ENGLAND
Although Wales is a Country of it's own, for simplicity reasons, it has been included on the 'Counties' page
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Asylum Admissions Prestwich 1851-1901
http://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-united-kingdo |
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BBC Family History Links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/familyhistory/get_started/family_history_links.shtml Booth's maps- Zoomable, Interactive with Modern London
The London School of Economics Has released a new online interactive map of Charles Booth's Poverty Map of London. http://phone.booth.lse.ac.uk/ Britain From Above- Historical Aerial Photos
http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/asearch?search=london British Genealogy Govering 1209-1948.
http://www.britishorigins.com/ British History Online
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ British History Sources, 1500-1900
http://www.connectedhistories.org/Default.aspx |
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Cambridge Alumni Database
http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/Documents/acad/enter.html Children of the British Empire
Photographs, personal accounts and official records are used to explore what life was like for the children of men serving with the Durham Light Infantry (DLI) in Colonial India. http://www.durhamrecordoffice.org.uk/Pages/ChildrenoftheBritishEmpireintroduction.aspx Children's home Records
http://www.childrenshomes.org.uk/research/ College registers
https://archive.org/search.php?query=college |
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Domesday RELOADED
In 1986 the BBC launched an ambitious project to record a snapshot of everyday life across the UK for future generations. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ DR. BARNARDO’S HOMES
http://guides.naa.gov.au/good-british-stock/chapter Barnardo’s Family History Service If your deceased relative was a Barnardo’s boy or girl, in the UK or as part of migration to Australia or Canada, we could help you trace information about them and their life in Barnardo’s. http://www.barnardos.org.uk/what_we_do/who_we |
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England and Wales, from 1750 to 1919.
http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/ English and Welsh Lunatic Asylums and Mental Hospitals Information
http://studymore.org.uk/4_13_ta.htm England & Wales, Quaker Birth, Marriage, and Death Registers, 1578-1837
http://search.ancestry.com.au/search/db.aspx?dbid=7097 Eton College register
1753-1790 : alphabetically arranged and edited with biographical notes https://archive.org/details/etoncollegeregis00austuoft |
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FOREBEARS
http://forebears.co.uk/resources |
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GenealogyForum- Roots Web
http://www.genealogyforum.com/ |
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Hearth Tax Online
Hearth Tax Online is a web site dedicated to providing data and analysis of the records of the hearth tax which was introduced in England and Wales by the government of Charles II in 1662. http://www.hearthtax.org.uk/ Heralds' Visitations
http://www.uk-genealogy.org.uk/heraldry/ Historic Churches Survey database
http://www.cpat.demon.co.uk/projects/longer/churches/idxall.htm Historical Directories of England & Wales
http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/cdm/landingpage/ collection/p16445coll4 Historic images.
The earliest known aerial photographs of Britain - taken more than 130 years ago from hot air balloons. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3265195/Rare-black-white-images-taken-hot-air-ball |
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Index of Coventry Blitz Victims
http://www.familyresearcher.co.uk/Blitz-Victims/Coventry-Blitz-Resource |
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Lunatic Asylum Records
http://www.genguide.co.uk/source/lunatic-asylum |
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Marriage in the Middle Ages
In the middle ages, children were married at a young age. Girls were as young as 12 when they married, and boys as young as 17. http://educators.medievaltimes.com/1-5-marriage.html Metropolitan Police Historical Records- U.K.
http://content.met.police.uk/Site/mpshistoryinformation |
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National Wills Index collections-some counties free search
http://www.origins.net/help/aboutNWI.aspx Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial BMDs Service- search (Not all)
http://www.bmdregisters.co.uk/ |
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Online Parish Clerks.
http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/online_parish_clerk ORIGINS.net-National Wills Index collections-some counties free search
http://www.origins.net/help/aboutNWI.aspx |
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Parish Priests and Their People in the Middle Ages in England, by Edward L. Cutts
http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wakefield/ Parish Registers of England
http://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b21352422#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&z=-0.7544%2C0%2C2.5087% Poorhouse Records- England
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r? Portraits of 76 male and 65 female patients from the Hanwell Lunatic asylum
Are preserved among the “Galton Papers” at the Special Collections of University College London. The frontal, half-length portraits carry a number as well as family names. The archive at Bethlem holds the admission and discharge books as well as the medical files. http://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b20624438#?c=0&m |
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Quaker Family
http://www.coggeshallmuseum.org.uk/quakers1.htm Quaker History & Genealogy
http://www.swarthmore.edu/friends-historical |
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Talbot Research Organisation
http://www.talbotro.co.uk The Annual Monitor or Obituary Members of the Society of Friends Great Britain & Ireland 1843
http://www.archive.org/stream/annualmonitorfo34greegoog#page/n3/mode/2up THE BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE
http://player.bfi.org.uk/collection/edwardian-britain- on-film/g1dzZrZDoQMz1ZIcurTtZSmrKYCj THE BRITISH NEWSPAPER ARCHIVE
http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/ The British Newspaper Archive on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TheBritishNewspaperArchive The British Postal Museum & Archive
http://postalheritage.org.uk/page/collections The Genealogist Image Archive
http://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/imagearchive/?category=Company THE GUARDIAN ARCHIVES
http://century.guardian.co.uk/ The Marriage Locator
http://www.marriage-locator.co.uk/ The Modern Records Centre holds an unrivalled collection of British trade union archives & includes a list of trades and occupations commonly searched for in the Centre's archives with a definition.
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/explorefurther/subject The Peerage
http://www.thepeerage.com/p17271.htm The Victorian Dictionary
http://www.victorianlondon.org/ The Waifs and Strays Magazine
The magazine offers a wealth of interesting information from the homes, like reports of holidays and festivities as well as fund-raising events. Letters printed from children & those that had benefited from the Society's care many years previously http://www.hiddenlives.org.uk/ |
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UK Genealogy - British and Irish Genealogy Search
http://www.britinfo.net/uk/genealogy.htm U.K. Links
http://www.uk250.co.uk/Genealogy/ UK, Lunacy Patients Admission Registers, 1846-1912
http://search.ancestry.com.au/search/db.aspx U.K. RCAHMS
http://www.rcahms.gov.uk/what-we-hold.html United Kingdom and Ireland Obituary Collection
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/oldsearch/obit/?uk&dbid=8960 |
COUNTIES (plus Wales)
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