Archives

• FamilyRecords.gov.uk.  Without doubt one of the the most important sources of information for those undertaking family history research in England - this link is to the main Family History page.
• PRO Leaflets. The PRO has produced more than 300 leaflets that provide information relevant to the family history researcher.
• ARCHON.  The Archives on Line site acts as a gateway for UK archives.
• Public Libraries.  The Familia web site is designed to be a comprehensive guide to family history holdings in public libraries across the country.
• The Archives Hub - is a relatively new site that provides descriptions of archive material held in university libraries throughout the UK.
• The Society of Genealogists.  Home to the country's most important private collection of genealogical information.

On-Line Resources

Parish Records

• Family Search - the on-line database of the Church of Latter Day Saints comprising mainly of parish birth and marriage records.
• FreeREG - is a volunteer project that aims to provide free internet searches of baptism, marriage and burial records transcribed from parish records. Search facilities not yet active, but likely to be useful when its up and running.

Census

• Genuki - has a searchable database of places in the 1891 census that gives the county, registration district and sub-district, PRO piece number and LDS film number for any place in England, Wales or the Isle of Man.
• Census Content. This section of the Gendocs site shows exactly what information was recorded for each census from 1841 - 1901.
• 1901 Census.  Made available by the Public Record Office. Searching the Index is free but there are charges for viewing/copying the original data or transcriptions.
• FreeCEN.  Aims to provide a similar service to FreeBMD (see below) - but for 1841-1891 census material. A pilot scheme for the 1891 census will start with Devon and Cornwall.

Civil Registration

• Free BMD - birth, marriage and death information extracted from GRO registration indexes and contributed to the site by fellow researchers.
• Cheshire BMD.  A similar, but smaller, project to make the indexes to civil registration records for the county of Cheshire accessible in-line.
• Yorkshire BMD. Even more recent project for Yorkshire but with steadily growing content.
• St Catharine's Extracts. Tiny (but useful) extracts of the GRO records.

Maps and Gazetteers

• StreetMap and Multimap provide contemporary street maps and searche facilities for most UK towns and cities.
• Old Maps.  A downloadable collection of 19th Century 6 inch Ordnance Survey (OS) Maps for England, Wales and Scotland.
• Ordnance Survey.  The OS 'Get-a-map' facility allows you to call up a map centred on a particular place or click on a point then zoom in/out as required.
• Genmaps.  An extensive collection of historical maps and links to many others, organised by county.
• Your Old Maps Online.   A useful source of map scans and links toother similar sites.
• Gazeteer of British Place Names.  maintained by the Association of British Counties.
• The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names - covers the whole world!
• The Genuki Gazetteer. Tells you the county and OS grid reference of a place as well as providing a list of other towns and villages within whatever distance you specify.
• The Genuki Parish Locator. Lists churches and the relevant register offices.

British Army Military Sites

• Trenches on the Web. An internet history of the Great War.
• World War 1 Documents Archive - has links to online documents, memorials and other sites.
• Commonwealth Wargraves Debt of Honour Register - provides information about the more than one million British and Commonwealth servicemen who gaves their lives in both the First and Second World Wars.
• Genuki Military Records Pages
• Cindi's List - pages devoted to British military historical links.
• Imperial War Museum - family history section.
• Tracing your Military Ancestors.  A useful site that provides a number of links to military sites, some of which have data/lists of names.
• Regiments.org - a mineof useful information about British Army Regiments and Corps.

Medals and Badges

• MedalNet - a useful site specialising in Commonwealth medals.

Migration and Overseas

• Genuki links for both emigration and immigration.
• Cindi's List - Passenger Ships Pages.
• The Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild - has transcribed many hundreds of passenger lists and has links to many other passenger list sires on line.
• The American Family Immigration History Center - has a searchable database of passengers who entered America through Ellis Island between 1892 and 1924.
• Family History in India - includes lists of names of Europeans in colonial India.

Utilities

• Babel Fish .  Type in one language and it's automatically translated to another. Clever eh?
• The Soundex Machine.   Type in the name, get the Soundex Code.
• Chapman Codes.   Full list of the Chapman three letter abbreviations used to indicate counties and countries.
• Parish Locator.   A particularly useful freeware utility that gives the location of some 15,000 UK parishes and will calculate the distance and bearing between any two.

Reference Material

• British Counties, Parishes, etc. for Genealogists         
• A-Z of British Genealogical Research invaluable explanations provided by Dr Ashton Emery.
• The England & Wales Vital Document Supply Agency for Genealogists also provides a large amount of useful gereral information about researching.
• Descriptions and definitions of old ranks, professions, occupations and trades - another useful section of the Gendocs site.
• Deciphering Old Handwriting - useful hints on how to read those old parish records and other documents.

Societies and Researchers

• Family History and Genealogy Societies – England - yet another useful Genuki page.
• The Society of Genealogists. The premier society for those with an interest in researching family history in the United Kingdom.
• FFHS.  The Federation of Family History Societies.
• AGRA.  The Association of Genealogists and Researchers in Archives is the professional body for genealogical researchers.
• GOONS.  The Guild of One Name Studies.