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Archive Catalogues
- ARCHON Directory
- The National Archives
- Access to Archives
- World Cat
- COPAC
- British Library Integrated Catalogue
- British Library Manuscripts Catalogue
- Family History Library
- Society of Genealogists Library
- Royal Historical Society Bibliography
- Archives Hub
- Society of Genealogists Surname Document Collection
- Ancestry.com Card Catalog
- Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
- English Monastic Archives
- Essex Record Office
- Hampshire Record Office
- Hertfordshire Archive Catalogue Index
- Historical Manuscripts Commission
- Lancashire Record Office
- Leicester and Rutland Record Office
- London LDS Family History Centre
- London, Lambeth Palace
- Norfolk Record Office
- The Rothschild Archive (Bankers)
- Society of Antiquaries of London Library Catalogue
- Somerset Record Office
- Surrey Archive Catalogue
Baptism Indexes
- International Genealogical Index (Nationwide)
- England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
- IGI Batch Numbers – England (Coverage)
- British Isles Vital Records Index (Coverage)
- The Official Non-Parochial BMDs Service 1567-1840
- Pallot’s Baptism Index 1780-1837 (Nationwide)
- Ancestry: United Kingdom and Ireland Records
- Free REG
- Parish Chest (CDs)
- Cambridgeshire Baptisms 1801-1837
- Cambridgeshire Baptisms
- Cheshire Christening Records 1538-1911
- Cheshire Parish Register Project
- Cornwall Baptism Details
- Cornwall Online Parish Clerks
- Cumberland (Durham Diocese) Bishop’s Transcripts
- Cumberland Roots
- Derbyshire Ancestral Research Group
- Derbyshire Matlock Region
- Devon Online Parish Clerks
- Dorset Baptism Index
- Dorset Online Parish Clerks
- Durham Baptisms
- Durham Parish Registers pre-1837
- Durham (Durham Diocese) Bishop’s Transcripts
- Gloucestershire, Forest of Dean Region
- Hampshire Baptisms
- Hampshire Online Parish Clerks
- Herefordshire, Forest of Dean Region
- Kent Baptisms
- Kent Medway Ancestors
- Kent Online Parish Clerks
- Lancashire Online Parish Clerks
- Leicestershire Methodist Church Baptisms
- Leicestershire Online Parish Clerks
- Lincolnshire FHS Publications Index
- Liverpool Baptisms
- London East End
- London Historical Records 1500s-1900s
- Monmouthshire, Forest of Dean Region
- Norfolk Baptism Project 1813-1880
- Norfolk (Mid) Baptisms 1784-1837
- Norfolk Transcription Archive
- Northumberland Baptisms
- Northumberland (Durham Diocese) Bishop’s Transcripts
- Somerset Online Parish Clerks
- Staffordshire Baptisms
- Suffolk Baptism Index 1538-1911
- Sussex Baptisms 1538-1910
- Sussex Online Parish Clerks
- Warwickshire Online Parish Clerks
- Warwickshire Baptisms
- Wiltshire Baptisms 1530-1886
- Wiltshire Online Parish Clerks
- Yorkshire (Durham Diocese) Bishop’s Transcripts
- Yorkshire Various Regional Baptism Indexes
Burial Indexes
- National Burial Index
- The Official Non-Parochial BMDs Service 1567-1840
- Deceased Online: The Central Database for UK Burials and Cremations
- Jewish Gen Online Worldwide Burial Registry
- Free REG
- Parish Chest (CDs)
- Berkshire Burials
- Birmingham (Greater) Burials
- Buckinghamshire Burials
- Cambridgeshire Burials 1801-1837
- Cambridgeshire Burials
- Cheshire Burial Records 1538-2000
- Cheshire (North) Burials of Non-residents
- Cheshire Parish Register Project
- Cheshire Parish Search
- Cornwall Burial Details
- Cornwall Online Parish Clerks
- Cumberland Roots
- Derbyshire Matlock Region
- Devon Online Parish Clerks
- Dorset Burial Index
- Dorset Online Parish Clerks
- Durham Parish Registers pre-1837
- Durham & Northumberland Burials
- Durham, Sunderland Burials
- Essex Online Parish Clerks
- Gloucestershire, Forest of Dean Region
