Just some of the sites I’ve found, or hope to find, useful
On this page:
General
- Research guidance – FamilySearch research guides
- Ancestry.com – all sorts of wonderful stuff, pay to view but has some free indices
- New FamilySearch – original and indexed source documents, BDM, census, migration +++
- IGI online search – Old IGI, contains some data not available on new family search site above
- Cyndis list – indexes and sites galore
- BYU – Brigham Young University digital archives
New Zealand
- National Library’s “Big Data”
- Archway – National Archives
- PapersPast – growing colleciton of online newspapers
- AtoJs aka Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives
- BDM indexes and ordering (order a printout rather than a certificate for genealogy – more info/cheaper)
Australia
- Australian newspapers Trove – newspapers ++
- New South Wales BDM indexes & orders
- Victoria – BDM indexes & orders
- Victoria probates
- Australasia bdm exchange – contribute or search for certs – free or by donation(nz and oz)
United Kingdom
- BDM certs. – England/Wales – now searchable at GRO with maiden names on births including prior to 1911, and ages on deaths prior to 1865
- UK Wills – order online, receive by email
- GenUKi – a wealth of information on british research, organised by place
- The Gazette – “350 years of history at your fingertips”
- Free BMD – transcribed indexes to the BMD data for England and Wales from July 1837
- Free Census – transcribed census data for the uk
- GeoGraph – photos by grid square for the UK
- Electoral Rolls etc – 2002+ Electoral Rolls ++ (see also FindMyPast)
- Manorial Documents Register
- Assorted Placename sites:
GenUKI
English Place-Names Society (EPNS)
Historic Gazetteer of England’s Place-Names
A Vision of Britain through Time
Scotland specific
- National Library of Scotland – wonderful maps and directories ++
- Scotlands People – official Scottish BMD, Census data & Wills (pay to view)
includes Valuation Rolls, Seafarer deaths online - Gazetteer for Scotland – gazetteer for Scotland, including Groomes, and old maps
- Scotlands Places
- National Archives of Scotland
- Statistical Accounts
- Topographical, Statistical and Historical Gazetteer of Scotland (1842) ?on digital.nls.uk?
- Scottish Place Name Society
Wales
Ireland
Canada
- British Columbia – vital record images
- Manitoba – index & orders
- Nova Scotia – search and view (free, selected dates)
Military
- Commonwealth War Graves
- Roger Nixon – military researcher with access to Kew
Mapping
- Wykes Distribution maps – UK & USA from your own data