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What's Free on the Net - Part 2
« on: Monday 27 October 08 16:47 UTC (UK) »

continued from Part 1 :~

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,317597.0.html  (*)

Rootschatters are kindly asked to submit websites to this thread that have information to help us budding genealogists and that are free of charge  Wink Grin

here is one i found the other day :~

http://smallandspecial.org/

Great Ormond Street records 1852-1914

searchable for free but register (which is still free) and you will get more information  Cool




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Spinal Muscular Atrophy -SMA is a neuromuscular condition causing weakness of the muscles.
SMA is the biggest genetic killer of children under the age of 2 yrs
1 in 40 of you carry the gene that passes this conditon on
There is no current treatment
http://www.jtsma.org.uk/
http://www.petitiontocuresma.com/


NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS

Holman & Vinton- Cornwall, Wojciechowskyj & Hussak- Bukowiec & Zahutyn, Bentley & Richards- Leicester, Taylor-Kent/Sussex  Punnett-Sussex,  Bear- Monkleigh
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Re: What's Free on the Net - Part 2
« Reply #1 on: Monday 27 October 08 17:25 UTC (UK) »

Bookmarking this and saying thanks Toni for the note about registration on the Great Ormond Street site.  I didn't see that.  Roll Eyes

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Re: What's Free on the Net - Part 2
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 28 October 08 13:49 UTC (UK) »

Not strictly genealogical but could be useful

Free online translator - http://www.translation-guide.com/free_online_translators.php?from=English&to

Kerry
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Searching for my family - Baldwin - Sussex, Middlesex, Cork, Pilbeam - Sussex, Harmer - Sussex, Terry - Surrey, Kent, Rhoades - Lincs, Roffey - Surrey, Traies - Devon & Middlesex & many many more to be found on my website .... www.kerrysfamilyhistory.co.uk
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Re: What's Free on the Net - Part 2
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 28 October 08 14:44 UTC (UK) »

some of the links (& info that went with)  from Part 1 :~  Smiley


1) Free family history programs for building your family tree.
This one works if you are on or off line, just download the    "Standard edition"

http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/[/url]

2) same as above but you can only use this on-line

http://tribalpages.com/joinnow.html

3) This site lets you search for family names/ places and trade plus a lot morefor directory's

http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/index.asp

4) This site lets you search Lancashire parish records

http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Search/indexp.html

5) As the name Say's what it is

http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl

6) Lancashire but has links to the rest of the country to

http://www.lancashirebmd.org.uk/index.html

7) This one is not all free but if you are searching for living people might be worth a try?

http://www.192.com/

8)This is a site that show and lets you search " Industrial schools" and a selection of census on some of them.

http://www.missing-ancestors.com/index.html

9) This links to British forums  and some free maps

http://www.british-genealogy.com/

10) This is  a site with burials records for tameside , give lots of free info on the graves.

http://public.tameside.gov.uk/candc/regenq.asp

11) right this will do you to get started and hope many of you out there pill page after page of freebies.
This site is for any of you who have found a file or have files and would like to convert them for one format to another. Like a Word doc to PDF file. I had problems doing this for ages.

[url]http://www.zamzar.com/

This tells you about some free sites http://www.ukisearch.com/

This one lets you search most of the 1891 census for Blackley Manchester.
                     http://www.blackley1891.co.uk/
BARTON WESLEYAN CHAPEL BURIALS SALFORD
Barton Wesleyan
Burial Register
VOL 1
1804 - 1902

                  http://www.mancuniensis.info/BartonWesleyanChapel/BWCBFP.htm

The Lancashire Surname List

                                      http://www.lancslist.com/

This site has a list of people who worked in the music halls and theaters. Where and when they were buried.
http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/Burials.htm#A

Various parish registers and this site is being added to all the time:
http://freereg.rootsweb.com/cgi/Search.pl

http://www.gravestonephotos.com/index.php
St Mary's Church, Cricklade, Wiltshire, Marriage Registers 1850-1864

    http://tetlow.screaming.net/marriages_1850-.htm

Browes many news papers from most of the county's of Ireland.
                        http://www.irelandoldnews.com/index.html
This is a list of all the churchs from cheshire most with pictures.
              http://www.moston.org/churches.html

Locating and finding out about archive material in and/or relating to London
                  http://www.londonlibraries.org/servlets/llil/archives

Archives of Dumfries and Galloway, including 1851 census
                  http://www.dumgal.gov.uk/historicalindexes/default.aspx

