Genealogical Sites Help
with finding your Midgley ancestors
*denotes very
useful #
denotes commercial site
Useful pedigree chart. Download and create multiple copies. To add your family information to the chart go to Tools > Advanced editing, retain digital copies and/or print off.
ALL LINKS UPDATED 2nd SEPTEMBER 2023
Family History Societies*
Find My Past #-
Records which can be
searched by name. Initial searches are free but transcripts of
the full record cost a small fee. There are county databases for marriages, census's,
headstones and strays [those born in a different county to the one
they were recorded in for the census]. Some counties are not yet involved
but the site is growing. This is not a commercial organisation therefore
it is good value, all monies are used for the benefit of Family History
Societies
U.K. National Archives
# [formerly the Public Records Office ] official government records of
England and Wales. Search indexes on the Documentsonline section
for wills and service personnel [free] charges apply to download a
viewable image of the record and order a print copy.
For births, marriages, deaths,
adoptions and civil partnerships
please see the Directgov website
For census returns, wills
and other material please go to The National Archives
# website
A2A.*- You could spend hours on this site there is so much to look
at. It is a cooperative venture between 350 archives
in the British Isles. You may find papers which relate
to your family. You can search the whole country or be more
specific with a region and time span. Wills, marriage settlements
and manorial deeds are not uncommon.
Huddersfield
Family History Society
Bradford Family
History Society
Wakefield Family History
Society
Barnsley
Family History Society
Bishop's
Transcripts for Yorkshire
Publications
National
Archives - Online census records # 1911, 1901, 1891, 1881, 1871, 1861, 1851,
1841 - probably the most important resource for England and Wales to
start your search.
English Origins#-
Online collections of the Society of Genealogists
in London for a fee charged by the week.
The Domesday Book
on line - this is excellent for those villages of 1086.
The
Yorkshire Dictionary 1822*
West Yorks Archaeological
Society*
Yorkshire Parish Registers#
The
Dalesman on line#
Medieval
Sourcebook
LANCAT-
Lancashire Archives
Catalogue online -
search online for parish
church records, BMD's and
early charters and
records.
Parish
Registers for Lancashire
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Aerial Photographs
Download free version
of Google Earth
Aerial photographs#
U.K. Maps
Old Maps* - historic
maps to plot against O.S. maps and aerial images
has now been superseded by the incredible site by the National Library of Scotland
O.S. maps of the U.K.
Places in Yorkshire
History of Wakefield
Yorkshire Surname List
Dugdale's
Visitation of Yorkshire
vol.1
Dugdale's
Visitation of Yorkshire
vol.2
Dugdale's
Visitation of Yorkshire
vol. 3
People
William The Conqueror
Latin
to English translator
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Search Assistance*
Family
Search.org [L.D.S.]
Search the International
Genealogical Index [I.G.I.]
for parish records in
England as well as the
1881
census.
Borthwick Institute,York
For North and East
Yorkshire
West
Yorkshire Archive Service "Wakefield Archives" They have a
search service for West and South Yorkshire.
Yorkshire Archaelogical
Society
Yorkshire
Ancestors
Genuki Yorkshire
Genealogy
Genuki U.K- the gateway
site of U.K. genealogy.
Free Births Deaths and
Marriages- in England & Wales 1837-1901#- volunteers
are creating this database
Find My Past.com
[FMP] # [Formerly
1837 online], a pay as you view BMD site to rival free BMD- has
actual microfiche images online up to the present day,
all the indexes are present. Parish records 1538-1837
available. Now includes
'Scotland's People', '1911
census', 'Genes Reunited'
and 'Family History
online', all part of 'Brightsolid'.
UK Births deaths and marriages
Ancestry.com# The
U.K.version. You can check how many 'hits' you
get before applying for a subscription. Online indexes
and images of the 1851-1901 English and Welsh census, 1841 census due
soon, many other databases and digitised books. London
parish records now
available.
Rootsweb.com#*- another
large site with over 30,000 mailing lists- choose mailing
lists then index, share your data. The home of many volunteer
projects and helpful sites in the WorldConnect Project to see
who is researching the same lines as yourself.
NOTE: Hosted websites will become read-only beginning in early 2024. At that time, all logins will be disabled, but hosted sites will remain on RootsWeb as static
content.
Scotland's People #* - The complete one-stop shop for Scottish genealogy,
aye ye have to pay but the cost goes a lang way. Indexes 1851-1901, Scottish
census, civil registration, births 1855 to 1905, marriages 1855 to 1930,
deaths 1855 to 1955, church registrations for baptisms and marriages 1553
to 1854 and a free wills index 1513 to 1901.
The
Old Bailey on-line.
