English Research

English Research on the Internet
Updated June 24, 2017

This page is used by the host, Barbara Lewis , for her class on English Research on the Internet
that is held periodically at the Ogden Family Search Library in Ogden, Utah. Links that are numbered are the ones usually discussed when presentation time is restricted.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gillon/englishclass2.html

LDS RESOURCES

1--Familysearch -Family Tree ....lots of changes, takes practice to get around, but remember to "search" here!

2--Library Catalog on Familysearch click on SEARCH at the top, then CATALOG

Always check the FamilySearch Library Catalog to see what holdings the LDS Family History Library has for your parish. In the library catalog, church records that are followed by indexes show that LDS has extracted those records and are now found on FamilySearch.

3--English Research Classes Online by LDS: Any English researcher would benefit from these classes... click on "anyplace" at the left to change countries

4--England on Wiki...a good place to start...a GREAT MAP...BEGINNER'S CORNER .and topics of Interest at the left. Find your county...then find your parish link, and it will bring up a chart that has an up-to-date showing of the online vital resources for your parish. This is one of the MOST IMPORTANT resources you can use!

OR .....Go to familysearch.org....up to the SEARCH Tab, down to WIKI, and to the search engine entitled SEARCH FOR PLACE OR TOPIC. Enter a place in England, parish or county, and you will get a new page that includes great online information for that place. If you're looking on a Parish page, look for a special CHART that is shown under CHURCH RECORDS.

5--GENUKI: http://www.genuki.org.uk/

Census Records

6--British Census Records on Familysearch.org Go to SEARCH >RECORDS...then scroll down to the bottom and click on the map of England....then choose England at the left and click on the link "Start researching in England"....scroll down and note all 63Collections (or more)

7--The 1841- 1911 British Censuses at Ancestry.com...."search" tab at top...then down to "Census and voter lists" and then "UK Census Collection" at the right

8--UK Free Census Online ....look for "Search the Database" half way down on the left; in progress by volunteers....another free census search. If you get 0 results, it probably means the volunteers have not transcribed your area yet.

Census Information and Dates: http://home.san.rr.com/asibley/census.htm' Also: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/Census.html

9--GOOGLE.....Your best friend for searching for anything on the Internet!

Vital Records

10--(recently deleted)

11--FREE BMD PROJECT Births, marriages, and death post 1837 (Civil Registration)

12--ENGLISH RECORDS on Ancestry... Scroll down to the UK and Ireland tab and click on the map of England....note counties on the right. The county of LONDON has a lot of early Christening records.

13--UK BMD's http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/ select your county on the left and click on "county" The top links UK BMDs (tri-colored) are to the Multi-regions Search. Select the link below that is for your county, and if the BMD is tri-colored, then your county's BMDs are found on this site. Otherwise, there will just be a number of good links to that county, but not the BMDs . .

14--UK FREE REGISTERS ONLINE More parish registers are being continually added by volunteers.

A GUIDE TO INFORMATION Contained in Birth, Death, and Marriage Certificates

USING IGI BATCH NUMBERS... to locate names in a given parish that have been extracted by LDS
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers.htm#Page

Scroll down to "England", select your county, find your parish along the side or at the top. Type your name into the search engine shown and you will be taken to Familysearch.org....BUT all the names that come up will be from the same BATCH numbers, thus seeing those that may be related from that same parish.

15--THE OFFICIAL NON-PAROCHIAL BMD SERVICE (National Archives)...A Fee site but may give you records not found in Church of England Parish registers: Non-Conformist Records: Methodists, Wesleyans, Baptists, Independents, Protestant Dissenters, Congregationalist, Presbyterians, Unitarians, Quakers (Society of Friends), Dissenters and Russian Orthodox.

THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES.......from Domesday to the present: Click on "Search the Archives" at the top right

16--BRITISH ISLES VITAL RECORDS INDEX: The records that were found on this CD are now found on Familysearch.org...see #1

CEMETERY TRANSCRIPTIONS--Monumental Inscriptions: Interment..a Cemetery Transcription Library

17--FIND-A-GRAVE...starting to really take off in the British Isles..

