Other Relevant Web Sites

London and Middlesex

• A List of Local Archives Holding Material Relating to the West Middlesex Area (160 kb PDF file)

• Middlesex Marriages Index (not provided by WMFHS)

• Other Information about Middlesex on the Web (GENUKI)

• Information about the County of London on the Web (GENUKI)

• London Metropolitan Archives Family History Research Service - Online Searchable Catalogue

• Guildhall Library Manuscripts Collection

• Manorial Documents Register - Searchable for Surrey, Middlesex, a few other English counties and the whole of Wales

• Old Bailey Proceedings 1674-1834 - A fully searchable online edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.

• Archives for London (AfL)

• Ealing Local History Centre

• East of London Family History Society

• London, Westminster and Middlesex Family History Society (formerly London and North Middlesex FHS)

• East Surrey Family History Society

• Hillingdon Family History Society (NB: This site will not open if your browser does not permit Java applets)

• The Village of Harmondsworth - An Independent Site by Alan Harris

• Kent Family History Society

• North West Kent Family History Society

• Middlesex Heraldry Society

• Middlesex Civil Registration Districts (1837-1930)

• London Civil Registration Districts (1837-1930)

• Greenwood's 1827 Map of London (Warning: this comes in chunks up to 300 kb)

• Charles Booth Online Archive (London social research 1886-1903)

United Kingdom

• The National Archives (includes the Public Record Office and Historical Manuscripts Commission)

  • The National Archives Gateway

  • FindMyPast
    Online access (for a small charge) to a unique collection of archives from the United Kingdom: digital images of original registers, entry books and indexes, reproduced under licence from The National Archives and other organisations.

  • FamilyRecords.gov.uk
    A beginner's guide (and a vade-mecum for the rest of us) to family history in the United Kingdom - this site is produced collaboratively by the main record repositories

    • General Register Office (GRO) for England and Wales online certificate ordering service. The GRO holds a central copy of all registrations for England and Wales. Local Register Offices also hold records of events registered in their area. Please note: this service is currently only available to residents of the United Kingdom. Non-UK residents can still order certificates through conventional channels.

  • Moving Here - a new migration website from The National Archives.
    Covers Caribbean, Irish, Jewish and South Asian migration to Britain

• England and Wales Census Indexes (mostly with scanned images of enumerators' returns)

  • 1841 Census for England and Wales (FindMyPast)
    FindMyPast.com: pay-per-view access to household transcripts and scanned images of the enumerators' returns.

  • 1841 Census for England and Wales (Ancestry)
    Ancestry.com: subscription access to indexes, transcripts and scanned images.

  • 1851 Census for England and Wales
    Ancestry.com: subscription access to indexes, transcripts and scanned images.

  • 1861 Census for England and Wales (FindMyPast)
    FindMyPast.com: pay-per-view access to household transcripts and scanned images of the enumerators' returns.

  • 1861 Census for England and Wales (Ancestry)
    Ancestry.com: subscription access to indexes, transcripts and scanned images.

  • 1871 Census for England and Wales (FindMyPast)
    FindMyPast.com: pay-per-view access to household transcripts and scanned images of the enumerators' returns.

  • 1871 Census for England and Wales (Ancestry)
    Ancestry.com: subscription access to indexes, transcripts and scanned images.

  • 1881 Census for England and Wales
    Familysearch: free access to search engine for 1881 Census and other indexes - no scanned images, but particularly useful if you are able to use an LDS Family History Centre to view PRO microfilm/fiche and do not have access to the LDS CD-ROM set

  • 1881 Census for England and Wales (Ancestry)
    Ancestry.com: subscription access to indexes, transcripts and scanned images.

  • 1891 Census for England and Wales (FindMyPast)
    FindMyPast.com: pay-per-view access to household transcripts and scanned images of the enumerators' returns.

  • 1891 Census for England and Wales (Ancestry)
    Ancestry.com: subscription access to indexes, transcripts and scanned images.

  • 1901 Census for England and Wales
    PRO: open access to free indexes and charged transcripts / scanned images

  • 1901 Census for England and Wales (Ancestry)
    Ancestry.com: subscription access to indexes, transcripts and scanned images.

• FreeBMD - a growing, free, searchable transcription of the Civil Registration indexes of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales
  Data is available for the years 1837-1983. By 10 November 2006, there was virtually complete coverage for most years up to 1910 (just 28 quarters of births, 6 quarters of marriages and 7 quarters of deaths in the 294 quarters between July 1837 and December 1910 were less than 80% complete)

• FindMyPast.com - Pay-per-view access to Census indexes, transcripts and images of the original enumerators' returns. Scanned images of the GRO birth, marriage and death indexes.
  Note that the BMD information may be available on microform at your local reference or family history library.

