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AUSTRALIAN WEBSITES

Australian Genealogy Data – directories, census, convicts, letters
Port Phillip District Info databases – ships lists, electoral rolls, directories etc
Australian Newspapers – Trove
Sands & McDougall’s Melb Directories – State Library of Vic
National Archives of Australia – Record Search
Convicts – scroll down for separate section…

GENERAL – MAINLY BRITISH

British weather through the ages – by year
Online Genealogical Index – BDM parish registers online
Periodical Source Index – Name search
National Archives UK – TNA Discovery Catalogue
Ships Log of Logs online – diaries, journals, letters – Log of Logs Vol 1, 2 and 3
Free parish registers – FreeReg
Clergy Database – Church of England
Catholic Record Society – diaries, letters
Baptist Historical Society – English churches
Dissenting academies online – expelled ministers and academies
Methodist Archives and Research centre – University of Manchester
Crockfords Clerical Directory – English ministers from 1858
Congregational ministers – The Surman Index
Coats of Arms – Noble and Gentleman of England and Heraldry of the West Country
The Peerage – genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain
Stirnet – British and Irish families – pedigrees of families
Landed Families of Britain and Ireland – blogspot.com
Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain – google books
PCC wills 1384-1858 – Ancestry
Oxford College Archives – Oxford University
Bodlein Library Catalogue – Oxford University
School Registers 1870-1914- Find My Past
Online Historical Population reports 1801-1946 – Histpop
Ordnance Survey Maps 1837-1850 – Tithe Records at The Genealogist
Gazetteer of British Place names
Genealogical Word Lists for different countries- familysearch
Perpetual calendar – InfoPlease
The National Archives UK – Currency Converter
Illness encountered in genealogy – Hall Genealogy
GRO registration districts marriage locator
Victorian and Edwardian Population – Populations Past
Vision of Britain – maps, census, etc
Google News Archive – newspapers
New Zealand Newspapers – Papers Past
The Gazette – English military awards, bankrupts, etc
TNA currency converter – in todays money
Illnesses encountered in genealogy – historical medical terms
Historical Directories of England and Wales – British Isles
Victorian County Histories – county and parishes
Books and records digitized on the net – Familysearch digital library
Royal descent – gateway ancestors from William the Conquerer
Our Royal Titled Noble and Commoner Ancestors – database
Names – Names of England
Names – Guild of One Name Studies
Names – British Surnames
Names – World Names

TECH TOOLS
FTAnalyzer – analyze your FH database, etc
Genscriber – transcription editing program
GRO Marriage locator – registration codes for England and Wales
Puzzilla Descendant Viewer – Family Search research visuals
Palaeography – National Archives UK
Scottish handwriting – tutorials and examples

ENGLISH RESEARCH

15-18th CENTURY ANCESTORS
The National Archives catalogue
Individual County Archives catalogues
Militia Ballots and Defence lists from 1757 – google the county lists or try TNA
Electoral Registers and Poll Books – Electoral Registers website
UK poll books and electoral registers 1538-1893
Probate records
Apprenticeship records – Ancestry UK Reg of Duties Paid for Apprentices 1710-1811
Freedom of the City Admission Papers London 1681-1930
Ancestry’s Britain Country Apprenticeships 1710-1808
FMP London’s Apprenticeship Abstracts 1442-1850
London Livery Companies
London Lives 1690-1800
Proceedings of the Old Bailey
London Gazette
Oxford Alumni – Ancestry
Cambridge Alumni – Ancestry
Manorial Records British History Online
Manorial Records – Manor Search TNA
Medieval calendars and research
Protestation Returns 1641-1642 – Find My Past
Visitations & medieval docs for all counties – medieval genealogy

BERKSHIRE
Bexley Archives – Local History Catalogue
Berkshire Enclosure Records – Berkshire Record Office
Berkshire Historical Directories 1833-1915:
Index to wills in the archdeacon of Berks 1508-1652
1796: The Copy of the Poll for Knights of the Shire for the County of Berk

