LINKS TO GENEALOGY SITES

Click on the underlined hyperlink to be taken to the site. This list will be updated on a regular basis. Please notify Dorothy Morrissey if you find a link which does not work properly.

RECENT ADDITIONS

http://www.genealogy.org.nz/sig/index.html

List of special interest groups—NZSG site.

http://www.ancestry.com/

Ancestry.com—lots of information, some of it free of charge.

http://www.ancestry.com/

List of genealogy mailing lists—worldwide, special interest, surnames, etc.

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/full.html

World clock.

NEW ZEALAND SITES

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sooty/Pakehamaori.html

List of European names with their Maori equivalent – and vice versa

http://www.genealogy.org.nz/index.html

New Zealand Society of Genealogists home page.

http://library.wdc.int/

Whakatane District Libraries site with online catalogue.

http://www.wises.co.nz/

New Zealand maps.

http://marvin.otago.ac.nz/marriages/

New Zealand Marriages Index

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nicoleg/nzsil/index.htm

New Zealand surnames interest list

http://nzsghamilton.co.nz/index.htm

New Zealand Society of Genealogists Hamilton Branch—contains link to NZSG Hamilton News, a weekly newsletter, full of links to interesting sites, available to read on this site, or you can subscribe with an email to nzsghamiltonnews@ihug.co.nz and have the newsletter emailed to you every weekend.

http://www.archives.govt.nz/

The 'holy grail' of New Zealand research sites. Go to the “Archway” link and use “simple search”—there is a wealth of material to be had, including BDMs, wills, war records, JP nominations, land etc.

http://list.jaunay.com/ausnzpassengers/

Gateway page to online ASUSNZ passenger lists.

NZ Cemeteries:

http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/mlynn/

http://www.wellington.govt.nz/services/cemeteries/index.html

http://www.ccc.govt.nz/parks/cemeteries/

http://librarydata.christchurch.org.nz/Cemeteries/

http://www.cityofdunedin.com/public/registers?Burl_form
http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/dbtw-wpd/cemeteries/cemetery.htm/
http://www.purewa.co.nz/search.asp

When you're trying to locate cemeteries that aren't covered in resources you already know about, find the local council's web site and see what that says about cemeteries. Local Government Online is at http://www.localgovt.co.nz/ and has a handy locator on its home page for the city, district and regional councils in NZ. Details given include each council's web site, so you can click on that link then search the web site for mention of "cemetery" or "cemeteries" if it isn't obvious on their home page.

MAPS

http://www.old-maps.co.uk/

Excellent map site.

http://contueor.com/baedeker/great_britain/

Some old maps (1910) of several towns in UK.

http://go.to/genmaps

Old and interesting UK maps. Search for your area of interest. Links to other map sites.

CENSUS SITES

http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~framland/census/directions.htm

Enumerators’ instructions for all censuses except 1881.

http://freecen.rootsweb.com/

Various Online Census Projects

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kayhin/ukocp.html

Cornwall Online Census Project—1841 returns almost completed, plus 25 percent of the 1851 and 1861 returns.

http://www.kindredkonnections.com/census.html

Searchable censuses including the 1871 Cornwall, and approximately 3% of the 1851 UK census.

http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~kernow/index.htm

Origins of Cornish surnames

http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~matthew/work/occlass.htm

A very long but very interesting paper called “The Classification of Occupations in the 1881 British Census”—lots of really good information.

http://www.gendocs.demon.co.uk/census.html

Lots of information about the taking of the various censuses, such as enumerators’ instructions, and what each census contains.

SPECIFIC AREAS OF INTEREST

http://www.victorianlondon.org/

Heaps of information about Victorian London

http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/terrace/adw03/c-eight/distress/blanket.htm

http://www.cottontimes.co.uk/blanketo.htm

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1819peterloo.html

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/peterloo.html

http://www.learnhistory.org.uk/cpp/peterloo.htm

http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/England-History/PeterlooMassacre.htm

http://www.cottontimes.co.uk/peterloo.htm

http://www.chadderton-hs.freeuk.com/page9-ploo.htm

http://www.grimshaworigin.org/WebPages/LoomRiot.htm

http://www.cottontimes.co.uk/1826.htm

http://www.lancashirepioneers.com/whitehead/riots.asp

The Blanketeers March of 1817, Peterloo Massacre, and the Loom Riots:

http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/history/crime/crimes.html

