A variety of useful links

[Procat]

This information was originally in a post by Brianb. It has been turned into a sticky due to the useful content.

Hi:

Newspapers, Books etc

This site, read the journal about streets where ancestors lived in London. http://booth.lse.ac.uk/

Also, there are ecclesiastical parishes and civil parishes. http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/reg/

Present-day photos of many parts of Britain. pictures of streets and houses, etc.
http://www.geograph.org.uk/

The London Gazette which isn't confined to London as its title suggests. It also has the gazettes for Edinburgh and Belfast.
http://www.londongazette.co.uk/

BYU is digitizing their entire genealogical book collection and making it available online at no charge. You can access it at the following location:
http://www.lib.byu.edu/fhc/

Old newspapers:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb....eul/index.html

Links to online newspapers: Mediauk.com/newspapers

There may be others
http://www.britishpapers.co.uk/

http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/collections/
above is a British Library site, the search on “read all about it” icon for The Penny Illustrated
http://www.bibliomania.com/

Guardian.co.uk - which has an archive

Some sites may be changed by now, if so just type start of the link (e.g. if probs with guardian leave /archive off then search for it on the site.

Brian

[Sue Mackay]

Most UK libraries, and I believe larger libraries across the pond and in Australia, now subscribe to the Gale Group newspaper archives, giving free online access to their members (by entering their library card number as the password) in the Times Digital Archive and/or the 19th Century British Newspapers collection.

Bring up the home page of your local library and search for links to 'Online services' or '24-hour library'.