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
Bledlow parish register indexes online – Lanchbury Genealogy
Buckinghamshire Sessions Records 1694-1705 – Bucks Record Society
1798 survey of men aged 15-60 – Buckinghamshire’s Posse Comitatus
Quarter sessions, records, etc – Buckinghamshire Record Society
Buckinghamshire Will index 1483-1858 – Buckinghamshire Archives
Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies – Catalogue
Castlethorpe Wills (Parrott) – Milton Keynes Heritage
Castlethorpe BDMs, records (Parrott) – Milton Keynes Heritage Site Index
British History Online – various village information
Buckingham Marriage Licenses – Buckinghamshire council
Subsidy Roll – 1524 residents paid tax to Henry VIII to fund wars

CORNWALL
Online Parish Clerk
FreeReg
Historical Survey of the County of Cornwall – google books
National Archives UK – catalogue search includes Cornwall Record Office
Cornwall Record Office – Kresen Kernow digital images

DORSET
Online Parish Clerk

DEVON
Exeter Memories – lists of Exeter people
Exeter City Oath Rolls – Friends of Devon Archives
Devon Heritage Centre – Devon Archive Catalogue
Exeter Cathedral Library and Archives
Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
University of Exeter Special Collections
Devon Genuki – Victuallers, Bank Returns, Asylum, Hospital, etc
Devon Family History Society – Monumental Inscription Search
Devon Genuki – Consolidated Index to Devon Wills
Devon Heraldry – Wikipedia
Memorial Inscriptions – Devon FHS
Devon Parish Registers – Familysearch
Devon Wills – Devon FHS

DURHAM
Durham Records Online – baptisms, marriages and burials for Durham
Lamesley, Durham baptisms and burials – Genuki Durham
Durham County Record Office – catalogue
Durham Cemetery Index – Sunderland ward
Durham Diocese Bishops Transcripts – Familysearch
North East Inheritance Database – Durham Probate Records
Durham University – BTs, Probate, Marr Licenses, Clergy, Land Tax
British History Online – various village information
Bishops Transcripts – Family Search
Probate Records – Durham Uni
Parish Registers – FreeReg
Trade Directories – Leicester Uni

GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Marriage Allegations – Gloucestershire Archaelogical Society
Wills of Gloucestershire – Probate records
Marriages 1754-1837 – St Andrews, Awre
Freemen of the city of Gloucester – Calendar of Registers 1641-1838
Visitation of Gloucester – Dated 1623
Gloucester Wills 1541-1650 – British Record Society
Forest of Dean database – Family History Trust
Men & Armour for Gloucestershire in 1608 – Coaley.net
Gloucestershire Archives – Genealogical Search of wills, inventories and more

HERTFORDSHIRE
Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies – catalogue & names

KENT
Mid-Kent Marriages Index pre 1911
Medway – Kent Parish registers
Kent Genealogy – Quarter Sessions index, newspaper, land tax, directories, etc
Kent – Rootschat
Kent Marriage Witness Index,
Kent Message Board on Ancestry
Index of Wills in West Kent pre 1650
Indexes of East Kent Wills
Kent Wills – Canterbury court probate will index
Lambeth Palace Library Wills – Calm view catalogue Search
Kent Memorial Inscriptions
London Marriage Licences – persons from Kent
Visitation of Kent 1619
Kent Pubs index
Gravesend Apprentice Records – Familysearch
History of the town of Gravesend – Googlebooks
Kent Hearth Tax 1664

LANCASHIRE
Lancashire Online Parish Clerk – baptisms, marriages, burials
Lancashire Will Search
Quarter sessions and petitions – Ancestry 1648-1908

LONDON / MIDDLESEX
London Lives
London Metropolitan Archive – catalogue
National Archives UK – catalogue
Charles Booth Online Maps
Society of Genealogists

LINCOLNSHIRE
Lincolnshire Archives – parish registers

NORTHUMBERLAND
Northumberland Archives – catalogue
Bishops Transcripts – Family Search
Probate Records – Durham Uni
Parish Registers – FreeReg
Trade Directories – Leicester Uni
A History of Northumberland – Parish of Bywell and Slaley

