Re: A - Z of Useful Links ( also see County Information)

Post by **admin** » Thu Jul 25, 2019 6:54 pm

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ARMS- Coats of arms information
College of arms information
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BIRTHS - MARRIAGES - DEATHS- Civil registration Information
(Check Councils for registration offices information too)
Ancestry.co.uk
The Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry
Family Search - pilot site
Free BMD
Genwed.com
General Register Office - GRO
Tees Valley Indexes - Register of Births, Deaths & Marriages
Historic Stillbirth Register
UK BMD
Address, Telephone Number and Web sites of Register Offices in England
Marriage Locator to deduce, from the year, quarter, volume number and page that you have acquired from the GRO indexes, where the marriage took place.

BRITAIN
A vision of Britain between 1801 and 2001
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CEMETERY AND BURIAL INFORMATION-UK
Dudley Council Burial records/ grave plots
Dudley area Cemetery plans
Find a Grave.com
St Kenelms Churchyard gravestones
An international directory of grave monuments
Deceased Online is the first central database of statutory burial and cremation registers for the UK and Republic of Ireland
Rowley Regis Crematorium Book of Remembrance
Sandwell Valley Crematorium Book of Remembrance
Derby Gravestones
Martin and Claire Nicholson's Cemetery Project

CENSUS
1901 Census online
Ancestry.co.uk
British Genealogy.com
Family search - pilot site
Find my Past
1841 Census street addresses Stourbridge
1861 Street index for certain counties
Corfe (Somerset) 1841 Census
Census helper
The 1939 National Identity Card

CHESHIRE
Photos of Cheshire

CHURCHES
(find a church in your area)
A Church near you
Amblecote Holy Trinity

COUNCILS AND ARCHIVES
(some of the councils here link to the register office for certificate ordering)
Bedfordshire Family history
Birmingham
Black Country History Website -Walsall, Sandwell, Dudley and Wolverhampton search the archives site-Discover the history of the Black Country through the collections held by our local museums, galleries and archives
Cambridgeshire
Darlington
Dudley
Friends of Dudley Archives & Local History Service
Gateshead
Herts
I.Wight
Kent
Newcastle
N. Lincs
Rotherham
Sheffield
Shropshire
Staffordshire
Sunderland
Walsall
Warwickshire
Wolverhampton
Wrexham
Web Archiving
Barrow Record Office and Local Studies Library

NB:To find Archives of most of the councils, put the word "Archives" in their search box usually on the Home page.

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Capital Punishment U.K.
Black Sheep ancestors
Crime and Punishment in the Archives -Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent
Old Bailey online
Victorian Crime and Punishment
Australian Convict Records
Convict records of Tasmania
Claim a Convict

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DIVORCE
Divorce Records

DORSET

DURHAM
Durham Records Online

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FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETIES
Federation of Family History Societies
Hertfordshire Family History Society
Liverpool and SW Lancs FHS
Nuneaton and North Warwickshire Family History Society
Northumberland & Durham Family History Society

FIRST NAMES
Biblical First Names and there Meaning

FORUMS -or similar Genealogy discussion sites
Curious Fox
Roots Chat
Roots web
Genes Reunited
British-Genealogy.com
Tribal Pages
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GENEALOGICAL Aids/Suppliers eg Parish Registers, Census etc
British Data Archive
DNA Test Guides
S & N Genealogy Supplies
Genfair

GENERAL GENEALOGICAL - help sites for varied family history information
The BritishIslesGenWeb Project
Family Tree Searcher
Family Search pilot scheme
Gen Cirlcles
Genealogy Links
Genealogy on the Web
Locate First
Look up UK
Society of Genealogists
UK gen web
GENUKI
Historical Directories of England & Wales
Interesting interviews
Other Countries misc
Alberta Genealogical Society
Ancestral Findings
Census Records.net
Look up America
Families in British India Society
AU & NZ links
Researcher in France. Fee payable.
Gravestone Photographic Resources

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HISTORICAL-area and other information
Genuki Uk and Ireland Genealogy

Hospitals
The home of 19th century children"™s hospital records

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Immigration and Shipping Records
America's First Immigration Center
Ellis Island information
Ellis Island information 2 + jewish Gen database
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
Migration Records

INTERNATIONAL and MULTI NATIONAL links
21,550 GENEALOGICAL LINKS
THE RYERSON INDEX to death notices and obituaries in Australian newspapers