The archive of the Ulster Unionist Council, held by the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI), contains just under half a million original signatures and addresses of the men who, on 28 September 1912, signed the Ulster Covenant, and of the women who signed the parallel Declaration. In total, the Covenant was signed by 237,368 men, and the Declaration by 234,046 women.
                  http://www.proni.gov.uk/ulstercovenant/index.html


www.freecen.org.uk

Did any of your family sign it for or against it? search here and see  for free.
http://slavetrade.parliament.uk/slavetrade/history/petitioningparliament/youmustenteraname.html


this is a site with a list of Free Genealogy Resources for Ireland north and south
              http://expertgenealogy.com/free/Ireland.htm


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Spinal Muscular Atrophy -SMA is a neuromuscular condition causing weakness of the muscles.
SMA is the biggest genetic killer of children under the age of 2 yrs
1 in 40 of you carry the gene that passes this conditon on
There is no current treatment
http://www.jtsma.org.uk/
http://www.petitiontocuresma.com/


NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS

Holman & Vinton- Cornwall, Wojciechowskyj & Hussak- Bukowiec & Zahutyn, Bentley & Richards- Leicester, Taylor-Kent/Sussex  Punnett-Sussex,  Bear- Monkleigh
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Re: What's Free on the Net - Part 2
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 28 October 08 14:45 UTC (UK) »

some more from part 1:~


census , directorys of all sorts even land owners. All in county Clare Ireland.
                      http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/genealog.htm

& Sligo Ireland
                    http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlsli/landowners.html

Chronology of Key Dates in the History of British Library Newspapers
                 http://www.bl.uk/collections/history.html[/url]

HEREFORDSHIRE FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY  Monumental Inscriptions
                  [url]http://www.rootsweb.com/~ukhfhs/miindex.html

Lancashire Will Search
                      http://www.xmission.com/~nelsonb/lws.htm

              http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/ask_index.jsp

http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/archiveSearch.asp?webType=0
for the London Gazette

http://www.knightroots.co.uk/
for some Hampshire parish register extracts

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~clday/
Family History in India

http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/
Proceedings of the Old Bailey

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/index.htm
useful for middle names

http://www.isle-of-wight-fhs.co.uk/
has searchable index for IOW

http://www.surnamenavigator.org/
slightly scary multiple search tool

http://www.cwgc.org/
for casualties of war

http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/ResearcherScreen.asp
Australian Archives Search

http://www.a2a.org.uk/
UK regional archives online

http://carmarthenshirehistorian.org/
Searchable online CFHS magazine archive.. Carmarthenshire

FreeREG http://freereg.rootsweb.com/

Somerset Transcripts http://www.pbenyon1.plus.com/PR_Index.html

IGI batch numbers http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountryEngland.htm#PageTitle

www.barriesgenealogy.co.uk

 Broadwater, Worthing, West Sussex
Records of birth, marriage and burials from the various churches 1800-1846, being added to all the time.

www.photohistory-sussex.co.uk

www.historicaldirectories.org

http://thesussexweald.org/home.asp and more genealogical information being added

www.Cornwall-opc.org

http://www.sussex-opc.org/

http://www.noah.norfolk.gov.uk/

 http://www.isle-of-wight-fhs.co.uk/index.htm

worldvitalrecords.com

http://www.leitrim-roscommon.com/index.shtml

http://cityark.medway.gov.uk/

http://www.ukisearch.com/essex.html


 ellisisland.org

this site gives you definitions of Victorian occupations :~

http://www.census1891.com/occupations-o.htm

http://www.fred.net/jefalvey/newgate.html

New London Crew Lists Index: 1803-1878

http://www.mysticseaport.org/library/initiative/CrOption.cfm?Age=5[/url]

Australia, Ships and Convicts - Part 2

http://www.danbyrnes.com.au/blackheath/ships2.htm

Blacksmiths of Hampshire
 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~blacksmiths/hampshire-1.htm

Liverpool Orphanages
 http://www.liverpool-genealogy.org.uk/Information/orphanages.htm

HMS Sphinx - Crew
 http://www.halcyon-class.co.uk/sphinx/sphinx_-_crew.htm

Memorials in Portsmouth War Graves Milton Cemetery

 [url]http://www.memorials.inportsmouth.co.uk/war-graves/milton/s-t.htm

All above sites come by searches done by  Rootschat member  " piddington"

Free blank census forms for the English and Welsh census here;

http://www.discoveryourancestors.com/Downloads/downloads.html

Each form states the date that the census took place.