NORFOLK
Norwich Record Office – online catalogue
FreeReg – Norwich parish registers
Photographs of Norwich – George Plunkett
Dutch Church Registers – Archive.org
Records of the City of Norwich – Archive.org
History of French, Walloon, Dutch… Foreign Protestants in Norwich
Norwich Wills – Familysearch
Norwich Census of the Poor 1570 – Internet Archive
Norfolk Online Record Search – Norfolk FHS
Norfolk Family Pedigrees – Norfolk FHS
Norfolk Sources

OXFORDSHIRE
Transcribed Wills – Oxfordshire Family History Society
Oxfordshire Will index 1516-1857 – Find My Past UK
Oxfordshire Marriage Bonds 1634-1849 – Find My Past UK
Oxfordshire History Centre – catalogue search
Oxfordshire Burials 1813-1965 – Ancestry
Oxfordshire BDMs 1538-1812 – Ancestry
Oxfordshire Marriages and Banns 1754-1930 – Ancestry
Oxfordshire Births & Baptisms 1813-1915 – Ancestry
Oxfordshire Visitations 1566, 1574, 1634 – Ancestry
British History Online – various village information
Oxford University and City Herald – Find My Past UK or British Newspaper Online
Oxford Journal
1826 Election Poll for Knights of Oxfordshire – Google Books
Manor documents e.g. Land Tax Assessments, mintuse, court rolls – TNA Kew, London
Midsomer Murders locations – Index of place names appearing in the TV shows

SHROPSHIRE
Parish Registers – FamilySearch – Shropshire 1538-1918
Northern Shropshire wills – Diocese of Lichfield & Coventry 1570-1790
Shropshire FHS – Memorial Inscriptions
Staffordshire Name indexes – apprentices, prisoners, quarter sessions, etc
Shropshire Archives – catalogue
Shropshire Fire Insurance Policies – Shropshire Archives
Ancestry – Shropshire records
Find My Past – Shropshire records

SUFFOLK
Suffolk Record Office – catalogue

SURREY
Surrey Land Tax Records – Ancestry
Jury-Qualified Free and Copyholders 1696-1824 – Ancestry
1798 Land Tax Redemption – Ancestry
Sun Fire Insurance Office policies – LMA
Surrey Archives – online records

SUSSEX
Online Parish Clerk
Sussex Burials – Sussex Record Society
West Sussex Will Inventories – Sussex OPC
Parish Registers – FreeReg
West Sussex Probate Inventories Index – Sussex Family History Group
Sussex Wills Depository – Sussex Family History Group
Ardingly Parish registers – Sussex Record Society
The Weald – archives and pedigrees
1634 Visitation of Sussex – Archive.org

WILTSHIRE
Online Parish Clerk

YORKSHIRE

North Yorkshire Record Office catalogue
West Yorkshire Archives catalogue

Wills in the York Registry 1514-1553 – archive.org
Wills in the York Registry 1554-1568 – archive.org
Wills in the York Registry 1612-1619 – archive.org
Early Halifax Wills – archive.org
Halifax – Vicar Favour and His Times – Chapters on the Early Halifax registers
The Parish Registers of Halifax – early printed registers
Stirnet – British and Irish families – pedigrees of families
Dugdales Visitation of Yorkshire 1665 – charts- Google Books
Dugdales Visitation of Yorkshire – printed text – archive.org
Book – pedigrees – Familiae Minorum Gentium – families of Yorkshire – archive.org
Wakefield Borough (West Yorkshire) Court Rolls – 1500s – archive.org

