This is designed to be a ready source of reference for our Family history members

 

Some Common Family History Research Websites

 

Free Websites

Family Search                                            www.familysearch.org/

FreeBMD                                                    www.freebmd.org.uk/

FreeCEN                                                    www.freecen.org.uk/

FreeREG                                                    www.freereg.org.uk/

General Records Office (GRO) for searching Births/Deaths & ordering certificates

                                                                   www.gro.gov.uk/

 

National Archives                                       www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

GENUKI                                                     www.genuki.org.uk/

Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC)

                                                                  www.cwgc.org/

Find a Grave                                             www.findagrave.com/

Billion Graves                                            www.billiongraves.com/

Rootschat                                                  www.rootschat.com/

Lost Cousins                                             www.lostcousins.com

Online Parish Clerks enter County of interest

Trade Directories are usually free

Local Records

Records by local transcribers                 www.cornwall-opc-database.org/

Cornwall History Society                        www.cornwallfhs.com/

Cornwall County Council.                      (link through to Kresen Kernow website)

www.cornwall.gov.uk/community-and-living/records-archives-and-cornish-studies/

 

 

 

Subscribed Sites

Ancestry                                                     www.ancestry.co.uk/

Find My Past                                              www.findmypast.co.uk/

British Newspaper Archives                       www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/

My Heritage                                               www.myheritage.com/

Forces War Records                                 www.forces-war-records.co.uk/                                               

 

Other Sites of Interest

Society of Genealogists                             www.sog.org.uk/

Cyndi's List (full list of FH websites).         www.cyndislist.com/

Suppliers

www.my-history.co.uk/

S & N Genealogy.                                     wwwgenealogysupplies.com/

 

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