Search across several cemeteries in Brisbane. You need to include at least the initial letter of a first name as well as surname.
http://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/commun...ng-grave-search/grave-location-search
Searchable archive of the Belfast Gazette which is an official newspaper of record publishing legal and government notices. Useful for obituaries, military appointments and awards, insolvency records etc.
https://www.thegazette.co.uk
Descriptions of over 52,000 records held by the Bank of England Archive. The 'Name search' allows to you see biographical information about key people and organisations associated with the Bank. There are no links to actual documents. The archive does hold files relating to staff.
http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/archive/Pages/default.aspx
Australian government national database of ships wrecked in Australian waters. You can also search for aircraft, relics and more.
http://www.environment.gov.au/topics/...ustralian-national-shipwreck-database
This is the site of the Ulster Historical Foundation. There are indexes to births, marriages and deaths for Antrim and County Down which are free to search and pay-per-view to see the full details. There are more resources such as wills and directories available to members.
http://www.ancestryireland.com/search-irish-genealogy-databases
This website lists the Extracted batches for the British Isles that previously formed part of the IGI (International Genealogical Index), the on-line database created by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) and available at familysearch.org.
To search for a particular parish or church, click on the a Country link at left (e.g. 'England'), then on a County name. This displays an index of places (mostly parishes), from which you can either go on to list the data in batch number sequence, or click through to the FamilySearch website.
http://www.archersoftware.co.uk/igi
Searchable database of men and women who served in the First Australian Imperial Force 1914-1918. This site gives lots of information on each person including name, address, next of kin, awards, medals, fate etc. and links through to the embarkation lists.
https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/index.html
Search for the will or probate of any person in the UK who died in or after 1996. Search for the will of a soldier who died while serving in the British armed forces between 1850 and 1986.
https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/#wills
The Maritime History Archive collects and preserves documents relating to the history of maritime activities in Newfoundland and Labrador and throughout the North Atlantic world. The agreements and logbooks for voyages terminating in the years 1863 - 1938 are indexed and can be searched. program searches by official number only. (Official numbers can be found in Mercantile Navy Lists or Lloyd's Registers.)The databases accessed by this search will inform the visitor whether a particular archive has the crew agreement. They will not provide any information on the agreement's contents. To obtain that data he or she will need to contact the appropriate institution. Also Index of Newfoundland Captains, 1820-1889
http://www.mun.ca/mha
This collection contains 72,729 issues comprising 603,681 pages and 6,876,356 articles. 1846-2012
The California Digital Newspaper Collection is a project of the Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research (CBSR) at the University of California, Riverside.
http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc
Digitised reports from the Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives in New Zealand and the Votes and Proceedings. Fully searchable and includes lots of names.
http://atojs.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/atojs
Canberra public cemeteries search page.
http://www.canberracemeteries.com.au
This index may assist researchers to access medical journals that have been copied as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP).
http://grthom.info/medjour.html
This site has a searchable roll of honour with the names of over 1.7 million men and women who died in Commonwealth forces during the two world wars. The place of burial or commemoration is given. In July 2014 a large number of digitised records relating to deaths, burials and identifications were added to the website.
http://www.cwgc.org
These pages contain details of the registers of population (census) of Gibraltar going back to 1777. The early registers have been put on-line first and others will follow later. This material can be accessed for free and data is searchable.
http://nationalarchives.gi/gna/Default.aspx
Link through to the Local History Centre and the Local History Image Library. Fully searchable pictorial collection. Local Studies Centre Newsletter and information about heritage resources.
http://www.vincent.wa.gov.au/library/Home
Search digitised photographs of Cottesloe, Mosman Park and Peppermint Grove from 1900 to the present day.
http://thegrovelibrary.net/history/search-local-images
Search this survey of land ownership in Ireland by surname or view alphabetical lists of owners by parish.
http://www.failteromhat.com/griffiths.php
This application provides a fully searchable placename index to the Valuation Revision Books (VAL/12/B) covering counties Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry and Tyrone between the years 1864 to 1933. In total, c.3,900 volumes were digitally captured, with over 440,000 images now available to view online.
