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- Records of Central Government Taxation in England, c.1190-1690; Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire and Oxfordshire
- Historical Directories (75+)
- Digital Library of Historical Directories
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- Direct Resources (dated ~1848, lists of residents of England)
- Lay Subsidy Records
- Bedfordshire Poll Book 1722
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- Cornwall 1642 Protestation Returns
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- Derbyshire 1734 Poll (1)
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- Devon Pre-1841 Censuses and Population Listings
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- London Inhabitants 1638
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- London Inhabitants within the Walls 1695
- Manchester, Lancashire, Unfilmed 1851 Census
- Norfolk Subsidy 1523/24 (begins at p. 399)
- Norfolk, Lynn Regis Poll Books, 1822
- Northamptonshire 1301 Tax
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- Northampton Borough Elections, 1768-1796
- Rutland Lay Subsidy 1296/97
- Rutland Poll Tax 1377
- Shropshire, Shrewsbury Poll Books, 1814
- Staffordshire Landowners, 1873
- Surrey, Guildford Poll Books, 1865 and 1866
- Sussex Lay Subsidies 1296, 1327, 1332
- Sussex Poll Book 1734
- Warwickshire, Warwick 1586, 1670, 1806 Lists
- Warwickshire 1820 Freeholders
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- Wiltshire Poll Book 1782
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- Yorkshire Lay Subsidy 1301
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Education & Announcements
Probate Records
Emigration Records
- US Immigration Collection
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- Canadian Passenger Lists 1865-1935
- Castle Gardens, 1820-1891 (New York City, USA)
- Ellis Island, 1892-1954 (New York City, USA)
- Immigrant Servants Database (USA/Caribbean)
- Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills 1384-1858
- A List of Emigrants from England to America, 1682-1692
- A List of Emigrants from England to America, 1718-1759
- American Emigrant Ministers, 1690-1811
- Births at Sea 1854-1887
- Births – British Overseas 1761-1994
- Born Cornwall – Died ...
- The Bristol Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations, 1654-1686
- British Home Children (Canada)
- British & Irish Passenger Lists 1890
- Brits in South America
- Cambridgeshire Emigrants Victoria Gold Rush
- Canadian Immigration Index 1801-1849
- Child Apprentices in America from Christ's Hospital, London, 1617-1778
- Claim a Convict (Australia)
- Convict Arrivals in New South Wales
- Convict Arrivals in New South Wales 1788-1842
- The Convict Transportation Registers (Australia)
- Cornish in Latin America
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- Early Settlers of Maryland (USA)
- East India Company Ships
- Emigrants from England to the American Colonies, 1773-1776
- English Adventurers and Emigrants, 1609-1660
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- English Landholding in Ireland c1200-c1360
- English Settlers in Barbados
- Families in British India Society
- Genealogical Gleanings in England v. 1
- Genealogical Gleanings in England v. 2
- Great Migration Series (New England)
- GRO Births Abroad Indexes 1966-1994
- GRO Ionian Islands BMDs
- Immigrant Ancestors Project
- Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild (English Ports)
- Indexes to Assisted Immigrants New South Wales 1839-1896
- India Office Family History Search
- The Lost Colony Center for Science and Research (Roanoke, North America)
- Merchants from the Southern Netherlands and the Rise of the Amsterdam Staplemarket 1578-1630
- More Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775
