FAVOURITE HISTORY WEBSITES

GENUKI - This site is an absolute must and your first stop to find out which resources are available to family historians in all parts of the UK and Ireland.

ROOTSWEB - to join geographic and topic based mailing lists, and checkout research guides etc.

CYNDI'SLIST - a comprehensive list of websites, for anything to do with family history.

FAMILY SEARCH - The LDS Family History Library catalogue, the I.G.I (International Genealogical Index) on-line, and the 1881 Census.

I.G.I. Batch Numbers - Hugh Wallis' site that enables easy searching of the I.G.I. (International Genealogical Index) by surname within individual Churches.

Cheshire BMD - Transcriptions of local Registrar's Birth, Marriage and Death Indexes. All Tameside birth and marriage indexes to 1974 are now on-line, with deaths up until at least 1900. Approximately 1.4 million Tameside records on-line click here for more details.

Lancashire BMD - Using the programme pioneered by Cheshire BMD. Check here if your ancesters were just over the border in Manchester of Oldham. Oldham marriages are making excellent progress and lots of Manchester marriages up until about 1900. Please check the coverage pages.

UK BMD - Using the prototype developed by Cheshire BMD, other local counties are coming on-board, including Lancashire, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, North Wales and West Midlands. Click on Local BMD. There is now the facility for cross browser searching. Debyshire marriages are available pay per view on the Family History Online website.

Free BMD - Although incomplete, there are nearly140 million records searchable on-line taken from the General Register Office indexes. Check the coverage on their information pages, some periods are now complete. The reference numbers relate to those held at the General Register Office and are not particularly useful when applying to local register offices. I would try to search one of the UK BMD sites first and apply for certificates locally.

Certificates On-line - offers the ability to apply directly on-line for certificates from the General Register Office at Southport. They are currently experiencing a backlog of two to three weeks. Certificates cost 7 pounds and postage is free.

Ancestry - UK And Ireland Subscription website. There are now several payment options to suit light or heavy use of the site. All the Censuses with Original images are complete for 1841 -1901. There are also three BMD index searches available via Ancestry, 1) another version of Free BMD and 2) their own rival to 1837on-line. They are also launching a database of all British Telephone Directories up until 1984. This should help to trace 20th century ancestors. WWI army pension records are now complete on-line.These are the records of soldiers who were refused or denied a pension and includes their attestation papers.

Find my Past.com - new name for 1837 on-line - original BMD indexes held at the Family Records Centre in London are available to search on-line on a pay per view basis. Public pressure has led to this website now offering a more powerful search engine offering full forename and surname searching. They also have the whole of the 1841,1861,1871, 1881 and 1891 Censuses on-line. Also includes registrations notified to the British Consul of Births, Marriages and Deaths which occured abroad, and a newly added database of Soldiers who died in the Great war to make it easier to order their death certificates. Find my Past and the National Archivist websites have now merged and units are transferable from one to the other. They now have a facility for cross browser searching. Have also recently merged with Family History on-line and are migrating their resources over to this webpapge starting with the realease of the National Burial Index.

Family History on-line - National Pay Per View website - The Manchester 1851 unfilmed census returns are on-line plus Oldham and District burials, and North Cheshire National Burial index and Monumental Inscriptions. Strong on information about Burials and Monumental Inscriptions. The Derbyshire Local BMD Project is hosted here and there is very good coverage for the West Riding of Yorkshire. Strong on information about Burials and Monumental Inscriptions. A new deal with Findmypast.com means that these databases will gradually migrate to their website.

Ancestors on Board Part of the Find my Past website and will eventually cover all people departing from British ports 1890-1960. At the moment 1890-1929 details are on-line. This is the first time that records of people leaving England have appeared anywhere on-line.

BMD Index.Co.UK - A rival to 1837 on-line 5 pounds for three month's subscription, 14.95 pounds for 12 months, fully surname searchable. The complete GRO Index is now searchable on-line.

The Genealogist - Now offering all-in subscriptions similar to Ancestry, incorporating BMD Index.co.uk plus the 1841 census for Lancashire, Yorkshire, and adding new census indexes all the time and London.