The digital application is searchable by Placename (City, County, Parish, Townland) or PRONI Reference. The cities of Londonderry and Belfast have been indexed to Street and Ward level. Streets can be found by using the free text search.
http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/search_the_archives/val12b.htm
The Albany History Collection houses newspapers, photographs, oral histories and much more. Select Search History Collection for a useful index to articles appearing in the Albany Advertiser.
http://history.albany.wa.gov.au
The term “United Empire Loyalists” (often referred to as UEL) refers to the American colonists who remained loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolution, and many of which fought for Britain during that conflict. They fled the United States and settled in what are now the provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Quebec and Ontario. All the archives in these provinces hold records relating to Loyalists, some of which are searchable online.
http://thediscoverblog.com/2014/05/08...mpire-loyalists-finding-their-records
The Archives Hub is an online gateway to the descriptions of archives held in UK repositories (such as universities, company archives and local history centres). It does not hold any archive material itself but provides a means to cross-search archival descriptions from different institutions.
The Archives Hub is continually expanding, with new contributors and descriptions, so you may wish to visit the Hub regularly.
http://archiveshub.ac.uk
THIS WEBSITE endeavors to remember the efforts of those who created the Irish Mission for Immigrant Girls in New York City to do something about the appalling emigration conditions. It continued with the commitment of the Catholic clergy and countless others to help over 100,000 women immigrants. The Mission Record Books on the emigration arrivals of the Irish women are part of the collection, have been digitised and are searchable.
http://watsonhouse.org/home
Database of over 550 links to Historic Directories of Ireland, available on free and subscription websites, and also includes directories for purchase on CD or download. Sources charging for access, or items for purchase are indicated with a $. Details shown include directory date, title and a direct link to relevant website. Online directories may be available as transcripts, ebooks (pdf, FlipBook etc), images or searchable databases.
http://www.swilson.info/dirdb.php
The State Records of South Australia website has an index to passenger arrivals and also an index to photographs of South Australian soldiers, sailors and nurses from World War One. Please note that these are indexes only - the images are not available online. Select Access Collection Catalogue to search these indexes.
http://catalogue.archives.sa.gov.au/Archivessrsa/t1tbmain.asp
South Australian almanacs and directories are available on the State Library of South Australia website from 1864 to 1973. Fully searchable.
http://guides.slsa.sa.gov.au/directories
Lists some Canadian and US newspapers available to search online. Also lists where newspaper archives are held in Canada.
http://www.theancestorhunt.com
Please note that the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System contains just an index of the men who served in the Civil War with only rudimentary information from the service records (including name, rank and unit in which they served). The full service records are housed at the National Archives and Records Administration. All records in this database have been transcribed from the National Archives' original documents; alternate names and/or misspellings are recorded as initially documented
http://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-soldiers.htm
Information on places in Scotland arranged by county or you can search the whole database. Results include maps, photographs, Ordnance Survey name books and medical officer reports from the 19th Century. These reports give useful background information on living conditions and diseases prevalent in particular parts of Scotland.
http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk
This is the new website for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints where new transcribed records and images are being added regularly. Select Browse our record collection to see what is available.
https://www.familysearch.org/#start
The Almonte Gazette, Almonte, Ontario, Canada. Searchable from 1861-1989.
http://mvtm.ca/mvtm/?page_id=2759
This site has information about the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham, England. It includes a free searchable database of burials in two cemeteries dating from the 1830s - Key Hill and Warstone Lane.
http://www.jqrg.org
The Society welcomes members from around the world with an interest in one particular place, whether it is a street, village, hamlet or town. Registering a study area (or areas) is optional, though recommended if members are active in their research.
http://one-place-studies.org
Founded in 2001 with the aim of researching, remembering and recognizing the Polish citizens deported, enslaved and killed by the Soviet Union during World War Two. Includes a virtual "wall of names" with names and other information about Polish citizens affected by WWII. Accepts entries from all over the world.
http://kresy-siberia.org/won/?lang=en
This site has guides providing information on archive sources held at the Modern Records Centre which are relevant to particular research subjects.
They include: Family history, Business and industry, Protest and pressure groups, Role of women, Trade unionism, Sources for business history, Brewers' organisations, Cinema history, Motor industry sources , Guide to resources on mental health, history of social work.
•A postman's round: extracts from the diary of a Victorian letter-carrier in East London (booklet published in 1991).
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/li...ary/mrc/explorefurther/subject_guides
The Anglo Italian Family History Society offers a search facility for the Index of all the records that the Society's volunteers have transcribed. The Index contains approximately 600,000 names extracted from a miscellany of census, birth, baptism, marriage, and death records together with war, military, directories and occupational records. Most of the records are not available on commmercial genealogy sites. More are being added. The service is freely available to Members of the Society. The Society also produces an award-winning journal.
