The Andrews Pages : Links - Useful Genealogy Sources
Our own favourites and links to sites we hope will be helpful to genealogists and local historians
 
Information for UK Counties
   

General Information

Some key onsite links :
What's New
Matlock & Matlock Bath
FAQ (Matlock site)
Our Genealogy

GENUKI Home Page
The starting point for genealogy in the U.K. and Ireland

UK BMD
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Recommended sites are under each county.
Direct links to GENUKI information for UK Counties are given below

  • Wishful Thinking's Web Site Contents - GENUKI shows at a glance what's available on the GENUKI portion of Wishful Thinking's Web Site and is a superb example of what has been made available by an individual contributor, in this instance Rosemary Lockie
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Berkshire GENUKI site
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Cheshire GENUKI site
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Derbyshire GENUKI site
also
What's new
(both are maintained by Rosemary Lockie)
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Devon GENUKI site
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Gloucestershire GENUKI site
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Lancashire GENUKI site
grey button Montgomeryshire

now part of Powys

Montgomeryshire GENUKI site
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Nottinghamshire GENUKI site
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Oxfordshire GENUKI site
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Surrey GENUKI site
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Wiltshire GENUKI site
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Yorkshire GENUKI site
  • Yorkshire BMD - produced by the county's Family History Societies are collaborating with the local Registration Services.
  • Bradford Family History Society. Although I am not a member, they have some good publications
  • Brian Jones publishes transcriptions and indexes of census returns, parish registers etc from the Yorkshire area.
  • Borthwick Institute, York
  • Calverley, a repository of genealogical and historical data concerning the villages of Calverley Parish in the West Riding of Yorkshire
  • CD ROM versions of old and rare books and modern photographs are produced by Colin Hinson
  • Eric Youle has some excellent family history reference material for Sheffield and Hallamshire (with a little on Derbyshire). See his Historical Material
  • Headstones in Yorkshire: Melanie Towler may be able to help you find MI's
  • The Lordship of Tong, parish of Birstall - a brief description of the Yorkshire village, dated 1822, where several of Ann's ancestors lived*
    Also see the Baines Directory entries for the same year
  • West Yorkshire Archive Service hold many documents. They also have lists of publications
  • Yorkshire Nonconformists - an indexed register of baptisms, marriages and deaths for Northowram for 1644-1702 and 1702-52 written by Rev Oliver Heywood & T Dickenson*
    *both the above sites are transcripts by Colin Hinson
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  • Midlands Historical Data helps to preserve old, out of print books and maps by creating digital copies which are available to buy. Anthony Abrahams concentrates on four counties of the West Midlands of the UK - Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, and Worcestershire.
    • He also includes material from throughout the UK as well as such morsels as several years of "The Gentleman's Magazine" (Derbyshire and Devon extracts are published elsewhere on The Andrews Pages - go to The Gentleman's Magazine Library)

  • Newspapers in the East Midland and East of England
    Which newspapers have been preserved and where to find them

  • Picture the Past is a project digitising the photos of Derby City Libraries and Derby Museums, and Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Libraries. The biggest photo resource on Derby and Derbyshire, and one of the biggest such resources in the country.

  • West Midlands BMD indexes
  grey button Other genealogy and history sources we've found helpful  

