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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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 site for researching family of British or Anglo-Indian descent who lived and / or served within the Indian Sub-continent from 1600 to 1947
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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 is indexed for the period 1837-1997 but the whole period has not been transcribed yet.
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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The Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland's website includes information about researching your Huguenot ancestors under Family History and also information about the collections of the Huguenot Library.
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The National Archives of Ireland has microfilm copies of the registers for most Roman Catholic parishes in Ireland and there is a list here. Digital copies of microfilm now available.
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The surviving Church of Ireland parish registers remain with the parishes and at the Representative Church Body Library and a small number have been digitised.
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Ask About Ireland provides free access to the details and original pages from the Griffith's Valuation. The Primary Valuation was the first full-scale valuation of property in Ireland. It was overseen by Richard Griffith and published between 1847 and 1864. It is one of the most important surviving 19th century genealogical sources.
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Search a unique online database of 20 Million Irish family history records including Birth, Death, Marriage and Gravestone records the majority of which are only available on this website and cannot be found online elsewhere. Register to do 100 free searches of the index. To view a record's details you will need to purchase credit vouchers from the website.
