Part One - Family History
Organisations
- The National Archives
- The Federation of Family History Societies
- The Society of Genealogists
- The Guild of One-Name Studies
- Genes Reunited - over 5 million members have registered their family trees
- Ancestry or Rootsweb - free message boards for family history contacts
- AGRA - The Association of Genealogists and Researchers in Archives
- The College of Arms - for heraldry
General information
- Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet - thousands of very useful links
- Genuki - genealogical information, advice and links
- Family History Centres - where to find them
- Parishes - where they are
- Parish churches - where they are
Archive Catalogues
- National Archives catalogues
- Countrywide Archives catalogues
- Genuki - county pages for links to individual local archives
Civil Registration (indexes and certificates of birth, marriage and death)
- Civil Registration indexes
- General Register Office (GRO) - ordering certificates
- Local Register Offices (GRO) - finding
Censuses
- The National Archives - census pages
- Ancestry website
- Family History Online - free census indexes
- Familysearch - free 1881 census search
Parish registers
- The International Genealogical Index - the Familysearch website
- Federation of Family History Societies' collection by county
Wills
- PCC wills - 1384-1858: information and how to find them. National Archives guide
- National Archives guide - after 1858: research guide to wills and death duty records
Newspapers
- National Newspaper Library - British Library's newspaper collection
Trade and Street Directories
- National Directories - searchable digital library, a University of Leicester project
Manor Court Rolls
- Manorial documents register - where to find existing manor court rolls
Prison Records
- Prisons - List of all prisons in Britain
- The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London - 1674 to 1834
Non-Conformist Records
- Roman Catholic history
- The National Archives - Catholic recusants
- John Rylands Library - University of Manchester Methodist collections
- Dr Williams Library - non-conformist records
- Jewish Gen - British Jewish ancestry links and database
- Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain - links and datafiles
- Surnames index - created by Australian Family Tree Connections magazine
Roman Catholics
Society of Friends (Quakers)
Baptists
Methodists
Jewish Ancestry
Huguenots
The Armed Forces
- Commonwealth War Graves Commision - war dead
- War Memorials - Roll of Honour, photos of memorials, lists of those killed
- Imperial War Museum
- Royal Navy - website
- National Maritime Museum - research
- Battle of Trafalgar - , 18,000 names
- Merchant seamen - National Archives introduction to records
- Merchant vessels - indexed list and descriptions of vessels compiled by Michael P. Palmer, with images
- Navy Vessels - photos
- British Army - National Archives advice on resources
- Regiments - army website with links to individual regiments
- The RAF - units, stations, histories and badges
- The RAF Museum
Immigration and Emigration
- Emigrants - National Archives records
- Immigrants - National Archives records
- Passenger Lists - by the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild (ISTG)
- US Immigration - US National Archives records
- US Naturalisation - US National Archives records
- Immigrant resources - information and hundreds of links by Marjorie P. Kohli
General
North America
Canada
Gypsies
The Monarchy
- British Monarchs - the official website of the British Monarchy, with royal family trees to download
General Reference
- Old Occupations and Latin names on The Olive Tree Genealogy site
- Christian names and their diminutives, by Anne Johnston
- Latin name equivalents
- Rudy's list of Archaic Medical terms
- Hall Genealogy website Illnesses encountered in genealogy
Part Two - Local History
National Resources
- Englandpast or British History - Victoria County History
- Institutions - workhouses, asylums, prisons, etc
- Workhouses
- Vision of Britain - 1801 to 2001. Includes maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions of almost every town
- Old Maps - to look at or buy
- London Maps - 18th & 19th centuries, on the London Ancestor website
- Local history associations - mainly county level
- The British Museum
- The National Virtual Museum - news of exhibitions from over 3,000 museums nationwide
- The Institute of Historical Research - resources for historians, and online articles
History Local to North Hertfordshire, England (where I live)
- Towns and Villages in Hertfordshire - names, Hundreds, churches, Unions, boundaries
- Archaeology - with local archaeologist Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews
- Hertfordshire Family History Society
- Letchworth Museum and Art Gallery
- Letchworth Family History Group
- Hitchin Historical Society
- Around Hitchin - photos, descriptions, history
- British Schools Museum - Hitchin
- Hitchin Museum and Art Gallery
- Hitchin Band - includes a history of the brass band
- Baldock Museum - and Local History Society
- Royston and District Local History Society
Last modified 5 May 2008
