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The Sheep Fold - Bryan Hoggarth's website - A goldmine of genealogical data and resources, including many GRO index references. An absolute 'must visit'. Specialises in North Yorkshire (NRY). |
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FreeBMD - Quite the most useful English genealogical web resource available. Its huge database of BMD cert index references makes identifying and applying for certs a breeze. Note this ongoing project is not yet complete. |
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Ok, you think you've found the ancestor you're looking for. So what's next? Well, obtaining a Birth, Marriage, or Death certificate from the General Register Office would help to prove it. Here are the GRO info pages. |
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Roland Grigg's Cumbrian Genealogy pages - very informative, with many useful resources. |
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Colin Hinson's splendid Yorkshire webpages for GENUKI. There are more than 12,000 of them and they contain just about everything you could ever wish to know about YKS genealogy. |
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Les Strong's *huge* Westmorland pages - well worth a day out if your ancestors come from this area. |
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The vast resources of the FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service, run by the LDS (Mormon church). Without doubt, this is the largest accumulation of records in existence. |
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Again from the LDS, here is online access to the 1881 Census, for those who have no wish to buy a big box of CDs! |
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Ellis Island records of US immigrants arriving in the Port of New York. |
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Cyndi's List - Many thousands of links to genealogy websites and resources. Huge, but easy to navigate and very, very useful. |
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The Archived CD Books Project. This aim of this extremely worthwhile project is to preserve old books of genealogical and historical interest and then disseminate them in CD format at a reasonable price. With whatever funds that are left over, more books are bought. |
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Burke's Landed Gentry is now accessible online. Currently only the first volume, Scotland, has been published, but eventually all seven volumes of this huge work will be available. I'm pleased to note that a Hogarth is represented and there is also a link to our site. |