Genealogy

 

Software

1901 England & Wales Census Decoder Software (FREE TO DOWNLOAD & USE)  Brilliant Program!
GreatFamily v1.1 [921k] W9x/2k/XP FREE family tree program that also produces trees in webformat
Product catalog; Wholly Genes Software; maker of The Master Genealogist (TMG); the complete family tree and history project manager for DOS and Windows
The retail price of The Master Genealogist v4.0 Gold Edition Upgrades to v4.0 start at $29.95 http://www.whollygenes.com
Ancestor Detective is a good site to check from time to time to find out what is dangerous on the web
Software reviews
GIM Home Page - Shareware to check a GEDCOM file
Family Tree Maker Homepage
parfind - Download DOS based parish finder

Libraries, museums, PRO and other archives

United States Digital Map Library  For genealogical research, offers a host of historical maps categorized by state and topic
Find A Grave  search for the graves of relatives and ancestors by typing in their surname, which will allow the search engine to query over 3.8 million burial records
Centropa: Jewish Heritage in Central and Eastern Europe contains a number of different oral history and photographic archives, in addition to sections dealing with contemporary Jewish life 
Charting the Nation: Maps of Scotland and Associated Archives, 1550-1740       
Maps of Scotland: National Library of Scotland     
Scottish Documents: Scotland's Written Legacy offers a unique glimpse of the past, more than two million scan images of wills and death certificates.  Covering a span of nearly four hundred years (1500-1875)
1901: Living at the Time of the Census [Quicktime, MediaPlayer]
1901 Census for England and Wales   
If you want to check if your ancestor was given an award for being a lifesaver, see http://www.lsars.eurobell.co.uk/rolls.htm (International listings)
Palmer's index to the Times newspaper 1790-1905 click on the bottom link on the right hand side of the page "About History Online", click on the left hand link "Palmer's Index 1790-1905/Palmer's Full Text.  The relevant hits in the index will have to be taken to a library holding The Times on microfilm
AncientFaces is a database of photos submitted by users that enables people tracing their family trees to place faces with names. These may be searched by keyword, name, date, or location. They can also be browsed alphabetically by surname.
American Family Immigration History Center  amazing resource from the American Family Immigration History Center at Ellis Island
Familyrecords.gov.uk  organized  by archive and by topic
Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516 comprehensivenational survey of markets and fairs in medieval England and Wales
British Library Newspaper Library Catalogue over 50,000 newspaper and periodical title holdings (with date ranges) online
Cemetery Records Online primarily on the US, but also Canada, Ireland, the UK, Australia, NZ etc
commonwealth war graves commission
The Real White Pages ONLINE(TM)
Index To Recent Death Notices In Sydney, Australia Newspapers
Index to assisted immigrants arriving in Sydney and Newcastle and 1844-59 Index to assisted immigrants arriving at Moreton Bay (Brisbane),  1848-59     
The Australian New South Wales births, deaths and marriages indexes
Staffordshire county archive collections and holdings
US National Archives go to the Genealogy Page, and then to the list of regional facilities You should be able to request naturalization records online
Online Register of British and Commonwealth War Dead
Society of Genealogists bookshop
Links to ships' passenger lists published on the web:
An on-line searchable database of passenger lists for ships arriving in the then colony of Victoria, Australia between 1852 and 1859:
Ashmolean Museum: BR - Counties List
UK library holdings for family historians
British Army Index of Regiments with links to any relevant web
The Centre of Oxfordshire Studies E-mail - cos.occdla@dial.pipex.com
E-mail - archive.occdla@dial.pipex.com
Ashmolean Museum: Brass Introduction
The Ashmolean in Cyberspace
News of the Central London Reading Room
(PRO) Online Catalogue, a database of over eight million document references
The new PRO web-site - many new features - check it out!
All You Need to Know about the PRO's Central London Reading Room
All About the PRO
Public Record Office Genealogists' Page
Surnames: Introduction to soc.genealogy.surnames
Surnames: WWW surname archive
Tracing Your Ancestor
Information for Readers
MAP ROOM HOME PAGE
Using the Library
uyork.bihr
Search Service
holdings

Jewish Genealogy

Jewish Encyclopedia.com Standing as a testament to the wide ranging contributions of the Jewish people to world culture and history, this Web site contains the complete contents of the massive 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, originally published between 1901-1906 by the Funk & Wagnall's Company
Jewish Index - you will find links to a great deal of information to help your research
Centropa: Jewish Heritage in Central and Eastern Europe  contains a number of different oral history and photographic archives, in addition to sections dealing with contemporary Jewish life around the world
Living Words: Voices of the Holocaust -- life before the Holocaust, ghettos and deportations, the camps, resistance, liberation, and testimonies compliment the sixteen-volume set of typescripts of 70 interviews that  may be read or played using RealPlayer.
The Brandeis University Library Catalogue Brandeis is the only nonsectarian Jewish-sponsored university in the US, nine miles west of Boston,
JNUL Kettubot Database at the Jewish National and University Library
National Museum of American Jewish History
LitvakSIG - All Lithuania Database
LDS Search CustomSearch Page
Search the All Lithuania Database
Chicago History Society's History Files site explores some of the most notable events and characters in Chicago's history: infamous (Al Capone...........
National Museum of American Jewish History with digital versions of a variety of current and permanent exhibitions
The Venice Ghetto in the Philadephphia News web site
The Jewish Genealogy Society of Long Island, a resource for Jewish genealogists in the Long Island and New York area
REIPP Home Page
London Jews Database
 
