ACAD - Database of University of Cambridge alumni.
www.venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/Documents/acad/2018/search-2018.html
Find birth & death dates, father's name, birthplace, positions held & where, marriages,
wife's name, college attended, matriculation date, degrees awarded and when.
BILLION GRAVES – https://billiongraves.com
Database of graves with photographs, from all over the world.
BRITISH HISTORY ONLINE - www.british-history.ac.uk
Digital archive that includes the Victoria County Histories plus images and historic maps of the British Isles.
BRITISH NEWSPAPER ARCHIVE - www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
Includes free to view newspaper pages available and you can limit your search to these pages only.
THE CLERGY DATABASE – www.theclergydatabase.org.uk
Records of clerics from over 50 archives in England and Wales from 1540-1835.
THE COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION - www.cwgc.org
Grave photographs, locations and grave registrations.
CREW LIST INDEX PROJECT - www.crewlist.org.uk
Information about the records of British merchant seafarers and British registered ships.
DECEASED ONLINE - www.deceasedonline.com
A central database for UK cremations and burials. The search is free and will give date and place details.
DIGITAL PANOPTICON - www.digitalpanopticon.org
Millions of records from around fifty datasets, relating to the lives of 90,000 convicts in Britain & Australia, 1780-1925 from the Old Bailey.
DNA PAINTER – www.dnapainter.com
Map segments of DNA to ancestors, WATO (What are the odds?) tool to help you work out how you may be related to unknown matches and a calculator giving most likely relationship to a match using cM data.
ENGLAND'S IMMIGRANTS 1330 - 1550 - www.englandsimmigrants.com
Database containing over 64,000 names of people known to have migrated to England.
EXPLORE YOUR GENEALOGY - www.exploreyourgenealogy.co.uk
Website developed by the Family History Federation covering every aspect of tracing your family history.
FACEBOOK - www.facebook.com
Search for memory pages for villages and towns, DNA matches to reveal family connections or find groups offering free help in using software, researching in specific countries or areas, DNA or general family history research.
FAMILYSEARCH - www.familysearch.org/en
Digitised Bishop's Transcripts plus trees and other documents.
FIND A GRAVE - www.findagrave.com
Photos of graves plus biographies and birth and death details.
FIND A WILL – www.probatesearch.service.gov.uk (England & Wales only)
Find probate records to obtain date of death, place of death and name of executor.
FREE UK GENEALOGY - www.freeukgenealogy.org.uk
The home of FREECEN, FREEBMD and FREEREG
FreeCEN Search selected census returns
FreeBMD Search birth marriage and death registrations. Always use FreeBMD in conjunction with the GRO - they both use different transcriptions in their databases.
FreeREG Search selected parish and nonconformist registers.
FT ANALYZER – www.ftanalyzer.com
Analyse a GEDCOM file for errors, list who is missing from census searches and more!
FUNERAL NOTICES - www.funeral-notices.co.uk
UK Newspaper notices of deaths starting from about 2001 plus some WW1 soldiers.
THE GAZETTE - www.thegazette.co.uk
Search for military awards, changes of name, naturalisations or bankruptcies.
GEDMATCH - www.gedmatch.com
Free tools include a chromosome browser, which tests match both or 1 of 2 kits & Are your parents related?
GENEANET – www.en.geneanet.org and www.en.geneanet.org/postcards
Search other researchers family trees and photographic postcards of places.
THE GENERAL REGISTER OFFICE - www.gro.gov.uk
Mother's maiden name from 1837 until 1934 on birth registrations pre-dating FreeBMD (starts 1911).
GENUKI - www.genuki.org.uk
Virtual reference library to find what records are available for parishes and where they are.
GRAVESTONE PHOTOGRAPHIC RESOURCE - www.gravestonephotos.com
Graves worldwide, but most of them are in the UK and you can also volunteer to add to the database.
GOOGLE - www.google.com
Sometimes a simple Google search on a name will yield surprising results. Look for family trees, obituaries, one name studies or photos. It's always worth searching Google!
HISTORIC ENGLAND - ENGLAND'S PLACES -
www.historicengland.org.uk/images-books/photos/englands-places
Enter the name of any place in England into the search box to search for photos.
INTERMENT.NET - www.interment.net
Transcriptions of cemetery records from cemeteries, churches, government agencies and genealogists.
INTERNET ARCHIVE – www.archive.org
Lots of parish register transcriptions are available on the Internet Archive and they are fully searchable. There are also numerous books of genealogical interest that have been scanned, plus, Mike Petty hosts his Cambridgeshire Scrapbook Archive here.
