A wide variety of records exist that do not fit into other classifications. The websites here have such records. The descriptions against each entry will let you know you might find on the website.
Classification: | Other Records |
Title: | Abandoned Communities Website |
Link: | http://www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk/ |
Description: | Abandoned Communities Website |
Extra Info: | The site commemorates all abandoned communities, those that have been washed into the sea, those that are now at the bottom of reservoirs and more. |
Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Other Records |
Title: | All at Sea Website |
Link: | http://www.allatsea.co.za/ |
Description: | All at Sea Website - Includes Many Maritime Disasters |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Post Office / Telephone Directories, Newspapers, School / Educational Records / Alumni, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Minute Books / Meeting Books, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Sports Clubs and Associations, Other Records, Photographs / Pictures |
Title: | Am Baile - Highland History and Culture |
Link: | https://www.ambaile.org.uk/ |
Description: | Am Baile - Highland History and Culture |
Extra Info: | Includes all sorts - such as Sutherland vehicle registrations from the early 1900's, Inverness golf club cards, Dornoch Jail records an much more. |
Classification: | Other Records |
Title: | Ancestor Homes |
Link: | https://www.ancestorhomes.com |
Description: | An extensive collection of digitised property deeds and associated documents dating back to the 1660s. |
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: | Other Records |
Title: | Bankrupt Directory 1820-1843 |
Link: | http://archive.org/details/bankruptdirecto00elwigo... |
Description: | Bankrupt Directory - All those who Appeared in the London Gazette |
Extra Info: | Online book. Names, occupations, addresses and dates. |
Classification: | Companies / Employee and Union Lists, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records, Photographs / Pictures |
Title: | Beamish Collections Online |
Link: | http://collections.beamish.org.uk/ |
Description: | Online Collection from Beamish Museum |
Extra Info: | Includes photographs, advertising materials, trade catalogues and lots of information about the social history surrounding our ancestors. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Newspapers, School / Educational Records / Alumni, Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Poll / Electoral / Voters Registers, Religious Lists / Records, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records |
Title: | BREW One Name Study |
Link: | http://brew.clients.ch/BrewONS.htm |
Description: | BREW One Name Study |
Classification: | Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records |
Title: | British and European Adventurers in Gran Colombia |
Link: | https://hispanic-anglosphere.com/2018/08/23/record... |
Description: | British and European Adventurers in Gran Columbia 1810-1830 some up to 1890 |
Extra Info: | Also lists nationality, with date of birth and occupation on some records. PDF file format. |
Classification: | Other Records |
Title: | British Settlers in Natal (Durban), South Africa |
Link: | http://shelaghspencer.com/ |
Description: | British Settlers in Natal, South Africa 1824-1857 |
Extra Info: | Lists of settlers and what life was like. |
Classification: | Other Records |
Title: | British Settlers in South Africa in the 19th Century |
Link: | https://web.archive.org/web/20200328220926/http://... |
Description: | British Settlers in South Africa in the 19th Century |
Extra Info: | An archived copy of a site that is not currently active. Most information still seems to be available. Use the alphabeticl settlers lists. Also tries to include where they lived prior to south Africa, their parents names and more |
Classification: | Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records |
Title: | British Steam Locomotive History |
Link: | https://www.steamindex.com/ |
Description: | British Steam Locomotive History |
Extra Info: | Includes biographies of the civil and locomotive engineers and managers and information on the locomotives themselves. May not work properly in all browsers. |
Classification: | Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records |
Title: | British Transport Police Website |
Link: | https://www.btp.police.uk/police-forces/british-tr... |
Description: | British Transport Police Website |
Extra Info: | Includes details of some murders and a rogues gallery. |
Classification: | Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records |
Title: | Capital Punishment UK |
Link: | http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/ |
Description: | Capital Punishment UK - The Resource Site for the History of Capital Punishment |
Extra Info: | Includes the histories of 'hanging' prisons. |
Classification: | Newspapers, Religious Lists / Records, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Other Records, Photographs / Pictures |
Title: | Connected Histories |
Link: | https://www.connectedhistories.org/ |
Description: | British History Sources, 1500-1900 |
Extra Info: | From the Universities of London, Hertfordshire, and Sheffield. Burney collection of newspapers, British History Online, the Charles Booth Archive, Old Bailey Online and much more... |
Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Other Records |
Title: | Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations |
Link: | Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations |
Description: | Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations, 1650-1775 |
Extra Info: | Includes information on the ships they were sent on as well as the master of the ship. |
Classification: | Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records |
Title: | Gateway to Missionary Collections in the UK |
Link: | https://web.archive.org/web/20141028163014/http://... |
Description: | Gateway to Missionary Collections in the UK |
Extra Info: | An archived copy of a site no longer active. Most information still seems to be available to view. Index of missionaries and families with dates. Index of archives and where to find them. |
Classification: | Other Records |
Title: | Global Shark Attack File |
Link: | https://www.sharkattackfile.net/ |
Description: | Global Shark Attack File |
Extra Info: | List of shark attacks worldwide, fatal and non fatal, includes source reference (eg date of newspaper article, books etc). |
Classification: | Other Records |
Title: | Internet Library of Early Journals |
Link: | http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/ |
Description: | Internet Library of Early Journals |
Extra Info: | A selection of early journals indexed and available to view online. |
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: | Associations and Civil Officials Lists, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Other Records |
Title: | Malta Family History |
Link: | https://web.archive.org/web/20180722210453/http://... |
Description: | Malta Family History |
Extra Info: | An archived copy of a site that is no longer active. The indexes still seems to be available. British men and women in Malta. |
Classification: | Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records, Photographs / Pictures |
Title: | Music Hall and Theatre History |
Link: | http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/ |
Description: | Music Hall and Theatre History |
Extra Info: | Information and images of the history of music hall and thatre in the UK and Ireland. Includes histories of the theatres, biographies of some entertainers and many playbills. |
Classification: | Other Records |
Title: | National Archives - Selected Cabinet Papers |
Link: | https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/ |
Description: | National Archives - Selected Cabinet Papers 1915-1979 |
Extra Info: | Collection of cabinet papers, covering topics such as the economy, the death penalty, immigration controls and much more. |
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: | Other Records, Photographs / Pictures |
Title: | Peterborough and The Great War |
Link: | https://peterboroughww1.co.uk/ |
Description: | Peterborough and The Great War |
Extra Info: | Two visitors' books from the tea stall on Peterborough East Railway Station 1916 and 1917. Servicemen wrote messages, poems and pictures as they stopped on their journey. Search or browse Some with mini biographies. |
Classification: | Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records |
Title: | Police Roll of Honour |
Link: | https://policememorial.org.uk/ |
Description: | The National Police Officers Roll of Honour and Awards for Gallantry |
Classification: | Other Records |
Title: | Project Gutenberg |
Link: | https://www.gutenberg.org/ |
Description: | Project Gutenberg - Free to Read Books |
Extra Info: | Online books, free to read. |
Classification: | Other Records |
Title: | Railway Fatality Index (RFA) |
Link: | https://www.dands.uk/ |
Description: | Railway Fatality Index (RFA) |
Extra Info: | Click on RFA at top of page. |
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: | Other Records |
Title: | Red Cross Volunteers of the First World War |
Link: | https://vad.redcross.org.uk/ |
Description: | Red Cross Volunteers of the First World War |
Extra Info: | Over 90,000 people volunteered for the British Red Cross at home and overseas during the war. More names still to add. |
Classification: | Other Records |
Title: | Ross and Cromarty Data from Ancestry |
Link: | Ross and Cromarty Data from Ancestry |
Description: | Ross and Cromarty Data Collection from Ancestry |
Extra Info: | Includes History of the Ancient Province of Ross. |
Classification: | Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records |
Title: | Royal Aero Club Aviators' Certificates, 1910-1950 |
Link: | Royal Aero Club Aviators' Certificates, 1910-1950 |
Description: | Royal Aero Club Aviators' Certificates, 1910-1950 |
Extra Info: | For many lists occupation, date of birth and address. Some have photographs. |
Classification: | Land Tax / Lay Subsidy, Institutions / Workhouses / Hospitals etc., School / Educational Records / Alumni, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Minute Books / Meeting Books, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Other Records |
Title: | Scottish Archive Network |
Link: | https://www.scan.org.uk/ |
Description: | Scottish Archive Network |
Extra Info: | Click on Digital Archive for online documents. |
Classification: | Religious Lists / Records, Minute Books / Meeting Books, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records |
