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AUSTRALIAN WEBSITES<\/strong><\/p>\n

Australian Genealogy Data – directories, census, convicts, letters<\/a>
\nPort Phillip District Info databases – ships lists, electoral rolls, directories etc<\/a>
\nAustralian Newspapers – Trove<\/a>
\nSands & McDougall’s Melb Directories – State Library of Vic<\/a>
\nNational Archives of Australia – Record Search<\/a>
\nConvicts – scroll down for separate section…<\/p>\n

GENERAL – MAINLY BRITISH<\/strong><\/p>\n

1861 London Map – Map of London 1861, by Joseph Cross.<\/a>
\nTranscribing old documents, wills etc using AI- Transkribus<\/a>
\nHathiTrust – Amazing digital collection of books searchable by keywords – HathiTrust<\/a>
\nBritish weather through the ages – by year<\/a>
\nOnline Genealogical Index – BDM parish registers online<\/a>
\nPeriodical Source Index – Name search<\/a>
\nNational Archives UK – TNA Discovery Catalogue<\/a>
\nShips Log of Logs online – diaries, journals, letters – Log of Logs Vol 1, 2 and 3<\/a>
\nFree parish registers – FreeReg\u00a0<\/a>
\nClergy Database – Church of England<\/a>
\nCatholic Record Society – diaries, letters<\/a>
\nBaptist Historical Society – English churches<\/a>
\nDissenting academies online – expelled ministers and academies<\/a>
\nMethodist Archives and Research centre – University of Manchester<\/a>
\nCrockfords Clerical Directory – English ministers from 1858<\/a>
\nCongregational ministers – The Surman Index<\/a>
\nCoats of Arms – Noble and Gentleman of England\u00a0<\/a> and Heraldry of the West Country<\/a>
\nThe Peerage – genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain<\/a>
\nStirnet – British and Irish families – pedigrees of families<\/a>
\nLanded Families of Britain and Ireland – blogspot.com<\/a>
\nGenealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain – google books<\/a>
\nPCC wills 1384-1858\u00a0 – Ancestry<\/a>
\nOxford College Archives\u00a0 – Oxford University<\/a>
\nBodlein Library Catalogue – Oxford University\u00a0<\/a>
\nSchool Registers 1870-1914- Find My Past<\/a>
\nOnline Historical Population reports 1801-1946 – Histpop<\/a>
\nOrdnance Survey Maps 1837-1850 – Tithe Records at The Genealogist<\/a>
\nGazetteer of British Place names<\/a>
\nGenealogical Word Lists for different countries- familysearch<\/a>
\nPerpetual calendar – InfoPlease<\/a>
\nThe National Archives UK – Currency Converter<\/a>
\nIllness encountered in genealogy – Hall Genealogy<\/a>
\nGRO registration districts marriage locator<\/a>
\nVictorian and Edwardian Population – Populations Past<\/a>
\nVision of Britain – maps, census, etc<\/a>
\nGoogle News Archive – newspapers<\/a>
\nNew Zealand Newspapers – Papers Past<\/a>
\nThe Gazette – English military awards, bankrupts, etc<\/a>
\nTNA currency converter – in todays money<\/a>
\nIllnesses encountered in genealogy – historical medical terms<\/a>
\nHistorical Directories of England and Wales – British Isles<\/a>
\nVictorian County Histories – county and parishes<\/a>
\nBooks and records digitized on the net – Familysearch digital library\u00a0<\/a>
\nRoyal descent – gateway ancestors from William the Conquerer<\/a>
\nOur Royal Titled Noble and Commoner Ancestors – database<\/a>
\nNames – Names of England<\/a>
\nNames – Guild of One Name Studies<\/a>
\nNames – British Surnames<\/a>
\nNames – World Names<\/a><\/p>\n

