Forum: Useful Online Sources

Apologies if this has already been posted. http:// archive.org I have only searched "Texts" so far as it is thoroughly addictive although it needs lots of browsing with very general terms. "Parish Register" proved very useful!

If anyone is wanting to look through the US censuses, Ancestry (.co.uk) has a special offer running - They are free up until 3 Sept (i.e Monday next week).

I've only just discovered the Connected Histories website. It allows you to search 15 different resources at once (many results can be seen free but many are on subscription-based sites): British History Online ('80% free and 20% subscription') British Museum Images (free) British...

English Heritage have just launched a new site called 'Britain From Above' where they are in the process of digitising and making available the Aerofilms collection of aerial photographs of the British Isles 1919-1953. It can be found at britainfromabove.org.uk/ (put www in front). There are a few...

I would like to share a wonderful source I have recently found; a website with transcriptions of the burial records of all the cemeteries in the Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council area of South Yorkshire. These are the public cemeteries, not the churchyard cemeteries. The site is maintained...

To mark the Diamond Jubilee, digital images of Queen Victoria's journals (141 volumes) have been put online at queenvictoriasjournals.org (put 'www.' in front). Some are in Queen Victoria's own hand; others are transcripts, some (abridged, handwritten) by her daughter Princess Beatrice and...

Eng. (Diocese) Commissary Court Surrey. Allegations for marriage licences issued between 1673-1770 in Surrey and London Search by name or year. archive.org /details/allegationsforma02surr Click on 'View the book' Once pass the introduction, details of allegations are given in year order....

Hi All The South Australian Genealogy & Heraldry Society has recently up-graded their website (GenealogySA) and now includes indexes to the South Australian Births Deaths and Marriages which previously had no on-line presence due to restrictions applied by the South Australian Government. Also...

Don't know if this ones been posted before, but if you've Australian connections if might be useful. http://trove.nla.gov.au/ One section contains digitalised newspapers from Australia, and is free to search and view. It's extremely well set up. Although it uses OCR to read the print and has...

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...

I apologise if this has been posted before and I have missed it. Ancestry now has what it calls the "UK Land Tax Redemption 1798" searchable on-line. This is a Land Tax Assessment carried out in 1798 on land with a value of 20s or more; land valued at less than 20s was exempt. From my...

Maybe you already know the incomparable help from the Stephen P. Morse web sites for searching for ship passengers and immigrants. He has a site for helping search the soon-to-be released 1940 USA census. Included on his site is a tutorial for searching the online 1940. This is critical, as the...

Press release from the National Archives regarding next week’s release of 1940 USA census: http:// www. archives.gov/press/press-releases/2012/nr12-70.html National Archives site: a MUST for the 1940 census information and access: http:// www....

Hopefully this site hasn't already been posted: churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/index.html This free to view site currently has close on 3 million records (around 2 million for Dublin alone) from Church of Ireland, Catholic and Presbyterian registers. Each entry has a link to the image from...

Earlier today I had trouble accessing the catalog page of the old Familysearch site. I was sure that such a useful tool must be on the new site, so went searching. It took a while but I eventually found it. :smile5: https://www.familysearch.org/#form=catalog&catSearchType=place defaults to...

If you have ancestors from the diocese of York, or if you just want to learn more about the type of information that can be found in church court records, the recently launched Cause Papers Database may be of interest. It's described as 'a searchable catalogue of more than 14,000 cause papers...

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

This link is useful in many ways. It helps to find the distribution of a surname, information on similar surnames which can help with the variations we have to contend with, the most common surnames and surname meanings. It also lists approximately how many people with the surname in the 1881...

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.