Sites with Miscellaneous Content Useful within Family History
Many websites have useful information and data that does not fit into specific categories. This list of links aims to help you find general background information relevant to family history.
| Classification: | Information |
| Title: | A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames |
| Link: | A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames |
| Description: | A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames |
| Classification: | Information |
| Title: | A List of Old Occupations and Jobs of the Past |
| Link: | http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~... |
| Description: | A List of Old Occupations and Jobs of the Past |
| Classification: | Information |
| Title: | A Reference Book of English History |
| Link: | A Reference Book of English History |
| Description: | A Reference Book of English History from the Romans to 1866 |
| Extra Info: | Includes tables of chronology, a dictionary of battles and more. |
| Classification: | Information |
| Title: | A-Z Old Occupations |
| Link: | http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgwkidz/oldjobs... |
| Description: | A-Z Old Occupations |
| Classification: | Information |
| Title: | Aircraft Crash Record Office |
| Link: | http://www.baaa-acro.com/ |
| Description: | Aircraft Crash Record Office |
| Extra Info: | Includes British air crashes as far back as 1919. Appears mainly to be civilian crashes, although some RAF crashes are included. |
| Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Information, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | Amlwch, Anglesey |
| Link: | http://www.amlwchdata.co.uk/ |
| Description: | Amlwch and Surrounding Areas |
| Extra Info: | Includes old medical terms, the day in the life of a copper miner, Amlwch ship wrecks and more. |
| Classification: | Institutions / Workhouses / Hospitals etc., Information |
| Title: | Bethlem Royal Hospital Archives |
| Link: | http://museumofthemind.org.uk/ |
| Description: | Bethlem Royal Hospital Archives |
| Extra Info: | Includes patient records - some with photographs, staff records and more. |
| Classification: | Information |
| Title: | Birthdate Calculator from Death Date and Age |
| Link: | http://www.censusdiggins.com/birthdate_calculator.... |
| Description: | Birthdate Calculator from Death Date and Age |
| Classification: | Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Information, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc. |
| Title: | British Military & Criminal History in the period 1900 to 1999 |
| Link: | https://web.archive.org/web/20170117133952/http://... |
| Description: | British Military & Criminal History in the period 1900 to 1999 |
| Extra Info: | An archived copy of a website - most information seems to be available. Includes details of those people who have been executed in the UK, but have then received posthumous pardons. |
| Classification: | Information, Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | British Pathe Film Archive |
| Link: | http://www.britishpathe.com/ |
| Description: | British Pathe Film Archive 1896-1970 |
| Extra Info: | All sorts of social history on film as well as royal visits, wing walkers, early pictures of heathrow, swimming galas and much more. |
| Classification: | Information, Other Records |
| Title: | Cavan County Statistical Survey |
| Link: | http://archive.org/details/statisticalsurv00unkngo... |
| Description: | Statistical Survey of the County of Cavan |
| Extra Info: | Online book. Includes a list of fairs, principal landed proprietors, and gives a sense of what Cavan was like in the late 1700's early 1800's. Published 1802. |
| Classification: | Information |
| Title: | Convict Central |
| Link: | http://www.convictcentral.com/ |
| Description: | A Guide to Researching Your Convict Ancestors |
| Classification: | Institutions / Workhouses / Hospitals etc., Information, Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | County Asylum |
| Link: | http://web.archive.org/web/20110708195950/http://w... |
| Description: | Rediscovering the Asylums and Mental Hospitals of England and Wales |
| Extra Info: | This site is no longer active, however an archived copy of the site is still available to view (may take a few moments to load). There may be some pages that do not work. Lists architects' names and more. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Information |
| Title: | Cunard Ships History |
| Link: | http://chriscunard.com/ |
| Extra Info: | History of the Cunard ships, including photographs and postcards, details about some of their routes and more. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Information, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
| Title: | East India Company Ships |
| Link: | http://www.eicships.info/ |
| Description: | Information on the Ships, Voyages and Seafarers of the East India Company's Mercantile Services |
| Extra Info: | Work in progress -- expect more data in future. |
| Classification: | Information |
| Title: | Encyclopedia of Epidemics |
| Link: | http://eogen.editme.com/Epidemics |
| Description: | Encyclopedia of Epidemics |
| Extra Info: | This list of worldwide and local epidemics may help to explain why several of your ancestors may have died at similar times. |
| Classification: | Information |
| Title: | English Calendar Quick Reference |
| Link: | http://people.albion.edu/imacinnes/calendar/Welcom... |
| Description: | English Calendar Quick Reference |
| Classification: | Information |
