Organisations

• The National Archives
• The Federation of Family History Societies
• The Society of Genealogists
• The Guild of One-Name Studies
• Genes Reunited - over 5 million members have registered their family trees
• Ancestry or Rootsweb - free message boards for family history contacts
• AGRA - The Association of Genealogists and Researchers in Archives
• The College of Arms - for heraldry

General Information

• Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet - thousands of very useful links
• Genuki - genealogical information, advice and links
• Family History Centres - where to find them
• Parishes - where they are
• Parish churches - where they are

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Archive Catalogues

• National Archives catalogues
• Countrywide Archives catalogues
• Genuki - county pages for links to individual local archives

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Civil Registration (indexes and certificates of birth, marriage and death)

• Civil Registration indexes
• General Register Office (GRO) - ordering certificates
• Local Register Offices (GRO) - finding

Censuses

• The National Archives - census pages
• Ancestry website
• Family History Online - free census indexes
• Familysearch - free 1881 census search

Parish registers

• The International Genealogical Index - the Familysearch website
• Federation of Family History Societies' collection by county

Wills

• PCC wills - 1384-1858: information and how to find them. National Archives guide
• National Archives guide - after 1858: research guide to wills and death duty records

 

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