Kent Information

North Kent Churches Parish churches in and around Dartford
Undergroundkent This site is on anything underground in Kent, from smugglers to Cold War.
KFHS Kent Family History Society
Deal FHS Deal branch of the Kent Family History Society
NW Kent FHS North West Kent Family History Society
Folkestone FHS Folkestone Family History Society
Tunbridge Wells FHS Tunbridge Wells Family History Society
ENG-Kent List Email list for Kent
Kent Addresses Addresses for various institutions, societies, museums and local history venues throughout Kent.
East Kent Local History Pages East Kent Local History Pages
Pictures of Kent Pictures of some Kent Villages and the countryside.

Children

Missing Ancestors Dedicated to finding children sent away to industrial schools during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Criminal Resources

Black sheep ancestors Sources for tracing the black sheep of the family.
Old Bailey Online Old Bailey criminal proceedings 1660-1834.
The Complete Newgate Calendar Copies of Newgate Calendars from the 16th to the 19th century.

Historical Information

Money Values Money values from as early as 1204 up to 2002.
Occupations A list of old occupations.
Images of England This is a wonderful website for photographs taken around England.  Many historic houses have been photographed and added to this database as have many historic monuments, including gravesites.  Free sign-up is required to access the database and the search facility is difficult to negotiate through.  But the rewards can be well worth the time and effort spent.  The grave sites of several of my Ruck family that I found on here helped to definitely solve a few lineage puzzles.
Vision of Britian Population and historical information of towns and villages.
Moving History Guides to film archives plus 100 historic film clips.
County Histories A detailed record of the country at the end of the Victorian era.  Also features links to county-based sources.
British History Online Although aimed at academic historians, there is material here to interest the family historian.

Maps

Bodleian Library Visit the online 'map room'.
Rootsmap Builds detailed surname distribution maps.

Military Resources

The National Archive Army Pages TNA's guide to its Army records.  Also try the equivalent Naval and RAF pages.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission The Debt of Honour database to Britain's war dead.
Victoria Cross The excellent Victoria Cross Reference site includes a complete and fully searchable database of VC winners.
The MOD This official MOD website features a little-known search engine which turns up lots of useful data if you are researching a particular regiment.
British War Memorial Project Having visited the CWGC website, you might like to try this wonderful resource dedicated to War Graves situated in the UK and Commonwealth.
Regimental Museums Links to regimental museum websites, alongside an introduction to tracing officers and soldiers.
Army Museums Ogilby Trust A brief guide to tracing ancestors in the Army.
Maritime and Naval Museums in Britain and Ireland Links to all the major Naval and maritime museums.
RAF Museum The RAF museum site, including pages dedicated to researching airmen.
Imperial War Museum The IWM site has lots of advice pages about tracing those who served.
Gallantry Awards Awards listed in the London Gazette can be searched here.

Networking Sites

Rootschat Friendly and very helpful online genealogy forum where queries and lookup requests can be posted.
Genes Reunited From the team behind the hugely successful FriendsReunited website.  A paid subscription is required if you wish to correspond with others researching your family lines.  Otherwise, the site is free to search.

Newspapers & Journals

Bodleian Library, Digital Library Projects Free online historic journals - Blackwood's Edinburgh, Gent's Magazine, Notes & Queries and others.
Colindale Newspaper Library The website of the British Library's Newspaper Library includes a complete catalogue of its newspaper holdings.
London Gazette Scans and indexes to the London Gazette
Newspaper database Local and regional newspapers listed and where they can be found.
British Pathe View 20th-century newsreels.

Passenger Lists

U. S. Passenger Lists A collection of 5,000 transcribed passenger lists.
AUS-NZ Passenger Lists Helping family historians find the vessel that brought their ancestors to Australasia.

Specialist Research

MedievalGenealogy.org Useful tips for people lucky enough to have a family tree stretching back this far.  Includes lists of ready-researched pedigrees.
Black Ancestry Links to pages about the history and heritage of Black and Asian peoples in Britain.
G O O N S The Guild of One-Name Studies (GOONs) through which people register their interest in a particular surname.  Studies of a particular surname are carried out over a large geographical area irrespective of any familial connections between the family groups.
College of Arms The official repository of English and Welsh coats of arms and pedigrees.

Genealogy Miscellaneous

Access To Archives Online free searchable database comprised of indexes to the holdings of many individual local record offices.
DocumentsOnline Scans of pre-1858 Wills proved by the Prerogative Court of Canterbury at London, Royal Naval Seamen's records and numerous other documents including portions of the Domesday Book.
The National Archives Repository for the records created and maintained by the government of the United Kingdom from Domesday to the present.
GenUKI Free online database of resources for genealogy in the United Kingdom and Ireland, hence the acronym of GenUKI.  Arranged first by country and then by individual county.
FreeCen FreeCen provides volunteer transcribed census records, 1841 through 1901.  Some counties are now very well covered.
British Genealogy British genealogy site.
Strays Individuals found on the various census enumerations that are living away from the place at which they had been born.
All English Records Your one-stop site for English genealogy records.
FamilyTreesonline.co.uk Genealogy resource website.
Cyndi's List Links to more than 200,000 websites that contain genealogical data and information, including professional researchers and resources for sale.

Genealogy Suppliers

Archive CD Books The Archive CD Books Project is about making CDs of old and rare books available to genealogists and historians.
Parish Chest An excellent one-stop shopping site for all your genealogical requirements.
Online Shop The Federation's of Family History Societies' online store.
GenFair GenFair - Shop
S & N - BDA Offer over one hundred and thirty programs plus Data CDs, books, charts and family history kits.
TWR Computing Computers, programs and data CDs for family historians and genealogists.
Stepping Stones Specialise in the 1841 to 1871 census of England and Wales, with street indices to accompany the major towns and cities, also PCC Wills and a large variety of old trade directories.
BackToRoots Family history data on CD for the Genealogist
 













 
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