| Title: | Family History Books via Family Search |
| Link: | http://books.familysearch.org/primo_library/libweb... |
| Description: | Family History Books via Family Search |
| Extra Info: | more than 40,000 digitized genealogy and family history publications from the archives of some of the most important family history libraries in the world. Read online for free. |
| Classification: | Information |
| Title: | Great Ships - Postcard and Ephemera Collection |
| Link: | http://www.greatships.net/ |
| Description: | Great Ships - Postcard and Ephemera Collection |
| Classification: | Information, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Diseases / Causes of Death, Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | Hall Genealogy Website |
| Link: | http://rmhh.co.uk/ |
| Description: | Includes Lists of Old Occupations and Diseases |
| Extra Info: | Many passenger ship photographs. |
| Classification: | Information, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Heritage Ships |
| Link: | http://www.heritage-ships.com/ |
| Description: | Heritage Ships - Pictures of Immigrant Ships |
| Extra Info: | Heritage-Ships has images showing the historic vessels that carried immigrants to America and other parts of the world. |
| Classification: | Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Information, Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | Historic Churches of Great Britain |
| Link: | http://www.historicchurches.co.uk/ |
| Description: | Maps of locations of many Historic Churches of Great Britain |
| Extra Info: | Helps you find the location of the churches where you ancestors were baptised, married or buried. Their long-term aim is to add photographs to accompany each map. |
| Classification: | Institutions / Workhouses / Hospitals etc., Information |
| Title: | Index of Lunatic Asylums and Mental Hospitals |
| Link: | http://studymore.org.uk/4_13_ta.htm |
| Description: | Index of Lunatic Asylums and Mental Hospitals |
| Extra Info: | Based around a 1844 study but expanded with details of the institutions. |
| Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Tithe Records, Information |
| Title: | Internet Archive |
| Link: | http://archive.org/ |
| Description: | Internet Archive |
| Extra Info: | Has many scanned books. Click on texts and then search the archive. Note gazetteer and gazetteers give different results. |
| Classification: | Information |
| Title: | IreAtlas Townland Search |
| Link: | http://www.thecore.com/seanruad/ |
| Description: | IreAtlas Townland Search |
| Extra Info: | A searchable database of all the townland, parish and barony details for each Irish county. |
| Classification: | Information, Diseases / Causes of Death |
| Title: | List of Old Diseases |
| Link: | http://www.lhaasdav.com/learningcenter/diseasesold... |
| Description: | List of Medical Terms found On Old Death Certificates, Doctors Reports and in Old Letters |
| Classification: | Information, Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | Maritime Photographic |
| Link: | http://www.maritimephotographic.co.uk/ |
| Description: | Maritime Photographic |
| Extra Info: | Mainly recent photographs. |
| Classification: | Information |
| Title: | Maritime Quest |
| Link: | http://www.maritimequest.com/ |
| Description: | Maritime Quest |
| Extra Info: | A quest for the photographic history of the world's ships. List details of owners and ship builders. |
| Classification: | Information |
| Title: | Measuring Worth |
| Link: | http://www.measuringworth.com/ |
| Description: | Measuring Worth |
| Extra Info: | What was the relative value money in history compared to today? Find all this and more at this facinating website. |
| Classification: | Information, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | Military Badges and Military Images |
| Link: | http://web.archive.org/web/20110721011946/http://w... |
| Description: | Military Badges and Military Images |
| Extra Info: | An archived copy of the site which is no longer available. May take a little while to load. May not work correctly in all browsers. |
| Classification: | Information |
| Title: | New Zealand Archives |
| Link: | http://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ |
| Description: | New Zealand Archives |
| Extra Info: | Includes references to probate records for UK citizens, British companies and more. |
| Classification: | Information, Other Records |
| Title: | North Walls and Brims, Orkney |
| Link: | http://www.janealogy.co.uk/north-walls-and-brims/ |
| Description: | North Walls and Brims, Orkney One Place Study |
| Classification: | Information, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
| Title: | Old Occupations of England |
| Link: | http://www.worldthroughthelens.com/family-history/... |
| Description: | Old Occupations |
| Extra Info: | Lists many old occupations and meanings, taken from census records. |
| Classification: | Information |
| Title: | Old Occupations of Scotland |
| Link: | http://scotsfamily.com/occupations.htm |
| Description: | Old Occupations of Scotland |
| Extra Info: | Found in 17th to early 20th century records. |
| Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Hearth / Window Tax, Religious Lists / Records, Information, Other Records |
| Title: | Open Library |
| Link: | http://openlibrary.org/ |
| Description: | Open Library - Scanned Books Online |
| Extra Info: | Use the search facility and select e books only. Some English trade directories, journals, historic accounts of counties and more. |
| Classification: | Information |
| Title: | Palmer List of Merchant Vessels |