CONVICTS
Convicts Records of Australia – British Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1867
First Fleet Convicts Database – University of Wollongong, NSW
Ancestry Convict Records – Tickets of Leave, Musters, etc
Libraries Tasmania – Tasmanian Convict records
Libraries Tasmania – Hobart Gazette (not indexed)
Tasmania, Australia, Hobart Town Gazettes, 1844-1906 – Indexed on Ancestry
Trove – Australian Newspapers
Claim a Convict – Hawkesbury on the Net
Australian Royalty – convict website
Old Bailey London – trial registers
Tracing London Convicts in Britain & Australia – Digital Panopticon
Fellowship of First Fleeters
Home Office UK – Criminal Petitions
Registers of Criminal Petitions are on Find My Past
Female Convicts Research Centre Inc – VDL Database
Tasmanian Convicts – Libraries Tasmania
National Records of Scotland
General Return of Convicts NSW 1837 Not digitised – book only – State Lib of Vic
Irish Convicts National Archives Ireland – Ireland to Australia Transportation Database
AJCP on Trove – guides to convicts, ship voyages and diaries
Log of Logs Vol 1,2,3 – Zonodo
Government Gazettes on Trove – Conditional Pardons, Tickets of Leave, etc
Coraweb – lists of new websites – convicts
Digital Panopticon – VDL Founders and Survivors – online convict registers for everything
Friends of the Orphan Schools, Tasmania
Cascades Female Factory – Hobart, Tasmania
Cascades Female Factory in Hobart, A Bleak Life – ABC News article
Convicts Records of Australia – British Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1867
Convict Maids : The Forced Migration of Women to Australia by Deborah Oxley – online on Google Books
Tasmania’s Convicts How Felons Built a Free Society by Alison Alexander
Abandoned women by Lucy Frost
The Convict Settlers of Australia, Melbourne University Press 1994
Defiant Voices, NLA Publishing, Canberra 2021
A Cargo of Women, Susannah Watson and the Convicts of the Princess Royal, Allen & Unwin, Sydney 2008
Conduct Registers of Female Convicts Arriving in the Assignment System CON40
Conduct Register of Male Convicts Arriving in the the Assignment System CON31

TASMANIAN CONVICTS

1787-1859 New South Wales and Tasmania: Settlers and Convicts 1787-1859 at Findmypast, Index ($)
1800-1893 Tasmania Convict Records 1800-1893 at Findmypast, Index ($)
1800-1899 Tasmania, Australia, Convict Court and Selected Records, 1800-1899 at Ancestry, Index ($)
1803-1893 Records of the Tasmanian Convict Department 1803-1893 e-book
1803-1893 Convicts (1803-1893) at Libraries Tasmania. Convicts transported to Tasmania and those convicted locally through the convict system.
1806-1849 New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters, 1806-1849 at Ancestry, Index ($)
1833-1854 Tasmania, Australia, Baptisms of Children of Convicted Women, 1833-1854 at Ancestry, Index ($)
1834-1859 New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia, Convict Pardons and Tickets of Leave, 1834-1859 at Ancestry, Index ($)

NSW CONVICTS INC TAS PRIOR TO 1825

1787-1834 New South Wales, Australia, Settler and Convict Lists at Ancestry
1787-1859 New South Wales and Tasmania: Settlers and Convicts at Findmypast
1787-1976 New South Wales, Australia, Miscellaneous Records at Ancestry
1788-1842 New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents at Ancestry
1788-1849 Irish Convicts to NSW 1788 – 1849, index
1788-1856 New South Wales, Australia, Colonial Secretary’s Papers at Ancestry
1788-1870 New South Wales, Australia, Convict Registers of Conditional and Absolute Pardons at Ancestry – index & images ($)
1788-1867 Convict records for New South Wales and Tasmania, 1788-1867
1791-1873 Australia, New South Wales Convicts Index, 1791-1873 at MyHeritage
1806-1849 New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters at Ancestry
1806 Muster of all females in the colony, August 1806, at FamilySearch, images.
1810-1867 New South Wales, Australia, Certificates of Freedom at Ancestry
1810-1869 New South Wales, Australia, Tickets of Leave at Ancestry
1810-1891 New South Wales, Australia, Convict Records at Ancestry
1811-1813 Convict records of Australia, 1811-1813 at FamilySearch, images.
1821-1825 Convict Assignments 1821 to 1825, NSW Archives, index
1822-1825 Certificates of application for tickets of leave, 1822-1825 – at FamilySearch
1823-1830 Convict records, 1823-1830 – at FamilySearch, images.
1824-1886 New South Wales, Australia, Convict Savings Bank Books at Ancestry

