Links to useful websites
I have checked the accuracy of all these URLs.
However, as website addresses can change, please let me know
if you find any errors or have problems reaching these sites.
Family and Local History
General
Genuki the essential site for
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
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
The Society of Genealogists
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
Free REG
project to provide online transcripts of parish and nonconformist registers in
the
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
Old-Maps
extensive digital historic map archive
Old
Bailey Trials from 1674-1834
Coal Mining History resource centre
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
Find My Past civil registration indexes
of births, marriages and deaths for
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
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
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
Ermysted's Grammar School Old Boys' Page
Miscellaneous
Memorials in the burial ground of St. John the Evangelist church, Staincross, Yorkshire
Coal Mines in the West & East Ridings of Yorkshire 1896
London
links to places associated with William and Sylvester Petyt
Coaching Inns (including the Belle Sauvage Inn)
Atherton,
Parish of Atherton includes
transcripts of parish registers and trade directories
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