TECH TOOLS
\n<\/strong>FTAnalyzer – analyze your FH database, etc<\/a>
\nGenscriber – transcription editing program<\/a>
\nGRO Marriage locator – registration codes for England and Wales<\/a>
\nPuzzilla Descendant Viewer – Family Search research visuals<\/a>
\nPalaeography – National Archives UK<\/a>
\nScottish handwriting – tutorials and examples<\/a><\/p>\n

ENGLISH RESEARCH<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

MEDIEVAL ANCESTORS 1066-1485
\n<\/strong>Stirnet.com – https:\/\/www.stirnet.com\/<\/a>
\nSign of the Times – https:\/\/thesignsofthetimes.com.au\/surnames.htm<\/a>
\nAll About History – https:\/\/www.allabouthistory.co.uk<\/a>
\nTudor Place – http:\/\/www.tudorplace.com.ar<\/a>
\nWikitree – https:\/\/www.wikitree.com<\/a>
\nThe Peerage – https:\/\/www.thepeerage.com\/<\/a>
\nOur Royal Titled Noble and Commoner Ancestors \u2013https:\/\/our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com<\/a>
\nFamilySearch – Some early English pedigrees<\/a>
\nFoundation for Medieval Genealogy<\/a> – look at the index
\nInquisitions Post Mortem – Mapping the Medieval Countryside<\/a>
\nHathi Trust – https:\/\/www.hathitrust.org<\/a>
\nFeet of Fines – Some Notes on Medieval Ancestors<\/a><\/p>\n

15-18th CENTURY ANCESTORS
\n<\/strong>The National Archives catalogue<\/a>
\nIndividual County Archives catalogues
\nMilitia Ballots and Defence lists from 1757 – google the county lists or try TNA<\/a>
\nElectoral Registers and Poll Books – Electoral Registers website<\/a>
\nUK poll books and electoral registers 1538-1893<\/a>
\nProbate records
\nApprenticeship records – Ancestry UK Reg of Duties Paid for Apprentices 1710-1811<\/a>
\nFreedom of the City Admission Papers London 1681-1930<\/a>
\nAncestry’s Britain Country Apprenticeships 1710-1808<\/a>
\nFMP London’s Apprenticeship Abstracts 1442-1850<\/a>
\nLondon Livery Companies<\/a>
\nLondon Lives 1690-1800<\/a>
\nProceedings of the Old Bailey<\/a>
\nLondon Gazette\u00a0<\/a>
\nOxford Alumni – Ancestry<\/a>
\nCambridge Alumni – Ancestry<\/a>
\nManorial Records British History Online<\/a>
\nManorial Records – Manor Search TNA<\/a>
\nMedieval calendars and research<\/a>
\nProtestation Returns 1641-1642 – Find My Past<\/a>
\nVisitations & medieval docs for all counties – medieval genealogy<\/a>
\nInquisitions Post Mortem – Mapping the Medieval Countryside<\/a><\/p>\n

BERKSHIRE<\/strong>
\nBexley Archives – Local History Catalogue<\/a>
\nBerkshire Enclosure Records – Berkshire Record Office<\/a>
\nBerkshire Historical Directories<\/a> 1833-1915:
\nIndex to wills in the archdeacon of Berks<\/a> 1508-1652
\n1796:\u00a0The Copy of the Poll for Knights of the Shire for the County of Berk<\/a><\/p>\n

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE<\/strong>
\nBledlow parish register indexes online – Lanchbury Genealogy<\/a>
\nBuckinghamshire Sessions Records 1694-1705 – Bucks Record Society<\/a>
\n1798 survey of men aged 15-60 – \u00a0Buckinghamshire’s Posse Comitatus<\/a>
\nQuarter sessions, records, etc – Buckinghamshire Record Society<\/a>
\nBuckinghamshire Will index 1483-1858 – Buckinghamshire Archives<\/a>
\nCentre for Buckinghamshire Studies – Catalogue<\/a>
\nCastlethorpe Wills (Parrott) – Milton Keynes Heritage<\/a>
\nCastlethorpe BDMs, records (Parrott) – Milton Keynes Heritage Site Index<\/a>
\nBritish History Online – various village information<\/a>
\nBuckingham Marriage Licenses – Buckinghamshire council<\/a>
\nSubsidy Roll – 1524 residents paid tax to Henry VIII to fund wars<\/a><\/p>\n

