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• Adoption Records
  
  • Birth, marriage and death certificates, adoption records  After 1837     (Source: DirectGov)     ($)
• Archives (17)
• Baptism Records
  
  • Baptisms - Parish Records 1538-2005      (Source: FindMyPast.com)     ($)
• Bibliography
  
  • Ancestral Trails. The Complete Guide to British Genealogy and Family History, Second Edition      (Source: Amazon.com)
  • Gibson Guides: Location Guides for Family and Local Historians      (Source: GenUKI - UK & Ireland Genealogy)
  • Review: Ancestral Trails: The Complete Guide to British Genealogy and Family History (2nd. ed.) by M.D. Herber      (Source: GenUKI - UK & Ireland Genealogy)
  • Review: Ancestral Trails: The Complete Guide to British Genealogy and Family History by M.D. Herber      (Source: GenUKI - UK & Ireland Genealogy)
  • Reviews of books by Chapman, Colin R      (Source: GenUKI - UK & Ireland Genealogy)
• Biographies, Autobiographies, Letters, Memoirs, Bible Records
  
  • The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published from 1885      (Source: Wikipedia)
  • DNB-TRANSCRIPTION mailing list to coordinate and paste the transcription of Dictionary of National Biographies      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
  • Mail Lists, Message Boards & Internet Groups
    
    • Family Bibles Forum      (Source: Rootschat Genealogy Message Forum)
• Birth Records
  
  • Birth, marriage and death certificates, adoption records  After 1837     (Source: DirectGov)     ($)
  • Births - British overseas 1761-1994, 1995-2005, Births at sea 1854-1887      (Source: FindMyPast.com)     ($)
  • Births - England & Wales 1837-1983, and 1984-2006      (Source: FindMyPast.com)     ($)
  • Civil service evidence of age 1752-1948      (Source: FindMyPast.com)     ($)
• Burial Records
  
  • Ancestry: JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR) - Free index      (Source: Find your ancestors today with a FREE 14 day trial to Ancestry.co.uk - Click here!)
  • Burials - Parish Records 1538-2005      (Source: FindMyPast.com)     ($)
  • National Archives leaflet: Burial Indexes      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
• Business and Commerce, Financial and Bank Records
  
  • National Archives leaflet: Byelaws      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • National Archives leaflet: Companies and Businesses: Registration      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • National Archives leaflet: Registered Designs and Trade Marks      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • National Archives leaflet: Registered Designs: Diamond Marks      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • National Archives leaflet: Royal Grants: Letters Patent and Charters, 1199 to Present Day      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • National Archives leaflet: Seals      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • History
    
    • History
      
      • National Archives leaflet: Sources for Business History      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
• Cemeteries
  
  • Commonwealth War Graves Commission 
  • UK-CEMETERIES genealogy mail list for research assistance related to cemeteries and graveyards found in the UK. The list may also be used for the posting of Monumental Inscriptions      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
• Census (13)
• Chronologies, Timelines, Calendars
  
  • British History Timeline      (Source: BBC)
  • Timeline of British History  Britannia History
• Church History (18)
• Church Records (12)
• Civil Registration, Registration Offices
  
  • Civil service evidence of age 1752-1948      (Source: FindMyPast.com)     ($)
  • Index to death duty registers 1796-1903      (Source: FindMyPast.com)     ($)
• Correctional Institutions
  
  • National Archives leaflet: Convicts and Prisoners, 1100-1986, Sources in The National Archives      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • PRISONS-UK genealogy mail list for British prisons and prisoners      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
• Court Records (30)
• Death Records (13)
• Description & Travel (19)
• Directories
  
  • Directories and Member Lists      (Source: Find your ancestors today with a FREE 14 day trial to Ancestry.co.uk - Click here!)
• Divorce Records
  
  • Divorces and matrimonial causes 1858-1903      (Source: FindMyPast.com)     ($)
  • National Archives leaflet: Divorce Records After 1858      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • National Archives leaflet: Divorce Records Before 1858      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
• DNA Projects
  
  • British Isles DNA Project is open to persons whose family history or surname indicates a paternal or maternal lineage originating in the British Isles  Both yDNA and mtDNA
  • British Quakers DNA Project: your DIRECT paternal or DIRECT maternal ancestor must have been a QUAKER of British descent to be eligible to join  Both yDNA and mtDNA     (Source: Family Tree DNA)
  • Using DNA to find the historical and genetic origins of the Elliotts (Elliots) and other Anglo-Scottish families known collectively as the Border Reivers  yDNA only     (Source: Rootsweb.com)
• Emigration and Immigration (30)
• Gazetteers
  
