Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
Layers of London is a map-based history website developed by the Institute of Historical Research that brings together a collection of digitised historic maps, photos and crowd-sourced histories provided by the public and key partners across London. You can interact…
This project by the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (CAMPOP) is developing the online Atlas of Victorian and Edwardian Population based on censuses for England and Wales from 1841 to 1911. Detailed information is accessed…
This project is mapping the London WW2 bomb census between 7 October 1940 and 06 June 1941. The original 1940s bomb census maps have been scanned and geo-referenced with the result that the geographical locations of all the falling bombs…
This new tool has replaced the Place Standard Finder and performs the same functionality and more. It provides access to standardized information about locations and can assist researchers in searching for exact spellings, checking whether locations exist, as well as…
The TGN includes names and associated information about places. Places in TGN include administrative political entities (e.g., cities, nations) and physical features (e.g., mountains, rivers). Current and historical places are included. Other information related to history, population, culture, art and…
The OldMapsOnline Portal is a gateway to historical maps in libraries around the world. It allows the user to search for online digital historical maps across numerous different collections via a geographical search. Search by typing a place-name or by…
Launched to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War this new interactive online map will map the global reach of the conflict using the official records of the First World War from The National Archives (UK) collection. The…
The British Library has uploaded a million+ vintage photographs and scanned images to Flickr. These are now in the public domain and can be reused. It is a great place to get images for family history projects and presentations. The…
The following records are held: • Parish records from the 16th century onwards • Wills and probate records. Details of Cheshire wills for the period 1492-1940 are on the wills database and copies copies can be ordered online • Poor…
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…