Crimes tried at the Old Bailey

http://www.ukniwm.org.uk/server/show/nav.002

A searchable database of war memorials in the UK (sometimes includes family gravestone inscriptions) :

http://www.avotaynu.com/csi/csi-home.html

Consolidated Jewish Surname Index—contains many links to Jewish sites.

www.twicelovedtreasures.com/new_page_5.htm

Scottish names

http://www.a2a.org.uk/default.asp

Search for your criminal ancestor in UK archives

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=154&j=1

Assizes: Criminal Trials

http://www.fred.net/jefalvey/execute.html

List Of Executions—England 1606 onward

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=253

Sources for convicts and prisoners

http://www.genealogy-quest.com/collections/index.html

Criminal pardons, 1770, 1771, 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775

http://www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk/contents.html

Capital punishment in the UK

http://blacksheepancestors.com/uk/parkhurst.shtml

Parkhurst Prison inhabitants in 1901.
 

http://www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk/strangeway.html

Strangeways Prison

http://www.manchester2002-uk.com/buildings/prisons.html

Manchester prisons

http://www.gmp.police.uk/

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/museum_gfx_en/NW000056.html

Greater Manchester Police and Museum

http://www.manchester2002-uk.com/celebs/murderers-manchester.html

Manchester murderers

http://www.londonancestor.com/
Great links for London research.

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/ins/epncurrent/php/results_county.php?,SOM

English place names.

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/ins/epncurrent/php/results_county.php?,SOM

Searchable indexes of convicts, paupers and soldiers in Leicestershire and Rutland counties.

http://www.mycountymaps.com

Links to maps showing USA county boundary changes.

http://ahd.exis.net/monaghan/irish-names-naming.htm

Irish naming patterns

http://www.accessgenealogy.com/military/korean.php

Korean War Casualty list

http://www.uk.or.kr/wargrave/

Korean War Database

http://www.rhodesfamily.org.uk/yesterdays/

“Yesterdays”—A most interesting website, updated frequently with stories from a newspaper in south east Lancashire and north east Cheshire since the 1850s.

http://website.lineone.net/~stephaniebidmead/other sites.htm

Malta Family History

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~hdharris/missingpeople.html

Missing persons taken from police files, Victoria, Australia.

http://mysite.freeserve.com/longtown19/index.html

Dumfries/Galloway—includes list of some Gretna Green marriages. (Principally from Longtown newspapers.)

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/emigrants/

An excellent site about migration from Liverpool. It is based around an exhibition in Liverpool and takes the format of a fictitious diary about leaving Liverpool for Australia in 1858. The site gives a great insight into the nineteenth century world, emigration, and why people left for the new world.

http://www.cornishsurnames.com/

Not telling you what this one has—guess!

http://www.lurganancestry.net/

Possibly of interest to Irish researchers.

http://www.lancashirebmd.org.uk/

http://www.yorkshirebmd.org.uk/

http://www.cheshirebmd.org.uk/

http://www.staffordshirebmd.org.uk/

Search for births, marriages and deaths in these counties—work in progress, frequently updated.

http://www.manchester2002-uk.com/maps/postcodes-map.html

Postcodes for Greater Manchester.

MAKING CONTACT

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/

Register names of interest and give others the opportunity to contact you through a server if they think they have a connection with your family tree. Your email isn’t revealed to your “cousin” unless you allow this.

www.lostcousins.com

Similar to the “genesreunited” site, but uses the 1881 English, Welsh and Scottish censuses as a starting point.

MIXED BAG—UK AND INTERNATIONAL SITES

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~blacksmiths/

Indexes of blacksmiths and similar trades.

www.honeyshome.com/manpatt.php

Naming patterns (many countries)

http://www.dixons.clara.co.uk/Certificates/indexbd.htm

Click on links near the top for explanations of what you may find on BMD certificates. The site’s author, Barbara Dixon, is a registrar, and while this is not an official site, it is considered by many to be “the Bible” on certificates.

http://www.ukdps.co.uk/
All about Deed Polls and changing your name.

http://www.genuki.org.uk/

Perhaps the most helpful UK genealogical site of all—information about specific areas to keep you busy for hours.

http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl

Births, deaths and marriages from 1837, being progressively updated. Some years are not yet complete—keep re-checking.