Sorted alphabetically by title
  • Access to Archives - lists archived documents held across England, dating from the 900s to the present day
  • Archaic Medical Terminology for Genealogists - where you will find excellent explanations for some of the strange causes of death discovered on ancestor's death certificates. Written by Paul Smith, a doctor. This site does not seem to be available any longer
  • A-Z of British Genealogical Research
  • Baths, Turkish - see The Victorian Turkish Bath Databank Under V below.
  • Black Sheep Index - extracts from press reports 1850 - 1900. Not just the black sheep
  • BMD
    • BMD (1) - www.findmypast.com/ (this was www.1837online.com/)
      Search the ONS indexes of Birth, Marriage and Deaths indexes for England and Wales from 1837 to 2002, as well as British nationals overseas from 1761 to 1994. A pay-per-view site, but not expensive. You can now order a certificate on line.
    • BMD (2) - FreeBMD "is an ongoing project, the aim of which is to transcribe the Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales, and to provide free Internet access to the transcribed records."
  • Books
  • Bridgeman Art Library has examples of the work of a variety of artists
  • British Library Integrated Catalogue - simple searching and ordering of documents from the British Library's extensive collections.
  • The National Archives : The Public Record Office (PRO) and the Historical Manuscripts Commission (HMC) joined together to form a new organisation - The National Archives (TNA)
  • National Portrait Gallery - search the collection by artist, portrait or sitter
  • The Age of Nelson - "two new massive and authoritative databases covering the Royal Navy officers who fought in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815, and the seamen and marines who fought at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805."
  • Newgate Prison A list of inmates, victims and those associated with the prison, by Jeff Alvey (his original site does not seem to be available any longer but the executions are still available)
  • Newspaper Library, Colindale - for newspapers which have been published and which are held by the British Newspaper Library at Colindale, London. Colindale is well worth visiting whilst it remains open, and ordering in advance is recommended. Searching for what you may want beforehand, though, seems to have become more complicated now the information has been incorporated into the British Library's catalogue. Try to search through:
  • Occupations and Trades
  • Old Bailey : The Proceedings of the Old Bailey London 1674 to 1834
  • Old Maps: http://www.old-maps.co.uk/ This is a wonderful site. Find where your ancestors were living in the last century with maps dating from about 1883
  • Office of National Statistics, part of U.K. Statistics Authority - for post July 1837 English and Welsh births, marriages and deaths enquiries. Includes list of fees charged for certificates. If you want to find or order a certificate, try www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/
  • One Place Studies - John Palmer maintains a page of links
    www.wirksworth.org.uk/a43-ops.htm
  • One Name Studies (see GOONS above)
  • Ordnance Survey
  • Regiments.Org is a "comprehensive catalog of web resources pertaining to military history, with emphasis on the British Empire and Commonwealth"
  • Registration Districts for births, marriages and deaths in England and Wales after Sept 1837
  • RootsWeb - search for others with the same surname interests
  • The Royal British Legion supports ex servicemen
  • War Graves - see Commonwealth War Graves above
  • Wills
    • (1) General Information. Please see our Matlock Wills Calendar.
      Although it is primarily concerned with Matlock, it has information for anyone wanting to obtain copies of or learn about wills
    • (2) Post 1858 Wills
      The Court Service Website has information on obtaining Probate Records.
    • (3) PCC Wills
      It is now possible to download images of many PCC wills 1670-1858, though not adms at present
      www.documentsonline.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
      DocumentsOnline (formerly PRO-Online) 'allows you online access to the Public Record Office's collection of digitised public records, including both academic and genealogical sources'.
grey button Sites sharing the same surname interests

The sites below may not share common ancestors with us  
Our Genealogy

grey button Search Engines

These are all tried and tested, but we'll be interested to know of others you may prefer.

AltaVista | Ask Jeeves | Excite | Google | Lycos | Webcrawler | Yahoo

[Our tip : Google always proves to be very quick. Try it first]

Just type in a word or phrase about the subject you are interested in
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  • Peter Aspey - Matlock Bath and the Heights of Abraham with descriptions of the caverns from first hand experience, his own genealogy, Bach, the guitar etc
  • Trevor Tomasin - genealogy and jazz (also has Derbyshire interests)
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One or two extras that aren't linked under Other genealogy sources we've found helpful
  • Custodian II for Family Historians A series of databases with pre-defined forms, specially designed to store genealogical information
  • 'Generations - Grande Suite' - we use it for all our research. We know that Generations is no longer supported by Sierra, so we have removed a link to their site. This is a pity as we've found it to be an excellent, easy-to-use package.
And for those wishing to publish their web sites, though don't want to type in all the html themselves, the best package around is Dreamweaver. We use it.



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