- New South Wales, Unassisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1826-1922
- Nottinghamshire Convicts
- Olive Tree Genealogy
- Omitted Chapters from Hotten's Original Lists of Person of Quality
- Original Lists of Persons of Quality (North America)
- The Port Royal Project (Jamaica)
- Registers of Assisted British Immigrants Victoria 1839-1871
- The Ships List: Passengers, Ships, Shipwrecks
- UK Strays Abroad
- U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925
- Virginia Gleanings in England
- Virtual Jamestown (America)
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Military Records
- Age of Nelson
- The Army Children Archive
- Army Birth Indexes 1881-1965
- Army Deserters 1828-1840
- Army Roll of Honour 1939-45
- Boer War Deaths (Cambs, Hunts, Beds)
- British Army WWI Pension Records 1914-1920
- Cambridgeshire Crimean War Casualties
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- Commonwealth War Graves Commission
- The Complete Navy List of the Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815
- East India Company’s Commercial Marine Service Pensions List 1793-1833
- East India Register & Army List 1855
- GRO Air, Army, High Commission, Marine, Service Department BMDs
- Indian Army & Civil Service List 1873
- Military Attestations Index 1886-1910
- Military Pensioners (WO 97, WO 121)
- Naval Biographical Database
- Royal Military Asylum (Chelsea) Children Admissions 1803-1880
- Royal Navy Seamen Wills 1786-1882
- Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-18
- The Soldier in Later Medieval England
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- Trafalgar Ancestors Database
- World War I - Army, Royal Navy 1914-1918
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Occupations
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- Apprentices of Great Britain 1710-1774
- London Apprenticeship Abstracts 1442-1850
- The Livery Companies Database
- Historical Directories (75+)
- Digital Library of Historical Directories
- U.K. Historical Occupational Trade Directories 1830-1839
- Dictionary of National Biography
- Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome
- K.G. Saur World Biographical Information System Online
- Boyd’s Inhabitants of London 1270-1927
- Aberdeen Built Ships
- Admissions to Gray's Inn (Lawyers and Judges) 1521-1889
- Bankers: The Rothschild Archive
- Bedfordshire Apprentices in London
- Biographical Database of the British Chemical Community, 1880-1970
- Boyd's Inhabitants of London and Boyd's Family Units 1209-1948
- Bristol Directory 1794
- The British Book Trade Index
- British Coastguards 1841-1901
- British Fairground Ancestors
- British Higher Judiciary, 1876-1972
- British Mining Database
- British Parliamentary Election Results Since 1833
- Buckinghamshire Trade Directory 1830
- Buckinghamshire Sheriffs 1139-1739
- Business Leadership and Industrial Change in North West England, 1750-1870
- Cambridgeshire Masters and Apprentices 1763-1811
- Cathedral Clergy Index 1006-1857 (Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae)
- Clergy of the Church of England Database
- Clergy List 1896
- Congregational Ministers 1700s-1972
- Cornish Mining Index
- Cornwall Police Constabulary
- Cornwall 1873 Directory
- Crockford's Clerical Directories 1868, 1874, 1885, 1898, 1908, 1932
- Deaddocs: A Bibliographical Index of Obituaries and Posthumous Accounts in British Medical Journals and Related Sources, 1750-1850
- Dental Surgeons Directory 1925
- Derbyshire Apprentices in London
- Derbyshire Apprenticeship Records
- Eton College Register 1441-1698
- Exeter Diocese Bishops and Senior Clergy 1300-1541
- Freemen of Ipswich 1320-1996
- Freemen of York 1559-1759
- Gloucester Port Books, 1575-1765
- Gloucestershire 1830 Directory
- Great Western Railway Shareholders 1835-1910