British Origins - Very useful if any of your ancestors have strayed to London and the South East.

Family Relatives.com Family History Social Networking plus GRO indexes and Parish Register Transcriptions . Overseas BMDS currently FREE. Census info in Beta Testing for release soon - Annual subscriptions 37.50 GB Pounds very cheap - watch this space.

BMD Registers.com The National Archives in conjunction with S & N Genealogy - nonconformist, Jewish and Quaker registers searchable on-line - quite expensive for images.

About.com - Don't know why I haven't found this site before, but seems to be a world wide resource of information about family history and genealogy. Very up-to-date news articles and links to all sorts of topics.

Family Search WIKI - worldwide on-line family history encyclopaedia based on Wikipaedia

The Dukinfield Family History Group - Although based in Dukinfield it covers projects throughout Tameside, check out our programme of events and add your names to our Sunames Directory.

The Family History Society of Cheshire - Includes details from all the seventeen groups that make up the society, Cheshire Wills on-line, Cheshire BMDs and the Cheshire Surname's Directory.

The North Cheshire Family History Society - Have very good information on Burial and Monumental Inscriptions in North East Cheshire.

Manchester and Lancashire Family History Society - Have their own research library in the centre of Manchester, and Oldham, Bolton, Irish, Scottish and Computer Branches.

Lancashire Familiy History and Heraldry Society - Covers Lancashire north of Manchester and Liverpool upto the Cumbrian border.

Derbyshire Family History Society - Offers a reasonably priced postal research facility.

The North West Group of Family History Societies - Keep up with North West Events.

The Federation of Family History Societies - Keep up-to-date with National initiatives.

The Society of Genealogists - search their on-line SOGCAT (library catalogue).

The Lancashire Parish Register Society - Order books, microfiche or CDs of early indexed and transcribed Parish Registers. Find out their latest news and information about the projects they are working on: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/lprs/

Tameside Local Studies - Family and Local History resources and their Image Archive consisting of approximately 12,000 old photogaphs - fully searchable.

Tameside Local History Forum - Brand new with information about the 30 groups actively involved in local history in Tameside.

Tameside Radio real local community radio.

Carl's Cam - Carl Rogerson's website full of photographs of the local area, War Memorial transcriptions and information on Cheshire Boundaries.

Ashton Pals - Linda Corbett's new website, The Ashton Territorials, 9th Battalion, Manchester Regiment during WWI.

Manchester Regiment website - Including a very helpful forum with experts on hand to answer questions.

Castle Hall, Stalybridge "A reeght good bit of nostalgia" - fabulous website, with many many photographs, brass band music and stories and poems about this fond remembered area of Stalybridge.

Gerald England's new Old Hyde Blogspot

YESTERDAYS - Ian Rhodes' archive of extracts from 'The Reporter' 100 years ago.

Albion URC Fellowship - Albion Congregational Church - Then and Now.

Ashton-under-Lyne.com - photos, history and message forum.

Audenshaw Local History Society - Fairly new website for a not so very new, but very active local history society.

Denton Local History Society - A relatively new and growing site all about Denton.

Hollinwood Canal Boat Society - Aiming to restore this picturesque route.

Mossley.net - a History and Photo Guide to Mossley .

The Wooden Canal Boat Society - Based in Ashton.

Cotton in Ashton-under-Lyne -a history of Cotton Mills in Ashton-under-Lyne.

Theatre Royal, Hyde - The history and conservation of the Theatre Royal in Hyde.

Carrbrook Village - All aspects of village life and history.

Mossley On-line - newly revamped webpage with a good photogallery.

Saddleworth Historical Society - This site is crammed with photos, maps and information about all the villages and hamlets that make up Saddleworth.

Ancient Parish of Glossop - Including 19th and 20th century Trade Directory transcriptions.

Derbyshire and North East Cheshire - Early Trade Directory and Census transcriptions.

Glossop Heritage - Information and details of opening times etc.

