©Copyright 2007 by Donald R. Snow

Sections of the Class Notes

• Welcome and What This Class Is All About
• Instructions and Helps
• Collections of Links
• Repositories and Searches
• Databases
• Maps and Gazetteers
• Conclusion
• Assignment

• Instructor is Elder Donald R. Snow of the England London Mission, Hyde Park Family History Centre  (snowd@math.byu.edu)
• These notes with active Internet links are posted on the Utah Valley PAF Users Group website http://uvpafug.org under Class Outlines , Don's Listings , and are linked on the Hyde Park Family History Centre website http://www.hydeparkfhc.org under Events.   Many other class notes and outlines for family history are on both sites also.
• This class will give active links to 25 websites that are very helpful for English family history research.  Clicking on the link will take you to that website.
• This list is in categories with two listed twice, namely  http://www.familysearch.org and http://www.google.com , but many others could be shown in more than one category.
• Narrowing down the list of websites to 30 is like having to live within a budge - there are lots of others that I would like to have included.
• Asterisks ** means the site is commercial, i.e. to use it completely you must subscribe or pay, but frequently you can still use the index for free.

• http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/Education/frameset_education.asp -- FamilySearch's helps, research publications, research guides, and research guidance
• http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson28.htm  -- RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing English Family Trees
• http://www.ancestorsmagazine.co.uk/ -- Ancestors Magazine and search engine, The National Archives (UK)

• http://www.genuki.org.uk -- Genealogy of the UK and I reland websites
• http://www.pricegen.com/resources.htm -- Links to more than 500 UK websites
• http://www.spub.co.uk/tgi2/links.html -- The Genealogist's Internet
• http://cyndislist.com/ -- Collection of 260,000 genealogy links worldwide
• http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/index.html -- Medieval English Genealogy including Heraldic Visitations

• http://www.google.co.uk/ -- Extremely useful for searching for names, locations, maps, databases
• http://www.hydeparkfhc.org -- A very good underused repository and library in London
• http://www.familyrecords.gov.uk/frc/ -- Family Records Centre (Islington, London)
• http://www.a2a.org.uk/ -- Access To Archives - union catalogue of British archives; searchable across all archives  
• ** http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/ -- The National Archives of the UK - DocumentsOnline

• http://www.familysearch.org -- Contains several databases including IGI and the FHLC
• http://www.freebmd.org.uk -- Volunteer effort to index births, marriages, and deaths
• http://ukbmd.org.uk/ -- UK BMD, links to many county databases
• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers.htm -- Hugh Wallis' IGI Batch number website
• http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ -- British History Online - medieval and modern history, many databases, douments, and maps
• http://rootsweb.com/ -- Many databases, family trees, FH lists, websites, message boards
• http://members.aol.com/rprost/passenger.html  -- Online passenger lists to and from the U.K. and elsewhere
• ** http://www.ancestry.co.uk/ -- Censuses, BMD, immigration/emigration, many databases
• ** http://www.findmypast.com/welcome.jsp --
• ** http://www.familyrelatives.com/ -- Censuses, BMD, military records, many other databases
• **http://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/user/subscriptions.php -- The Genealogist - Censuses, BMD, and other items
• ** http://www.originsnetwork.com/ -- Origins Network for British, Irish, and Scotch records; many databases; free index

• http://www.multimap.com/ -- Good UK maps with aerial maps and overlays to see names of towns and streets
• http://maps.google.co.uk -- Good way to find parishes and other locations
• http://leisure.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/  -- Ordnance Survey maps of the U.K.
• http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/index.jsp  -- A Vision of Britain Through Time - information and historical maps
• http://www.gazetteer.co.uk/  -- Gazetteer and maps of the U.K.
• http://www.old-maps.co.uk/ -- Old Maps of the U.K.; can search and see parts of maps from about the 1890's
• http://www.nationaltrustnames.org.uk/ -- National Trust Name Distributions in the U.K.

• There are many more good websites for English family history research and the section of Links above will take you to many.
• Try Google searches for terms you are looking for to find other sites.

1. Click on several of these links that look like they might be helpful to you in your family history research and see what kinds of things are there.
2. Find the distribution of a surname of one of your ancestors in the U.K. from the website shown under Maps and Gazetteers. Which counties is it most common in?  Which ethnicity?
3. Find the England Research Outline on FamilySearch and see which parts have information that you can use in your family searches.