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• ancestry.co.uk - in spite of its heavy American style marketing, this site does in fact offer excellent value for money - it is strong on the basics (GRO register of births, marriages and deaths, census records) plus it now holds the complete set of UK telephone directories from 1880 to 1984 for online searching and viewing - there are three grades of membership - the cheapest (Essentials) provides access to post 1837 information - the next grade up (Premium) additionally provides access to pre 1837 parish and probate records - the most expensive (Worldwide) provides further access to a host of records on migration of ancestors to America and Australia - we recommend that before committing yourself you try this subscription site out on a 14 day free trial to get first hand experience of whether or not it is worth subscribing to in your particular case

• origins network - thanks to its close relationship with the Society of Genealogists and the Borthwick Institute, this subscription site uniquely offers online access to key sources such as Boyd's Marriage Index and indexes to the Prerogative Court of York Wills

• the genealogist - an easy-to-use site with its SmartSearch tool, this site provides online access to a growing number of parish registers in addition to census records and the complete GRO register of births, marriages and deaths

• complete GRO index from 1837 to 2005

• complete GRO index from 1837 to 2005

• Pallot's Marriage Index

• Boyd's Marriage Index
• St Andrew Holborn Marriages
• Marriage Licence Allegations

• Phillimore's Marriage Register

• database of over 15 million transcribed entries from parish registers from the 1500s to the 1800s

• database of over 1,100 transcribed parish registers
• non-conformist records of births, baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials

• various probate records (e.g. Wills of the Archdeaconry of Suffolk, Worcester Calendar of Wills, etc.)

• Prerogative Court of York (PYC) Wills index
• Bank of England Wills Extract index (1717-1845)
• York Peculiars Probate Index (1383-1883)
• plus other will indexes

• Perogative Court of Canterbury Wills index (including images of the original pages) from 1384 to 1858
• indexes to certain Yorkshire and Bristol wills

• complete set of UK telephone directories between 1880 and 1984

• large collection of trade directories for England and Wales

Access to the complete set of worldwide databases held by ancestry.com including:

• Passenger list of UK migrants to America in 1890 (100,000 names)

• passenger lists of English migrants to America and Australia
• numerous USA immigration records

• World War 1 army pension related records (1914-20)

• Navy Lists for 1850, 1866 and 1888
• Army Lists for 1806, 1842, 1863, 1881, 1904, 1915 and 1920

• World War 1 army service records

• Medal Rolls Index Cards

• World War 1 Royal Navy deaths (1914-24)

• Various newspaper archives including The Times (1788-1833)

• Apprenticeship records
• School teacher records