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Web Sites for Genealogists, 2008 edition Click here for details.
Federation of Family History Societies List of Members includes societies and contacts. These include the Anglo-German, Anglo-Italian, Quaker and Romany & Traveller family history societies.
GENUKI's List of Family History and Genealogy Societies. Includes regional societies.
Society of Genealogists, London. Information about the Society and its activities. Information Leaflets are available online.
The EnglandGenWeb Project has individual county sites which offer access to a wide range of local information, resources and links.
Bedfordshire
Bedfordshire Family History
Society
National Archive of Memorial Inscriptions (NAOMI). This site aims to provide an accessible archive of UK memorial inscriptions. It currently lists 150,000+ inscriptions from Norfolk and Bedfordshire burial grounds.
Photographs of Bedfordshire by Kevin Quick. This series of photos includes churches which are indexed alphabetically by parish plus a collection of pictures of towns and villages.
Berkshire
Berkshire Family History
Society
Richard Heaton's Family History Homepage includes an index (link at top of page) to 13,000+ names in the Windsor and Eton Express (1826-1842) plus indexes to soldiers, police and pubs, inns & beer houses. 2,800+ names from the 1539 North Wiltshire Musters have also been indexed.
Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire Family
History Society
Buckinghamshire Genealogical Society
Photographs of Buckinghamshire by Kevin Quick. This series of photos includes churches which are indexed alphabetically by parish plus a collection of pictures of towns and villages.
Buckinghamshire County Council, Aylesbury Gaol in the 19th Century. This database details Prisoners Entering the County Gaol in Aylesbury in the 1870s. It includes name, age, birth place, residence, crime and if a photo is available. Other details such as occupation and sentence are also available.
Cambridgeshire
See
also Online Birth, Death
and Marriage Indexes
Cambridgeshire Family History Society
The Cambridge University Heraldic & Genealogical Society
Fenland Family History Society.
Cheshire
See also Online Birth, Death
and Marriage Indexes
The Family History Society of Cheshire
Family History Society of Cheshire - Crewe Group
North Cheshire Family History Society
Cornwall
Cornwall Family History
Society
Cornwall Online's Genealogy Pages online Cornish Mining Index to 16,000+ names. Several other databases (surnames, convicts, executions and RN ships) are available for downloading.
Cornish Cemeteries Index by Christine Uphill. This site aims to provide online access to the cemeteries, in the West Penwith area of Cornwall, transcribed by Suezan James. The project has since been expanded and other cemeteries have been included. Currently there are over 20,000 names indexed.
Cumberland
Cumbria
Family History Society
Furness Family History Society
Derbyshire
See
also Online Birth, Death
and Marriage Indexes
Devon
Devon Family History
Society
Dorset
See also
Somerset
Dorset
Family History Society
Durham
See
Northumberland, Yorkshire.
Durham Records Online. This commercial site offers a free name search which returns names, age, record type and district. This site currently has 2,406,100+ records available for searching.
Tomorrow's History local studies site for the North East of England covers Northumberland, Durham, North & South Tyneside, Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland, Hartlepool, Darlington, Stockton on Tees, Middlesbrough and Redcar & Cleveland. Resources for each community in the region includes maps, directories and photographs. 30,000+ digital images are available online.
Essex
Essex Society for Family
History
Unlocking Essex's Past. This site has a variety of online data available.
Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire Family History
Society
Bristol & Avon Family History Society There is access to the South Gloucestershire Burials Index and Shirehampton cemetery inscriptions.
Forest of Dean Family History.
Hampshire
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also Online Birth, Death
and Marriage Indexes
Isle of Wight Family History Society
Herefordshire
Herefordshire
Family History Society
Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire Family
History Society
Royston and District Family History Society
Genealogy in Hertfordshire by Chris Reynolds. An interactive guide for people researching local and family history in Hertfordshire.Huntingdonshire
Huntingdonshire Family
History Society
Kent
See also Online Birth, Death and Marriage
Indexes
North West Kent Family History Society
Folkestone & District Family History Society
Tunbridge Wells Family History Society.
Kent Genealogy contains searchable indexes to over 80,000+ names and over 350 useful links. Indexes include the West Kent Quarter Sessions Index.(1788-1804), Kent wills at the PCC (1721-1734), Dover Telegraph Newspaper Index (1839 and 1850) plus much more.Medway Council's Online Archives Service, CityArk, offers text based finding aids to 1500 years of Medway's historic archives collections. The Imagebase offers free access to scanned images of parish registers, licensing records, shipping registers plus much more.
Mid-Kent Marriages Index 1754-1911 by
David Hills offers access to transciptions of marriage records the mid
Kent registration districts of East Ashford, West Ashford, Cranbrook,
Elham, Hollingbourne, Romney Marsh and Tenterden.
Lancashire
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also Online Birth, Death
and Marriage Indexes
Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Society
Lancaster Family History Group.
Liverpool & South West Lancashire Family History Society
Furness Family History Society.
