Recommended sites are shown under each county.
Direct links to GENUKI information for some UK Counties are also given below.

• Wishful Thinking's Web Site Contents - GENUKI shows at a glance what's available on the GENUKI portion of Wishful Thinking's Web Site and is a superb example of what has been made available by individual contributors, in this instance Rosemary & Mel Lockie.
  
  

Berkshire

• Appleford Bishops' Transcripts extracted by Denis
  
• Berkshire Family History Society
• Berkshire FHS Members Web Sites
• Fiche publications (see Oxfordshire below)
• Berkshire Record Office
• Reading Remembrance Trust has information about Reading Men and Woman who lost their lives during the Great War
  
• Our picture gallery : St. Mary's Parish Church, Shinfield
  • Also the villages of East Hagbourne and Ardington, which used to be in the county before boundary changes
• The Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre holds many Berkshire Wills, including those from the Peculiar Court to the Dean and Canons of Windsor, the Dean of Salisbury and the Cons. Sarum Index
• Nick Hidden has produced about 1,000 will abstracts for Hungerford and Wantage
• Reading Local Studies Library

Cheshire

• Cheshire BMD indexes - produced by the Family History Society of Cheshire this wonderful facility that is still being developed
• Cheshire and Chester Archives and Local Studies have the Wills Database Online
• Cheshire Record Office
• Cheshire Parish Register Project
• Cheshire's Tithe Maps Online
• The Family History Society of Cheshire Excellent range of publications available
• The North Cheshire Family History Society Excellent range of publications available
• Our Picture Gallery:
  • Bowdon, St. Mary's Church With description of Bowdon form Charles Balshaw's Stranger's Guide & Complete Directory to Altrincham, 1855
• Cheshire Photographs - Carl's Cam An exceptional site that includes photos of many of the war memorials in Cheshire. With surname and other indexes, so easy to search
  

Derbyshire

• Ashbourne - three etchings from 1908 and a little about the town
  
  
• Belper Research explores one or two very particular areas in Belper, and some local families connected to those places. This attractive site also includes numerous parish register and other transcripts
  
• Bishops Transcripts - BT's for Derbyshire parishes are held by the Lichfield Joint Record Office
• Bonsall - photographs and cards in our Picture Gallery
  • St. James Parish Church, Bonsall
  • The Cross, Bonsall - three postcards
  • Bonsall, the Water Fountain
  • Bonsall, Nether Green
• Bonsall : Kelly's Directory, 1891 : including Upper Town & Slaley
  • Also see the widely acclaimed Bonsall History Project. The project is aiming to produce a comprehensive history of the village
• Bygone Industries of the Peak Index to articles first published in the Peak Advertiser
  
  
• Census Transcripts for NW Derbyshire are available on Liz Sparke's site
• Chesterfield and District Family History Society
  
• Clay Cross, Derbyshire - one of several websites maintained by Neil Wilson. Another is White's Directory (see below)
  
• Clowne Village - old photographs and other village info.
• Cromford, Derbyshire: A collection of trades directory transcripts - and a quotation. An index, plus links to a good deal of onsite material about the village. The quote is from Firth's 1908 book about Derbyshire and there's an old postcard of the village
  
  
• Darley (North Darley) : Darley Dale, Darley Moor, Hackney, Hackney Lane & Two Dales : Kelly's Directory, 1891
  • Darley Dale : St. Helen's Church
  • Darley Dale War Memorial. Names and photographs of the memorial
  • The Romping Lion - The story of the Dakeyne Disc Engine
    
    
• Derbyshire Ancestral Research Group
• Derbyshire Archaeological Society, with an On Line index
• Derbyshire Book Reviews & Summaries: read Julie Bunting's reviews of books about the county on Rosemary Lockie's page
  
