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INTERNET
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The following is a list
of key sources of genealogical information for England and Wales that
can be accessed over the internet. To view this site's
general notes on the listed source, click the source title on the left
hand side
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Births
Marriages and Deaths, Burial Records, Census
Returns, International Genealogical Index (IGI),
Manorial Records, Migration
Records, Military Records, Occupational
Records, Parish Registers, Telephone
Directories, Trade Directories, Wills |
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ACCESSIBLE
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Births,
Marriages and Deaths |
General
Register Office Index |
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- The complete index as published
by the GRO from 1837 to 2005 can be viewed on a subscription basis at
either the Genealogist
web site or the ancestry.co.uk
web site (choice of site tends to depend on the relevance of the other
online databases on offer within their respective subscription packages)
- for the years 1837 to 1983 the index is held in digitised image format
- for the years 1984 to 2005 it is held in readily searchable text format
- A high proportion of the
GRO index for the years 1837 to the early 1900s has been transcribed
and can be searched for free on the FreeBMD
site - for most years up until 1912 for births, 1915 for marriages and
1916 for deaths, the coverage is 100% or very close to - check the site's
coverage charts
for the latest progress
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Boyd's
Marriage Index |
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- The complete Boyd's Marriage
Index can be searched online at the Origins
Network subscription web site - this index contains over 7 million
names from parish marriage registers, Bishop's Transcripts and marriage
licences for the period 1538 to 1840 - all English counties are covered,
although none completely - the index is particularly important to anyone
researching East Anglian ancestry for not only is the coverage almost
complete (over 95% of all the ancient parishes are included), but little
of this data is available anywhere else
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Phillimore's
Marriage Register |
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- W.P. Phillimore was a genealogist
who started the job of publishing marriage transcripts from early parish
records - in total around 1500 parishes were covered in more than 200
volumes - these transcripts can be searched and viewed online at the
Genealogist
subscription web site
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Pallot's
Marriage Index |
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- This index includes over
1.5 million marriage entries from 1780 to 1837 for over 2,500 parishes
- it is particularly useful for London marriages since it covers all
but a couple of the 103 ancient parishes of the old City of London -
the index can be searched at the Institute of Heraldic Genealogical
Studies Achievements
web site - searching the index is free - genealogical abstracts
of content cost £5
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Burial
Records |
- Entries for burials in London
between 1538 and 1853 can be viewed online at the Origins
Network subscription web site - entries contain the name, age, date
of death and burual ground
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Census
Returns |
1901
Census |
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- The 1901 Census can be viewed
at the Genealogist
web site - the majority of transcripts are available on a subscription
basis, the complete set is available on a pay-as-you-go basis - the
indexing of this census is currently being undertaken by over 8,000
members of the Census Name-Indexing Project who enjoy free subscription
and other benefits
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1881
Census |
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- The fully indexed 1881 Census
can be freely viewed online at the www.familysearch.org
web site operated by the Latter-day Saints (i.e. the Mormons) - this
excellent free site provides name indexed access to transcripts of all
household records held in the 1881 Census
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1841,
1851, 1861, 1871 and 1891 Censuses |
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- It is worth checking out
FreeCEN which is a site providing
free access to census records with several counties now 100% complete
(this project is now manned by over 2,000 volunteers transcribing census
records)
- Fully indexed
1841, 1851. 1861, 1871 and 1891 Censuses can all be viewed on a subscription
basis at ancestry.co.uk
- the index links to partial transcripts of census entries together
with digitised images of the original handwritten entries
- Complete transcripts with
linked images of the original census pages for the 1841, 1851, 1861,
1871 and 1891 Censuses can be viewed at the Genealogist
subscription site - the indexing of these censuses is currently being
undertaken by over 8,000 members of the Census Name-Indexing Project
who enjoy free subscription and other benefits
- A full index to and digitised
images of the complete 1841 and 1861 censuses can be viewed at the Origins
Network subscription site
- An index to and digitised
images of the 1871 census for Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Glamorgan, London-Kent,
London-Middlesex, London-Surrey, Middlesex, Norfolk, Staffordshire,
Surrey, Wiltshire and Worcestershire can be viewed at the Origins
Network subscription site
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International
Genealogical Index (IGI) |
- The complete International
Genealogical Index (IGI) can be accessed online at www.familyseach.org.
This excellent free web site run by the Latter-day Saints provides both
general guidance on tracing your ancestors and more specific advice
on using the online version of the IGI.
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Manorial
Records |
- The Manorial Documents Register
for Wales, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Norfolk, Surrey, Middlesex and
Yorkshire has been computerised for searching
online
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Migration
Records |
Migration
to Australia |
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- A web site worth checking
out is www.blaxland.com/ozships
which covers the period 1788 to 1968 and contains over 70,000 passenger
entries
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Migration
to Canada |
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- Lists of transatlantic passengers
to Canada in the period 1865 to 1908 have been microfilmed by the National
Archives of Canada - see their web site for a catalogue
of these microfilms which can be viewed at any LDS
Family History Centre
- Lists of over 100,000 passengers
who sailed from the British Isles to North America in 1890 can be viewed
online at the Origins
Network subscription web site - entries contain the name, occupation,
nationality, age and marital status of each passenger together with
the ship's name, date of sailing, name of ship's master and departure
and destination ports
- For the period 1925 to 1935,
the National Archives of Canada maintain an online
database of immigration records which can be searched by surname/forename.
