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Civil Registration (Birth, Marriage, Death Certificates)
- Free BMD
- Ancestry (BMDs)
- BMD Index
- Family Relatives (BMDs)
- Find My Past (BMDs)
- RootsUK (BMDs)
- UKBMD Multi-Region
- Order copies of certificates
- Births at Sea 1854-1887
- Births – British Overseas 1761-1994
- Guild of One-Name Studies
- Cambridge
- Cheshire
- Death Duty Registers Index 1796-1903
- Deaths at Sea 1854-1890
- Deaths – British Overseas 1761-1994
- Derbyshire Coroner's Records
- Derbyshire Registrar’s Birth Index
- Derbyshire Registrar’s Marriage Index
- Derbyshire Registrar’s Death Index
- Divorces and Matrimonial Causes 1858-1903
- Durham
- Durham, Darlington District
- Durham, Gateshead District
- Durham, Sunderland District
- Durham/Yorkshire, Tees Valley District
- GRO Air, Army, High Commission, Marine, Service Department BMDs
- Isle of Wight
- Kent
- Lancashire
- Lincolnshire Workhouse Deaths 1866-1927
- London, Tower Hamlets District
- Marriages at Sea 1854-1883
- Marriages –British Overseas 1761-1994
- North East
- Northumberland, Newcastle District
- Overseas BMDs 1761-1994
- Somerset, Bath District
- Staffordshire
- Sundry Birth,Marriage and Death Civil Registration Details
- Warwickshire
- West Midlands
- Wiltshire
- Yorkshire
- Yorkshire, Barnsley District
- Yorkshire, Rotherham District
- Yorkshire, Sheffield District
- Yorkshire/Durham, Tees Valley District
Census and Census Substitutes
- Census Abstract Forms
- 1841-1901 Censuses(Ancestry)
- 1841-1901 Censuses (RootsUK)
- England & Wales Census 1841 (British Origins)
- England 1841 Census (Find My Past)
- England & Wales Census 1861 (British Origins)
- England 1861 Census (Find My Past)
- England & Wales Census 1871 (British Origins)
- England 1871 Census (Find My Past)
- England 1881 Census (Family Search)
- England 1891 Census (Find My Past)
- British Phone Books 1880-1984
- Hemp and Flax Grower’s Index (Dorset, Somerset, Devon 1783-1791)
- Hearth Tax 1660s-1670s (Various Places)
- Direct Resources (dated ~1848, lists of residents of England)
- Historical Directories (75+)
- Lay Subsidy Records
- Bedfordshire Poll Book 1722
- Bedfordshire Poll Book 1784
- Buckinghamshire Poll Book 1784
- Cornwall 1642 Protestation Returns
- Cumberland Lay Subsidy 1332-1333
- Derbyshire 1734 Poll (1)
- Derbyshire 1734 Poll (2)
- Devon Pre-1841 Censuses and Population Listings
- The Devon and Exeter Oath Rolls 1723
- Kent Hundred Rolls 1274/75
- Kent Lay Subsidy 1334/35
- Lincolnshire Lay Subsidy 1332
- London Lay Subsidies 1292, 1319
- London Lay Subsidy 1332
- London Lay Subsidies 1541, 1582
- London Inhabitants within the Walls 1695
- Rutland Lay Subsidy 1296/97
- Rutland Poll Tax 1377
- Sussex Lay Subsidies 1296, 1327, 1332
- Sussex Poll Book 1734
- Warwickshire, Warwick 1586, 1670, 1806 Lists
- Warwickshire 1820 Freeholders
- Warwickshire 1841 Census
- Wiltshire Poll Book 1782
- Yorkshire Lay Subsidy 1301
- Yorkshire Poll Tax 1377
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Education & Announcements
Emigration Records
- US Immigration Collection
- Passenger and Immigrant Lists Index (North America)
- Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960
- New York Passenger Lists 1820-1957
- 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
- Convict Arrivals in New South Wales
- Convict Arrivals in New South Wales 1788-1842
- The Convict Transportation Registers (Australia)
- Cornish in Latin America
- Cornish Monumental Inscriptions in Mexico
- Early Settlers of Maryland (USA)
- East India Company Ships
- Emigrants from England to the American Colonies, 1773-1776
- English Adventurers and Emigrants, 1609-1660
- English Adventurers and Emigrants, 1661-1733
- English Settlers in Barbados
- 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
- More Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775
- Nottinghamshire Convicts
- Olive Tree Genealogy
- Omitted Chapters from Hotten's Original Lists of Person of Quality
- Original Lists of Persons of Quality (North America)
- Registers of Assisted British Immigrants Victoria 1839-1871
- UK Strays Abroad
- U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925
- Virginia Gleanings in England
- Virtual Jamestown (America)
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Military Records
- 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
- Cambridgeshire Crimean War Discharges
- 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)
- Royal Military Asylum (Chelsea) Children Admissions 1803-1880
- Royal Navy Seamen Wills 1786-1882
- Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-18
- Soldiers Who Died in the Great War 1914-1921
- Trafalgar Ancestors Database
- World War I - Army, Royal Navy 1914-1918
- World War II - Army, Royal Navy, Royal Air Force 1939-1948
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Surname Distribution Maps
Heraldry and Nobility
- Armigerous Ancestors Index
- Burke’s Peerage
- The Official Website of the British Monarchy
- 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
- Visitation of England and Wales 1908
- 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, Ford's Landed Gentry
- Cambridgeshire Visitation 1575
- Cheshire Visitations 1533, 1566, 1580, 1591
- Cheshire Visitation 1580
- Cheshire Visitation 1613
- Cheshire Visitation 1613 (Duplicate)
- Cornwall Visitations 1530, 1573, 1620
- 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 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
- Lancashire Visitation 1613
- Lancashire Visitation 1664-65
- Leicestershire Visitation 1619
- Lincolnshire Visitation 1666
- London Visitation 1568
- London Visitations 1633, 1634, 1635
- London Visitations 1633, 1634, 1635 (Duplicate)
- The Monumental Brass Society (by County)
- Norfolk Visitations 1563, 1613
- Norfolk Visitation 1563 (Duplicate)
- Northamptonshire Visitations 1564, 1618-1619
- Nottinghamshire Visitations 1569 and 1614
- Oxfordshire Visitation 1566
- Rutland Visitation 1618-1619
- Shropshire Visitations 1569, 1584, 1623 v. 1
- Shropshire Visitations 1569, 1584, 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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Records of the Poor
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One-Place Studies