• The Genealogist - Subscription and pay-per-view access to search online Census, Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Record Indexes and Directories.
  

• AllEnglishRecords.com - Find ancestors in FREE Genealogy Records for United Kingdom (England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales).
  

• Access to Archives (A2A) - The growing A2A database contains searchable catalogues describing archives held throughout England and dating from the 900s to the present day.

• General Register Office for Scotland - An excellent site if you have ancestors north of the border. Pay-per-view searchable civil and parish records.

• Genealogy in the UK and Ireland

• Federation of Family History Societies (FFHS)

• FamilyHistoryOnLine Pay-per-view databases for England and Wales from the FFHS. This site gives access to about 47.2 million records, including indexes (and, in some cases, further details of the entries) for: baptisms, marriages and burials; monumental inscriptions; and census returns.

• Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies

• Society of Genealogists

• Guild of One-Name Studies

• British Library - Newspaper Collection

• OriginsUK - an interesting website with subscription access to various sources and indexes

• Internet Library of Early Journals Scanned images of 18th and 19th Century magazines, including: Annual Register; Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine*; Gentleman's Magazine*; Notes and Queries*; Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society*; The Builder.
  (* Some of the journals are searchable.)

• Familia - Family History Resources in Public Libraries in Britain and Ireland

• Genealogy Mailing Lists for Britain and Ireland

• Alan Tupman's List of UK Genealogy Sources on the Web (and more besides)

• British Ancestors
  (NB: This has a useful list of Web sites, but is primarily a front end for a commercial research service. The West Middlesex Family History Society has no knowledge of the reliability or quality of this service and inclusion in this listing does NOT imply that the Society recommends it.)

British Military History and Records

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission - "Debt of Honour" Register

• Regiments.org - The land forces of Britain, the Empire and the Commonwealth
  Brief details of the history of units and formations, battle honours, campaign medals, army traditions, glossary etc.
  You can search this site, but some areas are incomplete.

• First World War Campaign Medals - search the index cards for campaign medals awarded for service during World War I.
  Searching is free, but there is a fee to view the scanned record cards. Unless the person of interest has a very rare name, you will need to know the regiment or corps they served in; the service number will take you straight to their record. The cards can be viewed free of charge in London at the Family Records Centre, Islington, or the National Archives, Kew.

• Second World War Merchant Navy Medal Awards - search the records for campaign medals awarded for service in the Merchant Navy during World War II.

Other Web Resources - Lists of Sites and Documents

• Familysearch - The LDS (Mormon) Family History Site

• Cyndi Howell's List of Genealogy Web Sites

• Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter

• Frith Photo Collection (originally for postcards)

• Genealogy Learning Center - including Sitefinder

• Genealogy Gateway

• Workhouses - A guide to the former workhouses of Britain and Ireland, their histories, staff and residents

• PERSI (PERiodical Source Index) - A US Index of Genealogy Periodicals

• Obsolete Occupations, Ancient Diseases etc (The Olive Tree Genealogy)

• Glossary of Archaic Medical Terms

• Some Published Family Histories (commercial site)

Tracing Living People in the U.K.

• British Library Information Service - tracing living people

• National Archives website with information on how to start searching for living people

• Salvation Army Family Tracing Service

• UK National Missing Persons Helpline

• British Red Cross

• Joint missing persons initiative of 9 UK organizations

• World telephone directories

• SAGA magazine - has a free service for finding friends past and future

• Friends Reunited - Old school friends site

• 192.com - Register for limited free searches (uses directories and the electoral roll)

• Federation of Family History Societies - help leaflets on tracing adopted children / natural parents

• Searchline - specialises in reuniting adoptive children and parents

• LookupUK.com - message boards and advice leaflets on tracing people; No Find - No Fee service

• UK Private Investigators plus electoral roll searches and on-line message board

• Association of British Investigators - lists investigators who provide tracing services on commercial basis

Other Web Resources - People to Help, Searchable Genealogy Databases and Genealogical Search Engines

• "GenSource" Genealogy Search Engine

• GENSERV Database

• Kindred Konnections

• Search the US Social Security Index On-Line

• Is One of Your Names Listed on a Familytreemaker CD-ROM?

• UsedBookSearch - searches many different sources (though not those shown below) to find that out-of-print book you want

• Abe Books - "the world's largest online marketplace for books"

• UK Book World Over half-a-million books published between 1600 and 1990 offered for sale between £5 and £5000