- Hemp and Flax Grower’s Index (Dorset, Somerset, Devon 1783-1791)
- Herefordshire 1830 Directory
- Herefordshire 1840 Directory
- Hertfordshire Apprentices Index 1599-1903
- The Inner Temple Admissions Database 1547-1850
- Investors and Members of Parliament in England, 1575-1630
- Jewish Traders/Businesses in London 1769-1839
- Lighthouse Keepers c1790-1911
- Lincolnshire FHS Publications Index
- Lincoln's Inn Admissions 1420-1799 (Lawyers)
- Liverpool Trade and Shipping, 1744-1786
- Aldermen of the City of London Temp. Hen III-1912
- London Apprenticeship Abstracts 1442-1850
- London Music Trades 1750-1800
- London Professional Groups
- The Rulers of London 1660-1689
- Mathematical Women in the British Isles, 1878-1940
- Medical Register 1913
- Merchants from the Southern Netherlands and the Rise of the Amsterdam Staplemarket 1578-1630
- Methodist Preachers 1740-1791
- Middle Temple Records 1501-1603
- Name, Residence, Vote and Occupation for the 1852 and 1857 Sheffield General Elections
- Occupation and Family in the Somerset Coalfield and St Helens, 1851
- Office-Holders in Modern Britain
- Physicians and Surgeons 1535-1775
- Plymouth Dockyard Artificers 1779
- Police Index
- Prosopography of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1517-1603
- Railway Index
- Royal Navy Seamen Wills 1786-1882
- Sheffield, Yorkshire Club Membership Book, 1873-1970
- Ship Tax of the Harwich Area, 1636
- Staffordshire Police Index
- Sugar Refiners and Sugarbakers
- Teacher’s Registrations 1870-1948
- Trinity House Calendars (Seamen) 1787-1854
- University of Cambridge Alumni
- University of Oxford Alumni
- Warwickshire Blacksmiths 1874
- Westminster, St. Peter's College Admissions 1561-1852
- Women, Work and Trade in the English Industrial Revolution, 1773-1828
- Yorkshire, Hallamshire Cutlers
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Surname Distribution Maps
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Religions and Ethnic Groups
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Land and Court Records
- Access to Archives
- Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674-1834
- Manorial Documents Register (partial)
- Medieval English Genealogy
- A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds, Vols. I-VI
- Chancery
- Chancery Index Charles I 1625-1649
- Chancery Index 1386-1558
- Close Rolls Calendars, Richard II, 1377-1396 (3 vols.)
- Close Rolls Calendars, Edward IV, 1461-1468 (1 vol.)
- Curia Regis Rolls (1196-1222, 10 vols.)
- Exchequer
- Red Book of the Exchequer (3 vols.)
- Equity Pleadings
- Family Deeds
- Feet of Fines 1100s-1800s
- Henry III Fine Rolls Project, 1216-1272
- Fine Rolls Calendars, Edward I to Edward III, 1272-1347 (16 vols.)
- Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry VIII to Philip & Mary
- Patent Rolls Calendar Search, 1216-1452
- Patent Rolls Calendars, Henry III, 1216-1272 (6 vols.)
- Patent Rolls Calendars, Edward I, 1272-1307 (4 vols.)
- Patent Rolls Calendars, Edward II, 1307-1327 (5 vols.)
- Patent Rolls Calendars, Edward III (4 of 16 vols.)
- Patent Rolls Calendars, Richard II, 1377-1399 (6 vols.)
- Patent Rolls Calendars, Henry IV, 1399-1413 (4 vols.)
- Patent Rolls Calendars, Henry V, 1413-1422 (2 vols.)
- Patent Rolls Calendars, Henry VI, 1422-1461 (6 vols.)
- Patent Rolls Calendars, Edward IV, Edward V, Richard III, 1400s
- Patent Rolls Calendars, Henry VII, 1485-1509 (2 vols.)
- Patent Rolls Calendars, Edward VI, 1547-1553 (6 vols.)
- Patent Rolls Calendars, Philip and Mary, 1553-1558 (4 vols.)
- Rotuli Curiae Regis (2 vols.)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum (7 vols.)
- Star Chamber
- Lay Subsidies (E 179 Inventory)
- Inheritance Disputes Index 1574-1714
- Inquisitions and Assessments Relating to Feudal Aids, 1284-1431 (6 vols.)
