The Best Websites for Genealogy (Family History) Research

Posted by FamilyHistoryFour on Thursday, December 06, 2018 in websites

Source: U3A Genealogist Steve Dyer

Start with the free information online websites or visit your local library which now has some subscription websites free ‐ to do some basic research starting with the 1911 Census:

Free:

• Family Search, the Latter‐day Saints https://familysearch.org
• FreeBMD with access to FreeCEN (Census Data) and FreeREG (Parish Registers) www.freebmd.org.uk
• This is similar to the above www.freeukgenealogy.org.uk
• BBC History website http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/0/23493076
• Society of Genealogists http://www.sog.org.uk

Subscription:

• Ancestry (free at Surrey libraries) www.ancestry.co.uk
• Find my Past (free at Surrey libraries) www.findmypast.co.uk
• ScotlandsPEOPLE: BMD etc. www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
• Northern Irish records: www.nidirect.gov.uk/services/go-groni-online
• Republic of Ireland records: https://www.glasnevintrust.ie

Other sources of information:

• UKBMD (free research information) with access to UKGDL (Genealogical Directories & lists) and UKMFH (Military Family History) www.UKBMD.org.uk. Also available, a series of online tutorials to help with your research into BMD
• Genuki (free UK & Ireland research information) www.genuki.org.uk

If you need help finding military records after researching the above, the government website is a good place to start especially for World War I & ll:

• The National Archives, Kew (free) http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission www.cwgc.org