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Tracing London Convicts in Britain & Australia, 1780-1925
This website allows you to search millions of records from around fifty datasets, relating to the lives of 90,000 convicts from the Old Bailey. Use our site to search individual convict life … more
Jersey Heritage - Archive & Collections Online
The archives and collections online offer searches of 300,000+ items. There is a wide range of records available including civil registration, wills and testaments, German occupation registration … more
British Red Cross Volunteers World War 1
Over 90,000 people volunteered for the British Red Cross at home and overseas during the war. The Red Cross did everything from nursing and air raid duty to searching for missing people and … more
From Weaver to Web - Online Visual Archive of Calderdale History
This extensive site has information for the towns of Calderdale, Brighouse, Elland, Halifax, Hebden Bridge, Sowerby Bridge and Todmorden. Information is arranged by themes. Online records include … more
Findmypast - National School Admission Registers & Log-Books - England and Wales 1870-1914
Use these records to discover birth date, admission year and school attended. Other information that may be available is parents’ names, father’s occupation, exam results and any … more
Findmypast - England & Wales, Crime, Prisons & Punishment, 1770-1935
Offers searches of 3 million+ criminal records from The National Archives (UK) collections. There are details of trials, sentences, physical descriptions and photographs if available. Transcripts of … more
The National Archive (UK) - Merchant Navy 1915 crew lists
This National Archives volunteer project, in conjunction with The National Maritime Museum and the Crew List Index Project, has made details of surviving First World War Merchant Navy crew lists from … more
FamilySearch
FamilySearch is the family history site of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It offers free access to the world’s largest family history collection (4+ billion searchable names). … more
England’s Immigrants Database 1330-1550
This fully-searchable database lists 64,000+ names of people known to have migrated to England during the period of the Hundred Years’ War and the Black Death, the Wars of the Roses and the … more
Synagogue Scribes
This site is a one-stop gateway to Anglo-Jewish community records. It offers a unique and fully searchable database of London Ashkenazi Synagogue records, with the emphasis on pre UK civil … more
Cemetery Scribes
This site has a database of headstone inscriptions from Jewish cemeteries throughout the United Kingdom. more
Jewish Communities and Records - United Kingdom
This site aims to record the details of all Jewish communities and congregations that existed in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Gibraltar. Currently the site has 6,000 pages … more
Jewish Genealogy - The Knowles Collection
This collection links together into family groups, over one million individual Jews. The collection includes six searchable databases covering Jews from the British Isles; North America; Europe; … more
Children's Homes
This site by Peter Higginbotham aims to provide information on all the many and varied institutions that became home for thousands of children and young people in Britain. These establishments range … more
British 1820 Settlers to South Africa
This free site, maintained by Paul Tanner-Tremaine, is dedicated to the British Settlers to South Africa in 1820, their descendants and researchers. It contains extensive information including … more