Membership is not expensive.
http://www.anglo-italianfhs.org.uk
If you are planning any research into WVS or WRVS or Royal Voluntary Service then the Royal Voluntary Service Archive & Heritage Collection is the primary source for WVS, WRVS and Royal Voluntary Service records. Includes links to other sources of information. Online fact sheets but no digitised material.
http://www.royalvoluntaryservice.org....n/researching-royal-voluntary-service
Contains information about nursing in the Boer War and details about the locations of hospitals in South Africa and elsewhere. The research section gives ideas and advice for anyone trying to find information about nurses who served in the war. The database holds details on approximately 2000 nurses who were in South Africa during the Boer War. There is also a Blog run by four nurse historians with an interest in the Boer War.
http://www.boerwarnurses.com/web/index.html
Includes guides to researching records relating to slaves.
http://www.myslaveancestors.com
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database has information on more than 35,000 slave voyages that forcibly embarked over 12 million Africans for transport to the americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. It offers researchers, students and the general public a chance to rediscover the reality of one of the largest forced movements of peoples in world history. Includes an African names database.
http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces
At the core of the project is a database containing the identity of all slave-owners in the British Caribbean at the time slavery ended. As the project unfolded, researchers amassed, analysed and incorporated information about the activities, affiliations and legacies of all the British slave-owners on the database, building the Encyclopedia of British Slave-Owners, which has now been made available online...
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/project/researchowners
a British Catholic weekly journal that has been published continually since 1840. It reports on religion current affairs, politics, social issues, literature and the arts with a special emphasis on Roman Catholicism.
Discover the entire history of the Tablet from 1841.
Every page has been scanned and digitised, each article tagged and extracted, so that you can search the whole archive by content, keyword, topic, location, and date.
http://tablet.archive.netcopy.co.uk
The Irish in Europe Project, founded in NUI Maynooth in 1997, promotes scholarly research on Irish migration to continental Europe in the early modern period. It currently hosts biographical information on about 40,000 Irish migrants, mainly soldiers but also men who had to leave Ireland in order to study for the priesthood.
http://www.irishineurope.ie/vre/index
Database of information from cemeteries in the UK. The collection is strongest for Scotland and London but it is worth checking the database coverage regularly. You can do a free search and view the name, date of burial and cemetery. You will need to pay to view more detailed information. Cremation registers are also included.
https://www.deceasedonline.com/servlet/GSDOSearch
Jill Chambers is an expert on those people involved in the swing riots in Britain during 1830-31. She is the author of many books on the topic and her website is very informative. It gives a history of the swing riots, details of those convicted from various counties, details of those detained on various prison hulks and more.
http://www.swingriotsriotersblacksheepsearch.com
This searchable database from Bath Record Office has the names of more than 70,000 people who lived in the city of Bath 1603-1990. Copies of original records can then be ordered for a small fee.
http://www.batharchives.co.uk/what_we..._history/bath_ancestors_database.aspx
This website is intended to be the first port of call for anyone thinking about searching for or making contact with birth and adopted relatives or researching an adoption that took place in the UK. Here you can:
•Search for the location of adoption records
•Look for agencies that offer support services in your area
•Learn about your right to make or refuse contact
•Find out about recent changes to the legislation
•Read about searching for and making contact with birth relatives
Information is being added to this site all the time so do keep checking for news and developments.
http://www.adoptionsearchreunion.org.uk/default.htm
Search the on-line indexes for summaries of historical birth, marriage, death registrations, and colonial marriage, and baptism records. Please note: registrations available are of limited release dates for British Columbia only.
View and note the necessary index information such as microfilm reel number, registration number, name, in order to access the actual birth, marriage or death registration records.
http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/textual/governmt/vstats/v_events.htm
A Guide to Suffolk Pubs past and present. Can search by name or by village. No historical information but approximate dates. Includes names of known pubs that are now closed.
http://www.suffolkcamra.co.uk/pubs
Use this site to search the ACT electoral rolls for 1916, 1917, 1928, 1935, 1943, 1949, 1955, 1959 and 1967.
http://canberraheritageportal.org/default.php
This site has information on nearly 24,000 17th to 19th century naval officers and 5,000 ships. Initial searching is free and you can request a full report for a small fee.
http://www.navylist.org/index.htm
Searchable online database of data from the Domesday book. You can search by person's name or village name and view maps of landholdings etc.
