Introduction
to the Internet
... for Family Historians
BerksFHS Home Page
by Eddie Spackman
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Introduction
to the Internet
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by Eddie Spackman |
This page gives examples of several types of site.
CAUTION: there
is no guarantee that the links given are correct. If you find a
link or name is wrong PLEASE notify 
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| www.cyndislist.com/ | Cyndi's List is a comprehensive directory of Genealogical Web pages. It has more than 58,500 links(!) of which 45,500 are categorized & cross-referenced, in over 120 categories |
| www.earl.org.uk/familia/ | Public Libraries’ family history resource |
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| www.genuki.org.uk/ | GENUKI (Genealogy UK and Ireland) |
| www.gengateway.com/mainsite.htm | Steve Lacey’s Genealogy Gateway |
| www.ancestry.lycos.com | A site to help Lycos users investigate their Family History |
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| Family Record Centre | www.familyrecords.gov.uk |
| Public Record Office | www.pro.gov.uk |
| UK Government site | www.open.gov.uk |
| UK Archival Repositories | www.archivesinfo.net/uksites.html |
| Essential Addresses | www.sog.org.uk/leaflets/addresses.html |
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| Family History Societies | BFHS Web-site is at www.berksfhs.org.uk |
| Federation of Family History Societies | www.ffhs.org.uk |
| SoG | www.sog.org.uk |
| GOONS | www.one-name.org |
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| Public Record Office This has excellent pamphlets which can be downloaded (their "shop" is good too with a delivery time of just a few days). Very useful. It is surprising how little it gets mentioned in lists. |
www.pro.gov.uk/ |
| Family Records Consortium A relatively new site provided by the familyrecords.gov consortium (made up of The Public Record Office, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, National Archives of Scotland, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru/National Library of Wales, General Register Office, General Register Office for Scotland and British Library India Office.), aims to give easy access to information and links to the main UK family history sites on the web. |
www.familyrecords.gov.uk/ |
| County Record Offices | see below for Berkshire |
| Public Record Office: Scotland - pay to browse BMD registers | www.origins.net |
Berkshire Record Office is at:
www.bracknell-forest.gov.uk/council/departments/leisure/countryside/bro/
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| Commonwealth Wargrave Commission ‘Debt of Honour’ site Easy site to use, so probably a good introductory site and probably be relevant to many of us |
www.cwgc.org/ |
| List of Victorian Cross awardees | Transcriptions: see c) below Victoria Cross Site see b) below |
| Battle of Waterloo | www.pinetreeweb.com/waterloo.htm |
| St Helena Records | see a) below and www.genuki.org.uk/big/HELENA.txt |
| Ship Passenger Lists |
a) www.ndirect.co.uk/~st-helena-org/sthelenarecordslds.htm
b) mapping.usgs.gov/mac/isb/pubs/booklets/genealogy/genealogy.html
c) www.swinhope.demon.co.uk/genuki/Transcriptions/VictoriaCross.html
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| www.wharfegen.org.uk | A wonderful example of a labour of love - if your ancestors came from Wharfedale. Nic Wilson has trawled the parish registers of a group of parishes and done a sort of on-line family reconstitution. |
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There is not much around, yet, but here is an example for Ireland.
| www.leitrim-roscommon.com | includes the ability to search a database containing 1901 Irish Census Records for Leitrim and Roscommon . |
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| LDS Family Search Site - (includes
IGI and Personal Ancestral File). Some suggest this maybe a dangerous site for use by beginners because one has to be aware of the background to the way the data on this site has been collected. |
www.familysearch.org/ |
| The SurnameRegistry | www.surnameweb.org/registry/ |
| Berkshire Surname Page | www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch//5973/berksurname.htm |
| SiteFinder for People Surnames | www.genealogy.com/genealogy/links/ |
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| The extensive material available free on this site may now have been published in booklet form. Well worth downloading by any family historian. | shoppersmart.com/otown/registrations/ |
| Pubs, Inns and Taverns Index | www.pubsindex.freeserve.co.uk |
| Church Photographs | www.debkay.clara.net/chind1.htm
(Essex) www.debkay.clara.net/chind21.htm (Hertsfordshire) |
| BT Telephone directory for UK | www.bt.com/phonenetuk/ |
| Telephone numbers and addresses worldwide | www.teldir.com/eng |
| A "site of sites" created by Marian Press, for her students. | www.oise.utoronto.ca/~mpress/training/general.html |
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| GENfair www.genfair.com |
is an on-line Genealogical Fair which provides purchases by credit-card from over 60 UK Family History Societies. There are nearly 100 stands altogether. (It started in 1998) |
| Amazon www.amazon.com or www.amazon.co.uk |
for credit-card purchases of books |
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www.rootsweb.com provides:
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A ‘friendly’ discussion group for those new to genealogy.
To subscribe send Email to:
GEN-NEWBIE-L-request@RootsWeb.com
(list mode where messages are received individually)
or
GEN-NEWBIE-D-request@RootsWeb.com
(digest mode where several messages are received in one Email)
with ONLY the word "subscribe" in the body of the message. Leave subject blank or insert "subscribe"
NOTE: this is the standard way of subscribing (i.e. joining or being added to the address list - no money involved) to RootsWeb discussion lists.
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Claims to have about 20 messages a day - expect over 100 some days!
Sample topics from weekend of 22/23 Jan 2000:
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| prepared by Eddie Spackman | Wrtten
2nd February 2000 |