Title: | Scottish Genealogy Databases |
Link: | http://web.archive.org/web/20080602101740/http://w... |
Description: | Scottish Genealogy Databases |
Extra Info: | The site is no longer running but is archived. If the site doesn't load clicking on the word impatient often works. |
Classification: | Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Other Records |
Title: | Scottish Records and Documents from British History Online |
Link: | https://www.british-history.ac.uk/catalogue/scotla... |
Description: | Scottish Records and Documents from British History Online |
Classification: | Other Records |
Title: | Searchable Records of the Scottish Parliament |
Link: | https://www.rps.ac.uk |
Description: | Searchable Records of the Scottish Parliament 1235-1707 |
Extra Info: | Maybe slow to load. |
Classification: | Other Records |
Title: | Statistical Accounts for Scotland |
Link: | https://stataccscot.edina.ac.uk/static/statacc/dis... |
Description: | Statistical Accounts for Scotland |
Extra Info: | Can use non-subscriber option to see scanned pages of books. |
Classification: | Other Records |
Title: | Survey of Scottish Witchcraft Database |
Link: | http://witches.shca.ed.ac.uk/ |
Description: | 4,000 records of accused witches and documentation of witchcraft belief. |
Classification: | Companies / Employee and Union Lists, Other Records |
Title: | The Honourable East India Company |
Link: | http://web.archive.org/web/20110207202311/http://h... |
Description: | Finding East India Company Ancestors |
Extra Info: | This is a copy of a site that is no longer active. May take a few moments to load, but most information still seems to be available. Collected from various publications. |
Classification: | Other Records |
Title: | The London Journal of Arts, Science and Manufactures |
Link: | http://archive.org/details/londonjournalar06newtgo... |
Description: | The London Journal of Arts, Science and Manufactures - Patent Inventions |
Extra Info: | Online book, published 1851. Includes 'recent patents' and patent infringements. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Newspapers, Minute Books / Meeting Books, Other Records |
Title: | The Oddfellows Archive |
Link: | https://www.oddfellows.co.uk/ |
Description: | The Oddfellows Archive |
Extra Info: | Subscription site. The archive of the Oddfellows. Includes magazines, directories, minutes books and more. Searchable. |
Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Other Records |
Title: | The Ships List Website |
Link: | http://www.theshipslist.com/ |
Description: | The Ships List Website for Ships' Passenger Lists and More |
Extra Info: | Also includes some marriages at sea. |
Classification: | Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records |
Title: | Theatre Collection - University of Bristol - People Search |
Link: | http://www.calmview2.eu/bristoltheatrearchive/calm... |
Description: | Theatre Collection - University of Bristol - People Search |
Extra Info: | The Theatre Collection is one of the world's largest archives of British theatre history and live art. Use this link to search by person and find their performances and productions. |
Classification: | Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records |
Title: | Trinity House Calendars 1787-1854 |
Link: | https://www.findmypast.co.uk/search/trinity-house-calendars/ |
Description: | Trinity House Calendars 1787-1854 |
Extra Info: | Covering the period 1787 to 1854, most of the papers are Petitions for aid, submitted by the seaman or, often, his widow. Also includes Apprentice Indentures and Miscellaneous Papers. |
Classification: | Register & Rent Rolls, Other Records, Photographs / Pictures |
Title: | Uig Historical Society, Isle of Lewis |
Link: | http://www.ceuig.co.uk/ |
Description: | Uig Historical Society, Isle of Lewis |
Extra Info: | Includes tennant lists, stock ownership records, croft valuations and more, by place. May not work properly in all browsers. |
Classification: | Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Other Records |
Title: | University of Glasgow - Roll of Honour |
Link: | https://universitystory.gla.ac.uk/index.html |
Description: | University of Glasgow - Roll of Honour |
Classification: | Institutions / Workhouses / Hospitals etc., Other Records |
Title: | Workhouse Network |
Link: | https://www.workhousenetwork.org/ |
Description: | Pauper biographies and more. |
Classification: | Institutions / Workhouses / Hospitals etc., Other Records |
Title: | Workhouse Website |
Link: | https://www.workhouses.org.uk/ |
Description: | A Site Dedicated to the Workhouse, its Buildings, Staff, Inmates and much more |
Classification: | Other Records |
Title: | Zoological Society of London - List of Fellows |
Link: | http://archive.org/details/listoffellows1899zooluo... |
Description: | Zoological Society of London - List of Fellows 1899 |
Extra Info: | Online book. Includes some details of their residences in London and the country. |
Classification: | Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Other Records |
Title: | GENUKI County Page for Ross and Cromarty |
Link: | https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/ROC/ |
Description: | General Information for Ross and Cromarty |
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