Family History Research Help

Web Sites for Genealogists - An Australian gateway site for tracing your family history by Cora Num

FamilySearch Research Wiki offers free family history research advice for the community, by the community. This site has a search box where you can keyword search all the FamilySearch Wiki articles. Currently 65,000+ articles are available to search. Note that many of the articles are based on the original FamilySearch guides that have been updated by users.

Mocavo.com bills itself as the world’s largest free genealogy search engine. It aims to provide genealogists with access to the best free genealogy content on the web including billions of names, dates and places worldwide.

Gwent Family History Society. This site lists the three letter abbreviations known as the Chapman Codes for England, Ireland, Scotland, UK Islands and countries of the world.

This page by Mike St Clair features an article titled Numbering Systems in Genealogy by Richard A Pence which provides information on a variety of genealogy numbering systems.

The National Archives (UK). Click on Records then Understand the Archives. There is also a link to In-Depth Research Guides. These cover a wide range of topics, reflecting The National Archives’ extensive collection. If you are a beginner use the Research Signposts link.

Family-Reunion.com. An excellent site with all you need to know about planning a family reunion.

Family Reunion Helper. This site offers ideas, schedules and templates to help you plan a memorable reunion.

Friends Reunited lists Australian schools, universities, workplaces, armed forces and locations.

Oxford Ancestors. This UK company offers, for a fee, several DNA related testing services for use by genealogy researchers.

Family Tree DNA was the first genealogy driven DNA testing service.

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Family History Research Help