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp

The search tab for the LDS site. The list on the left of the page takes you to various search sites—IGI, census, etc.

http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk.

A2A—Access to Archives. This site is similar to the National Register of Archives and Manuscripts (NRAM) here in New Zealand. The database contains catalogues describing archives held throughout England and dating from the 900s to the present day.

http://www.cwgc.org/cwgcinternet/search.aspx

Commonwealth War Graves Commission search site.

http://www.1914-1918.net/

Information on WW1 personnel

http://www.curiousfox.com/

Excellent search site—search for a person or a place—someone else may be making the same search.

http://www2.bt.com/edq_resnamesearch?namespace=coexistence

British Telecom search site—see if there is anybody in the UK with the name you are searching for.

http://www.ukphonebook.com/public?ses=bpjbfoglfjjgldhkanmaknopdekcjlnkkdkhgdjfgheechboeeipbnebiimpjadpikpjadmcjgfmkdhbkimkgfapnmgilgjn&index=1

UK Phonebook site—need to register but no charge.

http://all-surnames.com

Nearly 2,000 links to various surname pages found on the web.

http://www.ukbdm.org.uk/

UK Certificate exchange site. Maybe someone already has "your" certificate.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/index.htm

Middle Name Index—someone in your lineage with an unusual name? See if anybody else has this has a middle name. Site also contains information on IGI batch numbers.

http://www.gti.net/mocolib1/kid/food.html

Food timeline. See what foods were available to your ancestors at various times.

http://www.obliquity.com/family/misc/cousin.html

A site which explains relationships.

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/Trafalgar/

Battle of Trafalgar

http://www.taliesin-arlein.net/names/search.php

List of One Name Studies

http://www.raogk.org/england.htm

http://www.raogk.org/scotland.htm

http://www.raogk.org/ireland.htm

http://www.raogk.org/wales.htm

Need a photo of a tombstone or a look-up done in an English Record Office? Try the website Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness. You may well find someone living in the area you want who will find what you need. Volunteers do require reimbursement for money spent on things such as photocopying or postage but their time is free.

http://eh.net/hmit/ppowerbp/

Website for Economic History Services, which allows you to compare the purchasing power of money in Great Britain from 1264 to today.

http://www.lightage.demon.co.uk/

A great site—lists of names, some villains, some not. Includes the Black Sheep Index.

http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/index.php?form_action.local

UKBMD—links to birth, death, marriage and census records online transcriptions.

http://www.historicaldirectories.org/

Searchable directories (Kellys, Post Office, etc.). Free site.

http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/html_units/1760s/t17660409-50.html

Early accounts of trials at the Old Bailey, London.

http://www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses

A list of workhouses in the UK.

www.workhouse.org.uk

Workhouses, the buildings, inmates, staff and administrators.

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/bicentenary/bicent2.html

Changes in UK counties—boundaries, etc.

http://www.parloc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ParLoc.htm

Parish Locator—a small downloadable program which shows the distances between UK parishes, etc. Excellent small program.

http://shootingstarent.tripod.com/wedding.html

Traditions and customs of Victorian weddings.

http://pub12.ezboard.com/fbookaholicshistoricalromance.showMessage?topicID=30.topic

http://pub12.ezboard.com/fbookaholicshistoricalromance.showMessage?topicID=31.topic

Wedding Customs, Parts 1 and 2

http://www.bereavement-and-funerals.co.uk/victorian_funerals.htm

Victorian funerals.

http://www.swinhope.myby.co.uk/Misc/ancprdx.html

Our ancestors—conceptions, misconceptions and a paradox

http://dqc.esr.earlham.edu:8080/xmlmm/login.html

Quaker ancestry

http://www.ormond.i8.com/

A link to free databases for genealogical searching.

