Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
The Federation of Family History Societies (FFHS) is an educational charity with over 180 member societies throughout the world. Most of them focus on a particular geographical area or on a specific surname but there are also a variety of…
This page provides means of finding information about societies whose interests relate to the UK & Ireland as a whole plus links to GENUKI pages listing societies that are devoted to smaller geographical areas, such as individual counties or regional…
This database provides information on the existence and location of the records of UK hospitals. There are currently over 2,800 entries, which have been compiled by the Wellcome Library. These can be found by searching the database. Information includes:• The…
This database currently contains 265,347+ contributed records with 47,162+ distinct surnames for selected counties and parishes.
Findmypast is a commercial family history site offering access to a worldwide collection of records. There are free searches available but a subscription or Pay As You Go is needed to access transcripts and/or copies of the digitised original records.…
The Historical Record Collections for the United Kingdom and Ireland include:• Chelsea Pensioners’ Service Records 1760-1913. This is an index to records with information on men pensioned out of the British Army. (The National Archives – WO 97) • Royal…
Use this site to search for information about 60,000+ war memorials, commemorating all wars, located throughout the United Kingdom, Channel Islands, Isle of Man. There is details of the memorial’s location, design and history. Lists of the names commemorated on…
The Geograph Britain and Ireland project aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of Great Britain and Ireland. Since 2005, 12,759 contributors have submitted 5,507,422 images covering 277,166 grid squares, or 83.5% of the total…
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now. A unique site that uses census and other records to present the history of Britain through places. It includes maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.TIP: Do a search for the place where…
This site provides a street and road map search for Great Britain. You can search by post code, street, place name, telephone, landranger, latitude / longitude, OS grid and London street.