CORNWALL<\/strong>
\nOnline Parish Clerk<\/a>
\nFreeReg
\nHistorical Survey of the County of Cornwall – google books<\/a>
\nNational Archives UK – catalogue search includes Cornwall Record Office<\/a>
\nCornwall Record Office – Kresen Kernow digital images<\/a><\/p>\n

DORSET<\/strong>
\nOnline Parish Clerk<\/a><\/p>\n

DEVON
\n<\/strong>Exeter Memories – lists of Exeter people<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Exeter City Oath Rolls – Friends of Devon Archives<\/a>
\nDevon Heritage Centre – Devon Archive Catalogue<\/a>
\nExeter Cathedral Library and Archives<\/a>
\nPlymouth and West Devon Record Office<\/a>
\nUniversity of Exeter Special Collections<\/a>
\nDevon Genuki – Victuallers, Bank Returns, Asylum, Hospital, etc<\/a>
\nDevon Family History Society – Monumental Inscription Search<\/a>
\nDevon Genuki – Consolidated Index to Devon Wills\u00a0<\/a>
\nDevon Heraldry – Wikipedia<\/a>
\nMemorial Inscriptions – Devon FHS<\/a>
\nDevon Parish Registers – Familysearch<\/a>
\nDevon Wills – Devon FHS<\/a><\/p>\n

DURHAM<\/strong>
\nDurham Records Online – baptisms, marriages and burials for Durham<\/a>
\nLamesley, Durham baptisms and burials – Genuki Durham<\/a>
\nDurham County Record Office – catalogue<\/a>
\nDurham Cemetery Index – Sunderland ward<\/a>
\nDurham Diocese Bishops Transcripts – Familysearch<\/a>
\nNorth East Inheritance Database – Durham Probate Records<\/a>
\nDurham University – BTs, Probate, Marr Licenses, Clergy, Land Tax<\/a>
\nBritish History Online – various village information<\/a>
\nBishops Transcripts – Family Search<\/a>
\nProbate Records – Durham Uni<\/a>
\nParish Registers – FreeReg<\/a>
\nTrade Directories – Leicester Uni<\/a>
\nDurham Record Office – Hidden Depths database<\/a><\/p>\n

GLOUCESTERSHIRE
\n<\/strong>Marriage Allegations – Gloucestershire Archaelogical Society<\/a>
\nWills of Gloucestershire – Probate records<\/a>
\nMarriages 1754-1837 – St Andrews, Awre<\/a>
\nFreemen of the city of Gloucester – Calendar of Registers 1641-1838<\/a>
\nVisitation of Gloucester book form – Dated 1623\u00a0<\/a>
\nVisitation of Gloucestershire searchable – archive.org\u00a0<\/a>
\nGloucester Wills 1541-1650 – British Record Society<\/a>
\nForest of Dean database – Family History Trust<\/a>
\nMen & Armour for Gloucestershire in 1608 – Coaley.net<\/a>
\nGloucestershire Archives – Genealogical Search of wills, inventories and more<\/a>
\nGloucestershire Military Survey of 1522 including Awre, Bledisloe – Glouc Record Society<\/a>
\nWikidata.org – several families – type in a surname
\nCollectanea topographica et genealogica – archive.org\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

HEREFORDSHIRE<\/strong>
\nHerefordshire Archives – Wills Index<\/a>
\nHerefordshire Wills Index – Abstracts of Herefordshire Probate records<\/a>
\nHerefordshire Archives – Archive Service Catalogue<\/a>
\nForest of Dean database – Family History Trust<\/a>
\nHerefordshire Musters of 1539 and 1542 – Bosbury History Resources<\/a>
\nHerefordshire Chantry Valuations 1547 – Googlebooks<\/a>
\nHerefordshire Taxes in the Reign of Henry VIII – 1543 – Bosbury History Resources<\/a><\/p>\n

