Links

With thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of geneaology sites on the internet, it is difficult to know where to start. I have visited many sites, but I have listed the ones that have been the most useful or interesting.

Click on any of the links below to go directly to that section.

General
Family History and Local History Societies
Public Records
Forums and mailing lists
Other researchers

By Area

• Bristol
• Devon
• Gloucestershire
• Middlesex
• Somerset
• Wiltshire

• A-Z of British Genealogical Research - By Dr Ashton Emery A concise guide to researching British ancestry.
  
  
• Family Search   The site of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and probably the best geneaological source on the net
  
  
• IGI Batch Numbers   Useful in conjunction with Family Search
  
  
• Genuki   The foremost collection of genealogical information pages for England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man.
  
  
• Sites with Genealogical Source Material   A good selection of UK data links
  
  
• Free BMD Search   Allows a free search of its database of 2 million records for births, marriages and deaths
  
  
• GeaneaologyLinks.net   UK & Ireland Genealogy Links
  
  
• RootsWeb   Free geneaology site with large searchable database
  
  
• County Lookup Exchange Central   This site provides a county-by-county list of resources, made available by volunteers for free look-ups.
  
  
• Gendex Genealogical Index   Server indexing hundreds of World Wide Web databases containing genealogical data for over twelve million individuals,
  
  
• St Catherine's marriage index   Complete March quarter for 1849 plus selective transcriptions and missing entries
  
  
• Cyndi's List   Over 80,000 geneaology links
  
  
• Richard's Church Albums   A selection of church photographs covering Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucester, Northampton, Somerset, and the City of Bristol

• The Federation of Family History Societies   Links to all the family history societies in the federation
  
  
• Bristol and Avon Family History Society
  
  
• Devon Family History Society
  
  
• Fishponds Local History Society
  
  
• Gloucestershire Family History Society
  
  
• The London and North Middlesex Family History Society
  
  
• Oxfordshire Family History Society
  
  
• Somerset and Dorset Family History Society
  
  
• Wiltshire Family History Society

• Public Record Office
  
  
• Familia   Family history resources held in public libraries in Britain and Ireland
  
  
• National Statistics Registration Services   Discover where to get birth, marriage and death certificates

• GenFormum   International geneaology surname forum
  
  
• United Kingdom Mailing Lists

• Trevor Eddolls   Surnames interests inclue Eddolls, Towersey, Bellamy, Wright, Griffiths, Davies and Kitt.
• Mark Grace   Surname interests include Osborne, Bush, Grace, McDonald, Mordecai and Hemus

• The a-history Group   History of Mangotsfield and surrounding area
  
  
• Bristol, Gloucestershire and Somerset Family History Archive   Links to lots of useful Bristol resources

History

• Ray's Bristol   An excellent site with many photos and historical information about Bristol
  
  
• Bristol Cathedrals, Churches and Chapels
  
  
• Dr Graham Jones: Bristol's medieval churches
  
  
• About Bristol   A series of pictorial tours designed to show both well-known and lesser-known aspects of Bristol, and to provide a few facts about this historic English city and county
  
  
• Peter Macdonald's Bristol   Extract from Peter Macdonald's book 'Bristol'
  
  
• South Bristol, Flat Holm or Steep Holm   Dave's WebSite that contains pages of information about the History of South Bristol, Flat Holm and Steep Holm

• Devon Genweb Project

• Gloucestershire 1851 Censuses on the web

• Middlesex England Parish Records   Parish marriage records in Middlesex, England between 1563 and 1895

• The Somerset Archive and Record Service   Government archives - Includes maps and pictures of Somerset and a guide to tracing geneaology in Somerset
  
  
• Somerset & Dorset Surnames Index
  
  
• Somerset GenWeb   Links to genealogical resources in Somerset

• Wiltshire Genealogy Links   General and census links
  
  
• Wiltshire GenWeb
  
  
• Historical Wiltshire Towns and villages - a brief history

• Streetmap.co.uk   Displays detailed street maps from postcodes or addresses
  
  
• Get mapping   Project to take aerial photograps of the whole of the UK. (Beware - Unless you have a fast connection, the photographs take an age to load)
  
  
• Multimap
  
  
• Free Historic Maps   Maps are dated between 1846 and 1899, and are of 1:10,560 scale.
  
  
• On-line Old Maps of Great Britains   Maps of various dates