http://www.pase.ac.uk/index.html
A community based heritage project which digitally records and publishes historic graveyard surveys and stories. Search by name or grave yard or keyword.
http://historicgraves.ie
Lots of transcriptions for those researching ancestors with a connection to Malta. Includes births, marriages and deaths plus information on British personnel serving in any of the forces.
http://www.maltafamilyhistory.com
Website of the Scottish Genealogy Society in Edinburgh. It includes contact details and a family history index to donated family histories and research notes which can be ordered from the society. There are also lots of useful links.
http://www.scotsgenealogy.com
This is a reasonably priced paid site which is particularly useful for Scottish research.
http://www.genhound.co.uk
Whether your ancestral community finds you, or you find them,
you can seek direct genealogical research advice and assistance
from them at no cost. In addition, local volunteer community
teams, trained in local heritage, are ready to meet and greet you should you chose to visit Ireland.
http://www.irelandxo.com
Online directories. Searchable (first few letters of name then browse).
http://digital.nls.uk/directories/index.html
This site has a wonderful collection of photographs submitted by users. Its aim is to collect photographs for every square kilometre of Great Britain and Ireland and there are already over 2 million images available. Search by place and you can then refine the search by adding keywords. This is a great resource for images of churches, old houses and more.
http://www.geograph.org.uk
Searchable database of Australians who served in the Boer War.
http://www.awm.gov.au/nominalrolls/boer
Online index allows searching for burials over three cemeteries. You can then purchase a copy of the burial record as long as the burial was at least 75 years ago. Information may include date of death, cause of death and address.
http://www.belfastcity.gov.uk/burialrecords/search.asp
The Roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London was first published in 1861.
The College has a near-complete collection of obituaries, making it a valuable biographical resource for those interested in medical and social history, and for family historians.
Selected historical entries, as well as Volume XII can be read freely online, and a searchable index to all printed entries is also available.
http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk
Network of Archives and Libraries of the Catholic Church.
This online catalogue allows you to search for information about the archives and manuscripts held at:
Scottish Catholic Archives
Diocese of Westminster Archives
Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales
Royals Scots College, Spain
Royal English College, Spain
Society of Jesus, British Provincial Archives
The Archives do include church registers.
http://archives.catholic-heritage.net/default.aspx
Allows searching of many indexed records by County.
http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/search.htm
Online Database Search
Databases include:
•Newspaper Birth Notices Index from 1960 onwards
•Newspaper Death Notices Index from 1972 onwards
•South Australia Cemeteries Index
•Birth Registration Certificates Index 1842 - 1928
•Death Registration Certificates Index 1842 - 1972
•Marriage Registration Certificates Index 1842 - 1937
http://www.genealogysa.org.au/resources/online-databases.html
This website has contact details for family history societies throughout Scotland. You can also search across all the full member societies websites by surname or topic.
http://www.safhs.org.uk/index.asp
British Society. Has news, information, education classes, FAQs and referrals to professional researchers. Some unique online databases available for members. See:
http://www.sog.org.uk/online/datsets.pdfhttp://www.societyofgenealogists.com
The most popular search engine available. Try adding ~genealogy to your search to limit it to results relating to family history.
http://www.google.com.au
Searchable database of more than 5,000 deaths extracted from police reports in the South Australian Government Gazettes 1845-1941. This includes the Northern Territory until the end of 1910.
http://www.ach.familyhistorysa.info/gazettedeaths.html
The State Records Office of Western Australia's website has information about its archives for family historians and you can also search the online catalogue, AEON (Archives Explored Online). Wills have been indexed in their catalogue and there is a large collection of digitised maps.
http://www.sro.wa.gov.au
This site helps you to make contact with other family historians who are researching the same ancestors by finding matches using census data. The following censuses are included:- England and Wales 1841, 1881 and 1911, Ireland 1911, Scotland 1881, United States 1880 and Canada 1881.
http://www.lostcousins.com
Search Western Australian Births 1841-1932, Marriages 1841-1936 and Deaths 1841-1971.
http://www.bdm.dotag.wa.gov.au/_apps/pioneersindex/default.aspx
This website is a wonderful guide to researching Irish family history with very clear explanations of the various topics and lots of useful links. The author, Claire Santry, also has a blog accessible from the site.
http://www.irish-genealogy-toolkit.com/index.html
This section of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints website has lots of courses arranged by country and by subject.