AUSTRALIAN CONVICT RECORDS

1786-1849 Australia Convict Ships 1786-1849 at Findmypast – index & images ($)
1787-1867 Web: Australia, Convict Records Index, 1787-1867 at Ancestry – index ($)
1787-1788 Australian Convict Transportation Registers – First Fleet, 1787-1788
1788-1842 Australia List of Convicts with Particulars, 1788-1842 at Ancestry
1788-1868 Australia, Convict Index, 1788-1868 at Ancestry, Index ($)
1789-1790 Australian Convict Transportation Registers – Second Fleet, 1789-1790
1791-1868 Australian Convict Transportation Registers – Other Fleets & Ships, 1791-1868
1791-1867 Australia Convict Conditional and Absolute Pardons 1791-1867
1791 Australian Convict Transportation Registers – Third Fleet, 1791 at Ancestry
1791-1867 Australia Convict Conditional and Absolute Pardons 1791-1867
1791-1868 Australian Convict Transportation Registers – Other Fleets & Ships, 1791-1868
1824-1874 Australia Convict Tickets Of Leave 1824-1874(*) at FamilySearch
1829-1879 New South Wales, Australia, Sheriff’s Papers, 1829-1879 at Ancestry
1838-1912 Australia, South Australia, Prison Records, 1838-1912 at FamilySearch
Australia’s First Fleet
First Fleet Online
Australia’s Second Fleet
Australia’s Third Fleet
Ireland-Australia transportation database, National Archives of Ireland
Convict Records of Australia
Library of Wales, Crime and Punishment database
Proceedings of the Old Bailey 1674-1834

IRELAND
Ireland Atlas and Townland Database – IreAtlas Townlands
Landed Estate Court Rentals 1850-1885 – Find My Past
Tithe Applotment Records – National Archives of Ireland
Irish Church and Civil Records – Irishgenealogy.ie
Irish Wills – National Archives of Ireland Will Index 1858-1922
Irish Deeds Index
Ireland Diocesan and Prerogative Wills – Find My Past 1595-1858
Catholic Parish Registers – National Archives of Ireland parish register index
Clare Library – census, tithe, Griffith Valuations, Freeholders, Surveys, school registers, directories, graveyard inscriptions, wills, shipping, prisoners, townlands, tips for visitors.
Ireland Dog Licence Registers- Find My Past UK Dog registers
Petty Sessions Court Registers – Find My Past, Courts and Legal
Poverty Relief Loans – Find My Past, Loans 1821-1874
Prison Registers – Find My Past, Registers 1790-1924
Migration, naturalisations, draft registrations etc – Find My Past Migration Collection
Irish Famine Immigrants 1846-1851 – Find My Past Great Irish Famine imm to USA
Dublin Gazette – Find My Past newspapers 1750-1800
Royal Irish Constabulary Service Records – Find My Past 1816-1922
Irish Census – proof of age from 1841 1851 extracts
National Archives – Genealogy Records Search
National Library of Ireland
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
askaboutireland – Griffith’s Valuation
Registry of Deeds Index Project Ireland
Dublin Parish Records
Ulster Historical Foundation
Belfast Newsletter search
Irish Genealogical Research Society
Creggan History Society
Ros Davies’ Family History Research Site – Co Down peoples names in records
A History of Irish Presbyterians
History of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland
Genuki – County Clare and County Down and County Armagh
Familysearch – Wiki
Irish Newspaper Archive – online
Ireland directories – amalgamated database
John Grenhams Irish Research guides
National Archives Ireland – Genealogy
1830 Dublin Street Valuation – surname index
Wilsons 1804 Directory of Dublin – surname index

IRISH LAND RECORDS
Landed Estates database
Estate papers – National Archives of Ireland
National Library of Ireland – maps
PRONI – Landed Estate records
PRONI Freeholders records
Landed Court Estate Rentals – FMP
NAI database Valuation Office books 1824-1856