IRELAND
Census of Ireland 1911- Eire
Clare Roots Society Transcription Groups... and Irish news in general.
The Largest Family Records Database in Ireland
Irish Calendars of Wills and Administrations 1858 - 1920
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LANCASHIRE
*OnLine Parish Clerks project for the County of Lancashire. This site aims to extract and preserve the records from the various parishes and to provide online access to that data, FREE of charge, along with other data of value to family and local historians conducting research in the County of Lancashire. "

LIGHTHOUSES
Trinity House
Association of Lighthouse Keepers
Genuki Trinity House Personnel at Lighthouses in England and Wales and the Channel Islands 1841-1910

LIVERPOOL & SOUTH WEST LANCS AREA
Liverpool and SW Lancs FHS
Liverpool Families Liverpool Histories

LUNATIC ASYLUMS
Index of English and Welsh Lunatic Asylums and Mental Hospitals

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MAGAZINES/PERIODICALS
Family Tree Magazine

MAPS
Old Maps and Ordnance Survey Maps
Historic Maps of Dudley
Old OS Maps
Old Ordnance Survey Maps

MEDICAL TERMS(archaic)
Medical, History, Terms, Conditions, and Disease

MEDIEVAL
MEDIEVAL ENGLISH GENEALOGY

MIDLAND AND BLACK COUNTRY AREA - websites
Black Country Connections - a huge genealogical tree for the BC area
Black Country History Website -Walsall, Sandwell, Dudley and Wolverhampton search the archives site-Discover the history of the Black Country through the collections held by our local museums, galleries and archives
Black Country Society
Black Country Dialect
Chartism in the Black Country
CRADLEY LINKS
Joseph Sankey & Sons Ltd of Bilston-metalware etc
HALESOWEN ROOTS
History of Halesowen Abbey
History of Oldbury Timeline
Sedgley Manor
Welcome to Stourbridge
Wolverhampton History and Heritage Website
Black Country History
About Stourbridge, the town and its history
IGI Index for Worcestor
West Bromwich Photographs
Wednesbury Faces, Places and Industries
The Old Dissenting Chapel, Oldbury.
Birmingham Daily Post Boatman Articles 1857 to 1880
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NATIONAL ARCHIVES
The National Archives
Access to Archives
Documents online
NAVAL
Naval History

NEWSPAPERS
Gazettes-online
Staffordshire Newspapers Past and Present
British Newsparer Archive, Free search but you need to buy Credits to View
Welsh Newspapers

NORFOLK
Norfolk transcription register

NORTHUMBLAND
Northumberland Communities Records Etc

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OCCUPATIONS
Canal Boatmen
UK Mining History, Disasters, Accidents
The Industrial Revolution in Iron
The Black Country Nail Trade
Nailed to the Poverty Line
The Black Country Nail Trade
Durham Mining Museum
mining memorabilia and mining history links

Occupations and their meanings
Old Occupations and Terms
List of Occupations

ONE NAME STUDIES
One-Name Studies

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PARISH REGISTERS -bapts - marriages - burials & general information and records
Amblecote Holy Trinity Some Parish Records
Blackcountry Church , Chapel and Cemetery Registers onlinel
BMD Registers.
CHESHIRE PARISH REGISTER DATABASE
Ettingshall Parish Registers
Family Search (IGI)
The Parish of Colwall
Free REGisters
Gen Web Database
Old Hill Holy Trinity -Partial transcripts courtesy of Roger Boswell
Wolverhampton Archives & Local Studies
The History of Wolverhampton
Register of Nonconformist Burials in the Parish of Christ Church, The Quinton, 1891 to 1934
Rowley Regis PR pt2
Rowley Regis PR pt3
*OnLine Parish Clerks project for the County of Lancashire. This site aims to extract and preserve the records from the various parishes and to provide online access to that data, FREE of charge, along with other data of value to family and local historians conducting research in the County of Lancashire. "
For Baptism's, Death's and Marriage's taken from Parish and Burial Registers for the South Derbyshire District
links to Worcestershire Genealogy Parish Registers
Amblecote Holy Trinity Parish Records and History
CD Cradley parish records
This website lists the Extracted batches for the British Isles that previously formed part of the IGI
Warwickshire Baptisms and Marriages plus a few other places
St Marys Church, Oldswinford
Quinton BMD's and more.