- Hampshire Burial Index
- Hampshire Online Parish Clerks
- Herefordshire, Forest of Dean Region
- Kent Medway Ancestors
- Kent Online Parish Clerks
- Lancashire Online Parish Clerks
- Lancashire Burials
- Leicestershire Burials
- Leicestershire Online Parish Clerks
- Lincolnshire FHS Publications Index
- Liverpool Burials 1773-1858
- London Burials Index (Boyds) 1538-1853
- London City Burials 1399-1992
- London Historical Records 1500s-1900s
- Monmouthshire, Forest of Dean Region
- Norfolk Transcription Archive
- Somerset Online Parish Clerks
- Staffordshire Burials
- Suffolk Early Burial Index
- Surrey Burials (St Mary, Lambeth) 1777-1838
- Sussex Burials
- Sussex Online Parish Clerks
- Warwickshire Online Parish Clerks
- Wiltshire Online Parish Clerks
- Worcestershire Burials
- Yorkshire Various Regional Burial Indexes
Census and Census Substitutes
- Census Abstract Forms
- 1911 Census
- 1841-1911 Censuses (Ancestry)
- 1841-1911 Censuses (FindMyPast)
- 1841-1901 Censuses (RootsUK)
- England and Wales Census, 1841
- England and Wales Census, 1851
- England and Wales Census, 1861
- England and Wales Census, 1871
- England and Wales Census, 1881
- England and Wales Census, 1891
- England and Wales Census, 1901
- England and Wales Census, 1911
- Vision of Britain: Census Reports
- 1873 Britain Landowners
- Records of Central Government Taxation in England, c.1190-1690; Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire and Oxfordshire
- Historical Directories (75+) digitized trade directories covers England and Wales from the 1760s to the 1910s
- Digital Library of Historical Directories
- U.K. Historical Occupational Trade Directories 1830-1839
- 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)
- Lay Subsidy Records
- Bedfordshire Poll Book 1722
- Bedfordshire Poll Book 1784
- Buckinghamshire Poll Book 1784
- Cheshire Register of Electors 1842-1900
- 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
- Devon Freeholders, 1711-1799
- Devon, Totnes Poll Books, 1837-1865
- Durham Tithes Database, 1270-1536
- Essex Poll Books, 1702-1722
- Hereford Poll Books, 1734-1764
- Kent Hundred Rolls 1274/75
- Kent Lay Subsidy 1334/35
- Kent, Sandwich, Parliamentary Poll Books, 1831-1868
- Lincolnshire Lay Subsidy 1332
- London Lay Subsidies 1292, 1319
- London Lay Subsidy 1332
- London Lay Subsidies 1541, 1582
- London Inhabitants 1638
- London Hearth Tax 1662 (Cheapside)
- London Hearth Tax 1666 (Cheapside)
- London Inhabitants within the Walls 1695
- Norfolk Subsidy 1523/24 (begins at p. 399)
- Norfolk, Lynn Regis Poll Books, 1822
- Northamptonshire 1301 Tax
- Northamptonshire 1523/25 Tax
- Northamptonshire 1544/45 Tax
- Northampton Borough Elections, 1768-1796
- Rutland Lay Subsidy 1296/97
- Shropshire, Shrewsbury Poll Books, 1814
- Staffordshire Landowners, 1873
- 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
- Warwickshire 1841 Census
- Wiltshire Poll Book 1782
- Worcester Poll Books, 1841-1857
- Yorkshire Domesday Book
- Yorkshire Lay Subsidy 1301
Civil Registration (Birth, Marriage, Death Certificates)
- General Register Office
- 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 1854-1960
- Births – British Overseas 1818-2005
- Guild of One-Name Studies
- Cambridge
- Cheshire
- Death Duty Registers Index 1796-1903
- Deaths at Sea 1781-1968
- Deaths – British Overseas 1818-2005
- Derbyshire Coroner’s Records
- Derbyshire Registrar’s Birth Index
- Derbyshire Registrar’s Marriage Index
- Derbyshire Registrar’s Death Index
- 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
- London Historical Records 1500s-1900s
- Marriages at Sea 1854-1972
- Marriages –British Overseas
- Northumberland, Newcastle District
- Overseas BMDs 1761-1994
- Somerset, Bath District
