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, Other Records |
Title: | Archives Hub - Find Sources For Your Research |
Link: | https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/ |
Description: | Archives Hub - Find Sources For Your Research |
Extra Info: | Use the Archives Hub to find unique sources for your research. Search across descriptions of archives, including links to digital content, held at over 300 institutions across the UK. |
Classification: | Information, Companies / Employee and Union Lists |
Title: | British and Irish Furniture Makers Online |
Link: | https://bifmo.furniturehistorysociety.org/ |
Description: | Faces Behind the Furniture, 1500-1914 |
Classification: | Information, Photographs / Pictures |
Title: | British Pathe Film Archive |
Link: | https://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 |
Title: | British Surnames |
Link: | https://britishsurnames.co.uk |
Description: | Research the origins and distribution of your surname |
Extra Info: | Information on similar surnames, most common surnames, surname distribution maps as well as surname meanings and etymologies. |
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Extra Info: | This site is no longer active, however an archived copy of the site is still available to view (may take a few moments to load).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: | 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, Other Records, Photographs / Pictures |
Title: | Landed families of Britain and Ireland |
Link: | https://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/ |
Description: | Research into the landowning families of the British Isles and the country houses which they owned. |
Classification: | Information, Diseases / Causes of Death |
Title: | List of Old Diseases |
Link: | https://web.archive.org/web/20180822104047/http://... |
Description: | List of Medical Terms found On Old Death Certificates, Doctors Reports and in Old Letters |
Extra Info: | This is an archived copy of the original website which may not function fully. |
Classification: | Information, Other Records |
Title: | Manorial Documents Register |
Link: | https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/manor-se... |
Description: | Manorial Documents Register at the National Archive |
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, Diseases / Causes of Death |
Title: | Old Disease names and their modern definitions |
Link: | http://www.disease.pricklytree.co.uk/ |
Description: | Quick reference to the medical terms used on your ancestors record of death. |
Classification: | Information, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
Title: | Old Occupations of England |
Link: | https://web.archive.org/web/20220129151438/http://... |
Description: | Old Occupations |
Extra Info: | An archived copy of a site that is no longer active, however the information is still available to view. Lists many old occupations and meanings, taken from census 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, Other Records, Photographs / Pictures |
Title: | Parliamentary Archives |
Link: | https://archives.parliament.uk/online-resources/re... |
Description: | Historic documents (including photographs and illustrations) from the UK Parliament |
Extra Info: | Includes Protestations Returns, the closest thing we have to a census for 1642. The Returns list the adult men residing in a parish. |
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, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records |
Title: | Railway Work, Life and Death |
Link: | https://www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/ |
Description: | Life, Work and Death on the Railways |
Extra Info: | May be slow to load. Find out about railway worker accidents in Britain and Ireland in the later 19th and early 20th century |
Classification: | Information, Photographs / Pictures |
Title: | Science and Society Picture Library |
Link: | https://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: | Information |
Title: | Wellcome Collection - Images of 2000 years |
Link: | https://wellcomecollection.org/search/works |
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. |
Classification: | Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Information |
Title: | Registration Districts in Berkshire |
Link: | https://ukbmd.org.uk/reg/brk.html |
Description: | Civil registration districts in Berkshire since 1837 |
Extra Info: | Information on the registration districts and their changes over the years. |
Classification: | Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Information |
Title: | Wikipedia list of civil parishes in Berkshire |
Link: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_parishes_in_Be... |
Description: | List of parishes in Berkshire provided by Wikipedia. |
Extra Info: | Information on the parishes with links to information pages about the parishes. |
Classification: | Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Information |
Title: | Wikipedia list of places in Berkshire |
Link: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_in_Be... |
Description: | List of places in Berkshire provided by Wikipedia. |
Extra Info: | Information on place names with links to information pages about the place. |
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