Forum: Useful Online Sources

Burials at West Ham Cemetery (opened 1857) are now available at Deceased Online. www. deceasedonline.com The index, which includes dates of burial, is free. Images of the registers are pay-per-view. EDIT: Apologies, I've now read the small print: Note that only the index records are...

If you have ancestors from Winteringham you’ll find this site full of useful information. I know I did. http://www. winteringham.info/Genealogy/Parish_Registers/parish_registers.html Terry P.s. Thanks Jan1954

following on from the likes of Cheshire and Lancashire BMD - the newest arrival is Shropshire BMD at http://www. shropshirebmd.info NOTE:the address is slightly different to the other local bmd sites. It has opened with 25,000 Shrewsbury areas marriages.

There is a new collection on Ancestry that may be of interest to anyone with ancestors who applied for or attained Freeman status. Many of the documents in the collection are indentures or apprenticeship agreements. Here is part of the collection description... On a personal note I am quite...

Found this information today from the Library and Archives Canada site............ New version of the Home Children database Gatineau, October 6, 2011 — Library and Archives Canada is pleased to announce the release of a new version of the online database Home Children...

The British library have announced a new blog on their website starting today. In Untold Lives they "will be sharing stories every day this week. Forthcoming 'Untold Lives' will include missionaries, madams, thieves, African princes, Indian soldiers, and a homicidal bookbinder." Today's blog...

I'm not sure if this has been posted before. http://www. capitalpunishmentuk.org/contents.html If you click HERE it will take you straight to a list of the british females :hang: between 1868-1955 and some of their facinating stories on the same site. Hope you have a couple of hours to...

I'm not sure if anyone has already posted this, so apologies if it's old news. Ancestry "are giving you free access to some of our most popular collections from around the world". Each day for 15 days they are opening one of their collections - this lasts until 15th October. You can search...

just come across this site which might be especially useful for anyone looking for Scottish deaths. Searching is free, and gives details of date and place of burial, but to view actual images you do need to buy credits. www. deceasedonline.com/servlet/GSDOSearch

Hunting for early settlers in Upper Canada? :detective: Here's a site I stumbled upon.... lots of interesting information and you never know who you may find! There is a charge for some of the information and to use parts of it you have to register...no charge for that. It does take a while for...

Have come across this site http://www. billiongraves.com Where you can upload photographs of graves or help with the transcribing of photos already uploaded (did a couple while browsing). Well worth a look. Karen

The National Archives are hoping to phase out their aging microfilm readers, and have made some of their more popular records on microfilm available as PDF files. These are available as free (but very large) downloads here The records are not indexed and must be scrolled through just as you...

Free on Ancestry to search and view, from 29th August to 5th September, so if you have missing ancestors, take the opportunity to see if they travelled abroad.

Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices' Indentures, 1710-1811 Is now online on Anc*y. Also covers Scotland & Wales despite being headed 'England'. Denbighshire has been transcribed as Derbyshire a number of times. I don't have a subscription at mo but just found 11 of my lot in 10 minutes....

www.archiveweb.cumbria.gov.uk/dserve/quick.html carries extracts from all manner of Cumbrian sources (including the part of Lancashire transferred to Cumbria in 1974). The extracts also name the LRO where the original documents are archived.

that there is genealogy and family history on the www archive org site? It is fairly random but I have found parish registers and Phillimore marriage indexes, one of which gave me an ancestor's first name which had been omitted from the Derbyshire Record Office's transcription.