- Staffordshire
- Sundry Birth, Marriage and Death Civil Registration Details
- West Midlands
- Wiltshire
- Yorkshire
- Yorkshire, Barnsley District
- Yorkshire, Rotherham District
- Yorkshire, Sheffield District
- Yorkshire/Durham, Tees Valley District
DNA
- Family Tree DNA
- International Society of Genetic Genealogy
- Oxford Ancestors
- DNA Ancestry
- MyHeritageDNA
- GEDmatch
Education & Announcements
- Ancestry.com Learning Centre
- BBC Family History
- BBC Who Do You Think You Are? Television Series
- British Association for Local History
- British Genealogy
- British Isles Family History Society (USA)
- The Castle Studies Group
- Centre for English Local History (University of Leicester)
- Center for Family History and Genealogy (Brigham Young University)
- Centre for Local and Regional History (University of Essex)
- Genealogical and Local History (University of Nottingham)
- Centre for Medieval Studies (University of York)
- Centre for Metropolitan History
- Centre for Urban History (University of Leicester)
- Centre of East Anglian Studies
- Dear Myrtle Blog
- Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter
- Family & Community Historical Research Society
- Family History UK
- Family Search Guide
- Family Search Wiki
- Family Tree Magazine
- Federation of Family History Societies
- Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
- Genealogy Blog
- Genea-Musings
- Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies
- The International Centre for Convict Studies
- International Society for British Genealogy and Family History
- International Society of Genetic Genealogy
- Local History Online
- Local History via the Internet (University of Oxford)
- Local Population Studies Journal
- Manchester Centre for Regional History
- North East England History Institute
- North West History and Archives
- Oxford Dictionary of Local and Family History
- Regional Histories (University of the West of England)
- Research Guides (The National Archives)
- Society of Genealogists
- Unit for Prosopographical Research (University of Oxford)
- Wikipedia
- Your Family Tree Magazine
Emigration Records
- US Immigration Collection
- Passenger and Immigrant Lists Index (North America)
- Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960
- New York Passenger Lists 1820-1957
- 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 1854-1960
- Births – British Overseas 1818 – 2005
- 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
- Canadian Immigration Indexes
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- Victoria, Australia, Assisted and Unassisted Passenger Lists, 1839-1923
- The Ships List: Passengers, Ships, Shipwrecks
- UK Strays Abroad
- U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925
- Virginia Gleanings in England
- Virtual Jamestown (America)
Finding Living People
- British Phone Books and Directories, 1880-1984
- British Telecom’s Directory Enquiries
- Electoral Rolls 2002-2009
- Finder Monkey: The People Who Find People
- Reunion
Genealogy Humour
Genuki
- Bedfordshire
- Berkshire
- Buckinghamshire
- Cambridgeshire
- Cheshire
- Cornwall
- Cumberland
- Derbyshire
- Devon
- Dorset
- Durham
- Essex
- Gloucestershire
- Hampshire
- Herefordshire
- Hertfordshire
- Huntingdonshire
- Kent
- Lancashire
- Leicestershire
- Lincolnshire
- London
- Middlesex
- Norfolk
- Northamptonshire
- Northumberland
- Nottinghamshire
- Oxfordshire
- Rutland
- Shropshire
- Somerset
- Staffordshire
- Suffolk
- Surrey
- Sussex
- Warwickshire
- Westmorland
- Wiltshire
- Worcestershire
- Yorkshire
Heraldry and Nobility
- 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
- FamilySearch
- 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 (8 vols.)