Stockport Hatworks Museum - Crammed with information about the local hatting industry. Lots of the exhibits originally come from Denton, though they are not labelled as such.

Longsight Memories - comprehensive Longsight archive including Belle Vue.

Our Manchester - A short history of Manchester with pages devoted to Longsight, Belle Vue, Memories and Childhood Games etc.

Manchester 2004 - Website originally created to coincide with the Commonwealth Games in 2002 - has a really good section on the history of the local area.

Manchester Cathedral's Website - incuding quite a good history section.

Manchester Galleries - incuding a costume gallery.

Eyewitness Manchester - Aidan O'Rourke's photograph gallery and personal take on the history and development of Manchester.

Salford Hundred - Information and Maps about the Parishes that made up the old Salford Hundred.

Gorton History - Local and Family History in Gorton and Openshaw.

Burnage Heritage - Local and Family History Resource.

Brookfield Unitarian Memorabilia - Robert Siddall's Church History pages.

Bury Metro - John Higson's Bury History Resource site.

Lancashire Oracle - Peter Cox's Lancashire Genealogy Pages.

Parish the Thought -Lots of transcriptions of early Lancashire Parish Records.

Lancashire On-line Parish Clerks - recently added Oldham St Mary's baptisms.

Cheshire Parish Register Project - stalled for quite a while, but this project seems to be active again with regular up-dates, works quite well after you have learned the system of searching the databases and codes.

Cheshire Antiquities - A scrapbook of Cheshire Antiquities, including photographs and potted histories of Cheshire Towns and Villages.

Ray Hulley's Website - Hulley Family History plus much more particularly old Macclesfield Hundred Records

East Lancashire SMITHS - New website aimed at building up a database of SMITH surname families in East Lancashire

Commonwealth War Graves Commision - On-line searchable database of Commonwealth Forces who died in the two World Wars plus 67,000 civilians who died as a result of enemy action.

Visions of Britain - Crammed with demographic information extracted from various national statistics 1801 - 2001, historical descriptions, maps etc.

Family Search WIKI - worldwide on-line family history encyclopaedia based on Wikipaedia

British Industrial Schools - looking for missing ancestors.

Workhouse Site - Information about Workhouse Unions in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.

Rossbret Institutions - important, workhouse, asylum and prisons website.

Lunatic Asylums and Institutions - a county by county guide - a resource created by Middlesex University.

British Industrial Schools - looking for missing ancestors.

Hidden Lives - The hidden lives of children in care 1881 - 1918.

North West Railway Workers - A Cheshire Record Office searchable database of North West Railway Worker's staff registers.

London & North West Railway Society - Crammed with information for North West Railway enthusiasts.

Railway Archives

Railway Ancestors Family History Society - including a very useful message board to register and exchange information.

Old Liverpool Newspaper Extracts.

London Docklands Transcribed Parish Registers

Travellers Site - Fairground, Travellers, Gypsies and Travelling Showmen.

Gypsy Ancestors - Do you have Gypsy ancestors.

Romany Genes and Surnames.

Canal Junction - boat people and the Canal Heritage Trust.

Fairground Heritage

Welsh Genealogy Links.

Manchester Diocese website

Ellis Island - American Family Immigration Centre - database of passenger arrivals through Ellis Island between 1882 - 1924.

Coal Mining Resource Centre - National database of mining deaths and injuries.

Black Sheep and Police Index - Also includes Victoriana, and much more taken from newspaper reports.

Lancashire Constabulary - records with search facilties.

Lancaster Castle - Dungeons, Witches, Convicts and Transportation.

Capital Punishment in the UK - massive database of information; some of it is pretty gruesome.

Welcome Trust Medical Archives - History of Medicine and location of archives.

Church of England Portal - database of C of E Clergy.

Methodist Ancestors - Rylands Library Database.

The Methodist Historical Roll - searchable database.

Craig Thornber's Website - A history of Medicine and Local History of Cheshire, Staffordshire, Lancashire and West Yorkshire.

Chronology of Epidemics - Comprehensive website about disease and illness through time 1066-1999.

