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Hi,
just curious what everyone uses?
My tree is on Ancestry
but ive used:
find my past
family search
british newspaper archives
deceased online
gro index
my heritage (tiny bit)
are there any others that you could recommend?
Jaimee :) xx
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Gravestones on various sites...
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... and this place! All questions considered, and usually answered, by unsung experts far better than I could be!
As I've quite a lot in Lancashire, Lancs Parish Clerks online is a reliable help. Malcolm Bull's "Calderdale companion" online has been helpful for another line, in West riding of Yorkshire, but the "trouble" with that is it's so fascinating you end up browsing around it for hours...
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Calderdale companion that sounds interesting.....must investigate that one.
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National Archives
Times Digital Archive
ScotlandsPeople
National Archives of Ireland for 1901/1911 census there: http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/
A huge amount depends on the geographical area concerned as many sites are region-specific such as LanOPC, LancashireBMD, YorkshireBMD, SEAX, BathBMD as a tiny sample without even leaving England.
Others provide useful tools such as Marriage Locator, Old-Maps.
Never forgetting Google! Which can yield important clues (including in Google Books).
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FreeBMD.org.uk
LancashireBMD.org
Cornwall-OPC-database
ManxBMD.com
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....... and for Northern Ireland BMD's.
https://geni.nidirect.gov.uk/
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I was going to say Google, but avm228 beat me to it. Typing in an ancestor's name, with or without other details, can throw up unexpected results.
Archive.org is another handy site. I have accessed parish registers, Huguenot records, and Devon Notes and Queries on there.
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Overview of parish registers.
http://www.archersoftware.co.uk/igi/
Locating contigious parishes.
Google "parloc3" and download free program.
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I forgot FreeReg and Genuki. Both very handy sites.
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I also find GENUKI very useful, and the Rootsweb lists for various countries/counties and special interests.
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http://www.dustydocs.com/
Can sometimes be useful.
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The Genealogist
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4 years ago I mentioned the names of my grandparents on my own website. A half first cousin who I didn't even know about found me by searching for the names. Another one found me the same way a year later.
And, this one, very America-centric but useful for new ideas.
https://www.cyndislist.com/uk/
Your FREE genealogy starting point with more than 337000 genealogy links, categorized & cross-referenced, in more than 200 categories.
Martin
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For a variety of Dorset records not just baptisms, marriages, and burials:
http://www.opcdorset.org/index.htm
Some hospital records for children:
https://www.kingston.ac.uk/faculties/kingston-school-of-art/research-and-innovation/centre-for-the-historical-record/projects-chr/hharp/
For Kent ancestors:
https://www.woodchurchancestry.org.uk/midkentmarriages/index.php
https://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/research/monumental-inscriptions
Lost military ancestors:
https://www.cwgc.org/