Photography

PUBLIC HOUSES
A Directory of English Pubs in the 1881 Census
Brewers and Pub history
Staffordshire Inns, Taverns & Public Houses 1830
Available On CD The People, Life and Times of Black Country Pubs

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QUAKER ARCHIVES
Guide to the Quaker Archives
Quinton National School - Mixed Admission Register 1883 To 1902

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SCOTLAND
Genealogical Data for Scotland

SHROPSHIRE

STAFFORDSHIRE
Villages (and townships) on the Borders of Shropshire & Staffordshire
Penkridge and other information-various
Duke of Sutherland Staffordshire Collection
Staffordshire Name Indexes. Brought to you by Staffordshire & Stoke On Trent Archive Service
This page is a place name index to the former IGI batches for Staffordshire, as at 2010.

SURNAMES - assorted websites
The Billinghams of Cradley
Black County Connections
Burlinson family
Captain Noel Godfrey Chavasse, VC and Bar, MC, RAMC. (1884-1917)
marie byatt tribalpages
Wood Family of Alveley
Crew Family Tree
Dyson Family of Worcestershire
EBELTHITE FAMILY NAME
Gingell Family Name
Gripton family origins
The Guild of One-Name Studies
A Pepler name
Peter HANCOCKS
Surname Finder
Sheldon Family History
Dr Mike Sheldon's Genealogy website
SHELVOCK / SHELVOKE / SHILVOCK ONE NAME STUDY
Surname Database/Meanings
Surnames, Surname Meanings and Etymologies
The Tibbetts family of Hayseech
Whitehouse Family History Centre
BMSGH. Members Interest
Linda Lamberg's Willetts- (black country area)
The LONGMORE Pages
Shakespeare Family History & Genealogy Site
Descendants of Joseph Woodall Born c1800
Garratt Family from Netherton and Rowley Regis
A genealogy of the ancestors and descendants of Roger Prowse - born 1777 Loddiswell, Devon
Skidmore Families of The Black Country
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TRADE DIRECTORIES
Trade Directories for England and Wales, from 1750 to 1919

TRAVELLERS
RomanyGenes 1 Travelling Families
RomanyGenes 2 Travelling FamiliesÃ‚Â
National Fairground Archive

TIMELINE -Genealogical Timeline Links
Genealogical Timeline
British History Timeline

Tombstones & Monumental Inscriptions
Photographic record of the various Churches, Churchyards, Graveyards and Cemeteries

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WAR/Millitary information
Imperial War Musuem
The Queens Royal Lancers
The British infantry regiments of 1914-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The Great War 1914-1918 Websites
Various War Memorials County by County
STAFFORDSHIRE HOME GUARD
WORCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT
The British Army of 1914-1918 - for family historians
Which Regiment 1645 to 1990 How They Link
British Army and links wikipedia
Naval Social History - Index
Various War Memorials in the UK
Darlaston Remembers
Searchable database First World War volunteers

WARWICKSHIRE
Warwickshire Genealogy

WILLS
MESSRS HOOPER AND FAIRBAIRN, SOLICITORS various legal documents, and contains over 200 wills
Find a Will Gov.uk...

WORCESTERSHIRE
THE LYE
This website celebrates the history of Badsey in Worcestershire

WORKHOUSES
Index to "Paupers in Workhouses 1861" (10% sample)
Dedication to the Paupers in West Bromwich Workhouse

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Hebden Parish Historical Data