https://www.familysearch.org/learningcenter/home.html
A searchable database of advertisements placed in the Boston Pilot newspaper for missing friends and relatives who had emigrated from Ireland to the United States 1831-1921. There are over 37,000 records and many of them give details of place of origin and other family members.
http://infowanted.bc.edu
Add your family tree to TreeView on the Genealogist.co.uk site. This is free to use once you register, whether or not you have a subscription. You need an invitation to search other users' trees.
http://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/nameindex/start_tree.php
Searchable database of famous graves plus millions of other graves submitted by contributors worldwide.
http://www.findagrave.com/index.html
The Webster Signature Database, a repository for information about people who made and signed scientific instruments preserved in collections worldwide.
http://historydb.adlerplanetarium.org/signatures
This Australian site has podcasts giving advice on genealogy research.
http://geniesdownunder.com.au/index.html
This detailed website is full of information about military nursing during the two world wars. It includes a section on how to research a nurse, lists the recipients of medals, lists hospitals in the UK and more. There is also the World War One diary of the matron-in-chief of the British Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders.
http://www.scarletfinders.co.uk
Website of The National Archives for the UK. Search their catalogue, read their research guides, order online material through Documents Online, listen to podcasts and more.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
A range of in-depth research guides to the collections held at The National Archives in Kew, Surrey.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/research-guide-listing.htm
This website from the Irish Family History Foundation includes a searchable database where you can search over 18 million Irish parish register transcriptions. Register first and searching is free but you will need to pay to see the full record. Please note that not all counties are covered.
http://www.rootsireland.ie
Search burial records for the following Belfast cemeteries; Belfast City Cemetery 1869-, Roselawn Cemetery 1954- and Dundonald Cemetery 1905-.
http://www.belfastcity.gov.uk/burialrecords/index.asp
Free searchable database of transcriptions of the Belfast 1901 and 1911 censuses.
http://www.belfastfamilyhistory.com/search.php
Search for marriages in Western Australia 1906-1965 under either husband's or wife's name. This is a project of the Perth Dead Persons Society
http://www.wamarriage.info
Digital copies of this journal are available free 1981-2007 and are searchable.
http://collections.carli.illinois.edu...4/index_aug_sag.php?CISOROOT=/aug_sag
Select Online Catalogues & Databases to search the various indexes such as the Victuallers Database, Tithe Apportionments and the Calendars of Prisoners. Many of Warwickshire's parish records are now available on Ancestry.
http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/cro
This excellent site is a wiki which has been set up to collect and share information about Jersey's people, places and heritage. There is lots of information on the history and culture of Jersey. Select the Family research section to find family trees and much more.
http://www.guernsey-society.org.uk/donkipedia/index.php5?title=Jerripedia
Website listing individuals from Shetland and their descendants, including some from Australia. Encourages researchers to share their Shetland trees.
http://www.bayanne.info/Shetland
Links and some in-house indexes to sources of German genealogy. Much of content relates to United States but many general sites for German research are included.
http://www.germanroots.com/index.html
Lists "missing" ancestors last known to have gone off to the goldrushes in California. Includes contact details for researchers.
Includes many helpful links to Californian genealogy sites.
http://www.californiagenealogy.org/goldrush
If your deceased relative was a Barnardo’s boy or girl, whether in the UK or as part of migrations to Australia or Canada, this service is available. It is quite expensive, but monies raised support Barnardo's charities.
http://www.barnardos.org.uk/what_we_d...re/history/family_history_service.htm
Name search available.
http://www.launceston.tas.gov.au/lcc/index.php?c=30&burial_record=1051706
This link searches the four Cemeteries operated by Millingtons – Cornelian Bay, Kingston Regional, East Risdon and Cambridge. Pontville Catholic Cemetery will be added to the database in the coming months.
http://www.millingtons.com.au
Melbourne General Cemetery, Springvale Botanical Cemetery, St. Kilda Cemetery and Necropolis.
http://www.deceasedsearch.com/index.php
An easy way of searching for your ancestors using Google. It works best if you add the name of someone else associated with the person such as a spouse.
http://randymajors.com/p/ancestorsearch.html
This website has information on the nearly 2000 convicts transported between 1788 and 1868 to Australia, Gibralta and Bermuda. It includes a searchable convict database and gives information about the whereabouts of trials.
http://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/convictssearch.aspx
Search catalogues of libraries, museums and archives across the county of Norfolk.
http://www.noah.norfolk.gov.uk
