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Links to family related websites
While researching my family history I have used many online resources and come across a wide range of sites relating to people and places, some are listed below. Click the links on the right to go directly to a site which will open in a new window. I haven't included general sites for searching census, BMD etc here but a wider range of links for general research can be found on my other website - www.traceyourancesters.net.
Remember
that unless viewing original documents, or images of the original, records
online are usually a modern transcript and may contain errors - check
with original documents to verify your findings. |
| Info on researching convicts transported to Australia such as Jeremiah Scrivens. |
www.convictcentral.com |
| Tasmania Archives has searchable database of convicts |
www.archives.tas.gov.au |
| Parish of Dundry, Somerset - community website includes some lovely old photographs under 'Then and Now' |
www.dundry.org.uk |
| Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire includes transcripts of parish registers and much more |
www.forest-of-dean.net |
| Transcripts of Lassington, Gloustershire registers on 'Rootsweb' |
rootsweb pages |
| Winford, Somerset parish transcripts |
www.origins.plus.com/winford.htm |
| Genealogy and Local History of the Wirksworth Area, Derbyshire from 1600 to 1900 listing 450,000+ original records |
www.wirksworth.org.uk |
| Extensive background information about society's poor and the workhouse system. Also details of many individual workhouses including the one at Stapleton, Bristol where Maria Scrivens (nee Jefferies) died |
www.workhouses.org.uk |
| Wortley Hall where John Roulstone was butler to the Earl and Countess of Wharncliffe abt. 1875 to 1908 |
www.wortleyhall.com |
| Photo Archives |
| Images of Nottinghamshire
and Derbyshire |
www.picturethepast.org.uk |
| Photographs from Sheffield Library's archive |
www.picturesheffield.com |
| Panos hold the photographs of Rev'd John Hobbis Harris and his wife Alice Seeley taken during their mission in the Belgian Congo. This was believed to be the first time photographs were used in a human rights campaign. John was knighted for his work towards the abolition of slavery. To see a selection enter Harris and Congo in the search box on their site. |
www.panos.co.uk |
| Family History Societies |
| Bristol & Avon
Family History Society |
www.bafhs.org.uk |
| Derbyshire Family History Society |
www.dfhs.org.uk |
| Gloucestershire
Family History Society |
www.gfhs.org.uk |
| Linconshire
Family History Society |
www.lincolnshirefhs.org.uk |
| Nottinghamshire
Family History Society |
www.nottsfhs.org.uk |
| Oxfordshire Family History Society (Grove and Wantage formerly in Berkshire now in Oxfordshire) |
www.oxfordshirefhs.org.uk |
| Sheffield & District
Family History Society |
www.sheffieldfhs.org.uk |
| Other stuff |
| Find out how much yesterday's money (1270-1970) is worth today |
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/currency |
| View and order maps from the 19th century on this ordnance survey site |
www.old-maps.co.uk |
| Do you know where your surname comes from? Geographical distribution of surnames |
www.nationaltrustnames.org.uk |
| Find the meaning of your surname - searchable database of names and their origins |
www.surnamedb.com |
| BBC's extensive
history website covers a range of social development |
www.bbc.co.uk/history/british |
| A wider list of links on general family history research can be found on my website
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www.traceyourancestors.net/links.htm |