  • Gazetteer, or find the place name for old maps 
  • The GENUKI Gazetteer covers the whole of England, Ireland, Wales, Scotland and the Isle of Man      (Source: GenUKI - UK & Ireland Genealogy)
  • UK and Ireland Topics - Gazetteers      (Source: GenUKI - UK & Ireland Genealogy)
• Genealogy (63)
• Geographical Names
  
  • The Association of British Counties (ABC)  Society dedicated to the 86 historic (or traditional) Counties of Great Britain
  • Curioux Fox, village by village contact site for anybody researching family history, genealogy and local history in the UK and Ireland 
  • Finding Place names 
  • Gazetteer, or find the place name for old maps 
  • The Historic County Borders Project  Digitising the borders of the historic counties of the UK at a scale of 1:100000 and making them available for public and commercial use
• Geography
  
  • National Archives leaflet: Board of Ordnance      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • National Archives leaflet: Ordnance Survey Records      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
• Heraldry, Coats of Arms, and Bearings
  
  • The Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies (IHGS) 
• Historical Region
  
  • Black Country Pages  Traditional name for area west of Birmingham where the 'thick coal' seam comes to the surface. Today, the metropolitan boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell and Walsall, and the city of Wolverhampton     (Source: Rootsweb.com)
  • BORDER mail list for genealogy, history, or unique culture of the counties which surround the border of Scotland and England, different from both southern English and highland or lowland Scottish culture  Many people from the borders were transported to Northern Ireland or left for the colonies     (Source: Rootsweb.com)
• History (79)
• Hospital, Doctor & other Medical Records
  
  • Hospital Records at Public Record Office      (Source: The National Archives (England and Wales))
  • National Archives leaflet: Health: 19th Century Public Health and Epidemics, Sources in The National Archives      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • National Archives leaflet: Lunacy and the State      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • National Archives leaflet: Lunatic Asylums, 18th-20th Centuries      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • UK and Ireland Topics - Medical Records      (Source: GenUKI - UK & Ireland Genealogy)
• Land & Property (12)
• Language, Languages, Writing (11)
• Law & Legislation, Regulation, Governmental Records
  
  • National Archives leaflet: Naturalisation and Citizenship: Grants of British Nationality      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • National Archives leaflet: Outlawry in Medieval and Early Modern England      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • National Archives leaflet: Parliamentary Papers, Printed      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • National Archives leaflet: Parliamentary Records After 1500      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • National Archives leaflet: Privy Council Proclamations, Orders in Council, and Statutory Instruments      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • National Archives leaflet: Treaties      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • History
    
    • National Archives leaflet: Slave Trade, British Transatlantic: Acts of Parliament      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
    • National Archives leaflet: Sources for the History of Crime and Law in England      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
• Mail Lists, Message Boards & Internet Groups
  
  • Search all the British Isles Rootsweb/Ancestry Message Boards      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
  • United Kingdom & Ireland General Message Board      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
• Manor and other Large Estate Records
  
  • National Archives leaflet: Manor and Other Local Court Rolls, 13th Century to 1922      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • National Archives leaflet: Manorial Documents Register and Manorial Lordships      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • National Archives leaflet: Manorial Records in The National Archives      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
• Maps (26)
• Marriage Records
  
  • Birth, marriage and death certificates, adoption records  After 1837     (Source: DirectGov)     ($)
  • Marriages - British overseas 1761-1994 and 1995-2005, Marriages at sea 1854-1883      (Source: FindMyPast.com)     ($)
  • Marriages - England & Wales 1837-1983, and 1984-2005      (Source: FindMyPast.com)     ($)
  • Marriages - Parish Records 1538-2005      (Source: FindMyPast.com)     ($)
• Migration In-Country
  
  • Mail Lists, Message Boards & Internet Groups
    
    • Immigrants Forum      (Source: Rootschat Genealogy Message Forum)
• Military History
  
  • The Crimean War (1853-1856) was fought between the Russian Empire on one side and an alliance of France, the United Kingdom, the Kingdom of Sardinia, and the Ottoman Empire on the other      (Source: Wikipedia)
  • National Archives leaflet: Captured Enemy Documents: Films of German Foreign Ministry (GFM) Archive and Other Sources      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • National Archives leaflet: Sources for the History of Armed Forces      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • Two Boer Wars were fought between the British Empire and the two independent Boer republics, the Orange Free State and the South African Republic  Also known as the Transvaal Republic, founded by settlers known as Voortrekkers who made the Great Trek from the Cape Colony     (Source: Wikipedia)
  • UK Military History      (Source: GenUKI - UK & Ireland Genealogy)
  • UK-MILITARY mailing list discussing the military history of the UK as it relates to genealogy, including battalions, uniforms, abbreviations, records, and placement      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
• Military Records (75)
• Naval & Merchant Marine (204)
• Newspapers (23)
• Nobility & Aristocracy
  