History of brass bands

http://www.harrogate.co.uk/harrogate-band/vbbp-uk.htm (http://www.harrogate.co.uk/harrogate-band/vbbp-uk.htm)

Great photo site for those of you with Nottinghamshire or Derbyshire connections.

http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/

Try this one for old medicle terms, great for interpreting death certs.... um, if you can read them that is
http://www.antiquusmorbus.com/Index.htm
 
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,279115.0.html

another free site this time for anyone with ancestors in Leicester / shire:~

http://www.leicestershireroots.co.uk/

Nice little site for anyone who is interested in Perry Barr Birmingham

http://www.perrybarrbeyond.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

It is a list of Rochdale burials, you and search for names and dates on it.

 http://www.interment.net/data/eng/lancashire/rochdale/rochdale.htm

www.blacksheepancestors.com

This site http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=Sussex has been invaluable

Useful site for Warwickshire ancestors

http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/w-a-p.htm

http://www.ianwaugh.com/crimeindex/

http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/html_units/1780s/t17841210-1.html

Parish Registers - marriages

http://www.uk-genealogy.org.uk/Registers/

do we already have romanyroots and romanygenes?

http://home.clara.net/mawer/sitemap.html
fantastic site for Hampshire Smiley Smiley

  http://website.lineone.net/~hantshistory/index.html

workhouse.org
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Spinal Muscular Atrophy -SMA is a neuromuscular condition causing weakness of the muscles.
SMA is the biggest genetic killer of children under the age of 2 yrs
1 in 40 of you carry the gene that passes this conditon on
There is no current treatment
http://www.jtsma.org.uk/
http://www.petitiontocuresma.com/


NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS

Holman & Vinton- Cornwall, Wojciechowskyj & Hussak- Bukowiec & Zahutyn, Bentley & Richards- Leicester, Taylor-Kent/Sussex  Punnett-Sussex,  Bear- Monkleigh
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Re: What's Free on the Net - Part 2
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 28 October 08 14:47 UTC (UK) »

not from part 1  Wink


http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/
searchable for free but if you want to download imaes £3.50 i think is the price
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Spinal Muscular Atrophy -SMA is a neuromuscular condition causing weakness of the muscles.
SMA is the biggest genetic killer of children under the age of 2 yrs
1 in 40 of you carry the gene that passes this conditon on
There is no current treatment
http://www.jtsma.org.uk/
http://www.petitiontocuresma.com/


NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS

Holman & Vinton- Cornwall, Wojciechowskyj & Hussak- Bukowiec & Zahutyn, Bentley & Richards- Leicester, Taylor-Kent/Sussex  Punnett-Sussex,  Bear- Monkleigh
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Re: What's Free on the Net - Part 2
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 28 October 08 14:47 UTC (UK) »

Thank you Toni

good to see them in a handy list, another thread to bookmark I think  Grin

Kerry
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Re: What's Free on the Net - Part 2
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 28 October 08 15:13 UTC (UK) »

Cornwall Place names
http://cornovia.org.uk/ihpnc/index.html

St Just in Penwith
http://west-penwith.org.uk/justmarj.htm

St Allen Burials
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~blanchec/StAllenBurials1b.htm

on Google Books
Lunacy, Law and Conscience, 1744-1845 By Kathleen Jones

west Briton transciptions
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wbritonad/

Dorset-opc.org
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Spinal Muscular Atrophy -SMA is a neuromuscular condition causing weakness of the muscles.
SMA is the biggest genetic killer of children under the age of 2 yrs
1 in 40 of you carry the gene that passes this conditon on
There is no current treatment
http://www.jtsma.org.uk/
http://www.petitiontocuresma.com/


NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS

Holman & Vinton- Cornwall, Wojciechowskyj & Hussak- Bukowiec & Zahutyn, Bentley & Richards- Leicester, Taylor-Kent/Sussex  Punnett-Sussex,  Bear- Monkleigh
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Re: What's Free on the Net - Part 2
« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 28 October 08 15:19 UTC (UK) »

cheshire tithe maps
http://maps.cheshire.gov.uk/tithemaps/

Kent tithe maps
http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Maps/Maps%20intro.htm
&
http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Maps/LofKPE.htm

and some Worcestershire ones
http://worcestershire.whub.org.uk/home/wcc-arch-tithe-maps.htm
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Spinal Muscular Atrophy -SMA is a neuromuscular condition causing weakness of the muscles.
SMA is the biggest genetic killer of children under the age of 2 yrs
1 in 40 of you carry the gene that passes this conditon on
There is no current treatment
http://www.jtsma.org.uk/
http://www.petitiontocuresma.com/


NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS

Holman & Vinton- Cornwall, Wojciechowskyj & Hussak- Bukowiec & Zahutyn, Bentley & Richards- Leicester, Taylor-Kent/Sussex  Punnett-Sussex,  Bear- Monkleigh
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Re: What's Free on the Net - Part 2
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 28 October 08 15:23 UTC (UK) »

www.galaxy.bedfordshire.gov.uk/webingres/bedfordshire/vilb/0.wla.wla_home.htm

recording the work and experience (and some names) of the Womans Land Army in Bedfordshire (by Stuart Antrobus)

British Agricultural History Society
www.bhas.org.uk

The National Archives
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
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Spinal Muscular Atrophy -SMA is a neuromuscular condition causing weakness of the muscles.
SMA is the biggest genetic killer of children under the age of 2 yrs
1 in 40 of you carry the gene that passes this conditon on
There is no current treatment
http://www.jtsma.org.uk/
http://www.petitiontocuresma.com/


NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS

Holman & Vinton- Cornwall, Wojciechowskyj & Hussak- Bukowiec & Zahutyn, Bentley & Richards- Leicester, Taylor-Kent/Sussex  Punnett-Sussex,  Bear- Monkleigh
kerryb
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Re: What's Free on the Net - Part 2
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 28 October 08 16:12 UTC (UK) »

It's a good job you kept them all Toni* and that one of us was on the ball Grin Grin

Kerry
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Re: What's Free on the Net - Part 2
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 28 October 08 18:47 UTC (UK) »

i was going to print it out when the topic reached page 20- so i only copied over the first few pages of links so the rest is lost unfortunately


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Spinal Muscular Atrophy -SMA is a neuromuscular condition causing weakness of the muscles.
SMA is the biggest genetic killer of children under the age of 2 yrs
1 in 40 of you carry the gene that passes this conditon on
There is no current treatment
http://www.jtsma.org.uk/
http://www.petitiontocuresma.com/


NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS

Holman & Vinton- Cornwall, Wojciechowskyj & Hussak- Bukowiec & Zahutyn, Bentley & Richards- Leicester, Taylor-Kent/Sussex  Punnett-Sussex,  Bear- Monkleigh
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Re: What's Free on the Net - Part 2
« Reply #12 on: Tuesday 28 October 08 18:59 UTC (UK) »

www.somerset-chamber.co.uk/somerset_history.htm
history of Somerset

www.york.ac.uk/inst/bihr/welcome.htm
The Borthwick institute at the university of York has records of Clergymen who worked in Yorkshire

www.theclergydatabase.org.uk/
not complete but worth a look (Paulatoo)

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Spinal Muscular Atrophy -SMA is a neuromuscular condition causing weakness of the muscles.
SMA is the biggest genetic killer of children under the age of 2 yrs
1 in 40 of you carry the gene that passes this conditon on
There is no current treatment
http://www.jtsma.org.uk/
http://www.petitiontocuresma.com/


NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS

Holman & Vinton- Cornwall, Wojciechowskyj & Hussak- Bukowiec & Zahutyn, Bentley & Richards- Leicester, Taylor-Kent/Sussex  Punnett-Sussex,  Bear- Monkleigh
toni*
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Re: What's Free on the Net - Part 2
« Reply #13 on: Tuesday 28 October 08 19:58 UTC (UK) »

Oxfordshire FHS transcribed Wills
(most probably some other info. on this site too)

http://wills.oxfordshirefhs.org.uk/index.html#select
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Spinal Muscular Atrophy -SMA is a neuromuscular condition causing weakness of the muscles.
SMA is the biggest genetic killer of children under the age of 2 yrs
1 in 40 of you carry the gene that passes this conditon on
There is no current treatment
http://www.jtsma.org.uk/
http://www.petitiontocuresma.com/


NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS

Holman & Vinton- Cornwall, Wojciechowskyj & Hussak- Bukowiec & Zahutyn, Bentley & Richards- Leicester, Taylor-Kent/Sussex  Punnett-Sussex,  Bear- Monkleigh
kerryb
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Re: What's Free on the Net - Part 2
« Reply #14 on: Tuesday 28 October 08 22:14 UTC (UK) »

The Mills Archive http://www.millsarchive.com/index.aspx

very useful for miller ancestors.

Kerry
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