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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)
London Metropolitan Archives Family History Research Service - Online Searchable Catalogue
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.
London, Westminster and Middlesex Family History Society (formerly London and North Middlesex FHS)
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
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)
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
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.
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.
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
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
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)
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
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
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