Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
The Waterloo 200 Project and the Online Book Company’s Waterloo 200 Descendants Book. This e-book features the stories of the soldiers who fought at the Battle of Waterloo, 200 years on. Descendants and researchers can record and preserve their ancestors’…
Thirty miles south of London and half way to the South coast of England lies an area of outstanding natural beauty combined with a fascinating history called the Weald or The Weald of Kent, Surrey and Sussex. This site is…
PortCities Southampton – Lloyd’s Register of Ships 1930-1945. Use this site to search by ship name, year of build, weight and any former names of the vessel concerned.
This app provides access to titles from the British Library’s 19th century book collection (60,000+ books). It includes classic novels, works of philosophy, history and science. Browse, search and read these historical books on a platform that enhances the reading…
This military records site is a one stop shop for locating military genealogy records from WW2, WW1, Boer War, Crimean War and beyond. There are records for 4+ million British Armed Forces personnel cross matched with 4000+ regiments, bases and…
This free online magazine has issues, from January 2012, that can be downloaded as a PDF files. The term Celtic is used loosely to include a melting pot of races, including the Viking race, which played such a significant role…
The Mercantile Navy List, compiled by the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen, was published from 1849 until 1976 (with a gap 1941 to 1946, during World War II). This list is the official, comprehensive listing of all merchant vessels…
This site has a table with links to volumes of Lloyd’s Register of Ships which have been scanned by Google Books and The Internet Archive. These fully searchable volumes date from 1764-1899 (with gaps). The Registers can be searched by…
This site is a free and fully searchable online repository of photographs, films, sound recordings, and books about the history of Leicester and Leicestershire. The extensive online collections include:• BBC Radio Leicester – The BBC Radio Leicester Sound Archive comprises…
This site brings together 25 major digital resources for Britain. It offers sophisticated searches by names, places and dates. There is a short video guide to introduce you to the key features. Many of the sites are free sites. Those…