Northern Lass · Post by **Northern Lass** » Fri Jul 26, 2019 9:30 am

Postby Northern Lass » Fri Jul 19, 2019 8:11 am

Note by mod..added to links Contact poster Juliep for more info
"DNA links groups i run that you use your DNA to find links"
Postby Juliep » Sat Jul 13, 2019 11:02 pm
New Zealand & the World – Missing Links-Families Separated-DNA
Throughout time families have been separated by adoption, being born out of wedlock, remarriage or any number of other reasons. Doing your family history, you find thru the century’s Families have separated due to a number of reasons.
During the 1800’s people, Families, Young men and woman left their home land and traveled far and wide. New Zealand and Australia received a lot of these travelers which now makeup our population.
I want to offer that opportunity for people who want to find their roots, you never know what can be found.
Come and join us - Knockdown some brick walls
As we are using the DNA Matchfinder tool it requires you to have a DNA test done and to have Gedmatch kit number.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/644446299353608/
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Scottish DNA - Our DNA and Genealogy
We are a new group focusing on Scottish Genealogy and DNA.
Have you done your DNA and have Scottish roots then come and join us. Share you stories and brick walls.
Together we can help each other break these brick walls down and learn more about our families and thru DNA find our cousins.
As we are using the DNA Matchfinder tool it requires you to have a DNA test done and to have Gedmatch kit number.
Come and join https://www.facebook.com/groups/718256871927746/
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Australia & New Zealand's Proudest dark secret: Convict Ancestor
About 162,000 convicts were sent to penal colonies across Australia between 1788 and 1868. Now growing access to historic records has increased awareness of the number who went on to start new lives in New Zealand.
Former Australian prisoners played an important role in New Zealand's early European settler history, including being recruited by the government to fight in the land wars.
Did you have a convict ancestor - come and see
As we are using the DNA Matchfinder tool it requires you to have a DNA test done and to have Gedmatch kit number.
Come and Join https://www.facebook.com/groups/468873900324342/
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Ireland & the Irish in New Zealand DNA Matching
Group for people in New Zealand with Irish ancestry or people in Ireland with connections to New Zealand or visa versa. To learn more about our Irish Ancestors and how they lived.
We run the DNA Matchmaker program to assist people to find DNA matches hopefully within this County.
We are also a General Genealogy Group to help and assist find information etc.
As we are using the DNA Matchfinder tool it requires you to have a DNA test done and to have Gedmatch kit number.
Come and Join https://www.facebook.com/groups/NZIREDNAMATCHFINDER/
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Albertland Descendants (Port Albert, Wellsford) +Our DNA Links
Three ship brought over the First Albertlanders my Gt grandparents we among them.

They set sail from Gravesend for New Zealand on May 26, 1862, ships, including the Matilda Wattenbach, Hanover and William Miles.

The Matilda Wattenbach arrived in Kaipara Harbor first on September 8, 1862, the passengers included farmers, carpenters, servants, butchers, joiners, cabinet-makers, millers, drapers, sawyers and clerks.
As we are using the DNA Matchfinder tool it requires you to have a DNA test done and to have Gedmatch kit number.
Come and Join https://www.facebook.com/groups/295813541010392/
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Preston Surname One Name Study & DNA Matches
This is a new site solely for the Preston Surname DNA. if you haven't had your DNA done please think about it as it can help us to better learn about our Preston roots.
I want to offer that opportunity for people who want to find their roots, you never know what can be found.
If you have done your DNA and have Preston Roots - Come and join us – and knockdown some brick walls
As we are using the DNA Matchfinder tool it requires you to have a DNA test done and to have Gedmatch kit number.
Come and Join https://www.facebook.com/groups/Preston ... oup_header
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Staffordshire DNA Matchfinder
This group has been created for people with links in the County of Staffordshire, including Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Stafford, Stoke on Trent to name a few.

We run the DNA Matchmaker program to assist people to find DNA matches hopefully within this County.
We are also a General Genealogy Group to help and assist find information etc.
As we are using the DNA Matchfinder tool it requires you to have a DNA test done and to have Gedmatch kit number.
Come and join https://www.facebook.com/groups/2512553972142686/
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Shropshire DNA Matchfinder
This group has been created for people with links in the County of Shropshire, including Market Drayton, Wem, Shrewsbury, Newport to name a few.

We run the DNA Matchmaker program to assist people to find DNA matches hopefully within this County.

We are also a General Genealogy Group to help and assist find information etc and learning more about the counties.
As we are using the DNA Matchfinder tool it requires you to have a DNA test done and to have Gedmatch kit number.
Come and Join https://www.facebook.com/groups/460279441423906/
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Lincolnshire DNA Matchfinder
This group has been created for people with links in the County of Linclonshire, including Holbeach, Spalding, Market Rasen, Gainsborough to name a few.
We run the DNA Matchmaker program to assist people to find DNA matches hopefully within this County.
We are also a General Genealogy Group to help and assist find information etc and learning more about the counties.
As we are using the DNA Matchfinder tool it requires you to have a DNA test done and to have Gedmatch kit number.
Come and Join https://www.facebook.com/groups/349719199026568/
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Australia DNA matching
We run the DNA Matchmaker program to assist people to find DNA matches hopefully within this County.
As we are using the DNA Matchfinder tool it requires you to have a DNA test done and to have Gedmatch kit number.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/AustraliaDNAmatching/