IRISH GENEALOGY - www.irishgenealogy.ie
Pre 20th century church records of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, plus General Register Office (GRO) civil records. Births: 1864 to 1925, Marriages: 1845 to 1950, Deaths: 1871 to 1975, Non-Roman Catholic Marriages from 1845 and Roman Catholic Marriages from 1864.
JEWISHGEN - www.jewishgen.org
Explore millions of records from around the world.
MEDIEVAL SOLDIER - www.medievalsoldier.org
Database of the names of soldiers serving the English crown from the late 1350s – 1453 taken from muster rolls.
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES - www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Official archive and publisher for the UK Government, and for England and Wales. Find which archive documents are held in & download free copies of documents such as WW1 medal cards.
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND – www.maps.nls.uk/os
Maps published by Ordnance Survey and related bodies, including the War Office (ca. 1840s-1960s).
ONLINE PARISH CLERKS - www.ukbmd.org.uk/online_parish_clerk
Transcribed records for various parishes.
OPEN DOMESDAY – www.opendomesday.org
If you've got back to 1066, your ancestor may feature, if not then it's still interesting!
PIONEERING NURSES – www.kingscollections.org/nurses/home
Database of nurses. Entries sometimes have interesting extra personal information such as birthplace, marriage details and addresses.
POLICE MEMORIAL – www.policememorial.org.uk
Search by year, name, force or parent force and the results will tell you name, age, date of death, rank, how the officer died and whether they were on duty at the time.
THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE OLD BAILEY 1674-1913 - www.oldbaileyonline.org
A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,752 trials held at London's central criminal court, and 475 Ordinary Accounts of the lives of executed convicts.
RAILWAYS ARCHIVE - www.railwaysarchive.co.uk
There are some names listed in the accident reports and if your ancestor worked on the railways or met an accident on a railway, you may find further information about them in their archive, it's worth a look!
ROLL OF HONOUR - www.roll-of-honour.com
Soldiers listed on WW1, WW2 & Boer War memorials are named and given a biography too in most cases. There are also some photos of soldiers and pictures of some graves.
ROOTSCHAT - www.rootschat.com
Free family history forum site. Members perform look ups and answer questions. A great way to also find other people with the same genealogical interests.
SCOTLAND'S PEOPLE- www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
Search birth, marriage, death and census records. The free search often provides enough information to piece together a family group.
SEARCH FOR THEATRICAL ANCESTORS – www.ellenterryarchive.essex.ac.uk/star
Database of theatrical records, including amateur theatre.
Search Australian newspapers, magazines, gazettes, directories, books and images.
UK GENEALOGY ARCHIVES – www.ukga.org
Covers the whole of the UK. You will find all sorts of information, from the normal external links, to parish register transcripts, wills, Heralds' Visitations, biographies,census transcripts, etc.
UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER – www.leicester.contentdm.oclc.org
Historical Directories covering the whole country here and many resources for the history of Leicester and Leicestershire. Much of the material comes from the University Library's holdings of rare books, images and archives.
WELLCOME COLLECTION – www.wellcomecollection.org/collections
Particularly good for photographs as they have been digitised, you never know what you might find here!
WILL TRANSCRIPTIONS -
www.web.archive.org/web/20120325142446/http://www.willtranscriptions.co.uk/index.htm
The site is archived and no longer active, but you can still search for a will by surname or county
WORKHOUSES - www.workhouses.org.uk
Pictures of workhouses country wide, information about life in a workhouse, an online museum, maps of where workhouses were or still stand - all things workhouse in fact!
CAMBRIDGESHIRE SPECIFIC
CCAN - Cambridgeshire Community Archive Network - www.ccan.co.uk
30 groups from towns and villages across modern day Cambridgeshire. Here you will find over 50,000 photos, written text, audio and video recordings.
CAPTURING CAMBRIDGE – www.capturingcambridge.org
Explore over 18,000 records detailing the stories of local people, landmarks, and communities, spanning prehistory to the present day.
THE WISBECH INDEX -
www.web.archive.org/web/20170225131551/http://contueor.com/wisbech/indexes/twi/index.htm
An archived index to 17858 parish records that come from various sources.
IN PERSON
LOCAL LIBRARIES - Many offer free access to Ancestry and Find My Past. Take a memory stick with you to download your finds!
THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE & HUNTINGDONSHIRE COLLECTIONS - A huge number of resources can be found here covering all of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire.
MUSEUMS - Many local museums house archives for their local area filled with information of interest to a genealogist.
And ALMOST free!
FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETIES & LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETIES - Many societies charge under £15 per year & hold transcriptions of records you won’t find on the major websites, e.g. marriage licences, non-conformist records, monumental inscriptions & stray indexes.