HERTFORDSHIRE
\n<\/strong>Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies – catalogue & names<\/a><\/p>\n

KENT<\/strong>
\nMid-Kent Marriages Index pre 1911<\/a>
\nMedway –\u00a0 Kent Parish registers<\/a>
\nKent Genealogy – Quarter Sessions index, newspaper, land tax, directories, etc\u00a0<\/a>
\nKent – Rootschat<\/a>
\nKent Marriage Witness Index<\/a>,
\nKent Message Board on Ancestry<\/a>
\nIndex of Wills in West Kent pre 1650<\/a>
\nIndexes of East Kent Wills<\/a>
\nKent Wills – Canterbury court probate will index<\/a>
\nLambeth Palace Library Wills<\/a> – Calm view catalogue Search
\nKent Memorial Inscriptions<\/a>
\nLondon Marriage Licences<\/a>\u00a0– persons from Kent
\nVisitation of Kent 1619<\/a>
\nKent Pubs index<\/a>
\nGravesend Apprentice Records – Familysearch<\/a>
\nHistory of the town of Gravesend – Googlebooks<\/a>
\nKent Hearth Tax 1664<\/a><\/p>\n

LANCASHIRE<\/strong>
\nLancashire Online Parish Clerk – baptisms, marriages, burials<\/a>
\nLancashire Will Search<\/a>
\nQuarter sessions and petitions – Ancestry 1648-1908<\/a><\/p>\n

LONDON \/ MIDDLESEX<\/strong>
\nLondon Lives\u00a0<\/a>
\nLondon Metropolitan Archive – catalogue<\/a>
\nNational Archives UK – catalogue<\/a>
\nCharles Booth Online Maps\u00a0<\/a>
\nSociety of Genealogists<\/a><\/p>\n

LINCOLNSHIRE<\/strong>
\nLincolnshire Archives – parish registers<\/a><\/p>\n

NORTHUMBERLAND<\/strong>
\nNorthumberland Archives – catalogue<\/a>
\nBishops Transcripts – Family Search<\/a>
\nProbate Records – Durham Uni<\/a>
\nParish Registers – FreeReg<\/a>
\nTrade Directories – Leicester Uni<\/a>
\nA History of Northumberland – Parish of Bywell and Slaley<\/a>
\nNonconformist records – FamilySearch<\/a>
\nParish registers – FreeReg<\/a>
\nDurham Records Online – Northumberland records too<\/a>
\nDurham Record Office – Hidden Depths database<\/a> includes Northumberland
\nTyne and Wear Archives – Catalogue<\/a>
\nNorth East Inheritance database – index<\/a><\/p>\n

NORFOLK<\/strong>
\nNorwich Record Office – online catalogue<\/a>
\nFreeReg – Norwich parish registers<\/a>
\nPhotographs of Norwich – George Plunkett<\/a>
\nDutch Church Registers – Archive.org\u00a0<\/a>
\nRecords of the City of Norwich – Archive.org<\/a>
\nHistory of French, Walloon, Dutch… Foreign Protestants in Norwich<\/a>
\nNorwich Wills – Familysearch<\/a>
\nNorwich Census of the Poor 1570 – Internet Archive<\/a>
\nNorfolk Online Record Search – Norfolk FHS<\/a>
\nNorfolk Family Pedigrees – Norfolk FHS<\/a>
\nNorfolk Sources\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

OXFORDSHIRE<\/strong>
\nTranscribed Wills – Oxfordshire Family History Society<\/a>
\nOxfordshire Will index 1516-1857 – Find My Past UK<\/a>
\nOxfordshire Marriage Bonds 1634-1849 – Find My Past UK<\/a>
\nOxfordshire History Centre – catalogue search<\/a>
\nOxfordshire Burials 1813-1965 – Ancestry<\/a>
\nOxfordshire BDMs 1538-1812 – Ancestry<\/a>
\nOxfordshire Marriages and Banns 1754-1930 – Ancestry<\/a>
\nOxfordshire Births & Baptisms 1813-1915 – Ancestry<\/a>
\nOxfordshire Visitations 1566, 1574, 1634 – Ancestry<\/a>
\nBritish History Online – various village information<\/a>
\nOxford University and City Herald – Find My Past UK or British Newspaper Online
\nOxford Journal
\n1826 Election Poll for Knights of Oxfordshire – Google Books
\nManor documents e.g. Land Tax Assessments, mintuse, court rolls – TNA Kew, London<\/a>
\nMidsomer Murders locations – Index of place names appearing in the TV shows<\/a><\/p>\n