Cyndy Howells comprehensive list
Cyndy's American Social Security Death Index
Rootsweb's American Social Security Death Index
JewishGen Family Home Pages: Yizkor Book Database
JewishGen: The Official Home of Jewish Genealogy
JewishGen: The Official Home of Jewish Genealogy
JewishGen FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
JewishGen - JOS Soundex Calculator
JewishGen - JOS Calendar Conversion
Laurence's Jewish Resources page
Israel version of Genserv
JewishGen - JOS Soundex Calculator
Results of your Hamagid search
JewishGen: LDS Microfilm Master
JewishGen: LDS Microfilm Master
JewishGen: LDS Microfilm Master
JewishGen: LDS Microfilm Master
Belarus History and Links
JewishGen: The Official Home of Jewish Genealogy
Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain
JGSR Lithuania Page
LITHUANIA
History of Belarus

Societies + newsgroups (not Jewish speciality groups)

Family data bases

Kindred Konnections Inc
The Ancestral Archive at Kindred Konnections
Convicts to Autralia - online lists
GenPageFinder Ancestry.com has introduced a new search engine designed just for genealogy.
The new free Web site, called FamilyHistory.com, offers the 10 million-name Ancestry World Tree and many free genealogy message boards. Also you can download complete CEDCOM files ! www.familyhistory.com
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has begun a brief public test of a new genealogical service for the Internet at   www.familysearch.org
Windows 95 software for extraction of data from the online IGI personal record files
Genealogy
IGA_Net Home Page
Genealogical Database Index
http://www.kindredkonnections.com upload a GEDCOM file or do some on-line transcription and get free access for a while.
Genealogical Database Index
A new GEDCOM search site www.ancestry.com
National GEDCOM Exchange

GenUKI

GENUKI listing of events for your diary
UKadminregions
GENUKI front page
HTTP://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk...ons/CATH56/CTH56101.TXT
HTTP://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk...scriptions/CATHPRS1.TXT
Fidonet I&UK surnames list
http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk...IDONET-IUK/I&UK_SNM.LST
http://cs6400.mcc.ac.uk/genuki/big/LDS/centres.txt
Index
FTM Paper
Society of Genealogists
Frequently Asked Questions For soc.genealogy.uk+ireland
English and Welsh Register Offices

Other Societies and organisations

ProGenealogists  with direct links to genealogical records, censuses, and genealogical organizations in every
country, also directly links to sources for vital and military records, as well as obituary and biographical services
ftp://sable.ox.ac.uk/pu...genealogy/pro/ci004.txt
OFHS web page
All next year's meetings in Kidlington, and the(smaller) meetings in Abingdon through the Autumn are now on the OFHS web page
GenServ - Genealogical Server - DOCS.html !
LDS ("desert news")
Birmngham + Midland society north Staffs branch
GenServ - Genealogical International Data !
GenServ - Monthly loading graph of databases !
SimTel Downloadable Genealogical software
RAND Genealogy Club
GenServ: HOMEPAGE, Family History, GEDCOM Databases, Austin, Texas, USA
Roots Surname List name and address information
Roots Surname List Search Results:
Oxfordshire Genealogy
Oxford ROOTS mailing list archives
Register of One-Name Studies
Roots forum as referenced in comuserve
Genealogy Related Newsgroups
Oxon FHS ref to Surnames lists
Oxon FHS on internet

Miscellaneaous

Gateway for Resources and Information on Preservation is a searchable database of information on the preservation of documentary materials
Scantips - an introduction to photograph and document scanning. There's a lot of information here (some assuming more advanced knowledge of the technology), including special pages on the restoration of genealogical photos
Online Resources for Genealogical Research in the United Kingdom
Oxford Ancestors is the first organisation in the world to offer these DNA-based services in genealogy
MultiGen - searches Ancestry.com, Family Tree Maker, Gendex, Genealogy.com, JewishGen FamilyFinder, the LDS FamilySearch, and the Roots-L surname list
Your Past Connections - items that havbeen discovered at auctions, flea markets, yard sales and from other sources
Bi-directional machine translations for words, phrases, and short notes in twenty languages including Cyrillic Russian, Polish, Hungarian, Slovenian , and other more popular western european languages
Free translation service for genealogy related matters Supported languages CZEch, DANish, DUTch, ENGlish, FINish, FREnch, GERman, ITAlian,NORwegian, POLish, PORtuguese, ROManian, SPAnish, SWEdish
Fuzzy logic based translation service (free)
Time Magazine: How To Map Your Heritage --PAGE 1-- Apr 19 1999
Time Magazine: How To Map Your Heritage --PAGE 2-- Apr 19 1999
Digitising History: A Guide to Creating Digital Resources from Historical Documents -- AHDS
An Online Family History Fair (UK)
Ancestry.com has created a new Web site that you can use to share your news and genealogy discoveries with family members. This looks like a very easy way to set up a "genealogy family forum" for your interests. Best of all, it is entirely free. I predict that MyFamily.com will become very popular.For more information about this free new service, look at: http://www.MyFamily.com
Ancestry.com
Other Sites (Compuserve list)
Directory of /genealogy
Preservation Map of Europe--ECPA Library Preservation
Cyndy Howells comprehensive list
Tree tops - sky news interests site
TRANSLATION SERVICE FOR GENEALOGISTS
Top ten Genealogy sites
The Journal of Online Genealogy
Researching Ancestors from the United Kingdom (SLOW load)
KnowX is a commercial US service that normally charges fees for accessing their data but some is free after registering
http://usgenweb.org
quick link to each state in USA
Researching Ancestors from the United Kingdom
From Susan Sackier:
PRO Records Information Leaflets - Introduction
Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter archives
Oxfordshire surnames list

 

Copyright Bob Anderson
30 October 2003