Useful Links

The following sites also contain information about genealogy in England. If you are doing family history research in England then I recommend that you should consider joining the local society to support the volunteer efforts made to index and publish records.

• Commercial Organisations
• Index Sites
• Local Sites
• Online Resources
• Record Offices and Libraries
• Reference Sites
• Societies
• Software

Commercial Organisations

• Alan Godfrey Maps - large-scale historic maps
• Archive CD Books
• GenFair
• Heraldry Today Bookshop
• Parish Chest
• Rarish Register Transcription Society
• ParishRegister.com - London Docklands
• S&N Genealogy Supplies
• Stepping Stones
• John Townsend Genealogy Books
• TrueFlare - Thames riverside parish registers
• TWR Computing [UK distributors for Ancestry.com products]

Index Sites

• Cambridgeshire Genealogy
• Kent Genealogy
• Kent WorldGenWeb Project
• Suffolk GenUKI
• Suffolk WorldGenWeb Project

Local Sites

Suffolk

• Forest Heath District [the north-west corner of Suffolk]
• Earl Soham
• Great Finborough
• Stowmarket Online
• Suffolk Surname List - Towns and Villages On-Line
• Walsham-Le-Willows

Online Resources

International

• Ancestry.com
• Australians in World War 2
• Ellis Island Online [US immigration]
• Genealogy.com

National

• Ancestry.co.uk - Census Returns for 1841-1901 and more
• Ancestry.co.uk - FREE access to the Civil Registration indices for Births, Marriages and Deaths
• The Black Sheep and Police Indexes
• British People in South America Database
• Civil Registration - order BMD certificates online
• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• Family History Online
• FreeBMD
• FreeCEN
• Genes Reunited - 1901 Census
• Gravestone Photograph Resource project
• IGI Batch Numbers [for searching the IGI by Parish]
• Interment.net [cemetery transcriptions]
• The LDS Databases [the IGI, UK 1881 census, etc.]
• The London Gazette [searchable database of WW1 and WW2 medals, etc.]
• Maritime Memorials
• Origins.net
• Parish Register Transcripts
• PRO Online Records
• UK BMD - Births, Marriages and Deaths on the Internet
• Workhouses in England
• Your Old Maps Online

Cambridgeshire

• Births, Marriages and Deaths 1837-2001
• Cambridgeshire FHS online databases [Baptisms and Burials, 1801-1837, and censuses, etc.]
• Cambridgeshire people in Dr. Williams library

Kent

• Civil Registration, 1837-2002
• Kent Monumental Inscriptions (Kent Archaeological Society
• Family & Local History in Thanet

Suffolk

• Cosford Database - this covers the parishes of:
  • Aldham
  • Bildeston
  • Boxford
  • Brent Eleigh
  • Brettenham
  • Cockfield
  • Chelsworth
  • Edwardstone
  • Elmsett
  • Groton
  • Hadleigh
  • Hitcham
  • Kersey
  • Kettlebaston
  • Lavenham
  • Layham
  • Lindsey
  • Milden
  • Monks Eleigh
  • Naughton
  • Nedging
  • Polstead
  • Preston St. Mary
  • Semer
  • Thorpe Morieux
  • Wattisham
  • Whatfield
• Freckenham Parish Registers
• Haverhill Parish Registers
• Mildenhall Parish Registers
• Rattlesden Parish Registers
• Registration Districts in 1836
• Simon's Suffolk Churches
• Stowmarket
• Suffolk Gravestones
• Suffolk - Old Maps
• Suffolk Parishes
• Suffolk Registration Districts
• Suffolk Surnames
• Tuddenham Baptisms
• Waveney District Council - Cemeteries Index
• Woolpit Parish Registers

Record Offices, Museums and Libraries

• Access to Archives [index of records held by each record office]
• Archives Hub [archives in UK universities and colleges]
• Essex Record Office
• Familia [UK and Eire public library index]
• Family Records Centre
• Historical Manuscripts Commission
• Imperial War Museum
• Kent Libraries
• Kent Record Office, Canterbury
• Kent Record Office, Maidstone
• Kent Record Office, Medway (at Strood)
• Lambeth Palace Library
• Church of Latter Day Saints - Family History Centres
• London Metropolitan Archives
• Maritime History Archive [70% of all English merchant navy records are held here]
• National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
• The National Archives (formerly called the Public Record Office)
• Norfolk Record Office
• Suffolk Record Offices
• City of Westminster Archives Centre

Reference Sites

• Archaic Medical Terms
• British Army Index
• Coastguard History - Isle of Barra Coastguard
• Collage Portal - Images of London
• Economic History Resources
• English and Welsh Surnames
• Genealogy Dictionary
• Mariners and Merchant Ships
• Maritime History and Naval Heritage
• Maritime History Archive
• Pronunciation of Suffolk place names
• Royal Navy Research during WW1
• Trades, Ranks, Professions and Occupations
• Victorian Social History

Societies

• British Record Society
• Cambridgeshire Family History Society
• Federation of Family History Societies
• Kent Archaeological Society
• Kent Family History Society
• North West Kent Family History Society
• Society of Genealogists
• Suffolk Family History Society
• Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History
• Suffolk Records Society

Software

• Adobe Acrobat
• Leeds Indexers' "1901 census" and "Date calculator" tools
• Parish Locator program