• http://www.derbyshiredales.gov.uk has tourist information from Derbyshire Dales District Council
• Derbyshire Family History & Genealogy - Joseph Platt offers a research service and a web page design service
• Derbyshire Family History Society, includes application form and publications lists.
  • The society has also contributed material to the FFHS Pay-Per-View site
  • Derbyshire Family History Society Members' Web Pages - elsewhere on this website
• Derbyshire Local Studies Libraries (Derbyshire County Council Leisure & Culture - Libraries)
  • Chesterfield LSL
  • Derby LSL
  • County Hall LSL at Matlock
• Derbyshire's Parishes, 1811 - Ann's searchable alphabetical listing, with descriptions of parishes in the county - this page is linked into the GENUKI site for Derbyshire (see above)
  • John Palmer's Derbyshire Place Names Index is a companion to Derbyshire's Parishes, 1811
• Derbyshire Parish Registers at the Society of Genealogists. Also Derbyshire Marriage Licences
• Derbyshire Record Office, Matlock
• The Derbyshire Record Society
• Dethick, Lea and Holloway : Kelly's Directory, 1891
• Discover Derbyshire and the Peak District is a wonderful resource for those keen on walking. It is non-commercial and based on Discover Derbyshire Supplements published by the Derby Evening Telegraph, written by the site's compiler, Denis Eardley
  
  
• Funeral Garland at Matlock Church describes an ancient custom that accompanied the burial of a maiden
  
  
• Genealogy-links - includes links to DBY related sites and is growing rapidly
• The Gentleman's Magazine Library, English Topography Part III, Derbyshire - Dorsetshire (1893). A collection of articles submitted to the magazine between 1731 and 1868, varying in both length and subject. Full transcription of Derbyshire.
  
  
• Hasland
• High Peak - http://www.marchington.org/
  Contains transcribed copies of old books relating to High Peak as well as complete listings of all current UK Marchington's, available only by emailing the webmaster, with a view to connecting them all back to the year 1120 first documented mention of the surname in the Peak Forest.
  
  
• Kelly's Directory Index, 1891 - originally transcripts of entries for Matlock and a few surrounding parishes, it has now expanded considerably to include a good many Derbyshire parishes
  
  
• Matlock and Matlock Bath - the complete web site for those interested in genealogy or local history
  • Peter Aspey's web site describes Matlock Bath's Great Rutland Cavern (The Nestus Mine or Nestor Mine) and the Great Masson Cavern, from his own experience of living at the Heights of Abraham (see Personal Details/Early History)
• Melbourne Historical Research Group have some interesting information about clearances, market gardeners, etc. You can support them by becoming a patron for a small sum
• Memorials - A Walk Through Derbyshire's Past - photos of memorials in Derbyshire Churchyards, mostly to the north and east of Matlock. Includes Darley Dale, Ashover, Shirland, Ault Hucknall and North Wingfield.
  
  
• North East Derbyshire Jayne McHugh's site
• North West Derbyshire Marjorie Ward's site has information, including census transcripts, about Chapel-en-le-Frith, Glossop, New Mills and Mellor
• North Wingfield Local History Group [no link at present] - maintained by Neil Bridgewater
  
  
• Old Local History and Mining Site - maintained by Neil Bridgewater
  
  
• http://www.peakdistrict-nationalpark.com/ Peak District tourist guide featuring hotels, cottages, pubs, b&bs, campsites, caravan parks as well as places to eat and drink, visitor attractions, places to see, walks and more.
• Peakland Heritage - a joint venture between Derbyshire County Council, Peak Park and the British Library is aimed largely at school children. Over 700 topics are included
  
• Pentrich - The Pentrich Revolution Files - there was a good deal of civil unrest in the early part of the nineteenth century. Some 35 Derbyshire men, known as the 'Pentrich Martyrs,' went to trial on 16 Oct 1817 as revolutionaries, including Jeremiah Brandreth. Provided by Helen Wilson
• Pigot's Directory of Derbyshire, 1835 (this is sadly currently unavailable but the link will eventually be restored)
• Photographs - Andy Savage's site has hundreds of large photographs of Derby and Derbyshire
• Photographers & Photographic Studios of Derbyshire, an ongoing study of 19th and early 20th Century Derbyshire studio photographers by Brett Payne
• Probate Records for Derbyshire, Abstracts of, on Rosemary Lockie's GUKUTILS site, ares easily searchable by surname.
  • The Matlock Calendars on this site include a few pre 1858 surnames
    
    
• Revel/Revill Family from From the time of William the Conqueror (part of the Rotherham Web site)
• Rosemary Lockie has a good deal of information about Derbyshire, and Eyam in particular, on her personal pages, as opposed to her GENUKI ones
  • She also has another site
• Rowsley (Great Rowsley) : includes Alport and Stanton Woodhouse : Kelly's Directory, 1891
  
