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| Extra Info: | This site is no longer active, however an archived copy of the site is still available to view (may take a few moments to load).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: | Information |
| Title: | Family History Books via Family Search |
| Link: |  |
| 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: | 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 Cambridgeshire |
| Link: | https://ukbmd.org.uk/reg/cam.html |
| Description: | Civil registration districts in Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire |
| Link: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_parishes_in_Ca... |
| Description: | List of parishes in Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire |
| Link: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_in_Ca... |
| Description: | List of places in Cambridgeshire provided by Wikipedia. |
| Extra Info: | Information on place names with links to information pages about the place. |
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