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Websites

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General

1901 Census for England and Wales
www.1901census.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

Ancestry.co.uk
www.ancestry.co.uk

British Origins
www.britishorigins.com/

BT Archives
www.btplc.com/Thegroup/BTsHistory/BTgrouparchives
The BT archives in London contains their collection of historic phone books.

Cyndi's List
www.cyndislist.com

UK and Ireland: www.cyndislist.com/genuk.htm
England: www.cyndislist.com/england.htm
Scotland: www.cyndislist.com/scotland.htm
Wales: www.cyndislist.com/wales.htm

Familia
www.familia.org.uk

Family Search
www.familysearch.org/
For 1881 British or Canadian Censuses, and pre-1837 records.

Family History Centres of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp

Find My Past.com
www.findmypast.com/home.jsp
Commercial subscription site with census records for 1841, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, among much else.

FreeBMD Project
http://FreeBMD.rootsweb.com/

Rootsweb
www.rootsweb.com

GENUKI (UK and Ireland Genealogical Information Service)
www.genuki.org.uk

International Internet Genealogical Society
www.iigs.org/index.htm.en

Moving Here: 200 Years of Migration to England
www.movinghere.org.uk
This site provides free online access to resources that record and illustrate the migration of the Caribbean, Irish, Jewish and South Asian Communities to England over the past two centuries.

The National Archives: Family History Resources
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/familyhistory/default.htm

Origins Network
www.originsnetwork.com

Scotland's People: Scottish Family History Centre
www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk

UK BDM Exchange
www.ukbdm.org.uk/

World GenWeb Project
www.worldgenweb.org

British Isles Genweb Project
www.britishislesgenweb.org

England GenWeb
www.rootsweb.com/~engwgw/index.html
Northern Ireland GenWeb
www.rootsweb.com/~nirwgw/
Scotland GenWeb
www.scotlandgenweb.org
Wales GenWeb
www.walesgenweb.com

The Victorian Census Project
www.staffs.ac.uk/schools/humanities_and_soc_sciences/
census/vichome.htm

Wills: Guide to obtaining copies of probate records
www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/cms/1226.htm

Wills in Northern Ireland
www.proni.gov.uk/records/wills.htm

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Genealogy software

Family Tree Maker (for PCs)
www.familytreemaker.com

Reunion (for Macs)
www.leisterpro.com/index.php

MacFamily Tree (for Macs)
www.onlymac.de/html/stammbaum4en.html

Other programs are available.

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Publishing your family tree online

Gencircles
www.gencircles.com

Genes Reunited
www.genesreunited.co.uk

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Mailing lists

If you send an e-mail to a mailing list, everyone in that list receives it. Rootsweb hosts many themed genealogical mailing lists. For example, to subscribe to the Barbados List – a discussion list for anyone with a genealogical or historical interest in Barbados, the easternmost island in the West Indies – send an e-mail to BARBADOS-L-request@rootsweb.com with the single word 'subscribe' (without the quotation marks) in the message subject and body. Do not include any other words or signature lines. To join BARBADOS-D (digest), do the same thing with BARBADOS-D-request@rootsweb.com. In digest mode you will receive one large e-mail every week or so with all the messages sent to the list that week, instead of an individual e-mail every time someone submits a message to the list.

UK mailing lists
www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/gen_mail_country-unk.html

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Newsgroups

Newsgroups are online 'bulletin boards' where people can have discussions with like-minded people, by posting messages and replies to ongoing 'threads'. Usenet (Unix User Network) was one of the earliest uses of the internet, and exists seperately from the World Wide Web. You connect to the server where the postings from the past few days are stored. Using software such as Thoth (for Macs) or Agent (for PCs), you can join a 'thread' – read existing messages and/or post follow-up ones – or start a new thread. Newsgroups are supposed to be limited to a single topic, and there is a good deal of 'netiquette' to learn before you stop being a 'newbie' or 'lurker' and taking part in the discussions. You ISP should give you the settings for their news server, but not all servers carry all the groups.

A list of Usenet newsgroups relating to genealogy can be found at www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/gen_use.html.

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IRC chat

IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a way of conversing with people of like mind in real time. You will need some IRC software to take part. The IIGS (International Internet Genealogical Society) has an IRC service with regular UK meetings. More details on www.iigs.org/irc/index.htm.en.