GOONS - The Guild of One Name Studies.

Tameside Surnames Directory- run by the Dukinfield Group Family History.

Cheshire Surnames Directory - run by the Family History Society of Cheshire.

Lancashire Surnames Directory - run by John Burns.

Roots Chat - easy to use Genealogy message board.

Family Tree Forum - similar to Roots Chat, but with some research guidance and a Forum WIKI.

A - Z of Genealogy - Topic based help list.

I.G.I. Batch Numbers - Hugh Wallis' site that enables easy searching of the I.G.I. (International Genealogical Index) by surname within individual Churches.

Hugh Wallis' Middle Name Index - Searchable index of middle name from the IGI.

FamilyBMD.com - Making family history research easier.

GENUKI Church Database - This site identifies which churches fall within a given radius of the places your ancestors lived and access to maps, photos etc.

REGISTRATION DISTRICTS - Civil Registration Districts in England and Wales.

GOOGLE Searching - Hints and Tips to make the most effective use of GOOGLE as a search engine.

Historical Directories - Site ran by Leicester University with searchable trade directories throughout England and Wales.

Acts of Parliament List of various Acts of Parliament affecting Family History

1901 Instututions - Jeff Knaggs personal webpage where he has extracted all known institutions from the 1901 census.

Census Finder - A good start to find out what information is available local to the area you are researching.

The Court Service - Excellent guide explaining the Probate process for Wills.

Cheshire Wills on-line - Fully searchable index of Cheshire Wills

Lancashire Wills on-line - Fully Searchable index of Lancahsire wills from the mid 15th Century to 1858. The site is in beta testing mode and should be complete by the Spring of 2005

Derbyshire Wills - Alphabetical will calendars for Derbyshire.

North Lancs Probate Index - an index of all surviving probate documents for the Western Deaneries of the Archdeaconry of Richmond, 1748-1858 has been prepared. The deaneries included are Amounderness, Copeland, Furness, Kendal and Lonsdale.

Surname Profiler - Graphs of surname distribution for 1881 and 1998

The Etymology of British Place Names - sources of places names in the UK

Gazetteer of British Places Names - exhaustive list of 50,000 place names

Behind the Name - An Etymology of First Names.

Given Names 1450-1650 - Old English and Latin Names.

A Given Names 1450-1650.

Wikipedia - Old English Language.

Old Medical Terms - Ron Hall's collection of websites offering information on old medical terms.

Rudy's Archaic Medical Terms

Symbols on Gravestones and their meanings

Latin Translations - Ron Hall's collection of websites offering Latin translations.

History Timelines - from the BBC website.

Useful Historical Dates - John Owen Smith's list of useful dates for local and family historians.

English Ecclesiastical Calender, Regnal Years, Day of the Week and more.

Date Converter - Calender converter for all dates.

How Much Is That Worth Today - Spending power conversions from 1264-the present time.

Currency converter - Currency Converter from the National Archives website.

English Currency - through the ages.

Weather Timeline - A timeline of notable weather events in England - really interesting.

B4Usearch.com Search for telephone, addresses, post codes, and through electoral rolls for free. Most site have charges for this information, but this site seems to be free, but paid for by heavy advertising on the pages.

Telephone Finder - British Telecom's site offerring free telephone directory look ups.

192.com - Much revamped and improved website - 10 free telephone look ups a day and a paid site with lots more information available..

Post Code Finder - The Royal Mail's website.

Land Registry - Searchable Land Registry database.

BMD Certificate Tutorial - Everything you should need to learn about Birth Marriage and Death Certifixates in England and Wales

Old Handwriting - On-line tutorial offering help in trying to read old documents.

Old Handwriting Tutorial on the National Archives Website - A Guide and On-line tutorial offering help in trying to read old documents.

Palindex - The best paleography tutorial I have found on-line.

Google Books - Old and rare books downloadable in PDF format for free. Go to Advanced Search and then click on full view before you search.

Abebooks - Search out old and rare books for sale.

S & N Genealogy Supplies - Census records, trade directories and old maps available to purchase on CD.

