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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.
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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.
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"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. |
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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. |
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Surname
Profiler
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The BBC's Family History web site
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Welsh Coal Mines
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Find Your Trafalgar Ancestor |
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The WORKHOUSE web
site |
The National Archive of Memorial Inscriptions |
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The National Archive of Memorial Inscriptions |
Letters from the past from the Victorian Web |
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FAMILYHISTORYONLINE, the Federation of Family History Societies pay-per-view
databases, are at
http://www.familyhistoryonline.net
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GenUKI Search facility |
Somerset GenUKI |
Somerset & Dorset FHS.
Somerset Record & Archive Service. .
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.
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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 |
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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 |
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UK Genealogy Lookup Exchanges
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UK Genealogy Archives |
The UK National Archives' collection of digitised public records
Download your history from
DocumentsOnline
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UK BMD transcriptions of UK
births, marriages, deaths and censuses |
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TOPSHAM DEVON 1841 CHURCHWARDEN'S CENSUS
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UK 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)
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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
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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).
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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. |
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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.
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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.
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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.
Ryan Simpson's web site StudyAncestors
offers "free expert step-by-step Genealogy guide to get your Family Tree
started and learn what Genealogy sources are available and how they can be
acquired"
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. |
Microsoft Excel and dates prior to 1900
Many users are surprised to discover that Excel cannot
work with dates prior to the year 1900. The
Extended Date
Functions add-in (XDate) corrects this deficiency, and allows
you to work with dates in the years 0100 through 9999.
When the
XDate add-in is installed, you can use any of the following new
worksheet functions in your formulas:
- XDATE(y,m,d,fmt): Returns a date for a
given year, month, and day. As an option, you can provide a date
formatting string.
- XDATEADD(xdate1,days,fmt): Adds a specified
number of days to a date. As an option, you can provide a date
formatting string.
- XDATEDIF(xdate1,xdate2): Returns the number
of days between two dates.
- XDATEYEARDIF(xdate1,xdate2): Returns the
number of full years between two dates (useful for calculating
ages).
- XDATEYEAR(xdate1): Returns the year of a
date.
- XDATEMONTH(xdate1): Returns the month of a
date.
- XDATEDAY(xdate1): returns the day of a
date.
- XDATEDOW(xdate1): Returns the day of the
week of a date (as an integer between 1 and 7).
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The Genealogist - UK census, BMDs and more online
is not a free source but does provide a useful service
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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. |
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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. |
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Personal Family History Web Sites
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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
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Derek PARKHOUSE's web site |
David and Carol Belcher's web site
BASS/TAYLOR/JOSLIN family history |
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Bernard Welchman (Somerset,
Dorset, Devon) |
John Lerwill's Web
Site |
Robert NEWTON's
Home Page |
Paul Mansfield (West Country newspaper indexes) |
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of Genealogy Sites on the Internet |
On
what day of the week
were you born?
You
can calculate it.
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Ambra Books
(Antiquarian and Secondhand Books) |
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Problem Using Sierra Generations EasyTree?
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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.
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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.
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The artist
Michael Cooper's site
has evocative water colours of the West Country.
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Cousin Andrea Parkhouse's "Little
Wooden Things" |
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Gordon Beavington's Census CD/DVDs for
sale |
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