Family History - Links, etc.

Family History

Links, etc. (not necessarily in a logical order!)

Genealogy in general
www.genuki.org.uk - General umbrella site for genealogy in UK and Ireland. Vast range of info and links, including excellent A-Z of background info.
www.cyndislist.com - Cyndi's List contains '236,250 categorized & cross-referenced links' on everything under the sun relating to genealogy. But beware, you can get very sidetracked.
www.familyrecords.gov.uk - Portal to Public Records Offices, etc. and National Archives.
www.familysearch.org - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (referred to as LDS on many sites). Includes 1880/81 US, UK and Canadian Censuses.
freebmd.rootsweb.com - FreeBMD, Project to transcribe BMD records and make available free - related to FreeCEN (Free Census) and FreeREG (Free Parish Register) projects.
www.familia.org.uk - UK and Ireland guide to genealogical resources in public libraries
www.imagepartners.co.uk/Thesaurus/Search.aspx - Surname matching software, demonstrates Image Partners software - useful for finding name variations, including which are in the 1881 census.

UK Census Records and Births, Marriages, Deaths (BMD)
www.ancestry.co.uk - UK Census and BMD, plus more. Free searching of BMD index and census indexes (use 'Best Matches' free on ?all census years 1851-1901). Free details from 1881 census. One day they will probably get some of my money! US site www.ancestry.com has US census, etc.
www.1901census.nationalarchives.gov.uk - 1901 Census at the National Archives - searching the index is free, more detail involves payment.
www.1837online.com - 'Pay per View' access to Births, Marriages, Deaths and the 1861 Census, plus some background.

Other Info Sources
www.historicaldirectories.org - Digital library of local and trade directories for England and Wales, from 1750 to 1919. Includes several for Yorkshire and Derbyshire. Includes various search facilities and provides pages as pdfs.
www.n.f.wilson.btinternet.co.uk - 'Simple' (but useful and searchable) transcription of White's 1857 Directory of Derbyshire (and Sheffield).
www.yourmapsonline.org.uk - Excellent selection of scanned maps, largely UK county maps from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
www.churchplansonline.org - Church Plans from the Lambeth Palace Library.
www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk - Site selling over 1,700 reprints of Old Ordnance Survey Maps of towns throughout Britain and Ireland.
www.cmhrc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk - Coal Mines History Resource Centre - includes lists of mines for 1869, 1880, 1908, 1918,1938 and 1945 (and lots more).
www.workhouses.org.uk - Peter Higginbotham's web site giving brilliant coverage of the history of Workhouses in general and of specific Poor Law Unions.
www.parishchest.com - 'The Parish Chest' - the proprietors describe it thus ...'The premier family history and genealogy store. Here you can buy data cds, parish transcriptions, research, blank family tree charts, UK census records, directories, books, e-books. If fact, just about everything to help with your genealogy'.

Sheffield
www.sheffieldfhs.org.uk - Sheffield and District Family History Society.
http://sheffield-indexers.no-ip.org/ - 'Sheffield Indexers' - excellent message board and searchable index of the 1841 census for Sheffield.
www.gencem.org - Sheffield General Cemetery website, incl search on first 6000 burial records.
www.institutions.org.uk/... - Yorkshire Workhouses

Derbyshire
www.wirksworth.org.uk - Transcribed list of Derbyshire wills 1525-1928 and how to obtain copies.
www.abridgewater.freeserve.co.uk - Coal Mining etc. in North derbyshire
www.cadfhs.org.uk - Chesterfield and District Family History Society
www.connorsgenealogy.com/Derbyshire/Chesterfield/ - interesting miscellany relating to Chesterfield and the area. The parent web site includes lots about Ireland.
www.dronfield-jun.derbyshire.sch.uk/logbook.htm - Fascinating set of extracts from the log books of Dronfield Junior School 1875-2005. Parent site include curriculum resources using census information.
www.tidza.demon.co.uk - Peak District Mines Historical Society - includes a transcript of the official 'List of Mines' (Coal and Metalliferous) for 1896.

Staincross, South Yorkshire
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~framland/stcr/stjscd1.htm - First page of 'Burial Register for St John the Evangelist Church, Staincross.' includes photos of memorials, burial details, etc.

Wozencroft
genforum.genealogy.com/wozencraft/ - Email Forum re Wozencroft name (and a similar format for other names).