  
• Shirland : St. Leonard's Church - three photographs (our Picture Gallery)
  • 1842 Pigot's Directory extract of Shirland names
• Smalley One Place Study
• South Derbyshire Genealogical Resource Page Brett Payne's excellent site.
• Stanton-in-the-Peak : includes Stanton Lees : Kelly's Directory, 1891
• Stoney Middleton Rosemary Lockie's extracts of the parish registers
  
  
• Tansley : including Matlock Cliff and Lumsdale : Kelly's Directory, 1891
  • There's more information about Tansley on the village site formerly maintained by Denys Gaskell
• Ticknall Community Pages has information about the Ticknall Preservation & Historical Society
  
  
• Our Picture Gallery: Early 20th century picture of Bonsall Cross and views of Matlock (with descriptions)
  
  
• Wensley (South Darley) : includes Oakerside, Darley Bridge, Cross Green, and Snitterton. Kelly's Directory, 1891
  • Also see Peter Dell's Wensleydale website
• Where is it in Derbyshire? Description(s) from "The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland" (1868) Transcribed by Colin Hinson
• White’s 1857 Directory of Derbyshire - transcribed by Neil Wilson.
  • Matlock (transcribed by Ann Andrews) is part of The Andrews Pages
  • Cromford is part of The Andrews Pages
• Wills for Derbyshire - pre 1858 - can be found at the Lichfield Record Office.
  (also look under Probate above)
  • Wills - The Matlock Calendars are on this site, and also include a growing numbers of pre 1858 surnames
  • Wishful Thinking has provided a helpful transcript of "Calendars of Lichfield Wills and Administrations, 1516-1652", (1892) ed. W.P.W. Phillimore, Index Library, British Record Society, London. But you should be aware that few entries give abode.
    • Recent searches for the web site "UK Books Online and Links", which is where scanned copies of the Calendars of Lichfield Wills and Administrations were originally stored, have failed. However the scans are still available on Eric Youle's site, http://history.youle.info/. They are listed under the 'Sheffield Historical' menu item. When I last looked this was in the LH frame
• Winster - excellent site maintained by Dawn Scotting (please note that Dawn's site at winster-ancestry.com no longer exists and she has posted her information as a blog)
• Wirksworth John Palmer's site contains virtually all there is to know about the parish

Devon

Devon GENUKI site

• Barnstaple
• White's Devonshire Directory of 1850 Barnstaple, Pilton Parish and part of Bishops Tawton
  • List of names
• Devon Family History Society
• The Gentleman's Magazine Library, English Topography Part III, Derbyshire - Dorsetshire (1893). A collection of articles submitted to the magazine between 1731 and 1868, varying in both length and subject. There's a little about Devon, including sections on Barnstaple and Honiton. Includes some of the 'beginning of section' engravings.
• North Devon Record Office, Barnstaple - in Tuly Street
• North Devon Local Studies Library, North Devon Athenaeum and Beaford Photographic Archive are in the same building as the North Devon Record Office
• Pigot's Directory, 1830 - Barnstaple, Pilton and neighbourhoods

Gloucestershire

• Gloucestershire Record Office
• Gloucestershire Family History Society
  • Price list of all current GFHS Publications
• Memorial Inscriptions - Rosemary Lockie's personal collection
• Our Picture Gallery : Painswick GLS, a Cotswolds town - four photographs and quote from Pigot's Directory of 1844
• Pigot's 1830 Directory
• Probate Records
• The Genealogy of the Cotswolds and Surrounds of England Allan Taylor has a very extensive web site

Lancashire

• Burnage - As it used to be
• John Rylands University Library of Manchester
• Lancashire BMD
• Lancashire Directory, 1858 : Burnage is onsite
• Lancashire Lantern - The Lancashire Life And Times E-Resource Network allows you to search in databases which are provided and maintained by the Reference Departments within Lancashire County Library
• Lancashire Parish Register Society
• Lancashire Record Office
• Lancashire Surname Interests by John Burns
• Lancashire Wills - on-line index, transcribed by the Latter Day Saints
• Liverpool in the "Long" 18th Century - includes Poll Books and Bankrupts
• Manchester City Council's Burial Records - "800,000 records are available relating to Manchester General, Gorton, Philips Park, Blackley and Southern cemeteries"
• Manchester & Lancashire FHS
• OnLine Parish Clerks project for the County of Lancashire
  • Salford
• Salford Hundred Ancestry, Annals and History - Burials at Barton on Irwell Wesleyan Chapel include some LEATHERs and ROGERS. There's also a search facility of the Chronology for the Salford Hundred A.D. 48 - 1886
• Salford Local History Library at Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Peel Park, Salford
• Our Picture Gallery :
  • Broughton High School, Salford in 1931
  • Market Street, Manchester
  • The Shambles, Manchester

