Tony Scott's Family History
Genealogical Links
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There are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of useful genealogical websites out there, and comprehensive lists can be found on any number of other sites. The following list contains a select few that I have found to be of great value in my genealogical and historical research. Many of them thus relate to my particular areas of ancestral interest. |
| Australia & New Zealand | |
| Geelong & District site | The best local history site I have seen - contains lots of searchable lists and other data |
| Cora Num's site | A multitude of Australian genealogy links |
| Public Record Office Victoria | Passenger lists for all ships to Victoria, plus many other on-line indexes and databases |
| Archive CD books | Many historical books scanned to CD |
| Denise & Peter's site | Plenty of NZ information including many passenger lists |
| Scotland | |
| Bonhill images | Historical images from Bonhill, Alexandria and the Vale of Leven |
| Statistical Accounts | For 1791-99 and 1834-45 (click on non-subscribers box) |
| UK general | |
| LDS Family Search | The essential site |
| Archive CD books | Many historical books scanned to CD |
| Historical directories | Scanned images of complete directories - 51 for Yorkshire alone |
| FreeBMD | Useful site for post-1837 BMDs |
| FreeCEN | Excellent site for free census data |
| Yorkshire | |
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Thanks to Beryl Thompson for providing this complete scanned version of Thomas Baines' 1870 book Yorkshire Past and Present |
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Again from Beryl Thompson, the complete scanned version of J Horsfall Turner's book Ancient Bingley, published 1897 |
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| CDs of rare books | Old and rare books on Yorkshire scanned to CD |
| Calverley and district | Highly informative site with many lists of BMDs and other historical information |
| Other | |
| Cambridgeshire FHS | Comprehensive site with 27 searchable databases, including 1841, 1851 & 1861 censuses |