Top Genealogy Resources

UK Public Records Office: www.pro.gov.uk   Good advice on how to go about tracking your ancestors and what government recourses are available.

UK and Ireland Genealogical Service (GENUKI): www.genuki.org.uk Links and information on all manner of UK and Ireland focused genealogical recourses.

General Register Office: www.nics.gov.uk/nisra/gro Register non Roman Catholic marrages in Northern Ireland after April 1845 and births and deaths since 1864. You can't search online but you will find all the necessary contact here.

National Archives of Ireland: www.nationalarchives.ie/  Good advice on how to begin a search for relatives in Ireland.

General Register Office for Scotland: www.open.gov.uk/gros/groshome.htm Responsible for the registration of births, marriages, deaths, divorces and adoptions in Scotland.

Cindi's List: www.cindislist.com A very good site listing thousands of links where you can find endless useful information.

Roots Web: www.rootsweb.com One of the Internet's oldest and biggest genealogy sites where you can search for information on a specific surname.

The WorldGenWeb Project: www.worldgenweb.org This project sets out to connect the world through genealogy. The aim is to set up every country with it's own GenWeb site which links to regional genealogy resources.

Ancestry.com: www.ancestry.com Huge US genealogy resource that covers 274 million names.

The UK Society of Genealogists online: www.sog.org.uk/online/index.html Heaps of information on how to go about researching your family history, including a surname index and articles from the magazine Computers in Genealogy.

Genealogical Societies: www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/genuki/Societies/

Commonwealth War Graves Commission: www.cwgc.org Search the register of names, service details and places of commemoration for the 1.7 million members of the Commonwealth forces who died in the First and Second World Wars.

Immigrant Ship Transcriber's Guild: http://istg.rootsweb.com/ Immigration into Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the US, etc. This fabulous resource provides passenger lists which might let you trace branches of your family. You can search by port of departure or arrival or by date (one of the lists date back to the 1600's).

Australia and New Zealand Passenger Lists: www.users.on.net/proformat/auspass.html Again, if you think your ancestors may have been on some of the the migrant ships headed for Australia and New Zealand, check the lists here.


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