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Migration
to New Zealand |
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Migration
to South Africa |
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- Rootsweb provides access
to a very active mailing list on British
migrants to South Africa prior to 1900 - the postings to this mailing
list can be keyword searched
- Lists of passengers on various
ships arriving in Cape Town between 1849 and 1951 can be viewed at the
South
African Genealogy site
- Lists of passengers arriving
on ships travelling from England to Durban between 1845 and 1858 can
ve viewed at the South
African Passenger Lists site - this site also contains lists of
passengers arriving at Cape Town between Sepetmeber and December in
1852
- 1820Settlers.com
contains a wealth of information about the 3,800 plus British settlers
(and their descendants) who migrated to South Africa in 1820
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Migration
to United States |
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- From 1892 to 1924 more than
22 million migrants to the United States passed through Ellis Island
- thanks to the efforts of the Latter-day Saints, the associated transatlantic
passenger lists have been transcribed into a vast database which can
be searched online
to find an individual migrant
- Lists of over 100,000 passengers
who sailed from the British Isles to North America in 1890 can be viewed
online at the Origins
Network subscription web site - entries contain the name, occupation,
nationality, age and marital status of each passenger together with
the ship's name, date of sailing, name of ship's master and departure
and destination ports
- The US National Archives
and Records Administration (NARA) provides a helpful set of guides
to archives held on migrants to the United States
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Military
Records
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World
War Casualties |
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- The Commonwealth War Graves
Commission provides an online
database giving details of the 1.7 million members of the Commonwealth
forces who died in the First or Second World Wars
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World
War Medals |
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Army |
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- Army Lists for 1806, 1842,
1863, 1881, 1904, 1915 and 1920 can be viewed online at the Genealogist
subscription web site
- Service records of non-commissioned
officers and other ranks who were discharged from the Army between 1914
and 1920 and claimed disability pensions for service in World War 1
can be searched and viewed online at the ancestry.co.uk
subscription site
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Royal
Navy |
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- Navy Lists for 1850, 1866
and 1888 can be viewed online at the Genealogist
subscription web site
- Transcriptions of Royal
Navy Census Crew Lists for 1861, 1871 and 1901 together with digitised
images of the original pages can be viewed online at the Genealogist
subscription web site
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Occupational
Records |
Apprenticeships |
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- An index to over 380,000
names contained within over 130,000 abstracts relating to apprenticeships
with London Livery Companies between 1442 and 1850 can be searched online
at the Origins
Network subscription web site - the abstracts which can be viewed
online show the name of the apprentice; his father's name, place of
residence, father's occupation; the name of the master and the date
of the indenture
- Abstracts of over 350,000
tax records relating to appenticeships between 1710 and 1774 can be
viewed online at the Origins
Network subscription web site - the abstracts (of which 20% are
Scottish) contain the name of the apprentice, the father's name, the
place the apprentice came from, his father’s trade, the name of
the master to whom he was indentured, the master’s trade, the
place where the master lived and the value of the taxable premium paid
to the master for taking on the apprentice - the site contains a searchable
name index to these abstracts
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Police |
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- Check out the Police
Index which is an online database of over 70,000 policemen extracted
from police magazines and local newspapers for the period 1860 to 1920
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School
Teachers |
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- Registration details of
nearly 100,000 teachers who taught in England and Wales between 1870
and 1948 can be viewed online at the Origins
Network subscription web site - the records contain the teacher’s
name (and for married women teachers often their maiden name as well),
the date of registration, their address, their qualifications, where
trained and their experience (which schools they taught at, when and
in what capacity) - these records are indexed by name
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Parish
Registers |
- It is often worth checking
out the online
Latter-day Saints Family History Library catalogue to see whether
the parish register you are interested in (or its bishops transcript
equivalent) has been microfilmed by the Latter-day Saints. Simply go
into the Title Search facility and search on the parish place
name.
- If it has been microfilmed
you can ask your local LDS Family History
Centre to book it out for subsequent viewing there
- The Genealogist
subscription site has a fast growing number of parish registers (over
1,100 parishes covered at the last count) that can be viewed online
- Over 15 million entries
of baptisms, marriages and burials transcribed from mainly parish records
in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland can be searched online on a
subscription basis at ancestry.co.uk
- Over 3 million baptism,
marriage and burial entries transcribed from parish registers can be
freely searched at the FreeREG
web site - this is very much a work-in-progress project - check out
the Parishes
Included page to see if the parish you are interested in has been
included yet
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Telephone
Directories |
- Over
1700 phone books published between 1880 and 1984 and providing near
full county coverage for England and Wales can now be searched and viewed
online on a subscription basis at ancestry.co.uk
- telephone books are very useful for pinpointing individuals in a particular
place and time - while censuses are only conducted once every ten years,
annualy published phone books provide a year by year record of individuals'
geographic locations - this makes it possible to locate many individuals
in between census years and especially to find family members post 1901
(the latest viewable UK census)
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Trade
Directories |
- The University of Leicester
has set up a web site
with online access to large collection of digitally imaged 18th, 19th
and early 20th century trade directories
- The Genealogist
subscription site also has a large collection of trade directories for
viewing online
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Wills |
- You can search the complete
index to all million plus wills proved at the Prerogative Court
of Canterbury (PCC) between 1384 and 1858 at the National Archives Documents
Online web site and then download images of your located will -
there is no charge for searching but there is a fee for requested image
downloads
- Indexes to many collections
of wills can be searched online at the Origins
Network subscription web site - collections include the Bank of
England Will Extracts 1717-1845 (61,000 records), Archdeaconry Court
of London Wills 1700-1807 (5,000), Prerogative and Exchequer Courts
of York Wills 1267-1500 (10,000), York Province Peculiar Courts Wills
1383-1883 (25,000), Prerogative and Exchequer Courts of York Grants
of Probate 1853-1858 (16,000)
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This
page last updated: 2 February 2008 |
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