Stepping Stones - Census records, old maps and trade directories available to purchase on CD.

GENFAIR - One-stop shop for Family and Local History.

The Parish Chest - On-line Family History Store - masses of links etc.

Price and Associates - professional genealogists, but this is a superb page of weblinks - nearly does away with this one:)

Spartacus.Schoolnet - All Social and Industrial history in one website, including Child Labour, Slavery, the Textile Trade.

Spinning the Web - The story of the Cotton Industry.

Cotton Times - History's great upheaval.

BBC Cotton History - all about the background to the cotton industry in Britain.

Heritage Gateway

The Hat Site - The History of Hatmaking

The Victorian Web - Website created by the University of Singapore has a really comprehensive overview of Victorian Life.

Roger Vaughan's Victorian Photo Gallery - A huge gallery of Victorian and Edwardian photographs including help with dating techniques.

Dating Old Photographs - wonderful website with very good explanations to help you date your old photographs.

Victorian London - 19th Century London Social History.

Friedrich Engels - A complete on-line translation of his book 'The Conditions of the Working Class in England' published in Liepzig in 1845.

Bastards and Baby Farming in Victorian England - prizewinning essay.

Cotton Town - A very comprehensive history of Cotton in Blackburn, but many of the themes equally apply to any of the North West Cotton Towns

Gazettes On-line - Fully 20th Century coverage especially useful for appointments etc. during both World Wars

Guardian and Observer Newspapers' Digital Archive - Pay site, but with full Guardian Newspaper archive 1821-date, and the Observer 1900-date will release images back to 1785 in the new year sometime. A little difficult to get used to using the search engine and saving articles, but worth it because the Guardian Newspaper started off as the Manchester Guardian, so holds quite a lot of local news in the early years.

Moving Here - 200 years of Migration to England.

Quarrybank Mill and Styal Homes - National Trust website about the community and industry created by Samuel Greg of Styal.

Parliamentary History of the Slave Trade.

Medieval Genealogy - Pages and pages of Medieval sources and information.

Anglo Saxon Language and Culture.

Domesday Book - The Domesday Book on-line - fully seachable. The site has just been revamped and not all pages are working as yet.

The Peerage - Noble and Royal Family Genealogies.

Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire- including Volume Indexes

BBC Local and Family History - Includes lots of research guides and places to post your family photographs etc.

BBC Voices - Regional Accents and Word Maps and Curios

British Library - Collect Britain - On-line collections from the British Library - fascinating range of subjects

Brtitish Pathe - Pathe News Archive

Chartist Ancestors - a well constructed website for anything you need to know about the progress of the Chartist Movement.

British History OnLine - Freely searchable database of main Historical sources, including maps, county histories, ecclesiastical papers and parliamentary archives.

Family History at Manchester Central Library - New Link to - Comprehensive Family History section from the Manchester City Council website.

Greater Manchester County Record Office - Archive and Family History Sources

North West Archive Centres - Complete list of Archive Repositories in Cumbria, Lancashire, Cheshire, Merseyside and Greater Manchester.

The National Archives - Much re-vamped and re-branded website. Searchable database of PCC Wills proved at Canterbury before 1858, Downloadable World War 1 Medal Cards, access to the Library Catalogue with estimates for copying and very good research advice pages.

a2a - Access to Archives, searchable database - lots of Tameside and Manchester Coverage

Familia - Museums and Libraries Archives Council directory of family history resources held in public libraries in the UK and Northern Ireland. The Tameside information is very out of date, but is very strong on the resources held at Stockport which aren't listed anywhere else on-line.

Family Records Centre - Click on the Topics and Partners links.

Borthwick Institute - University of York and Prerogative Court of York Archives.

Old Bailey - Proceedings at the Old Bailey becoming available on-line.

BOPCRIS - British Official and Parliamentary Papers.

British Newspaper Library - Selected years of newspapers to search through on-line including the Manchester Guardian.

Museums and Library Archives Northwest - incuding the seachable NEWSPLAN database.