North Meols (Southport) Family History Society
Ormskirk & District Family History Society
Manchester & Lancashire Family History Society
Leicestershire
Leicestershire & Rutland
Family History Society
Lincolnshire
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also Online Birth, Death
and Marriage Indexes
Lincolnshire Family History Society. Includes online extracts from Lincolnshire newspapers.
Isle of Axholme Family History Society
See also Online Birth, Death and Marriage Indexes
The East of London Family History Society
London Westminister and Middlesex Family History Society
London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) Family Research online access to London Generations database of genealogical sources held by LMA. The London Signatures database offers online searches and digital copies (fee) of marriage bonds and wills held by LMA.
ParishRegister.com by Docklands Ancestors Ltd is a site for those tracing Docklands, Thames, watermen and lightermen ancestors. There is extensive information available plus free online name searching of London parish registers. Full details from the registers are available for a small fee.
London's Past Online. A keyword searchable bibliography of London history created by the Centre for Metropolitan History in association with the Royal Historical Society.The Charles Booth Online Archive Charles Booth's inquiry into the life and labour of London people (1886-1903) documented the poverty and human suffering. He interviewed people from all walks of life and created detailed poverty maps (1892-1897) of the city which can be browsed online and compared with London maps (2000). Surname searches of those interviewed are available and it is possible to check a street address to see the poverty or wealth level assigned to that street.
London Burial Grounds aims to provide a record of London's burial grounds. Maps, historical notes, photographs and images are provided if available.
West Middlesex Family History Society
Hillingdon Family History Society
Norfolk
Norfolk
Family History Society
Mid Norfolk Family History Society
Norfolk Online Access to Heritage (NOAH) offers access to archive, library and museum collections. It includes museum objects, photographs, maps, newspaper articles, probate records, trade directories and books. Digital copies of some records available.
Norfolk Public Houses. This site has over 5000 establishments arranged by place name. Choose a place and a list of public houses for that place will appear, choose one and a list of licensees and dates will appear plus a photograph of the premises and historical information.
National Archive of Memorial Inscriptions (NAOMI). This site aims to provide an accessible archive of UK memorial inscriptions. It currently lists 150,000+ inscriptions from Norfolk and Bedfordshire burial grounds.Northamptonshire
Northamptonshire Family
History Society
Peterborough & District Family History Society.
Northumberland
See
also Durham and Online Birth, Death and Marriage Indexes
Northumberland & Durham Family History Society
Northumberland Communities site offers access to detailed, digitised local history information for 76 Northumberland communities and includes photographs, maps, estate, court, church and school records. Information is arranged and searchable by place name.
Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire Family
History Society
The National Archives, DocumentsOnline, Southwell Union Workhouse, Nottinghamshire. Documents from the best-preserved workhouse in England (1834-1871) can be searched and images downloaded free of charge.
Rutlandshire
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Leicestershire
Shropshire
Shropshire Family History
Society
Somerset
See also Online Birth, Death and Marriage Indexes
Staffordshire
See also Online Birth, Death and Marriage Indexes
The Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry covers the counties of Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire.
Suffolk
Suffolk
Family History Society
Felixstowe Family History Society
The Suffolk Surnames List. This site also includes details of sother Suffolk resources.
Cosford Database. This site contains details of over 120,000 people and over 30,000 families mainly from the Lavenham and Cosford Registration District of Suffolk, England.
Surrey
East Surrey Family
History Society
West Surrey Family History Society
The Epsom Family History GroupSussex
Sussex Family History Group
Family History Society for Eastbourne and District.
Hastings and Rother Family History Society.
The Photos of Edwin Isaac Baker professional photographer Sussex County, England. This site contains photographs from two albums of Baker's work covering the period 1860s-1897. There are photos of Sussex people and places including castles, homes, country scenes and street scenes.
Warwickshire
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also Staffordshire
See also Online Birth, Death and Marriage Indexes
Coventry Family History Society
Nuneaton & North Warwickshire Family History Society.
Warwickshire County Council. Select the letter R, then Record Office, then Online Catalogue and Databases for access to Warwickshire's Past Unlocked online catalogue to the archives at Warwickshire County Record Office; the Tithe Apportionments database and the Calendars of Prisoners database (see Convicts). Wiltshire
See
also Online Birth, Death and Marriage Indexes
Worcestershire
See
Staffordshire
See also Online Birth, Death and Marriage Indexes
Yorkshire
See
also Durham and Online Birth, Death and Marriage Indexes
The City of York & District Family History Society. This site contains an index to records, held in York Reference Library, of prisoners brought to trial at York Assizes 1785-1851.
East Yorkshire Family History Society
Cleveland Family History Society
Barnsley Family History Society
Calderdale Family History Society
Doncaster & District Family History Society
Sheffield and District Family History Society
Sheffield Indexers. This site aims to provide free access to accurate indexed transcriptions of genealogical records. Currently selected census records for Sheffield and Derbyshire are available plus parish records, burial records and directories for Sheffield.
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