- Visitation of England and Wales (21 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 vol 1
- Berkshire Visitations 1532, 1566, 1623, 1665-1666 vol 2
- Berkshire, Gentry & Nobility
- Cambridgeshire Visitation 1575
- Cheshire Visitations 1533, 1566, 1580, 1591
- Cheshire Visitation 1580
- Cheshire Visitation 1613
- 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 1531, 1554, 1620 (partial)
- Devon Visitation 1620
- Dorset Visitation 1623
- Gloucestershire Visitation 1623
- Hertfordshire Visitations 1572, 1634
- 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 Visitations 1633, 1634, 1635
- The Monumental Brass Society (by County)
- Norfolk Visitation 1563, v. 1
- Norfolk Visitation 1563, v. 2
- Norfolk Visitations 1563, 1613
- 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
- Shropshire Visitation 1623 v. 1
- Shropshire Visitation 1623 v. 2
- Somerset Visitations 1531, 1573
- Somerset Visitation 1623
- Suffolk Visitation 1561
- Surrey Visitations 1530, 1572, 1623
- Sussex Visitations 1530, 1633/34
- Warwickshire Visitation 1619
- Wiltshire Visitation 1623
- Worcestershire Visitation 1569
- Worcestershire Visitation 1682
- Yorkshire Visitation 1563-1564
- All About Heraldic Badges
Historic Newspapers
- Historical Newspapers
- United Kingdom and Ireland Obituary Collection
- British Newspapers 1710-1953
- Lincolnshire Newspaper Extracts
- London Gazette Archives
- London Times 1785-1820
- Newspaper Picture Index to Hertfordshire People 1890-1935
- Yorkshire Death Notices
Land and Court Records
- Access to Archival Databases
- 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 (6 vols.)
- Close Rolls Calendars, Edward IV, 1461-1468 (1 vol.)
- Curia Regis Rolls 1196-1222
- 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
- Staffordshire Landowners, 1873
- Warwickshire Illegitimacy Orders
- Wiltshire Quarter Sessions Calendars Index 1728-1890
- Yorkshire Inquisitions Post Mortem Jas I and Chas I
Local Histories
- Victoria County Histories
- Place Index
- Bedfordshire
- Berkshire
- Buckinghamshire
- Cambridgeshire
- Cheshire
- Cumberland
- Derbyshire
- Dorset
- Durham
- Essex
- Gloucestershire
- Hampshire
- Hertfordshire
- Huntingdonshire
- Kent
- Leicestershire
- Lancashire
- Lincolnshire
- London
- Middlesex
- Norfolk
- Nottinghamshire
- Northamptonshire
- Oxfordshire
- Rutland
- Shropshire
- Somerset
- Staffordshire
- Suffolk
- Surrey
- Sussex
- Warwickshire
- Wiltshire
- Worcestershire
- Yorkshire
- County and Local History Links (Medieval Genealogy)
- Centre for English Local History (University of Leicester)
- Center for Family History and Genealogy (Brigham Young University)
- Centre for Local and Regional History (University of Essex)
- Centre for Metropolitan History
- Centre of East Anglian Studies
- Buckingham Record Society 22 vols.
- Biographical Database Based on Morant’s History of Essex, 1768
- History of Kent by Hasted, 12 vols.
- Local and Regional History (University of Nottingham)
- Local History Online
- Local History via the Internet (University of Oxford)
- Local Population Studies Journal
- A History of the County of London
- Environs of London, 4 vols.
- Old and New London, 6 vols.
- History of Norfolk by Blomefield, 6 of 11 vols.