| Link: | http://web.archive.org/web/20130116100723/http://w... |
| Description: | Palmer List of Merchant Vessels |
| Extra Info: | An archived copy of a site that is no longer available, most information still seems to be available. For some ships includes pictures, masters, owners and voyages. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Information, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Passenger Lists and Emigrant Ships |
| Link: | http://www.norwayheritage.com/ |
| Description: | Passenger Lists and Emigrant Ships |
| Extra Info: | Includes some searchable passenger lists. also information about the ships and lists documenting their individual voyages, as well as pictures of the ships. |
| Classification: | Information |
| Title: | Photographs from Life Magazine |
| Link: | http://time.com/photography/life/ |
| Description: | Photographs from Life Magazine |
| Extra Info: | All sorts of images from 1860's to 1970's. Use the search box or browse round the site. |
| Classification: | Information, Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | Pictures of Yesteryear |
| Link: | http://www.pplmedia.com/online/ |
| Description: | Pictures of Yesteryear |
| Extra Info: | A historic resource of fine art illustrations, paintings and photographs dating back to the 1850s. |
| Classification: | Information |
| Title: | Plagues, Diseases and Disasters Throughout History |
| Link: | http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/diseases.html |
| Description: | Plagues, Diseases and Disasters Throughout History |
| Extra Info: | This list of worldwide and local epidemics may help to explain why several of your ancestors may have died at similar times. |
| Classification: | Information, Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | Postcards of Ocean Liners |
| Link: | http://www.raeth.ch/ |
| Description: | Postcards of Ocean Liners |
| Extra Info: | Also includes paddle steamers, lighthouses, ports, early aeroplanes, railways and more. |
| Classification: | Information, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
| Title: | Pottery Industry Jobs and Descriptions |
| Link: | http://www.thepotteries.org/jobs/ |
| Description: | Pottery Industry Jobs and Descriptions |
| Classification: | Information, Photographs / Pictures, Travellers / Romany / Canal Folk |
| Title: | Remembering our Family |
| Link: | http://www.newforestromanygypsytraveller.co.uk |
| Description: | Remembering our Family |
| Extra Info: | A project that intends to collect as much information as possible from the local Gypsy/Traveller community that have settled at locations within the New Forest including Thorney Hill and Bransgore. |
| Classification: | Information |
| Title: | Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms |
| Link: | http://www.archaicmedicalterms.com/ |
| Description: | Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms |
| Classification: | Information |
| Title: | Rulers Website |
| Link: | http://rulers.org/ |
| Description: | Rulers Website - Heads of State, Prime Ministers etc. |
| Classification: | Information, Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | Science and Society Picture Library |
| Link: | http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/ |
| Description: | Science and Society Picture Library |
| Extra Info: | Over 50,000 images from buildings, such as textile mills, to pictures of historical fire engines. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Information, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
| Title: | Ship Wreck Database |
| Link: | http://www.wrecksite.eu/ |
| Description: | Ship Wreck Database |
| Extra Info: | Includes an image archive of ships, some stories about the ships, causes of their demise and often mentions owners and captains. |
| Classification: | Information |
| Title: | Shipwrecks of Scotland and England |
| Link: | http://www.rod-macdonald.co.uk |
| Description: | Shipwrecks of Scotland and England |
| Extra Info: | Click on Wrecks for details of ships. |
| Classification: | Information |
| Title: | State Library of Tasmania - Images |
| Link: | https://www.linc.tas.gov.au/archive-heritage/Pages... |
| Description: | State Library of Tasmania - Images From the Tasmanian Heritage Collections |
| Extra Info: | Look under archives or Tasmania's Heritage. Includes photographs of ships, images of convict related images and more. |
| Classification: | Information, Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | The Passenger Ship Website |
| Link: | http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/ |
| Description: | The Passenger Ship Website - Dedicated to Providing Images of All Type of Passenger Ships |
| Extra Info: | Includes many histories as well as images. Also includes some railway and tramway images. |
| Classification: | Information, Photographs / Pictures, Travellers / Romany / Canal Folk |
| Title: | The Scottish Gypsies |
| Link: | http://www.scottishgypsies.co.uk/ |
| Description: | The Scottish Gypsies |
| Classification: | Information |
| Title: | Weights and Measures Guide |
| Link: | http://www.scan.org.uk/measures/index.asp |
| Description: | Weights and Measures Guide, Drops, Pecks, Furlongs and more |
| Classification: | Information |
| Title: | Wellcome Collection - Images of 2000 years |
| Link: | http://wellcomeimages.org/ |
| Description: | Wellcome Collection - Images of 2000 years |
| Extra Info: | Includes images of war and those with a medical theme, such as St Pancras smallpox hospital, as well as much more. |
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