  • BRITISH-NOBILITY mail list for genealogical, cultural or historical interest in the British nobility      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
  • Burke's Peerage and Gentry      ($)
  • Genealogy
    
    • Genealogy of the descendants of the royal house of Plantagenet      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
  • History
    
    • MEDIEVAL-NOBILITY mail list for anyone with a genealogical, cultural or historical interest in European nobility during the Middle Ages, generally regarded as extending from the fall of Rome in 476 to about 1500 with the discovery of the Americas      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
• Obituaries
  
  • The Obituary Daily Times  Daily indexes to world-wide obituaries     (Source: Rootsweb.com)
  • UK and Ireland Newspaper Obituary Notices, free search collected automatically from recent online editions of newspapers      (Source: Ancestry.com)
• Occupations and Trades (57)
• Personal Names (19)
• Photographs & Drawings of People, Places and Objects
  
  • National Archives leaflet: Inventory of Photographic Series in The National Archives      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • National Archives leaflet: Photographs in The National Archives: An Introduction      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • Mail Lists, Message Boards & Internet Groups
    
    • Photo Restoration Forum      (Source: Rootschat Genealogy Message Forum)
• Schools & School Records
  
  • National Archives leaflet: Education: Elementary (Primary) Schools      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • National Archives leaflet: Education: Inspectorate and HMI Reports      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • National Archives leaflet: Education: Records of Special Services      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • National Archives leaflet: Education: Records of Teachers      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • National Archives leaflet: Education: Secondary Schools      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • National Archives leaflet: Education: Sources for the History of      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • National Archives leaflet: Education: Technical and Further Education      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • UK-HISTORY-GROUP mail list for anyone conducting genealogical research related to schools throughout the UK to discuss their searches, request additional information related to their efforts, and assist in transcribing relevant information      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
• Social Life and Customs (15)
• Societies
  
  • The Association of Genealogists and Researchers in Archives 
  • British Isles Family History Society - USA      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
  • Family and Community Historical Research Society: Victorian social history, migration, Victorian social classes and history, local history projects, research projects for pre-Victorian England  Plus many more aspects of UK 18th, 19th and 20th century family and community history research
  • UK-FACHRS mail list for members of the Family and Community Historical Research Society of Great Britain (FACHRS) to encourage and support scholarly research into family and community history and to provide a forum for researchers      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
• Statistics
  
  • National Archives leaflet: Agricultural Statistics      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
• Taxation; Tax Records, Customs, Excise
  
  • National Archives leaflet: Customs and Excise Officials and Tax Collectors      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • National Archives leaflet: Hearth Tax, 1662-1689      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • National Archives leaflet: Medieval Customs' Accounts      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • National Archives leaflet: Pipe Rolls, c1130-1300      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • National Archives leaflet: Taxation Records Before 1689      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • National Archives leaflet: Tithe Records      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • National Archives leaflet: Treasury Board: Letters and Papers, 1557-1920      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • National Archives leaflet: Treasury Solicitor      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • National Archives leaflet: Valuation Office Records: The Finance (1909-1910) Act      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
• Vital Records (Births, Marriages, Deaths)
  
  • BMD exchange site (find and exchange unwanted certificates) 
  • National Archives leaflet: Births, Marriages and Deaths at Sea      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • Records appearing on the second edition of the British Isles Vital Record Index from the LDS 
• Voter & Elector Registration Lists
  
  • National Archives leaflet: Electoral Registers      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
• Wills, Probate, Testate and Intestate Records
  
  • Correlation of Ancestry's UK and Ireland Collection: English medieval records and probate indexes with the standard listing (BRS)      (Source: Medieval Genealogy)
  • Court, Land and Probate      (Source: Find your ancestors today with a FREE 14 day trial to Ancestry.co.uk - Click here!)
  • Death Duty Registers 1796-1811 is a partial index to wills and adminstrations 1796-1811 is provided, other than PCC      (Source: The National Archives (England and Wales))
  • National Archives leaflet: Wills and Death Duty Records After 1858      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • National Archives leaflet: Wills and Probate Records      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • National Archives leaflet: Wills Before 1858: Where to Start      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills 1384-1858  Not all administrations are listed at National Archives DocumentsOnline
  • Death Records
    
    • GWR shareholders 1835-1910  Great Western Railway shareholders index, ledgers called by GWR "Probate Books"     (Source: FindMyPast.com)     ($)
• Workhouses, Poorhouses, Poor Law & Records
  
  • National Archives leaflet: Poor and the Poor Laws      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • National Archives leaflet: Poor Law Records, 1834-1871      (Source: National Archives Research Guides)
  • The Story of Workhouses 

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