British Library English Accents and Dialects - Sound archive of regional accents - mostly from people born in the 1890s and recorded in the 1950s. I even have trouble understanding accents from my local region - helps you to understand how census enumerators could get names and places wrong.

Gazetteer - brought to you by GENUKI - enter a place name and be taken to an information page and various on-line maps.

Old Maps - Detailed old Ordinance Survey maps on-line searchable via place name or gazetteer- sadly not as good as previously since maps are no longer free.

Your Maps On-line - Maps and Engravings free to use. Now available an extensive range of data CDs to purchase plust the entire collection of maps on CD.

Ordnance Survey - Free to view modern day Ordnance Survey maps.

Google Maps - Brand new interactive mapping with the GOOGLE difference.

British History OnLine - Freely searchable database of main Historical sources, a much improved maps database of the original first series OS maps, county histories, ecclesiastical papers and parliamentary archives.

Gen Maps - Old maps searchable by county

Lancashire Old Maps - Old Maps available from the Lancashire Council website.

Baedeker Guide Maps - 1910 Map of Manchester.

WebbAviation fantastic modern aerial views of towns and cities of England and Wales.

Essays on the Irish Diaspora

Irish Names Database

Irish Townland Database

Library Ireland Books plus Historical and Topographical Ireland

Irish Family Research - searchable databases of Directories, Griffiths etc. plus Maps

My Irish Ancestry - join Irish Family History Communities

Irish Genealogy Links page.

National Library of Ireland- including Parish Registers and a Genealogy Help Desk

Dublin Heritage - A Dublin Library intiative - transcribed Dublin Parish Registers Searchable on-line.

Irish Gen - a good Irish research starting point.

Emerald Ancestors - an excellent pay per view website specialising in Vital Reocrds and the 1901 Census for Northern Ireland.

Irish Genealogy Projects County by County database of volunteer transcriptions.

Irish Pension Search - A searchable database of the census records which survived the burning of the records in Dublin in 1922.

Ireland Gen Web - County by County pages including information on Griffiths Valuation and Tithe Applotments.

Northern Ireland Gen Web- County adopted pages.

Irish Genealogical Research Society- mostly London based collections of Wills indexes and family deposited records.

Irish Family History Foundation- Virtual Irish Community and Message Boards

Ulster Historical Foundation - 2 million records on-line, some free, some to members only - membership 30 GB Pounds per annum.

Public Records Office Northern Ireland - mostly Government, Legal and Family Deposits.

General Register Office Northern Ireland - now processing certificates on-line.

Irish War Memorials - this site aims to develop a database of Irish War Memorials with photographs and transcriptions.

Church of Ireland Archive - the survival and location of Church of Ireland Parish Registers.

Irish Ancestors- Pay Per View (and seemingly quite expensive) for access to the Irish Times Newspaper Archive.

National Archives of Ireland - Parish Records, Wills, Transportation, Tithe Applotments, and Primary Griffith's Valuations.

General Register Office - Republic of Ireland - copying service for Births before 1900, Marriages before 1950 and Deaths before 1966.

Irish Census Records and Census Substitutes- County links to some transcribed sources.

The Military Heritage of Ireland Trust Ltd - all encompassing guide to researching Irish Military History with guides and on-line sources.

Irish History in Maps and Surname Distribution - interactive website with special emphasis on Ancient and Medieval Counties and Baronies

Irish Famine History in Contemporary Illustrations - Pictorial History of the Famine.

Ireland List Griffith's Valuations

Irish Convicts to NSW plus other Irish Rebels.

Don't forget to check the Irish pages at GENUKI, ROOTSWEB and CYNDI'S LIST.

Scotlands People - BMD information, Census Returns and Wills indexes all searchable on pay-per-view.

National Archives of Scotland - details of search services and collections.

National Library of Scotland - searchable on-line catalogue.

General Register Office for Scotland - In addition to BMD Registration from 1855 there are details of Old Parish Registers, Irregular Border Marriages etc.