Montgomeryshire

• Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society have a range of publications that are continually being added to
• National Library of Wales
• Newtown in the first half of the nineteenth century
• Powys County Archives County Hall, Llandrindod Wells
• Powys Family History Society.
  • In 1999 and 2000 Ann transcribed part of the 1861 census for the District of Newtown, MGY - piece numbers RG9/4247 to RG9/4253 - and these, along with many other publications, are available from the society
• Have a look at the Probate records of Herefordshire, which is adjacent to MGY
• Our Picture Gallery :
  • Mochdre, St. Asaph's parish church
• North Wales BMD indexes
• Mel Locki has transcribed numerous parish registers from across the border e.g. Alberbury and Condover in Shropshire

Nottinghamshire

• Bassetlaw Museum has a fascinating collection of photographs and postcards of their part of Nottinghamshire
• Beeston
• Nottinghamshire Archives and e-mail: archives@nottscc.gov.uk
• Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections, University of Nottingham

Oxfordshire

• FHS Publications on fiche, includes many Berkshire parishes. Excellent range available
• Bodleian Library : scanned images of selected years from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine and Notes and Queries
• Our Picture Gallery : Two villages that were formerly in Berkshire
  • Ardington - Holy Trinity Church Four photographs
  • East Hagbourne & St. Andrew's Church

Surrey

• See our Godalming page
  • The Godalming Murders in 1817
    
    
• Godalming Museum
  • Also see a little about "Jack" Phillips, the wireless operator on the Titanic, who was born in Godalming
  • Read Titanic passenger list
    
    
• Surrey History Centre, formerly the RO, Guildford Muniment Room and the Guildford LS Library
  
  
• Our Picture Gallery, Godalming, Surrey section includes:
  • Godalming, SS. Peter & Paul Parish Church, 1910
  • Godalming, Borough Road and Frith Hill, 1914
  • Godalming, High Street, 1910 - an Edwardian postcard
  • Godalming, The Old Forge, Pound Lane, about 1916
  • Godalming, Railway Station, 1908

Wiltshire

• The Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre holds many Berkshire Wills, including those from the Peculiar Court to the Dean and Canons of Windsor, the Dean of Salisbury and the Cons. Sarum Index
• Swindon Local Studies Library
• Wiltshire BMD indexes

Yorkshire

• Yorkshire BMD - produced by the county's Family History Societies are collaborating with the local Registration Services.
• Bradford Family History Society. Although I am not a member, they have some good publications
• Brian Jones publishes transcriptions and indexes of census returns, parish registers etc from the Yorkshire area.
• Borthwick Institute, York
• Calverley, a repository of genealogical and historical data concerning the villages of Calverley Parish in the West Riding of Yorkshire
• CD ROM versions of old and rare books and modern photographs are produced by Colin Hinson
• Eric Youle has some excellent family history reference material for Sheffield and Hallamshire (with a little on Derbyshire). See his Historical Material
• Sheffield Records Online
• The Lordship of Tong, parish of Birstall - a brief description of the Yorkshire village, dated 1822, where several of Ann's ancestors lived*
  Also see the Baines Directory entries for the same year
• West Yorkshire Archive Service hold many documents. They also have lists of publications
• Yorkshire Nonconformists - an indexed register of baptisms, marriages and deaths for Northowram for 1644-1702 and 1702-52 written by Rev Oliver Heywood & T Dickenson*
  *both the above sites are transcripts by Colin Hinson

The Midlands

• Midlands Historical Data helps to preserve old, out of print books and maps by creating digital copies which are available to buy. Anthony Abrahams concentrates on four counties of the West Midlands of the UK - Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, and Worcestershire.
  • He also includes material from throughout the UK as well as such morsels as several years of "The Gentleman's Magazine" (Derbyshire and Devon extracts are published elsewhere on The Andrews Pages - go to The Gentleman's Magazine Library)
    
    
• Newspapers in the East Midland and East of England >See NEWSPLAN on their menu
  Which newspapers have been preserved and where to find them
  
  
• Picture the Past is a project digitising the photos of Derby City Libraries and Derby Museums, and Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Libraries. The biggest photo resource on Derby and Derbyshire, and one of the biggest such resources in the country.

