United Kingdom & Ireland - England  > Resources and databases

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