Register search for location of manor court rolls

Access to Archives search the databases of English Archives

Archives Hub collections in UK Universities and Colleges

Familia family history resources in public libraries

Commonwealth War Graves Commission locate your military ancestors’ graves

FreeBMD project to provide GRO indexes of English and Welsh births, marriages and deaths online

Free CEN UK census online project

Free REG project to provide online transcripts of parish and nonconformist registers in the UK

Historical Directories search and view British 19th century trade directories

Tombstones and Monumental Inscriptions worldwide resources and links

Guild of One-Name Studies research into particular surnames

Federation of Family History Societies (FFHS) organisation for co-ordinating family history

Cyndi’s List links to many thousands of genealogy websites

West Yorkshire Archive Service offices in Wakefield, Leeds, Bradford, Halifax and Huddersfield

Old-Maps extensive digital historic map archive

Old Bailey Trials from 1674-1834

 

Domesday Book

Knights Templar

Medieval English Genealogy

Coal Mining History resource centre

Workhouses

 

Publications

Anguline Research Archives old and rare books on CD for local and family historians

Your Old Books and Maps produced on CD

CDs of old and rare books produced by Colin Hinson

Yorkshire Ancestors CDs of old and rare books produced by Brenda Green and Janice Wood

Federation of Family History Societies (FFHS) books, CDs, microfiche

Parish Chest online family history shop - books, CDs etc.

Alan Godfrey Maps reproductions of old ordnance survey maps

Your Family Tree British genealogical publication

Family Tree Magazine and Practical Family History British genealogical publications

Ancestors the National Archives magazine

Phillimore family and local history books

Shire Publications useful history books

 

Pay-Per-View family history sites

 

1901 census for England and Wales

Find My Past civil registration indexes of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales

Ancestry.co.uk parish register and census transcripts

English Origins Society of Genealogists' records - indexes to marriages, wills, apprentices

Scotland's People Scottish genealogical data - births, marriages, deaths and census returns

 

Wakefield

Official Wakefield site

Welcome to Wakefield

Churches in the Wakefield area

War Memorials in the Wakefield area

Gravestones at St. James Church, Thornes, Wakefield

Gravestones at the Baptist Churchyard, Ossett, Wakefield

 

Bolton Abbey

Official Bolton Abbey Estate website

Genealogical Study of Wharfedale and Craven families

Boyle and Petyt School Beamsley, near Bolton Abbey

 

Skipton

Skipton – Gateway to the Dales

Skiptonweb

Ermysted’s Grammar School

Ermysted's Grammar School Old Boys' Page

 

 Yorkshire Monasteries

Kirkstall Abbey

Fountains Abbey

History of Fountains Abbey

Rievaulx Abbey

 

Miscellaneous Yorkshire sites

History of Ackworth

Memorials in the burial ground of St. John the Evangelist church, Staincross, Yorkshire

History of Wombwell

Coal Mines in the West & East Ridings of Yorkshire 1896 

 

London

links to places associated with William and Sylvester Petyt

The Inns of Court

Inner Temple Library

Coaching Inns (including the Belle Sauvage Inn)

Chelsea Old Church

 The Tower of London

 

Atherton, Lancashire

History of Atherton

Parish of Atherton includes transcripts of parish registers and trade directories

 

North Wales

Isle of Anglesey

Llandudno

 

 

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