SHROPSHIRE<\/strong>
\nParish Registers – FamilySearch – Shropshire 1538-1918<\/a>
\nNorthern Shropshire wills – Diocese of Lichfield & Coventry 1570-1790<\/a>
\nShropshire FHS – Memorial Inscriptions<\/a>
\nStaffordshire Name indexes – apprentices, prisoners, quarter sessions, etc<\/a>
\nShropshire Archives – catalogue<\/a>
\nShropshire Fire Insurance Policies – Shropshire Archives<\/a>
\nAncestry – Shropshire records<\/a>
\nFind My Past – Shropshire records<\/a><\/p>\n

SUFFOLK<\/strong>
\nSuffolk Record Office – catalogue\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

SURREY<\/strong>
\nSurrey Land Tax Records – Ancestry<\/a>
\nJury-Qualified Free and Copyholders 1696-1824 – Ancestry<\/a>
\n1798 Land Tax Redemption – Ancestry<\/a>
\nSun Fire Insurance Office policies – LMA<\/a>
\nSurrey Archives – online records<\/a><\/p>\n

SUSSEX<\/strong>
\nOnline Parish Clerk<\/a>
\nSussex Burials – Sussex Record Society<\/a>
\nWest Sussex Will Inventories<\/a> – Sussex OPC
\nParish Registers – FreeReg\u00a0<\/a>
\nWest Sussex Probate Inventories Index – Sussex Family History Group<\/a>
\nSussex Wills Depository<\/a> – Sussex Family History Group
\nArdingly Parish registers – Sussex Record Society<\/a>
\nThe Weald – archives and pedigrees<\/a>
\n1634 Visitation of Sussex – Archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n

WILTSHIRE<\/strong>
\nOnline Parish Clerk<\/a><\/p>\n

YORKSHIRE<\/strong><\/p>\n

North Yorkshire Record Office catalogue<\/a>
\nWest Yorkshire Archives catalogue<\/a><\/p>\n

Wills in the York Registry 1514-1553 – archive.org<\/a>
\nWills in the York Registry 1554-1568 – archive.org<\/a>
\nWills in the York Registry 1612-1619 – archive.org<\/a>
\nEarly Halifax Wills – archive.org<\/a>
\nHalifax – Vicar Favour and His Times – Chapters on the Early Halifax registers<\/a>
\nThe Parish Registers of Halifax – early printed registers<\/a>
\nStirnet – British and Irish families – pedigrees of families<\/a>
\nDugdales Visitation of Yorkshire 1665 – charts- Google Books<\/a>
\nDugdales Visitation of Yorkshire – printed text – archive.org<\/a>
\nBook – pedigrees – Familiae Minorum Gentium – families of Yorkshire – archive.org<\/a>
\nWakefield Borough (West Yorkshire) Court Rolls – 1500s – archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Yorkshire Cause Papers<\/a>
\nWest Yorkshire, Non-Conformist Records, 1646-1985<\/a>
\nYorkshire Parish Registers and Bishop’s Transcripts Browse<\/a>
\nYorkshire Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1613-1887<\/a>
\nYorkshire Marriages<\/a>
\nYorkshire parish registers at Internet Archive<\/a>
\nWest Yorkshire, England, Estate Rentals, 1380-1932<\/a>
\nWest Yorkshire, England, Select Land Tax Records, 1704-1932<\/a>
\nWest Yorkshire, England, Select Apprenticeship Records, 1627-1894<\/a>
\nWest Yorkshire, England, Occupation Records, 1793-1930<\/a>
\nWest Yorkshire, England, Select Removal and Settlement Records, 1689-1866<\/a>
\nWest Yorkshire, England, Bastardy Records, 1690-1914<\/a>
\nWest Yorkshire, England, Select Poor Law and Township Records, 1663-1914<\/a>
\nWest Yorkshire, England, Select Rate Books, Accounts and Censuses, 1705\u20131893<\/a>
\nWest Yorkshire, England, Select Land Tax Records, 1704-1932<\/a>
\nWest Yorkshire, England, Select Rate Books, Accounts and Censuses, 1705\u20131893<\/a>
\nYorkshire, England, Probate Records, 1521-1858<\/a>
\nAbtsracts of Yorkshire wills Visitation of Yorkshire in 1665-6<\/a>
\nYorkshire Directories, Historical Directories Uni Leicestershire Project:<\/a> 1787-1913<\/p>\n

