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, 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: | Information, Companies / Employee and Union Lists, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
| Title: | BT Digital Archives |
| Link: | http://www.digitalarchives.bt.com/Calmview/ |
| Description: | British Telecom Digital Archives |
| Extra Info: | Search thousands of documents, books, objects, images and films on subjects spanning the development of telecommunications, from the birth of the electric telegraph in the 1830s to the explosion of the internet and the rise of broadband Britain. |
| Classification: | Information |
| Title: | Convict Central |
| Link: | http://perthdps.com/convicts/ |
| Description: | A Guide to Researching Your Convict Ancestors |
| Classification: | Information |
| Title: | Family History Books via Family Search |
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| 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: | 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: | https://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: | 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: | Associations and Civil Officials Lists, Information, Other Records |
| Title: | Masonic Lodge of Education |
| Link: | https://www.masonic-lodge-of-education.com/ |
| Description: | Knowledge of the Craft of Freemasonry. |
| Classification: | Information, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Medievalists.net |
| Link: | https://www.medievalists.net/ |
| Description: | Where the Middle Ages begin. |
| Extra Info: | Includes the largest-ever study of Viking genetics |
| 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: | 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: | School / Educational Records / Alumni, Associations and Civil Officials Lists, Information |
| Title: | Royal Voluntary Service History | Royal Voluntary Service |
| Link: | https://www.royalvoluntaryservice.org.uk/about-us/... |
| Description: | Royal Voluntary Service History |
| Extra Info: | Find out more of the history of WVS, WRVS and Royal Voluntary Service, by exploring their fact sheets and schools' resources. |
| 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: | 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, Companies / Employee and Union Lists, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Photographs / Pictures, Journals / Diaries |
| Title: | The Bevin Boys Association - The Official site founded 1989 |
| Link: | http://bevinboysassociation.co.uk |
| Description: | The Bevin Boys Association - Archives and Information |
| Classification: | Information, Companies / Employee and Union Lists, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records |
| Title: | The Railways Archive |
| Link: | https://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/ |
| Description: | The Railways Archive |
| Extra Info: | Electronic copies of original documents : Railway Law, Railway safety, Railway economics, Railway politics. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Information, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
| Title: | Three Decks - Warships in the Age of Sail |
| Link: | https://threedecks.org/index.php |
| Description: | This site aims to be the premier web resource for researching naval history during the Age of Sail. |
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