Links to other websites
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| www.cheshire.gov.uk/Library/reflib.htm | Online access to several reference titles for Cheshire County Council library members, including Oxford Reference Library, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and Gale's InfoTrac newspaper database (includes the Times from 1785 onwards). You need your library card number to login. | |
| www.1901census.nationalarchives.gov.uk | 1901 census for England and Wales at the National Archives (formerly the PRO) website. Use the index for free and pay to view the census page. | |
| www.census-online.com/links/ | Links to Online Census Records (various worldwide) | |
| www.ancestral-villages.co.uk/ | Ancestral Villages. It's free to add your Ancestors to their Ancestral Villages. By adding your information you are helping to build up a list of residents throughout the history of the village. Also you may find other branches of your family tree. | |
| www.curiousfox.org.uk | Curious Fox - The village by village contact site for anybody researching family history, genealogy and local history in the UK and Ireland. | |
| www.genesreunited.co.uk | Genes Reunited is the UK?s largest family tree, genealogy and ancestry site - with over 26 million people listed. It?s easy to use, free to search and free to register. | |
| worldconnect.rootsweb.com | The Rootsweb WorldConnect Project is a set of tools which allow users to upload, modify, link, and display their family trees as a means to share their genealogy with other researchers. | |
| www.documentsonline.nationalarchives.gov.uk | DocumentsOnline allows you online access to The National Archives' collection of digitised public records, including both academic and family history sources. Searching the index is free, and it costs £3.50 to download a digital image of a document. | |
| www.old-maps.co.uk | Britain's most extensive digital historical map archive. Find out where your ancestors used to live or check out what your neighbourhood looked like over a hundred years ago. | |
| www.rootsweb.com | Rootsweb - Mailing Lists & general information | |
| www.genuki.org.uk | GENUKI - UK Genealogy - everything you ever wanted to know about genealogy in the UK and Ireland | |
| www.francisfrith.com | The Francis Frith Collection of historic photographs | |
| www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificate/ | General Register Office Online Birth, Marriage and Death Certificate ordering | |
| Bollington Discovery Centre | Website for the new Bollington Discovery Centre, developed by the Bollington Civic Society. | |
| Convict Research | Information about Australian Convicts and Transportation. | |
| Familysearch | Census: 1881 UK (excl. Scotland), 1880 US, 1881 Canada. Also IGI and other records submitted by LDS church members. |
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| GENUKI Bollington | History of Bollington Parish | |
| Happy Valley | Bollington Town website | |
| http://www.lostcousins.com | Lost Cousins. In almost every branch of every family there's someone researching family history. Each will have a different starting point, and a different perspective, each will make different discoveries. Just imagine if all the people researching the same ancestors could pool their knowledge! The Lost Cousins website is the answer. Using a proprietary method it links together distant cousins who have long since lost touch - if they ever knew the other existed. And unlike some other web-sites, it virtually guarantees that the people who link up really are related. | |
| images.freebmd.org.uk | Scanned images of GRO England and Wales civil registration index pages from FreeBMD. Useful for when the page you want has not yet been transcribed, or if you want to check a reference. Incomplete. |
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| Immigrants to Canada | Emigration Information of the Nineteenth Century And Ships They Came On. | |
| Macclesfield Library | Where to go for local archives such as parish and census records, maps, old newspapers, etc | |
| Names - how many people had your surname in 2002? | THIS DATABASE is an extract of an Office of National Statistics database, and contains a list of surnames in use in England, Wales and the Isle of Mann in September 2002. The list contains almost 270,000 surnames, shared by 54.4 million people. The entire database contains over a million surnames, shared by 55.9 million people, but names shared by fewer that five people have been excluded from this list. | |
| olivetreegenealogy.com | Search for your ancestry on Olive Tree Genealogy! Free Ships' Passenger lists, Palatine Genealogy, Canadian Genealogy, USA Genealogy, Native American Genealogy, Huguenots, Mennonites, Almshouse Records, Orphan Records, church records, military muster rolls, census records, land records and much more will help you find that elusive ancestor. | |
| www.1837online.com | 1837 online - GRO England and Wales civil registration index page images (pay) | |
| www.bbc.co.uk/history | BBC History: Family History. Getting started and experts' top tips - How censuses and certification can help you draw up your family tree - Piecing the past together using war memorabilia and house history. | |
| www.bdm.nsw.gov.au | New South Wales Registry of Births, Marriages and Deaths. The Registry's historical records are referred to as Online Historical Indexes. Historical Indexes show limited information about birth, death and marriage records in the following years: Births 1788 to 1905 Deaths 1788 to 1945 Marriages 1788 to 1945 |
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| www.ellisisland.org | It has been estimated that nearly half of all Americans today can trace their family history to at least one person who passed through the Port of New York at Ellis Island between 1892 and 1924. Search the indexes and find the immigration records here. | |
| www.familyrecords.gov.uk | This site, provided by the FamilyRecords.gov.uk consortium, aims to help you find the government records and other sources you need for your family history research. The site is divided into two main sections: Topics and Partners. In the topics section you will find information on Births, Marriages & Deaths, Census, Migration etc. In the partners section, you will find information on each member of the FamilyRecords.gov.uk consortium. |
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| www.freebmd.org.uk | Free BMD (England and Wales civil registration indexes) mostly covering 1837 - 1911. Ongoing voluntary transcription project, so incomplete at present. |
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| www.gazettes-online.co.uk | The London, Edinburgh, and Belfast Gazettes are the official newspapers of record in the United Kingdom. Several legal notices, including insolvency notices, are required by law to be published in the London, Belfast or Edinburgh Gazette. TSO, on behalf of HMSO, are currently digitising the entire 20th Century. For the first time ever users with have free online access to the complete archive. Search the first 80 years (1900 ? 1979) now. | |
| www.genealogy.gc.ca | The Canadian Genealogy Centre. | |
| www.historicaldirectories.org | Historical Directories is produced and owned by the University of Leicester. It is a digital library of local and trade directories for England and Wales, from 1750 to 1919. | |
| www.immigrantships.net | Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild - Immigrant Ships Passenger Lists. | |
| www.nationalarchives.gov.uk | The National Archives, housed in Kew, London (formerly known as the Public Records Office or PRO). | |
| www.perthdps.com/shipping | A directory of ships bringing passengers to Western Australia. | |
| www.picturecheshire.co.uk | The Cheshire and Chester Archives and Local Studies digital image website | |
| www.prov.vic.gov.au | Public Record Office, Victoria, Australia. | |
| www.records.nsw.gov.au | State Records Authority of New South Wales. | |
| www.sunnyfield.co.uk/images.htm | Sunnyfield Local History Photographs | |
| www.theshipslist.com | UK Marriages at Sea Register 1854-1964 (ref. BT 334/117) | |
| www.theshipslist.com | TheShipsList website, online since August 1999, will help you find your ancestors on ships' passenger lists.We also have immigration reports, newspaper records, shipwreck information, ship pictures, ship descriptions, shipping-line fleet lists and more; as well as hundreds of passenger lists to Canada, USA, Australia and even some for South Africa. | |
| www.uk.olivesoftware.com | British Library Online Newspaper Archive | |
| www.ukbmd.org.uk | Links to local birth, marriage and death civil registration indexes, and to other local area resources. Some of these local online indexes cover from 1837 to 1950 and beyond. |
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