CONVICTS
\n<\/strong>Convicts Records of Australia –\u00a0British Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1867<\/a>
\n<\/strong>First Fleet Convicts Database – University of Wollongong, NSW<\/a>
\nAncestry Convict Records – Tickets of Leave, Musters, etc<\/a>
\nLibraries Tasmania – Tasmanian Convict records<\/a>
\nLibraries Tasmania – Hobart Gazette (not indexed)<\/a>
\nTasmania, Australia, Hobart Town Gazettes, 1844-1906 – Indexed on Ancestry<\/a>
\nTrove – Australian Newspapers<\/a>
\nClaim a Convict – Hawkesbury on the Net<\/a>
\nAustralian Royalty – convict website<\/a>
\nOld Bailey London – trial registers<\/a>
\nTracing London Convicts in Britain & Australia – Digital Panopticon<\/a>
\nFellowship of First Fleeters<\/a>
\nHome Office UK – Criminal Petitions<\/a>
\nRegisters of Criminal Petitions are on Find My Past
\nFemale Convicts Research Centre Inc<\/a> – VDL Database
\nTasmanian Convicts – Libraries Tasmania<\/a>
\nNational Records of Scotland<\/a>
\nJournals on Convict Ships – Ancestry<\/a>
\nGeneral Return of Convicts NSW 1837\u00a0 Not digitised – book only – State Lib of Vic
\nIrish Convicts National Archives Ireland –\u00a0 Ireland to Australia Transportation Database<\/a>
\nAJCP on Trove – guides to convicts, ship voyages and diaries<\/a>
\nLog of Logs Vol 1,2,3 – Zonodo<\/a>
\nGovernment Gazettes on Trove – Conditional Pardons, Tickets of Leave, etc<\/a>
\nCoraweb – lists of new websites – convicts<\/a>
\nDigital Panopticon – VDL Founders and Survivors – online convict registers for everything<\/a>
\nFriends of the Orphan Schools, Tasmania<\/a>
\nCascades Female Factory \u2013 Hobart, Tasmania<\/a>
\nCascades Female Factory in Hobart, A Bleak Life \u2013\u00a0ABC News article<\/a>
\nConvicts Records of Australia \u2013 British Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1867<\/a>
\nConvict Maids : The Forced Migration of Women to Australia by Deborah Oxley\u00a0 \u2013 online on Google Books<\/a>
\nTasmania\u2019s Convicts How Felons Built a Free Society by Alison Alexander
\nAbandoned women by Lucy Frost
\nThe Convict Settlers of Australia, Melbourne University Press 1994
\nDefiant Voices, NLA Publishing, Canberra 2021
\nA Cargo of Women, Susannah Watson and the Convicts of the Princess Royal, Allen & Unwin, Sydney 2008
\nConduct Registers of Female Convicts Arriving in the Assignment System CON40
\nConduct Register of Male Convicts Arriving in the the Assignment System CON31<\/p>\n

TASMANIAN CONVICTS<\/strong><\/p>\n