- Virtual Norfolk
- History of Somerset by Collinson (3 vols. and index)
- Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries 1890-1980
- Staffordshire Historical Collections
- Records of Westmoreland
- Vision of Britain: Statistical Atlas
- Vision of Britain: Travel Writing
Lots of Links
- The Genealogist’s Internet
- Cyndi’s List
- Genealogy Links
- Jisc Learning and Research Resources
- 101 Best Web Sites
Maps and Gazetteers
- County Boundaries (Historic)
- County Boundaries (Present)
- Chapman County Codes
- A Key to English Place-Names
- Association of British Counties
- Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887)
- British History
- Charles Booth and the Survey into Life and Labour in London (1886-1903)
- Civil Registration District Boundaries
- Civil Registration District Identifier
- The Enclosure Maps of England and Wales
- The Gatehouse: The comprehensive gazetteer of the medieval fortifications and castles of England and Wales
- Gazetteer of British Place Names
- Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs to 1516
- GenMap UK
- Genuki Church Database
- Google Maps and Street View
- Historic Parishes of England and Wales
- Hundred Jurisdictions Identifier
- Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales (1872)
- Latin Names of Bishoprics in England (The Record Interpreter)
- Latin Names of Bishoprics in Ireland (The Record Interpreter)
- Latin Names of Bishoprics in Scotland (The Record Interpreter)
- Latin Names of Places in Europe (Orbis Latinus)
- Latin Names of Places in Great Britain and Ireland (The Record Interpreter)
- Lewis’s A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848)
- London Map (Stanford, 1877) showing streets, parish and poor law boundaries
- London Topographical Dictionary (1831)
- London Victorian Street Index
- London Dictionary (1918)
- London Historical Gazetteer Before the Great Fire – Cheapside
- London Old Maps 1500s-1800s
- Magna Britannia, Vols. 3-6 (1814-1822)
- Old Maps
- Parish Finder
- Registration District Maps 1871
- Streetmap
- Vision of Britain: Places
- Vision of Britain: Historical Maps
- Wikipedia
- Workhouses
Marriage Indexes
- International Genealogical Index (Nationwide)
- England Marriages 1538-1973
- IGI Batch Numbers – England (Coverage)
- The Official Non-Parochial BMDs Service 1567-1840
- Pallot’s Marriage Index 1780-1837 (London)
- Boyd’s Marriage Index 1538-1850 (Nationwide)
- Phillimore Marriage Index (Nationwide)
- Vicar General (Canterbury) Marriage Licences
- Faculty Office (Canterbury) Marriage Licenses
- Joiner Marriage Index (North of England)
- Gretna Green Marriage Index
- United Kingdom Marriages (Jewish) 1838-1972
- Free REG
- Parish Chest Records
- Berkshire Marriage Index
- Buckinghamshire Marriages
- Cambridgeshire Marriage Banns
- Cambridgeshire Marriages
- Cheshire Marriage Records 1538-1907
- Cheshire Marriage Licences (Diocese of Chester)
- Cheshire Parish Register Project
- Cornish 19th Century Marriages
- Cornwall Marriage Details
- Cornwall Online Parish Clerks
- Cornwall (Phillimore)
- Cumberland (Durham Diocese) Bishop’s Transcripts
- Cumberland Roots
- Derbyshire Matlock Region
- Derbyshire (Phillimore)
- Devon Online Parish Clerks
- Devon Marriage Licences (Diocese of Exeter)
- Devon (Phillimore)
- Dorset Marriage Index
- Dorset Online Parish Clerks
- Durham Parish Registers pre-1837
- Durham (Durham Diocese) Bishop’s Transcripts
- Durham Marriages
- Gloucestershire, Forest of Dean Region
- Hampshire Marriage Licences (Bishop of Winchester) 1689-1837
- Hampshire Online Parish Clerks
- Hampshire Quaker Marriages 1663-1837
- Herefordshire Marriage Index
- Herefordshire, Forest of Dean Region
- Hertfordshire Marriages
- Hertfordshire Marriage Index
- Kent Medway Ancestors
- Kent (Mid) Marriages Index 1754-1911
- Kent, Canterbury Marriage Licences
- Kent Online Parish Clerks
- Lancashire Online Parish Clerks
- Leicestershire Marriage Licences (Diocese of Leicester) 1570-1729
- Leicestershire Online Parish Clerks
- Lincolnshire FHS Publications Index
- Lincolnshire Marriage Bonds (8 Counties)
- Lincoln Marriage Licenses 1598-1628
- Liverpool Marriages 1773-1892
- London Historical Records 1500s-1900s
- London Crisp’s Marriage License Index
- London Marriage Bonds (Diocese of Winchester ) 1597-1921
- London Marriage Licences, 1521-1869
- London Pallot’s Marriage Index 1780-1837
- London St Andrew Holborn 1754-1812
- Middlesex Marriage Licences (Dean and Chapter of Westminster) 1558-1699
- Middlesex Marriage Index
- Middlesex Marriages 1563-1895 (partial)