DECEASED ONLINE: The central database for UK burials and cremations Index free--pay a fee to view

18--Find My Past...now a partner site with FamilySearch. New additions inlcude over l.7 million additions to Devonshire parish records, and over 250,000 Devon Wills index 1844-1900 period.

Origins.net is now part of Find My Past.

English Records for a Fee

19--GENERAL REGISTER OFFICE FOR ENGLAND AND WALES: ..you can order certificates here. NEW....use the indexes to get more information on Births and Deaths by:

On the site above, click on ORDER CERTIFICATES ONLINE; On next page click on Order Certificates Online and search the GRO historic birth and death indexes; on next page scroll

down to LOGIN; put in your email address and Password. Then "Submit." On the next page Click on "Search the GRO indexes. On next page click on "Birth" or "Death" and fill in what info you have. The new feature offered by the GRO is either using the mother's surname to find records, or, finding the mother's surname. Be sure and check "Gender"

NEED A RESEARCHER?..

BRITISH NEWSPAPER ARCHIVE:,,,,I found some interesting articles about my kin in Falkirk, Scotland....ca1

GenWeb and Community Resources

THE ENGLAND GENWEB PROJECT:

Some examples of sites that are similar to what the GenWeb Project offers but sponsored by individuals or societies:
Norfolk Surnames List: http://sites.rootsweb.com/~engnfksl/Index.html

Swanton Novers(Parish in Norfolk): http://www3.telus.net/swanton_novers/

Kent Genealogy: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mrawson/

Welcome to Wirksworth, Derbyshire...Parish records 1600 to 1900

Use your GOOGLE.COM search engine to find something similar for your area!

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

20. MAILING LISTS: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ Go to the search engine "Find a Mailing List" and type in the surname or locality that you need.....see instructions below to getting on a mailing list.

ENGLAND MAILING LISTS by John Fuller
https://sites.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/gen_mail_country-unk-eng.html

MESSAGE BOARDS on ANCESTRY.....from the home page, go to the HELP Tab on the Ancestry black strip at the top and down to Message Boards ..Scroll down to the Find a Board search engine, type in your surname or locality. --then select the one you need, as there will be several listed. Then use the KEYWORD box to type in your key word; it is strongly suggested that you use a surname keyword on a locality board or a locality keyword for a surname message board.

Or, go directly to this page and right to "Find a Board"

MESSAGE BOARDS ON GENEALOGY.COM (GenForum)

Maps

English Jurisdictions from FamilySearch....a great new map series on how parishes looked in 1851, showing adjacent parishes and many other features

Counties of England, Wales and Scotland prior to the 1974 Boundary Changes
http://ww.genuki.org.uk/big/Britain.html

A quick county map showing names
http://www.picturesofengland.com/mapofengland/counties-map.html

Genmaps: Old and interesting maps of England, Scotland, and Wales
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Egenmaps/index.html

Old Maps: http://www.old-maps.co.uk/

UK Street Maps: http://www.streetmap.co.uk/

Misc - other important sites for English Research--or just sites of interest.....

English Genealogy...listed by catagories
http://www.pricegen.com/english_genealogy.html

Parish Locator on Genuki
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/churchdb/ To use for surrounding parishes when you can't find a record in the parish you are searching

Find My Past
http://www.findmypast.com/welcome.jsp...

Registration Districts in England and Wales
http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/reg/

From Parish to Registration District: http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/places/index.htm (download place names index)

Latin Words to Recognize in old parish registers
http://freereg.rootsweb.com/howto/latinwords.htm

History of the Church of England
http://www.cofe.anglican.org/about/history/

Cyndi's List for England
http://www.cyndislist.com/england.htm

English Genealogy...more links

Date Guide: A good help to know at what period of time certain types of records exist and where to find these records.

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Use this Archive search by putting key works in the "Subject" or "body" and browse through messages that have been posted earlier.

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CIVIL REGISTRATION-----------1837

Birth, Marriage, Death records are kept by the Government

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