Suggested Websites for British Genealogical Research

 

Family Search

www.familysearch.org

 

GENUKI.ORG

www.genuki.org.uk/big/

 

FREEBMD – Vital Records

http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl

 

FREEREG – Church Registers

http://freereg.rootsweb.com/search/searchform.htm

 

FREEUKGEN – links for Freebmd, Freecen, and Freereg

http://freeukgen.rootsweb.com/

 

British National Archives

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/

 

Family History Library Catalog

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=localitysearch&columns=*,180,0

 

1881 British Census

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=census/search_census.asp

 

Findmypast.com

http://www.findmypast.com/CensusChooseSearchType.jsp

 

Government Record Office

http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/

 

Ordnance Survey maps

http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/

 

Old Maps UK – old Ordnance Survey Maps (19th century)

http://www.old-maps.co.uk/

 

Old British County Maps

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~genmaps/index.html

 

Roman Maps of Britain

http://www.bibliographics.com/MAPS/BRITAIN/THUMBS.htm

 

Modern Street Maps of Britain

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/

 

Historic database of British Images

http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/

 

Cyndi’s List of British Websites

http://www.cyndislist.com/england.htm

 

British Isles Gen Web

http://www.britishislesgenweb.org/

 

County Histories

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~jimella/counties.htm

 

The Old Bailey Prison

http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/

 

Officers who died in the British Service

http://glosters.tripod.com/memindex3.htm

 

CWGC Graves of Military Dead

http://www.cwgc.org/

 

Society of Genealogists

http://www.sog.org.uk/index.shtml

 

Latin language assistance in British Records

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/LatinNotes.html

 

Clergy of the Church of England Database

http://eagle.cch.kcl.ac.uk:8080/cce/

 

England Mailing Lists you can subscribe to

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jfuller/gen_mail_country-unk-eng.html#ENG-VILLAGES

 

Modern Phone Books of Britain

http://www.thephonebook.bt.com/publisha.content/en/search/residential/search.publisha

 

British Library Catalogues

http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm

 

Learning how to read and transcribe old Documents – online course.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/palaeography/default.htm

 

Gaelic Dictionaries

http://www.ceantar.org/Dicts/index.html

 

Old Occupations in Britain

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/hitch/gendocs/trades.html

 

Database of Workhouses in Britain

http://www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses/england/england.htm