NORTHERN IRELAND
Emerald Ancestors
National Library of Ireland NLI
RootsIreland
Ulster Historical Foundation
Belfast Newsletter Index – database search
Irish Newspaper Archive – online
Belfast Gazette from 1922 – online
Valuation Revision Books – PRONI
Registry of Deeds – NID
Memorials – FamilySearch Records from 1708-1929
Registry of Deeds Index Project Ireland

SCOTLAND
Historic records inc. wills – Scotlands People and Ancestry
Church records, census, newspapers, memorials, electoral rolls – Find My Past
Scottish Indexes – non OPR, other records
Ulster Covenant signatures 1912 – PRONI
Newspapers – British Newspaper Archive
National Library of Scotland – catalogue search
Scotland Births and Baptisms 1565-1950 – Familysearch
Scotland Marriages 1561-1910 – Familysearch
Scottish Archive Network – SCAN
Scottish Archives – naming patterns, research tips, records
Scottish Association of Family History Societies – Pre 1841 population lists
Scottish Association of Family History Societies – 3500 Burial grounds database
Digital National Library of Scotland – Scottish Post Office Directories
Lanarkshire, Glasgow, Jones Directory 1787 – NLS
National Records of Scotland NRS – catalogue
Scotland Rolls of Male Heads of Families – Ancestry
Glasgow Library – Family History online
Scottish Newspapers online – Google Newspapers
Scotland Burgess and Guild Brethren Index (trade) FMP
Scottish Business Index – University of Glasgow archives
Old Scottish – Sheriff Court Decrees
Scotlands People – Highland and Emigration Society’s passenger lists to Aus 1852-1857
Scots Abroad (in Australasia)- National Library of Scotland
Statistical Accounts of Scotland 1791-1845 – each parish described by a local resident
Genuki – Scotland
Aberdeen – Aberdeen and NE Scotland FHS
University of Edinburgh – Archives Catalogue
University of Abderdeen – Archives Catalogue
Find a Grave – Scotland
Billion Graves – Scotland
Statistical Accounts of Scotland – by parish
Directories – Post Office
Hospital and Asylum records – 1858-1921

USA
Genealogy Trails – free online USA records by State
USA free newspapers – US Library of Congress

WALES
Newspapers
Wills – pre-1858
Marriage Bonds
Tithe Maps

NONCONFORMISTS
Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial BMDs Service – https://www.bmdregisters.co.uk/
Durham and Northumberland registers www.durhamrecordsonline.com
Dictionary of Methodism in Britain and Ireland http://dmbi.online
1851 Durham Religious census www.google.com.au/books
Durham University Methodist Society website – http://durhammethsoc.webs.com
Wesleyan Methodists www.mywesleyanmethodists.org.uk
Primitive Methodists www.myprimitivemethodists.org.uk
The Genealogist www.thegenealogist.com/non-conformist-records
Fleet Clandestine registers 1667-1754 www.familysearch.org/en
London Nonconf Regs 1694-1931 https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/1906/
England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1970 http://search.ancestry.com.au/search/db.aspx?dbid=2972
Quaker BDM Registers, 1578+ http://search.ancestry.com.au/search/db.aspx?dbid=7097
England and Wales Non-Conformist Record Indexes (RG4-8), 1588-1977 https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1666142
1851 religious census – https://archive.org/details/censusgreatbrit00manngoog

The National Archives UK – records from Dr Williams Library 1742-1865, GRO 1836-1970, Presbyterian, Independent and Baptist Registry 1742-1837, Wesleyan Methodist Metropolitan Registry 1818-1838 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/details/redirect/?CATLN=3&CATID=12174&CATREF=rg+5
A Dictionary of Methodism – preachers, places, schools
Quakers in Britain – Library of the Religious Society of Friends
Baptist History – Baptist Historical Society
Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History – building pics, circuit plans

DUTCH Genealogy
Singapore Colonial Records – FamilySearch

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