*denotes very
useful #
denotes commercial site
Free 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.
Family History Societies*
Find My Past #- To celebrate 30 years
of the Federation, this new website meets the challenges
of the Internet. There are 22 million records which can be
searched by name. Initial searches are free but transcripts of
the full record cost a small fee. The cost of searching is very
low [some as low as 6-7p] for a 5 pound sterling minimum outlay [lasts
six months]. 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.org.uk*- 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.
Places in Yorkshire
All Souls Halifax Church-not the Parish Church.
History of Wakefield
Yorkshire Surname List
People
William The Conqueror [French]
- Get a web page translator
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 Headquarters-
"Wakefield Archives" They have a
search service for West and South Yorkshire.
Yorkshire Archaelogical
Society
Yorkshire
Ancestors - Family History CD’s
are available online from The Parish Chest
# and Genfair. CD’s are
also available as a download with prices starting from as
£4.99. [2016]
There are also Yorkshire
Probate records in the limited edition book by Colin Blanshard Withers.
Yorkshire Ancestors are the sole stockists of this unique and valuable resource book and there are just a few copies remaining.
(July 2016), price of £25 including postage (to
UK). There will be additional postage costs for deliveries outside the
UK.
Websites:
www.yorkshireancestors.co.uk
www.yorkshhireancestors.com
www.yorkshireancestors.net
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#- one
of the larger, fee paying sites [U.S.]
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.
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.
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.
Free Census Records
Scottish documents
Scottish handwriting
GenesReunited
- An off-shoot of FriendsReunited, 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.
Find your Midgley ancestors at OneGreatFamily.com#
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
which replaces Malcolm Bull's "Trivia Trail*
Yorkshire Dialect
Verse
Roy Stockdill's tips
for budding genealogists
Images of England-
images of heritage listed buildings your ancestors
may have
resided.
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 - remember the James Bond film O.H.M.S.S. the college and its work
appear there. Very few
luxury cars in this one
but you'll see a very
young Joanna Lumley as one
of the 'Bond girls'.
GenDoor
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
Australians in WW
II
Rootsweb Mailing List- Australian genealogy
searches.
Cemeteries
in Australia - burial and headstone information.
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
OZGen Online
Australian Family
History Compendium
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
Western Australia
Pioneers Index online. BDM 1841 to 1905, mail for a certificate.
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
Cemeteries
Pictorial
Collection Queensland State libraries.
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.
Assisted immigrants into Queensland - 1848 to 1844 as
pdf download
Australasian
Passenger lists
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#
Have your D.N.A. mapped, find out if you
have Viking ancestry, which of the "seven daughters' of
Eve" are you related to?
The Genographic Project
Purchase
a Genographic Project Public
Participation Kit# and trace your genetic
migration from the time we first left Africa, 50,000
to 60,000 years ago, to the places where we live today.
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