http://www.homesweethomefront.co.uk/web_pages/hshf_rationing_pg.htm

http://www.thisishertfordshire.co.uk/nostalgia/nostalgiareflections/display.var.451463.0.wartime_childhood.php

http://www.nutrition.org.uk/information/rationing/wartime.htm

Wartime Rationing and Nostalgia

http://www.imagepartners.co.uk/thesaurus/

Name thesaurus—gives name variations

http://www.ukancestor.com/modules.php?name=Ancestral_Addresses

Allows you to register the addresses where your British and Irish ancestors lived. See the occupants of a particular house or street over the years. This site is just getting established—help it along by participating.

http://www.behindthename.com/

The etymology of first names.

http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/

A new site—promises to be a major resource.

http://www.francisfrith.com/uk/

Good site for photographs of UK towns to use as illustrations for family history. Photos with large overprint can be seen. This overprint will be removed from purchased photos.

http://www.compter.org/index.htm

Lots of interesting links.

http://www.certificates.fsnet.co.uk/certificates.htm

Antony Lambert’s UK certificate service, based in Lancashire, thoroughly reliable, very fast and helpful. Antony accepts NZ cheques and email orders.

http://www.tanningtonhall.co.uk/myfiles/TH1685[1].doc.

Inventory of a 1695 house.

www.genealogytoday.com

Subscription site with lots of helpful articles

http://www.gendocs.demon.co.uk/trades.html

http://rmhh.co.uk/occup/a.html

Old occupations links

www.paul_smith.doctors.org.uk/ArchaicMedicalTerms.htm

http://www.gpiag-asthma.org/drpsmith/amt1.htm

http://geocities.com/~prairiecreek/diseases.htm

http://www.genealogy-quest.com/glossaries/diseases.html

Archaic Medical Terms

http://users.bigpond.com/wares_dlrn/dictionary.html

Genealogy Dictionary

http://www.iridis.com/glivar/List_of_most_popular_family_names

Are there more Smiths than Joneses? More Wangs than Chens? More Kellys than Murphys? (Yes, yes and no.)

http://www.one-name.org/register.shtml

Find out if anyone is looking for your name.

http://www.missing-ancestors.com/ALPHABETICAL LIST OF ALL SCHOOLS.htm

Lists many schools in the UK with links to various census returns for some of them.

http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/

Lots of recordings of the English dialects.

http://www.genealogyprinters.com/

Purchase family tree charts or have your own made up.

http://www.searchforancestors.com/utility/cousincalculator.html

Relationship calculator, perpetual calendar, day-of-the-week calculator

http://hometown.aol.co.uk/kevinasplin/home.html

Military history site—many names.

http://www.achievements.co.uk/services/gretna/index.php

Free online index to some Gretna Green registers.

http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/vital/freebmd/bmd.aspx

New addition to Ancestry, allowing a free search of the England and Wales BMD Index from 1837-1983.. Does not provide the specific answer, but brings up a list of pages that MAY contain the entry you are looking for. You do not need an Ancestry subscription for this search. Might take you all afternoon, but if the information is there, this site will find it.

http://www.eh.net/ehresources/howmuch/poundq.php

How much is that worth today? Compare an amount of UK money in one year to the same amount in another.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civil_parishes_in_England

As it says!

http://www.spatial-literacy.org/

Find out the areas where your “names” are concentrated.

http://genealogy.about.com/library/weekly/aa052902a.htm

Twelve Google search tips for genealogists

www.one-name.org

GOONS—The Guild of One-name Studies.

http://genealogy.about.com/library/bl_nicknames.htm

Common nicknames and their given name equivalents.

http://eh.net/hmit/

How Much is That? Compare relative values, different times, different countries.

http://www.historicaldirectories.org/

Leicester University is creating a library of digital images of 18th, 19th and 20th century directories online including Kelly’s and Pigot’s as well as other local county directories. These directories are a wonderful source of information for family historians and contain trades, occupations and addresses of ancestors. Directories are searchable by location, decade and keywords, and can be printed off.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~rigenweb/abbrev.html

Abbreviations found in genealogy.

http://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/rectype/vital/freebmd/bmd.aspx

The England and Wales BMD records at Ancestry are available free of charge to anybody, member of Ancestry or not.

http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/codes/codes1.html

Country and regional abbreviations.

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/Regions/Codes.html

British Isles country and county codes

http://www.rootsweb.com/~rigenweb/abbrev.html

Abbreviations found in genealogy.