talk report - october 2006
25 October: Family History Workshop
Member Dr Andrew Scarisbrick gave us a short talk about the problems he had found while researching his own family tree and the gave out a list of useful websites which follows:
www.familysearch.org (free)
1881 census
IGI (use with caution-not always accurate)
www.ancestry.co.uk (pay)
All census records 1841-1901
GRO index of BMDs
www.1901census.nationalarchives.gov.uk (pay)
1901 census (free to search but pay for actual page)
www.1837online.com (pay)
Complete GRO index of BMDs
Some census records
Some military records
www.1837online.com (pay)
Complete GRO index of BMDs
Some census records
Some military records
www.freebmd.org.uk (free)
Incomplete (but growing) GRO index of BMDs (1837 to c. 1915)
www.lam-opc.org.uk (free)
Online Parish Clerk. Parish records of some parishes within selected dates
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk (pay)
Some wills before 1858
Various other miscellaneous documents including Military Records
www.cwgc.org (free to search)
All military deaths in both World Wars, including where buried and
details of cemeteries
www.a2a.org.uk (free to search)
Where to find a large number of miscellaneous documents, including wills, leases, feoffements of estates and orders of filiation of illegitimate children
www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk (pay)
Census returns and Parish records for Scotland.