The Scottish Association of Family History Societies

The McKirdy Index - Subscription site for Scottish Death Registers - searchable database including all names that appear in the registrations. 1855-1875

Scottish Graveyards.

Happy Haggis - probably the best Scottish Genealogy Page

Registers of the Scotland Executive Agency - National Land and Property Registers.

Scottish Archives Network - one step catologue to sources in Scottish repositories.

Scottish Geneaology Society - library of microfilmed census returns parish registers etc.

Scottish University Archives - a guide to records and deposits in Sotland's Universities

Ashton Pals - Linda Corbett's new website, The Ashton Territorials, 9th Battalion, Manchester Regiment during WWI.

Manchester Regiment website - Including a very helpful forum with experts on hand to answer questions.

Commonwealth War Graves Commision - On-line searchable database of Commonwealth Forces who died in the two World Wars plus 67,000 civilians who died as a result of enemy action.

War Graves Photographic Project - the aim of The War Graves Photographic Project is to photograph every war grave, individual memorial, MoD grave, and family memorial of serving military personnel from WWI to the present day and make these available within a searchable database.This project aims to photograph in excess of 1.75 million graves or memorials from Commonwealth Nations and many from other military forces around the world.

Veterans Agency - Ministry of Defence website with guides and addresses to write to to obtain post 1920 service records.

Military History at the National Archives - research guides and holdings at the National Archives

The Long Long Trail - A History of British Forces in the Great War.

The Few - Battle of Britain.

World War One Battlefields

Regiments.Org - The most comprehensive site you will ever come across, concerning everything to with military regiments, battles, contact addresses, references and so on.

War Brides - Passenger lists of War Brides transported overseas.

Military Hospitals - Military Hospitals and Convalescent Homes.

The Battle of Jutland

Introduction to British War Medals

Bob Saunders Marine Links - All you need to know about researching British Seamen and their Ships.

Port Cities UK - A History of All things Naval from the Port Cities of London, Liverpool, Bristol, Hartlepool and Southampton

Royal Naval Records from the National Archives - Information about more than half a million people who joined th Royal Navy between 1853-1923, now downloadable.

Boer War - Anglo - Boer War Museum.

South African Roll of Honour - A searchable database of South Affrican Casualties.

Database of 146,000 names of people who served in the Boer War including nurses and medical staff.

Asplin Military History Resources - including a searchable database of nearly 40,000 men who enlisted for the Boer War 1899-1902.

Canadian Expeditionary Force - First World War.

Wartime Memories Project - for people to add memories and photographs.

UK National Index of War Memorials - searchable database of National War Memorials.

Channel 4's Not Forgotten Web Page - search for WW1 Soldiers who died.

Gazettes On-line - Fully 20th Century coverage especially useful for appointments etc. during both World Wars

Carl's Cam - Carl Rogerson's website full of photographs of the Cheshire and Lancashire War Memorials and a searchable database of transcriptions.

Tameside Local Authority War Memorials - a searchable database of war memorials in Tameside

Denton Roll of Honour - seachable database of approximately 2,000 men from Denton who served in the first World War.

Family History Using Military Sources - guide produced by Tameside local Studies and Archives Library.

Millbrook Roll of Honour - missing rolls of honour from Millbrook, Carrbrook and Hey Heads.

Missing from Stalybridge War Memorial - Kathryn Booth's Great War Project - names missing from the Stalybridge War Memorial

Slave Trade Abolition Petition - the transcription work of the 1806 petition in support of abolition of the slave trade, undertaken by several members Manchester and Lancs. FHS.The archives are very keen to know of anyone who recognises a possible ancestor amongst the signatories. The website hopes to host transcriptions of other petitions soon.

Ellis Island - American Family Immigration Centre - database of passenger arrivals through Ellis Island between 1882 - 1924.

Castle Garden - American Family Immigration Centre - passengers passed through Castle Garden before Ellis Island became the main route into North America.

Olive Tree - Ships Lists - Very useful information about migration and free to search passenger lists.

The Ships List - Comprehensive passenger lists website.

Australian Family History Compendium - gateway to Australian Archives and Sources.

