Surname Profiler

The BBC's Family History web site

Welsh Coal Mines

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

DORSET parish records index.

TOPSHAM DEVON 1841 CHURCHWARDEN'S CENSUS

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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