United Kingdom & Ireland - Wales

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

This site commemorates the 1.7 million men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died during the two world wars. These include  Australian, Canadian, Indian, New Zealand, South African and United Kingdom forces. The Find War Dead casualty database lists…

National Library of Australia – eResources

The National Library of Australia eResources offers free home access to 212+ subscription databases to all residents of Australia. You need a National Library card and you can apply online. The card will be mailed to you within 5-10 working…

GENUKI – UK & Ireland Genealogy

This gateway site and virtual reference library offers free access to a vast genealogical collection. This is a great site for research help and detailed information with data arranged geographically. There is regional page links for England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales,…

COPAC

This site offers searches of 70+ UK and Irish academic, national and specialist library catalogues merged online.

British History Online

This Digital library of printed primary and secondary history sources for the history of Britain and Ireland with a primary focus on the period between 1300 and 1800. This site covers England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Most of the content…

FamilySearch Digital Library

FamilySearch Digital Library offers access 550,000+ digitised genealogy and family history books and publications including family histories, county and local histories, genealogy magazines, gazetteers, medieval histories and pedigrees. The digital books are fully text searchable and you can  filter search…

Interment.net – Cemetery Records Online

This website contains 25+ million cemetery records, transcripts, and burial registers, from tens of thousands of cemeteries worldwide, contributed by genealogists, cemeteries, government agencies, and private organizations. A name search of all cemetery records is available or records can be…

BillionGraves

Allows you to collect photos of headstones with the iPhone/Android camera app. The GPS tagged photos are uploaded to this site and you can then transcribe the information from the photos to the database. The search facility offers searching across…