Arthur Kennedy's Family History
On this page: General Family History Sites Forums & Lists Societies People and Places
GENUKI - a mine of useful information on all aspects of family history relating to the UK and Ireland
www.genuki.org.uk
Cyndi's List - a directory of thousands of family history sites from all over the world
http://www.cyndislist.com
National Archives Discovery Catalogue - an online catalogue of the holdings of the UK National Archives and other record offices around the country
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Genealogy Specialists - affectionately known as Top Dog (Tracing Our Past, Discovering Our Genes) - a lively and friendly forum with members from all over the world
https://genealogy-specialists.com
RootsChat - the UK's largest free family history forum
https://www.rootschat.com
Yorkshire Indexers - a site specialising in Yorkshire research, which as well as a forum hosts thousands of transcripts and images
http://www.yorkshireindexers.info/forum/forum.php
Talking Scot - a forum for Scottish research; part of a site with lots of background information and advice
http://www.talkingscot.com/forum/index.php
RootsWeb - formerly hosted many thousands of mailing lists and message boards for those researching particular names, places, occupations etc; these are no longer active, but their archives are still available
http://home.rootsweb.com
Groups.io - a general mailing list host, where many genealogy groups can be found
https://groups.io
There are other similar sites to the above, but these are among the ones I've found most helpful.
This isn't a complete list of societies covering my areas of interest. Details of other societies can be found at the Family History Federation, at GENUKI, or for those concentrating on a single surname, at the
Guild of One-Name Studies (GOONS).
Society of Genealogists
Bradford FHS
Calderdale FHS
Cleveland, North Yorkshire & South Durham FHS
Huddersfield & District FHS
Airedale & Wharfedale FHS
Yorkshire Archaeological Society (FH Section)
North of Ireland FHS
Tay Valley FHS
Metcalfe Society
BARTLE - Richard Bartle's site, with information on a number of Bartle families
http://www.youhaventlived.com/bartle/index.html
EMMOTT - Barry Emmott's site, with information on Emmott families in the area around Colne, Lancashire
http://www.bazzasoft.net/
HARCOURT - a One Name Study by Rebekah Coombs and Jenny Buckingham of Western Australia
http://www.iinet.net.au/~jabuck/Harcourt/Harcourt.htm
HEBDEN - One Name Study (my line can be found on Tree Chart 21)
http://www.hebdens.com
KENNEDY - Iain Kennedy's One Name Study, including Kennedy DNA Project
http://www.kennedydna.com
MEABURN - Ian Macdonald's research into the MEWBURN surname and its variants (including MEABURN)
http://one-name.org/name_profile/mewburn
His online tree, which includes my line, is at
http://mewburn.one-name.net/index.php
PALLISER - Renia Simmonds' One Name Study
http://www.palliser.co.uk
Renia has identified many Palliser families which may or may not be connected. My line is in her Group 10, which can be reached directly via this link:
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=palliser-ons-010
STOW and EMMOTT of Kildwick - Denise Stow-Williamson's Blog
http://stowandemmottofkildwick.blogspot.com
WHARFEGEN - Nic Wilson's Wharfedale and Craven Genealogical Study, aiming to create a comprehensive
database of all individuals and families who lived in these areas of Yorkshire between about 1650 and 1800
http://www.wharfegen.org.uk
and finally... my wife Pauline's Genealogy Website
We don't know of any links between our ancestral lines, but you might like to take a look anyway
https://www.pauline.akpak.uk