New South Wales State Archives.

Australia and New Zealand Passenber Lists.

Claim a Convict - a site linking people with a shared convict ancestors and masses of other information.

Convict Links - comprehensive list of sources and links.

Convict Central - great site - including all convict ships details, Western Australian Convicts - Millitary Pensioners sent to Australia to settle - Convict women sent to the female factory - stories about individual convicts.

Convicts Australia - recommended by a friend as the best site she has found for convict ancestors giving varied information about convicts transported to New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania. This is goldmine, not only of tickets of leave and certificates of freedom, but absconders, Government Regulations, Old Bailey indexes, Newgate Prison Records and much more even convict tatoos.

Public Record Office of Victoria - searchable databases of assisted and non assisted arrivals.

Awesome Genealogy - comprehensive passenger lists links.

National Archives of South Africa.

Anne Lehmkuhl's comprehensive South African Research Resource

National Archives - Information about Naturalisation as a British Subject plus searchable catalogue of naturalisation papers.

Moving Here - 200 years of Migration to England.

British History in India -For people searching their British, European and Anglo Indian history in the Indian sub-continent.

The East India Company -For people with ancestors in the East India Company including births, marriages and embarkation lists.

Canadian National Archives Genealogy Centre - including details of immigration, naturalization and British Home Children,

Searchable BMDs for Nova Scotia.

Tweety Bird Genealogy - massive geneaolgy links sites, plus passenger lists and information on British Home Children

Tribal Pages - The easiest on-line tool for creating a family tree website.

Wholly Genes Software - producers of The Master Genealogist.

Brothers Keeper - Oficial site to download software.

Legacy Family Tree - download free version of Legacy Family Tree.

Roots Magic - Cheaper rival to Family Tree Maker - download a free demo.

Personal Ancestral File - Free Family Tree software from the LDS Family Search website - follow the links to download products.

Family Tree Maker - Arguably the most well-known family tree software.

Downloadable family history forms and charts

HTML Goodies - Primers and Tutorials for HTML and other aspects of Web Design.

Lissa Explains - HTML and Web Site Tutorial for chilren, but pretty good at explaining things to this adult.

Bravenet - Help and Resources for all website designers.

Pico Search - Add a free search engine to your website.

Moon and Back Graphics - Beautiful free Website Graphics. I designed my Photogallery using these graphics.

My Imager - Your everything On-line Image Editor .

Photobucket - free on-line photo hosting site.

Dynamic Drive - Lost of free scripts and effects for websites.

Javascript Kit - Lots of free Javascripts and Applets

Family Tree Folk - Reviewd by Family Tree Magazine "Genealogy-themed gifts have been around in the US for some time, but they are only just starting to appear in Britain. Family Tree Folk is a new entry into the field".

Make Poverty History - most important website of 2005.

care2.com - Environmentally friendly website with lots of free animated e-cards to customise and send

Free Rice - Improve your word power and donate rice for free.

Trouble at' Mill - A Gradely Read for Gradely Folk - Lancashire Dialect Recipes.

Friends Reunited - Get in touch with old schoolfriends or just browse the message boards for your old school.

Genes Reunited - Find people researching your family names.

Whirlygig - British TV and Radio nostalgia including sound clips of old theme tunes etc.

TV ARK - on-line TV Archive Museum - old averts, children's programmes, cult programmes etc.

Your Memories.co.uk - Nostalgic memories of 20C British Life.

Martin Newton's site of Brish Top 40 hits of all time Search any year - any hit.

Every Hit plus Chart Trivia Singles, albums, charts, music trivia and awards.

yournotme.com - Find out how many people in the UK have the same name as you and leave them a message.

ONS Surname Statistics - Searchable database of Surnames taken from the 2001 Census.

Nationmaster - nation by nation statistics and maps etc.

The Foody - National, Regional and Historic including Roman and Medieval.

The Food Timeline - Fascinating timeline about food from ancient times to modern, eg who made the first potato salad and the roots of traditional recipes from all over the world

Bordering on the Incredible and Mythical - included just for a laugh.