Note: If you are using older sources, the Public Record Office is now The National Archives [UK] and the British Museum is now the British Library.

Maps & Placenames:
• Ordnance Survey: Get-a-Map. Very neat!
• Personalized maps. Uses Flash -- use Firefox.
• England Jurisdictions 1851.
• Cassini Maps.
• British Counties, Parishes, Etc. for Genealogists. Archived. With non-adminstrative names for regions, e. g. Dales.
• Registration Districts in England and Wales, 1837 to present and Index of Places in England and Wales. Use in conjunction.
• National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland, pub. 1868. 12 vols.
• Topographical Dictionary of England, pub. 1831.
• The Phillimore Atlas and Index of Parish Registers (edition not given - 1984?) available on Ancestry.com as "Great Britain, Atlas and Index of Parish Registers." $ Outlines old parishes prior to 1832 and provides the date of the earliest surviving registers for the parish in England, Wales, and Scotland.

Tools:
• Chapman County Codes for England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland.
• English Handwriting 1500-1700; Old Handwriting at Genealogy Treasure Maps.
• Glossary of terms used in 17th & 18th century wills.
• Marriage Locator. USE GRO data to locate the church where a marriage was performed.
• Public Profiler: GB Names. Find geographical occurence of names in 1881.
• What is the Peerage?.

Resource & Database Sites:
• National Archives. Their YouTube page. Their "Discovery" search page. Their digital microfilm page (see Internet Genealogy Aug/Sep 2013).
• Vital records lists in UK and abroad.
• FreeBMD.
• FreeReg, Free Registers, a companion project.
• FreeCen, UK censuses online.
• Early British Census Project.
• FamilySearch England wiki pages. See also Guide to British batches and Hugh Wallis site.
• Joiner Marriage Index, marriages in England before 1837.
• UK Genealogy Archive, mostly published parish registers.
• DustyDocs, free parish registers online.
• Genuki start page.
• Historical Directories of England and Wales.
• Old Bailey Online, 1674 - 1913. Also Tracing London Convicts in Britain & Australia, 1780-1925.
• General Register Office.
• Find My Past. $
• Genes Reunited. Full use $. Create a family tree and match to records.
• Lost Cousins. Put in family data and find others with same people.
• England and Wales Non-Conformist Record Indexes (RG4-8), 1588-1977, FamilySearch.
• Non-Conformist Registers. $
• Deceased Online. $.
• The Gazette, official government publication and record. Check for military and government news. $
• Complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, pub. 1887-98.
• Hearth Tax Digital, 1660's. Includes Yorkshires. Beta in Jan 2020.
• Gravestone Photographic Resource.
• Online Parish Clerks. About 21 pages.
• Midland History. Journal.
• Grace's Guide to British Industrial History. Searchable.
• Curious Fox, "the village by village contact site for anyone researching family history, genealogy and local history in the UK and Ireland."
• Scotland: Scotland's Places, maps, geography, tax rolls. Scotland's People. National Records of Scotland. National Library of Scotland.
• International Society for British Genealogy and Family History, $, publishes journal, British Connections.

Historical Background:
• A Vision of Britain through Time: maps, stats, contemporary descriptions.
• Local Population Studies full-text articles.
• British History Online, digital collection.
• Connected Histories, search British history resources 1500-1900.
• Online Historical Population Reports.
• British Association for Local History.

Web Directories:
• Medieval Genealogy wih bib of older county histories online.
• UKBMD, a guide to record transcriptions online by county.
• Dusty Docs, links to free parish registers.
• UKGDL, links to general genealogy sites (not vital records).
• UKMFH, links to military family history sites.

Finding Resources:
• Discovering English Ancestors.
• Access to Archives. Find record repositories; "covers about 30% if archival collections in England and Wales." [2010].
• ArchivesHubb.
• The British Library including their Online Gallery.
• Sources for Research in English Genealogy, LoC.
• Federation of Family History Societies, including National Burial Index.
• GENfair, �One-Stop Shop� for Family and Local Historians.
• CultureGrid, museums, galleries, libraries and archives.
• Online Genealogical Index. Must have a town.
• How to Look for Records of Nonconformists, National Archives.

Anglo-India: "(Chiefly historical)of English descent or birth but living or having lived long in India".
• The Gazette, official government publication and record. Check for military and government news. $
• Families in British India Society.
• Rare Book Society of India with digital books.
• Thackers and Other Directories. Long list.
• British Abroad.
• British India Office Collection on Findmypast. $.
• Indian Office Records and Private Papers, British Library collection guide.
• BACSA, British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia, i.e. European cemeteries.

Lincolnshire:
• Genuki: Lincolnshire. Includes Occupations.
• Lincolnshire Genweb including census information and Swarby.
• RootsChat: Lincolnshire.
• FamilySearch: Lincolnshire research.
• Lincolnshire Archives.
• Lincolnshire Family History Society.
• Some Lincolnshire Marriages.
• Lincs to the Past.

Nottinghamshire:
• Genuki: Nottinghamshire.
• Nottinghamshire Genweb.
• FamilySearch: Nottinghamshire research.
• RootsChat: Nottinghamshire.
• NOTTSGEN mailing list. Will be replaced on Mar 2, 2020 by Nottsgen.
• Nottinghamshire Family History Society.
• Nottinghamshire History.
• Nottinghamshire Heritage Gateway.
• Nottinghamshire Archives.
• Manuscripts and Special Collections, University of Nottingham.
• Nottinghamshire Directories from the University of Leicester.
• At the Internet Archive search for "phillimore nottinghamshire" to see the Nottinghamshire Parish Registers series.
• Poorhouse records including Southwell.
• Southwell and Nottingham Church History Project.
• East Trent Genealogy.
• Little Carlton.
• Nottinghamshire 1891 Census Strays.

Yorkshire:
• Genuki: Yorkshire.
• Yorkshire BMD.
• Yorkshire Genweb.
• FamilySearch: Yorkshire research.
• Yorkshire Registers Parish List.
• York's Archbishops Registers.
• Yorkshire Burials.
• Cause Papers Database, a searchable catalogue of more than 14,000 cause papers relating to cases heard between 1300 and 1858 in the Church Courts of the diocese of York.
• Borthwick Institute for Archives, University of York.
• Yorkshire Historical Dictionary, words, place names, sources.
• York Archives & Local History Service. City of York.
• RootsChat: Yorkshire, East Riding.
• ENG-YORKSHIRE mailing list.
• Local history and family history, East Riding Archives. Catalogue.
• East Yorkshire Family History Society.
• Driffield Online, forum on High Wolds area.
• Hull History Centre. Hull and area.
• History and Topography of the City of York...and the East Riding, pub. 1855.
• Genuki Wetwang, Sledmere, Kirby Grindalythe.
• Buckrose Wapentake.
• Yorkshire, history and places to visit.
• History to Herstory, documents about Yorkshire women.
• Genuki: Wetwang.
• Yorkshire Old Maps.
• Map, York and the Wolds.
• Old words, Yorkshire Dialect Society.

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