- London Consistory Court Depositions Index 1700-1713
- Black Sheep Index
- Capital Punishment U.K. 1735-1964
- Violence in Early Modern England: A Regional Survey, 1600-1800; Cheshire
- Cornwall Archdeaconry Court Records 1742-1827
- Cornwall Quarter Sessions Records
- Cumbrian Manorial Records
- Derbyshire, The Wolley Manuscripts (A Major Collection of Pre-1828 Pedigrees, Charters, Documents, Deeds & Wills)
- Derbyshire Bastardy Records
- Derbyshire Court Records
- Derbyshire Petty and Quarter Sessions 1770-1828
- Devon Quarter Sessions Calendar of Prisoners 1655-1837
- Essex DEEDS Project; Medieval Latin Charters
- Lancashire Assize Rolls: 4 John - 13 Edward I
- Violence in the North West with Special Reference to Liverpool and Manchester [Lancashire] 1850-1914
- Calendarium Rotulorum Patentium in Turri Londinensi, 1201-1483
- London Medieval Assize Records
- London Consistory Court Depositions Index 1700-1713
- Middlesex Quarter Sessions 1550-1688
- The Newgate Calendar
- Norfolk Inquisitions Post Mortem
- Shropshire Quarter Sessions Index (1831-1920)
- Staffordshire Landowners, 1873
- Warwickshire Illegitimacy Orders
- Wiltshire Quarter Sessions Calendars Index 1728-1849
- Yorkshire Inquisitions Post Mortem Jas I and Chas I
Heraldry and Nobility
- Armigerous Ancestors Index
- Burke’s Peerage
- The Official Website of the British Monarchy
- The Harleian Society (CDs)
- Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England Database
- Unit for Prosopographical Research
- The High Court of Chivalry Project, 1634-1640
- The Gatehouse: The comprehensive gazetteer of the medieval fortifications and castles of England and Wales
- The Castle Studies Group
- Medieval English Families on the Internet
- Heralds' Visitations Online
- Ancestral File
- Millenium File
- Graphical Index to the Ancestry of Charles II
- Edward IV Roll 1460s
- An Index to the Pedigrees Contained in the Printed Herald's Visitations
- Collins's Peerage of England (9 vols.)
- Complete Peerage of England (4 vols.)
- Visitation of England and Wales (14 vols.)
- Visitation of England and Wales 1908
- Urban Hierarchy and Functions in the East Midlands in the Late Middle Ages, 1300-1550
- North of England c1480-1500 v. 1
- North of England 1560s v. 2
- North of England c1480-1500 v. 3
- North of England 1575 v. 4
- Northern Counties Visitation 1530
- Pedigrees of Knights
- Bedfordshire Visitations 1566, 1582, and 1634
- Berkshire Visitations 1532, 1566, 1623, 1665-1666
- Berkshire Visitations 1532, 1566, 1623, 1665-1666 (Duplicate)
- Berkshire, Gentry & Nobility
- Cambridgeshire Visitation 1575
- Cheshire Visitations 1533, 1566, 1580, 1591
- Cheshire Visitation 1580
- Cheshire Visitation 1613
- Cornwall Visitations 1530, 1573, 1620
- Cornwall Visitations 1530, 1573, 1620 (Duplicate)
- Cumberland Visitation 1615
- Derbyshire Visitation 1662
- Derbyshire, The Wolley Manuscripts (A Major Collection of Pre-1828 Pedigrees, Charters, Documents, Deeds & Wills)
- Devon Visitations 1531, 1564
- Devon Visitations Surname Index
- Devon Visitations 1531, 1554, 1620 (partial)
- Devon Visitations 1531, 1554, 1620 (partial) (Duplicate)
- Devon Visitation 1620
- Dorset Visitation 1623
- Dorset Visitation 1623 (Duplicate)
- Gloucestershire Visitation 1623
- Gloucestershire Visitation 1623 (Duplicate)
