USEFUL RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET

NATIONAL LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES

THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES (U.K.)
Kew, Richmond
Surrey TW9 4DU, England
http://nationalarchives.gov.uk

LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA
395 Wellington Street
Ottawa, ON K1A 0N4, Canada
http://www.collectionscanada.ca

ARCHIVES NEW ZEALAND
10 Mulgrave Street, Thorndon,
Wellington, New Zealand
http://www.archives.govt.nz

THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF IRELAND
Bishop Street
Dublin 8, Ireland
http://www.nationalarchives.ie

THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF AUSTRALIA
Queen Victoria Terrace, Parkes
ACT 2600, Australia
http://www.naa.gov.au

THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF SCOTLAND
2 Princes Street, Edinburgh
EH1 3YY, Scotland
http://www.nas.gov.uk 

THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF WALES
Penglais Hill
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion
Wales SY23 3BU, UK
http://www.llgc.org.uk/

NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS SERVICE (NARS) OF SOUTH AFRICA
The National Archivist
24 Hamilton Street
Arcadia, Pretoria 0001, South Africa
http://www.national.archives.gov.za

THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION (U.S.)
700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW,
Washington, D.C. 20408, USA
http://www.archives.gov

OTHER INTERNET RESOURCES

Cyndi’s List http://www.cyndislist.com
This site provides links to well over 150,000 genealogical web sites around the world. It is particularly strong for the USA and can be a little overwhelming, so handle with care.

Naturalization Records http://naturalizationrecords.com  
This site is devoted to naturalization and immigration records.

Census Records http://allcensusrecords.com
This site describes itself as the One-Stop Site for links to USA Census Records, Canadian Census Records, English Census Records, Census Indexes & Images, Census Transcriptions, Blank Census Forms, City Directories, Tax & Assessment Lists, Voters Registrations, Veterans Census, Questions on Census Records

FamilyRecords.gov.uk http://www.familyrecords.gov.uk
This site is a joint effort by government departments and public sector bodies and provides a treasure-trove of information in one Web location. Together these bodies hold much of the primary source material that can be hard to find if you don’t know which institution holds the records you need.

Convicts to Australia http://www.convictcentral.com  
This Web site is a guide to researching convict ancestors. While the vast majority of the convicts to Australia were English (70%), Irish (24%) or Scottish (5%), the convict population had a multicultural flavour and included convicts from such places as India, Canada, New Zealand and Hong Kong. The sits also included list of slaves from the Caribbean.

findmypast.com http://www.findmypast.com
This site has a massive database of British records that include births, deaths, marriages, divorces, births, deaths, marriages at sea, adoption, military records, census records, passenger lists, passport applications, parish registers, wills and probate, occupations, WW1, WW2 and the Boer War deaths, and even a search for tracing living relatives.

Ancestors on Board (developed by findmypast.com) http://www.ancestorsonboard.com
Here you can search over 30 million records of individuals or groups of people leaving for destinations including Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, South Africa and USA, featuring ports such as Boston, Philadelphia and New York. Images of the passenger lists are available to download, view, save and print. The site now includes Outward Passenger Lists for long-distance voyages leaving the British Isles from 1960 right back to 1890

British 1820 Settlers to South Africa http://www.1820settlers.com
This Web site, with totally free access and use by researchers and contributors alike, is dedicated to the British Settlers who arrived in South Africa in 1820, and to their descendants and researchers. The information has been supplied or posted by the members of this website.

Ancestors at Rest (US, Canada, England) http://ancestorsatrest.com
At this site you can search for your ancestors through death records. It offers free databases such as coffin plates, death cards, funeral cards, wills, church records, family bibles, cenotaphs and tombstone inscriptions.

Ancestry.com http://www.ancestry.com
Becoming a member on Ancestry.com is quite expensive but this site does offer a lot of useful information.

FreeBMD http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl 
FreeBMD is an ongoing project, the aim of which is to transcribe the Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales, and to provide free Internet access to the transcribed records.

FreeCEN http://www.freecen.org.uk/cgi/search.pl
Free-to-view UK Census returns on-line.

GENUKI http://www.genuki.org.uk
This site offers a collection of genealogical information pages for England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel islands and the Isle of Man.