The Telegraph Historical Archive, 1855-2000 is the fully searchable digital archive of what was once the world's largest-selling newspaper. Researchers and students can full-text search across 1 million pages of the newspaper's backfile from its first issue to the end of 2000, including issues of the Sunday Telegraph from 1961.
The National Library of Scotland lists resources for anyone researching their Scottish family history. The list includes FamilySearch, Records of births, deaths and marriages, Old parish registers, Scottish Parish Records and The McKirdy Index.
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These records pre-date civil registration in 1837. The aim of this site is to provide you with access to records of birth, baptism, marriage, death and burial taken from non parish sources from 1534 to 1865: Includes records of births, baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials of British subjects overseas and on board ships. You can also trace non-conformist ancestors on this website with records ranging from Methodists and Baptists to Presbyterians and Quakers. You can also trace miscellaneous foreign marriage returns from 1861 to 1921. You can search for free but you need to register to buy credits to view full records and images of the original pages.
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The College of Arms is the official repository of the coats of arms and pedigrees of English, Welsh, Northern Irish and Commonwealth families and their descendants. The College maintains registers of arms, pedigrees, genealogies, Royal Licences, changes of name, and flags and carry out genealogical and heraldic work for clients
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This site provides personal and service details and places of commemoration for the 1.7 million members of the Commonwealth forces who died in the First or Second World Wars. A record of some 60 000 civilian casualties of the Second World War is provided without details of burial location.
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University of Leicester digitisation of local and trade directories which include names, addresses and occupations of the inhabitants of counties and towns.
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A new mapping and research tool from FamilySearch, enabling you to search for placenames. It's position on the map will be shown along with jurisdictions useful in locating genealogical records (county, civil registration district, probate court, diocese, poor law union etc). A link takes you to the Family History Library Catalog where a list of filmed records for that location will be found.
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A collection of digitised genealogy and family history books. The archive includes histories of families, county and local histories, how-to books on genealogy, genealogy magazines and periodicals (including some international), medieval books (including histories and pedigrees), and gazetteers. The books come from the collections of the FamilySearch Family History Library.
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (the Mormons) provides a searchable database of more than 300 million names including: Ancestral File and the International Genealogical Index. It also provides access to the Family History Library Catalogue as well as thousands of indexed web sites. Patrons visiting FamilySearch.org will see a prompt to register for a free account or to sign into their existing account to continue using all the free expanded benefits.
The FreeBMD Project aims to provide free Internet access to Civil Registration (St. Catherine's House) indexes for England and Wales. The index is compiled progressively by volunteers, but is not verified by the Public Record Office. It covers the period 1837-1983 but the whole index has not been transcribed yet.
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FreeREG is a companion project to FreeBMD (a database of the GRO birth, marriage and death indexes from 1837) and FreeCEN (a database of census information). It aims to provide free Internet searches of baptism, marriage, and burial records, that have been transcribed from parish and non-conformist registers of the U.K. FreeREG is a work in progress and volunteers are transcribing the registers, so not all counties and places or years are complete.
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The Belfast, Edinburgh and London Gazettes are freely accessible via this website. The Gazettes are the official journal published by the British government, and contain legal and state notices such as notices about military and civil promotions, honours, business announcements (such as partnerships and bankruptcies), land sale announcements, probate notices, reports on military events etc. The Gazette was first published in 1665.
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Search the GRO historical birth and death indexes and order Certificates/PDFs Online. You need to Register and sign in, it is free. The GRO's indexes also contain for births the mother's maiden name and for deaths the age at death which can help you identify which certificate to order. This information is not available on Ancestry or Findmypast or FreeBDM. For information about what is on the certificate and how to set up an account etc see the link on the Right hand side "Most customers want to know."
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This site provides access to a large collection of genealogical information pages for England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man.
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This site is designed to help you conduct heraldry research on the Internet. It includes dictionaries or glossaries to help you identify the various charges and symbols found on coats of arms as well as notes on coats of arms for cities and towns.
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The Highland and Island Emigration Society was set up by private subscription to alleviate destitution in the Highlands by promoting and assisting the emigration of almost 5000 Highlanders to Australia. Their passenger lists for the years 1852-1857 have survived and are organised by ship and by family and record the name, age and residence of each emigrant (HD4/5) as well as occasional notes on their health and situation.
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