- Hertfordshire Visitations 1572, 1634
- Hertfordshire Visitations 1572, 1634 (Duplicate)
- Huntingdonshire Visitation 1623
- Kent Visitation 1619
- Kent Visitation 1663-1668 Index
- Kent Visitation 1663-1668 (incomplete)
- Lancashire Visitation 1613
- Lancashire Visitation 1664-65
- Leicestershire Visitation 1619
- Lincolnshire Visitation 1666
- London Visitation 1568
- London Visitation 1568 (duplicate)
- London Visitations 1633, 1634, 1635
- London Visitations 1633, 1634, 1635 (Duplicate)
- The Monumental Brass Society (by County)
- Norfolk Visitation 1563, v. 1
- Norfolk Visitation 1563, v. 2
- Norfolk Visitations 1563, 1613
- Norfolk Visitation 1563 (Duplicate)
- Northamptonshire Visitations 1564, 1618-1619
- Nottinghamshire Visitations 1569 and 1614
- Nottinghamshire Visitations 1569 and 1614 (Duplicate)
- Oxfordshire Visitation 1566
- Rutland Visitation 1618-1619
- Shropshire Visitations 1569, 1584, 1623 v. 1
- Shropshire Visitations 1569, 1584, 1623 v. 2
- Shropshire Visitation 1623 v. 1
- Shropshire Visitation 1623 v. 2
- Somerset Visitations 1531, 1573
- Somerset Visitation 1623
- Somerset Visitation 1623 (Duplicate)
- Suffolk Visitation 1561
- Surrey Visitations 1530, 1572, 1623
- Sussex Visitations 1530, 1633/34
- Warwickshire Visitation 1619
- Wiltshire Visitation 1623
- Worcestershire Visitation 1569
- Worcestershire Visitation 1569 (Duplicate)
- Worcestershire Visitation 1682
- Yorkshire Visitation 1563-1564
- Yorkshire Visitation 1563-1564 (Duplicate)
- Yorkshire Visitation 1666
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One-Place Studies
- One-Place Studies Index
- Berkshire, Cumnor
- Buckinghamshire, Chartride
- Buckinghamshire, Wing
- Cambridgeshire, Castle Camps
- Cambridgeshire, Soham
- Cornwall, Linkinhorne, St. Ive, and South Hill
- Cotswolds
- Derbyshire, Northeast Region
- Derbyshire, Northwest Region
- Derbyshire, South Region
- Derbyshire, Brassington
- Derbyshire, Cauldwell
- Derbyshire, Crich
- Derbyshire, Matlock Region
- Derbyshire, Newhall
- Derbyshire, Stanley
- Derbyshire, Tansley
- Derbyshire, Winster
- Derbyshire, Wirksworth Region
- Devon, Moretonhampstead
- Devon, Petrockstowe
- Dorset, Longfleet
- Dorset, Sturminster Newton
- Demographic History of a Group of Nine Parishes in the Tendring Hundred, Essex, 1533-1838
- Gloucestershire, Forest of Dean Region
- Gloucestershire, Randwick
- Gloucestershire, Stonehouse, Residence and Kinship, 1558-1804
- Hampshire, Grayshott
- Hampshire, Headley
- Huntingdonshire, Fenstanton
- Isle of Wight, Ryde
- Kent, Ashford, 1840-1870: A Socio-Demographic Study
- Kent, Elmsted
- Kent, Hastingleigh
- Kent, Staplehurst
- Lancashire, Liverpool Community, 1649-1750
- Lancashire, Warrington in 1841-1881
- London, People in Place: Families, Households and Housing in London 1550-1720
- Norfolk, Great and Little Snoring
- Nottinghamshire, Cuckney
- Nottinghamshire, Smalley
- Oxfordshire, Noke
- Oxfordshire, Thame in the Seventeenth Century
- Somerset, Frome Hundred
- Somerset, Loxton
- Staffordshire, Stapenhill
- Suffolk, Chelsworth Village Records, 1441-1904
- Surrey, Puttenham
- Wiltshire, Bradford on Avon
- Worcestershire, Badsey
- Worcestershire, Wythall
- Yorkshire, Bolsterstone
- Yorkshire, Kirkheaton
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