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Events

Family History Fairs
www.familyhistoryfairs.com

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Military

Anzac day
www.anzac.govt.nz

Article on the records destroyed by bombing in 1940
www.r-senior.demon.co.uk/ftree/articles/
burnt_documents.html

Australian War Memorial
http://www.awm.gov.au/

British Legion
www.britishlegion.org.uk/index.cfm?
asset_id=509146

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
www.cwgc.org

Cyndi's List: UK military
www.cyndislist.com/miluk.htm

Foot Guards (Grenadier, Coldstream, Scots, Irish and Welsh)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_Guards

Household Cavalry Museum
www.householdcavalrymuseum.org.uk

Imperial War Museum
www.iwm.org.uk/server/show/nav.00100a

International Armed Forces Memorial
www.britishwargraves.org.uk

International Committee of the Red Cross
www.icrc.org/eng

London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes
www.gazette-online.co.uk

Merchant Navy: Masters, mates, engineers, fishing officers
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/familyhistory/merchant/

National Archives step-by-step guide to finding military records
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/familyhistory/military/

National Maritime Museum
www.nmm.ac.uk

Navy List, at the National Archives
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/familyhistory/
military/navy/

New Zealand war memorials
www.nzhistory.net.nz/war/first-world
-war-memorials

Oliver Strangward: War Diaries of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers
www.ksenior.dircon.co.uk/fhist/
OliverStrangwardwardiaries.html

Records of RFC officers, 1914-March 1918
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/familyhistory/
military/airforce/

Roll of Honour website
www.roll-of-honour.com

Royal Air Force
www.raf.mod.uk

The Victoria Cross
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Cross

Virtual Canadian War Memorial
www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?
source=collections/virtualmem

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Police, fire brigade and nurses

Metropolitan Police (London): Records of Service
www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
rdleaflet.asp?sleafletid=104

Police Orders: Metropolitan Police Database
www.policeorders.co.uk

West Midlands Police Museum
www.www.westmidlandspolicemuseum.co.uk

London Fire Brigade
www.london-fire.gov.uk/about_us/our_history/
your_history.asp

List of UK fire brigades
www.fire.org.uk/others.htm#national

Women in Uniform
www.familyrecords.gov.uk/focuson/
womeninuniform/default.htm

Royal College of Nursing
www.rcn.org.uk/resources/historyofnursing/
factsheets-tracingnurses.php

'Florence Nightingale Nurses'
www.dorsetbay.plus.com/hist/crimea/nurselist.htm

Victorian nurses of the Boer war
http://users.westconnect.com.au/~ianmac/
nurses.html

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Africa

Africa GenWeb
www.africagenweb.org

African Atlantic Genealogical Society
www.africantic.com/

La Maison des Esclaves, Senegal
www.senegal-online.com/anglais/villes/goree/
maison-esclaves.htm

A Slave Ship Speaks: The wreck of the Henrietta Marie
www.historical-museum.org/exhibits/hm/
henmarie.htm

Burma

Union of Myanmar (Burma) Genealogy Web (Burmese GenWeb) Project
www.rootsweb.com/~mmrwgw/

India

Families in British India Society
www.fibis.org
Website for people tracing their British, European and Anglo-Indian family history in India, Burma, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Pakistan

Pakistani Genealogical Resources
www.rootsweb.com/~pakwgw/

Singapore

Singapore Genealogy Web (Singapore GenWeb) Project
www.rootsweb.com/~sgpwgw/

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka Genealogy Website
www.rootsweb.com/~lkawgw

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The West Indies

Caribbean Genweb
www.rootsweb.com/~caribgw/

Cyndi's List: Ships, passenger lists and immigration
www.cyndislist.com/ships.htm

Researching Passenger Lists
www-personal.umich.edu/~cgaunt/pass.html

Bahamas

Bahamas GenWeb
www.rootsweb.com/~bhswgw/

Barbados

Chronicle Barbados
www.rootsweb.com/~brbwgw/

Bermuda

Bermudian Genealogy & History
www.rootsweb.com/~bmuwgw/bermuda.htm

British Virgin Islands

British Virgin Islands GenWeb
www.rootsweb.com/~bviwgw/

Jamaica

Jamaican Jewish Genealogy
www.sephardim.org/jamgen/

Jamaican Records
www.rootsweb.com/~jamwgw/stepport.htm
Text of a genealogical talk by Stephen D Porter on the records of Jamaica, given during a half-day course entitled 'The West Indies' and held at the Society of Genealogists, London, on 21 June 1997.

IGI and Anglican Church Record of Jamaica
www.rootsweb.com/~jamwgw/churchre.htm

Links to Other Jamaican Genealogy Sites on the Web
www.rootsweb.com/~jamwgw/genjamlk.htm

Jamaican Genealogy: Source of the Month
http://users.pullman.com/mitchelm/sources.htm