Forum: Useful Online Sources

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...

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...

For anyone researching family history in the Colne Valley area of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire (mainly Golcar, Marsden, Longwood, Slaithwaite, Linthwaite) there are indexes, lots of useful links and a forum on Steve Whitwam's family history website www. whitwam.co.uk . It's all free (thank you!)

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

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.

Have just found this site, hope it is of some use to others. www. old-merseytimes.co.uk/index.html Terry

Don't get excited - this lot aren't searchable, so it's a question of downloading and then working your way through the 'pages'. :smile5: TNA are offering free downloads in PDF format of some of their microfilmed records. http://...

I stumbled across this site of St. Andrews church at Clewer, who have very helpfully put an index of all the grave occupants! Unfortunately, my ancestors who lived in Clewer, were not buried there :mad2: http://www.standrewsclewer.org.uk/?page_id=90 If you go to the dropdown menu on the blue...

I realise Tetbury already has two great sites with lots of very helpful genealogical information: http:// tetbury.webatu.com/ http:// tetburyfamilies.co.uk/ But... as always there are still always more documents to transcribe... Thus I have began uploading transcriptions of documents...

this is far from complete but it may help somebody www. hearthtax.org.uk/

Searchable records of university graduates. Details are brief, but give year of graduation, degree and (for my relative) date of birth. May be of use to others. www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk

Hi Folks Those of you with an interest in people in New Zealand living there or arriving and departing may be interested in the Papers Past website which can be searched online http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast Regards Richard

Anyone interested in tracing their early modern ancestors, might find this new website, Hearth Tax Online, useful: http://www. hearthtax.org.uk/ It contains full transcripts of hearth tax returns from the 17th Century as well as maps and statisitcs. Currently, there are transcripts for...