Check to see if you had any one in the clink!
1911 Census
- U.K. Ancestry site#
Ancestry Tree
- UK#
War Records
- Ancestry UK#
Paver's
Marriage Licenses [GENUKI]
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Bulletin
Board
Midgley
Family Genealogy Forum
Book Shops
The Parish Chest
# Purchase books, parish transcriptions, U.K. Census
etc.
Colin Hinson's Out of
print books for Yorkshire on CD-ROM*#
Family Tree .co.uk#
a monthly magazine. Online bookshop and an index to
the articles in the magazine
The Genealogy Bookshop#
Baggins Book Bazaar*#
Alibris-Out of print books*#
Amazon.com Bibliofind #
Family History Books
[GENFAIR]*
LDS search the
I.G.I. on line*# The Mormon or Latter Day
Saints site- very popular search site and free Personal
Ancestral File software with which to record your family tree.
Scottish documents
Scottish handwriting
GenesReunited
- Free to register, costs on a per
annum basis if you want to contact others.
Curious Fox - find
others interested in the same town or village in UK and Ireland.
Historical recordings for Midgley - Ancestry.co.uk
# - see if your local library has public access before signing
up.
Family
Tree DNA
SurnameDB
Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion
Note - this is still an http:// address
Heraldic terms
National & International
sites
The Charles Booth Archive-
Online data from Charles Booth [1886-1903].
He conducted enquiries into the conditions of
the working poor
The Surname Web#
College of
Arms
Genealogy Gateway#
Cyndi's List# Over 330,
000 links!
Battle of Trafalgar, was your ancestor there?
National Maritime
Museum
The Salvation
Army have a family
tracing service if you
wish to contact a living
relative.
National Archives of Australia
- 35,000 historic parish, town, country, pastoral and municipal
maps for NSW! links to BDM forSstates and Territories. Post 1922 shipping into Australia and "Trove' useful for locating those
difficult to find library books [interlibrary loan]
The Australian
Federation of Family History Societies - searchable by region
and society name.
S.A.G. -Society of Australian
Genealogists
NSW State Records
including First Fleet records
NSW Births Deaths
and Marriages births from 1788 to 1905, marriages to 1954
and deaths to 1975. [search free on-line, then order certificate
by snail mail]
Cora Web# [Australian
Gateway - if you have tried everything and found
little see Coraweb for links to BDM]
Australian
Births, deaths and
marriages.
Family Search.org [L.D.S.] Now has Australian and New Zealand record
New Zealand
BDM
The
Australian War Memorial
Trove-
Search multiple Australian
collections - books,
journals, newspaper
articles, images, music,
sound, video, maps,
websites, diaries,
letters, archives, people
and organisations.
Hawkesbury
Cemeteries
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
-burial details for 1.7 million service personnel in 150 countries.
Gould Genealogy-
An Australian site, browse online catalogue,
large range of books and CDs relating to genealogy.
Free newsletter
Genealogical studies
Australian GenWeb
Victorian public records
BDM for Victoria
follow the links, a small fee is charged for
accessing online indexes. Births 1836-1924, deaths 1836-1985
marriages 1836-1942. Certificates can be immediately downloaded.
Australia's libraries
(some are online)
Ryerson.org#
Useful for Australian
death notices, even recent
ones.
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Military
Histoncal Society of Australia
Genealogy Society of
Canberra.
West Australian State
Records Office
Professional genealogists who are members of Australasian Associaton of Genealogists and
Record Agents- An online directory.
National Library of Australia-
links to all public libraries for local history collections.
National Archives of Australia,
good for WWII and 1900's and immigration records.
Queensland
State Archives online pdf immigration indexes, inquests, teachers,
divorce and probates.
Queensland Family History
Society
Genealogical Society of Queensland
Queensland Births,
Deaths and marriages.
Tasmanian State Archives
online indexes to convict records, divorces, naturalisations
and census records.
South Australian
State Records
Passenger and shipping lists Australasia :
These
are sites where people have located specific passenger
lists for some of the early arrivals and share the
names they have found.
NSW Government Records - use the site search for passenger shipping
Cyndi's List -ships
Indexes of unassisted
passengers arriving in Victoria 1852-1923 and assisted immigrants
1839-1871 and outward bound passengers 1852-1861 - use the site search.
Passengers Mariner's Records - State records of NSW run by volunteers- indexes
and images of selected passenger arrivals into NSW 1854-1878. Browse by
year and month, vessel by vessel.
Oxford Ancestors#
Find out if you
have Viking ancestry, which of the "seven daughters' of
Eve" are you related to? NOTE: With the
death of Brian Sykes in
2020, this service is no
longer available.
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