- Middlesex (Phillimore)
- Monmouthshire, Forest of Dean Region
- Norfolk Transcription Archive
- Northumberland (Durham Diocese) Bishop’s Transcripts
- Northumberland Marriages
- Sarum Marriage Licences (Berkshire, Dorset, Devon, Wiltshire)
- Somerset Marriage Index (post-1754)
- Somerset Marriage Index (pre-1754)
- Somerset Online Parish Clerks
- Staffordshire Marriages
- Suffolk Marriage Licences 1613-1674
- Suffolk Marriage Index 1536-1900s
- Surrey Marriage Licences (Commissary Court of Surrey) 1673-1770
- Sussex Online Parish Clerks
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Military Records
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- The Livery Companies Database
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- Dictionary of National Biography
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One-Place Studies
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Photographs
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Probate Records
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- Every-name probate indexes
- Death Duty Registers Index 1796-1903
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- Cornish Will Abstracts 1690-1859
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- Kent Archdeaconry & Consistory Courts of Canterbury Registered Wills 1557-1858
- Kent (West) Wills to 1650
- Kent Wills and Administrations 1640-1650
- Kent Rochester Consistory Court 1440-1561
- Lancashire Probate Indexes 1541-1858 (partial)
- Lancashire & Cheshire Wills 1301-1752
- Lancashire Wills at Archdeaconry of Richmond 1748-1792
- Lancashire Wills 1531-1652
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- Leicestershire Archdeaconry Court of Leicester 1495-1649
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- London Court of Husting, 1258-1688 Vol. 1
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- London Court of Probate 1387-1439
- London Archdeaconry Court Wills Index 1700-1807
- London Consistory Court 1492-1547
- London Deanery of the Arches 1620-1945
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- Middlesex Wills 1609-1810
- Norfolk Consistory Court and Peculiars Wills and Administrations 1370-1858
- Norfolk Wills (partial)
- Northamptonshire & Rutland Probate Index
- Northamptonshire and Rutland Wills 1510-1652
- Northamptonshire (West), Summary of Selected Wills, 1500-1700
- Northamptonshire (West), Selected Wills, 1500-1700
- Rutland & Northamptonshire Probate Index
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- Shropshire Wills (Lichfield) 1516-1652
- Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Wills Index (1858-1940)
- Somerset Wills and Admons (Taunton) 1537-1799
- Somerset Death Duty 1812-1857
- Suffolk Testator Index 1847-1857
- Suffolk Beneficiary Index 1847-1857
- Surrey Will Abstracts 1470-1856
- Sussex Wills
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- Wiltshire 1540-1858
- Worcestershire Wills and Admons
- Yorkshire Peculiars Probate Index 1383-1883
Records of the Poor
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- Index of English and Welsh Lunatic Asylums and Mental Hospitals
- Bankrupt Directory (The London Gazette) 1820-1843
- Charles Booth and the Survey into Life and Labour in London (1886-1903)
- Derbyshire Removals, Settlement Certificates, Settlement Examinations, Rogues and Vagabonds
- Herefordshire, Bromyard Workhouse Database, 1840
- Hospital Records Database
- Lincolnshire Settlement Certificates
- London Historical Records 1500s-1900s
- London Hospitals 1852-1914
- The Poor Jews’ Temporary Shelter Database
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Religions and Ethnic Groups
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- FamilySearch (LDS)
- Anglo-Jewish Miscellanies
- Avotaynu Consolidated Jewish Surname Index
- Baptist Historical Society
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- Cathedral Clergy Index 1006-1857 (Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae)
- Catholic Family History Society
- Clergy of the Church of England Database
- Early Latter-day Saints
- Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, Person Glossary
- French Refugees in Great Britain in the Early 1700s
- Gypsy and Traveller Specialist: Robert Dawson
- Index to the Early Quakers Families of Cumberland
- Jewish Family History Collection
- Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain
- Knowles Collections (Jews from the British Isles)
- London Jews (pre-1850)
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