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The Times now has an online searchable archive which "can be used to search for family history through the births, deaths, and obituaries pages; by searching references to family names; or to see what events happened on the day that family members were born". Every issue of The Times published between 1785 and 1985 has been digitally scanned.
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913
A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.
Findmypast.com, in association with The National Archives, is proud to present ancestorsonboard, a new database featuring BT27 Outward Passenger Lists for long-distance voyages leaving the British Isles from 1960 right back to 1890.
"90 years ago a whole generation had their lives, loves, hopes and dreams annihilated on the battlefields of the First World War..." Lost Generation offers a search.
 Search A2A (Access to Archives) The A2A database contains catalogues describing archives held locally in England and Wales and dating from the eighth century to the present day.

Surname Profiler

The BBC's Family History web site

Welsh Coal Mines

Find Your Trafalgar Ancestor

The WORKHOUSE web site

The National Archive of Memorial Inscriptions

FAMILYHISTORYONLINE, the Federation of Family History Societies pay-per-view databases, are at http://www.familyhistoryonline.net

Somerset & Dorset FHS.                                                               GenUKI Search facility
Somerset Record & Archive Service.                                         Somerset GenUKI.
1839 Pitminster SOM Tythe Apportionment.
Commonwealth Marriages, Somerset - 1653 to 1656.
UK Genealogy Interests Directory (Somerset).
Louise Rose's Yeovil St John Marriage Register Transcripts
Colin Rayner's Somerset Parish Register Transcripts
Paul Mansfield's Taunton, Bridgwater and Sherborne newspaper indexes
Bath and North East Somerset Register Office, England, holds on-line records of local Births, Marriages and Deaths back to the start of civil registration in 1837.

DORSET parish records index.

 
Devon Family History Society.                                                    Devon GenUKI.
Registers in the Devon Record Office.
The Blackdown Hills Parish Chest Project.                              The History of Clayhidon.
The Luppitt Local History Group.

Devon and Exeter Oath Rolls 1723.
The Tiverton Museum can be used for research in that area.
Devon Heritage has a number of parish burial register transcriptions
 
Housing the Rural Poor in Southern England is a useful document to read for an understanding of what our poor ancestors had to cope with
UK Genealogy Lookup Exchanges UK Genealogy Archives
The UK National Archives' collection of digitised public records
Download your history from DocumentsOnline
UK BMD transcriptions of UK births, marriages, deaths and censuses

TOPSHAM DEVON 1841 CHURCHWARDEN'S CENSUS

UK 1901 Census On-line
UK Surnames
Free BMD (volunteers wanted)
Free CEN (volunteers wanted)
FreeREG (volunteers wanted)
GRO Births, Marriages, Deaths Index
GRO online Certificate Ordering Service (now as low as £7 each)
Public Record Office
Society of Genealogists
Family Tree Magazine
LDS Family Search (IGI) and the batch numbers for England
Roots Surname List Finder
Gordon Beavington's Census CDs for sale

The UK 1881 census is now on-line at Family Search
 (You can choose the 1880 United States, 1881 British Isles, or the 1881 Canadian Census. You also can search all censuses at once. Enter at least your deceased ancestor's first or last name, and then click Search).

Devon UK 1861 Census Project  (volunteers wanted)
The project is being jointly organised by Devon Family History Society and FreeCEN
transcribing from CDs or fiche.

UK Census Online Project (volunteers wanted)
This project aims to provide a "free-to-view" online searchable database of the 19th century UK census returns. The number of world-wide volunteers has grown since its inception in 1999 to 125 in December 2000. It doubled to 250 for June 2001, over 500 in 2003 and has 2000+ as of July 2005.

List of men of the 8th and 9th Battalions buried in the Devonshire Cemetery - all killed on July 1, 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

A site called Parish Registers has a list of Somerset transcriptions. A website Moving Here, about immigration to England, is a "database of digitised photographs, maps, objects, documents, and audio items recording migration experiences of the past 200 years"

Beginner? Have a look at the A-Z of BRITISH GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH by Dr Ashton Emery, a guide  to researching your family history. Else Churchill's eight-part guide is for the more advanced.

For UK surnames, including Devon and Somerset surnames, check out Graham Jaunay's excellent, free,  Online English Names Research Directory.

There are many Genealogy Mailing Lists, one or more of which will enable you to correspond with people having similar interests.

Robert E. Slade has made available a very useful free program called Parish which does several jobs: including listing the surrounding UK parishes within a given radius, and giving the distance between two parishes. If you would like a copy of this, download the zipped file (232 Kbytes): par21.zip. This is a DOS program.

More recent is the freeware UK Parish Locator program which can be installed to run under Windows 95/98, ME, NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Vista. The program enables the location of any one of nearly 15,000 UK parishes. It will produce a list of parishes in any County or a list of parishes within a given radius of any other parish and also allows Import and Export via "csv" files. It is possible to plot the location of parishes to either the screen or the printer.

Historical photographs of places can be purchased from the Francis Frith Collection

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints provides the website Family Search for ancestor searching in the International Genealogical Index.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has a website to enable a search of the Debt of Honour Register

The Find A Grave website could help you locate the grave of your famous ancestor.

Check out the geographic distribution of your family name in the UK in 1891 at Ancestry.com

If you want to transcribe some old document but are unsure of your reading skills, have a look at this Free On-Line English Handwriting Course 1500-1700.

 

Free access to old maps at Your Maps Online or Get-a-Map of your choice, free, from the Ordnance Survey - once you have selected the area covered by your map, notice that you can PRINT/SAVE/COPY in the top right hand corner of the window.

 
Four maps in one – a unique way to discover the landscapes of the past
Each CASSINI Past & Present map is centred on a city or town and covers an area of 15km x 15km using four Ordnance Survey mapping series to cover four different periods: the mid 19th century, the late 19th century, the1920s and the present-day. All four maps cover exactly the same area.
 

Personal Family History Web Sites

Deborah Carmichael, the GENUKI on-line parish clerk for the East Devon parishes of
Axminster, Axmouth, Chardstock (including All Saints), Colyton, Combpyne, Dalwood, Hawkchurch,
Kilmington, Membury, Musbury, Seaton and Beer, Shute, Stockland and Uplyme runs an on-line parish chest

   
Derek PARKHOUSE's web site David and Carol Belcher's web site
BASS/TAYLOR/JOSLIN family history
Bernard Welchman (Somerset, Dorset, Devon) John Lerwill's Web Site Robert NEWTON's Home Page Paul Mansfield (West Country newspaper indexes)
 
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
of Genealogy Sites on the Internet

On what day of the week
 were you born?
You can calculate it.
 

Ambra Books
(Antiquarian and Secondhand Books)
 

Problem Using Sierra Generations EasyTree?

Disappearing Data Syndrome: If you have the family history program,  EasyTree, and  are having a problem where the symptoms are that the data disappears from fields when entering data, do not despair, help is available. It involves identifying the program or driver that is interacting with EasyTree and uninstalling it. In my case, the culprits were the driver for the Wacom Graphics Tablet and also a program called PopUp Stopper; after uninstalling both, EasyTree performed OK again.
 

Remember the film "The Sound of Music"? The von Trapp children are still singing! The von Trapp children – Sofia, 13; Melanie, 11; Amanda, 10; and Justin, 7 – are the great-grandchildren of Capt. Georg and Maria von Trapp.

The artist Michael Cooper's site has evocative water colours of the West Country.

Cousin Andrea Parkhouse's "Little Wooden Things"
Gordon Beavington's Census CD/DVDs for sale

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