• Access to Archives - lists archived documents held across England, dating from the 900s to the present day
  
• Archaic Medical Terminology for Genealogists - where you will find excellent explanations for some of the strange causes of death discovered on ancestor's death certificates. Written by Paul Smith, a doctor. This site does not seem to be available any longer
• A-Z of British Genealogical Research

• Baths, Turkish - see The Victorian Turkish Bath Databank Under V below.
• Black Sheep Index - extracts from press reports 1850 - 1900. Not just the black sheep
• BMD
  • BMD (1) - Find My Past
    Search the ONS indexes of Birth, Marriage and Deaths indexes for England and Wales from 1837 to 2002, as well as British nationals overseas from 1761 to 1994. A pay-per-view site, but not expensive. You can now order a certificate on line. Also all UK census images, including 1911, parish registers ans other genealogy info
  • BMD (2) - FreeBMD "is an ongoing project, the aim of which is to transcribe the Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales, and to provide free Internet access to the transcribed records."
• Books
  • Books that are out of print - search for those titles that have eluded you all these years
    
    • Also try The Internet Bookshop UK
    • Also try www.booklovers.co.uk/
      
  • Chapel Books - books and documents for the genealogist and local historian
    researching England, Wales and Scotland
  • Phillimore publish many books about local history
  • Book Restoration - The Otter Bookbinding restores antiquarian books
• Bridgeman Art Library has examples of the work of a variety of artists
• British Library Integrated Catalogue - simple searching and ordering of documents from the British Library's extensive collections.
• British Listed Buildings

• Calendars Old and New Calendar dates explained
• Census:
  
  • Notes on the 1841 English & Welsh Census to help you understand the entries, which were different from those on later census returns
  • Find My Past
  • Check the UK 1881 census online via FamilySearch. Don't forget that Matlock entries are on this website and are easily searched
  • 1901 census for England and Wales is online. Some basic information is free but you pay a fee if you want to see the actual census return. You can see it, save it and print off a copy. We highly recommend that you do this and check against the transcripts. Matlock Bath and some Matlock entries are on this website
  • www.census-online.com The links page of "Census Online: Your Guide to Online Census Records" which covers most of Great Britain, Canada and the United States
  • 1911 Census, held on 2 April 1911
    • Vision of Britain | Reports of the 1911 Census Summary information from the 1911 Census.
      
• Coal Mining Resource Centre, includes details of mining deaths
• Codes - we list the British Standard County Codes (CCC) for the British Isles. They used to be known as Chapman's Codes as they were drawn up by Colin Chapman
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission - extremely helpful in providing information on those who have died in the two world wars.
  • Our Picture Gallery :
    • There are is a section about War Graves, taken on a trip to France & Belgium during the Summer of 1998. Included are photos of Arras, Etaples, Thiepval, The Belfast Tower, the Honlon Cemetery and Dickebusch
• Copyright
  • Colin Hinson has produced this page on 'Conditions of use for transcribed and other material'. If you use material from websites you need to be aware of what you can and can't do with it.
  • The Andrews Pages also have our own Conditions of Use which we ask you to respect
• Costume:
  • Clothes our ancestors wore The Costumer's Manifesto: Victorian Fashion Links
    Go To > Costume (History) Sorted by Period for the costume history. An excellent web page about fashion from pre-histort to the present day, with excellent photographs and descriptions
  • Costume History (Costume Discounters) - from Egyptian, Greek and Roman, through the Renaissance to the Fifties
• Crimea Medical Officers Rosemary Lockie's archive, containing transcripts of Returns of Medical Officers, Physicians and Surgeons, &c serving in the Crimea, discovered in the Public Record Office
  
• Cyndi's List of Genealogical Sites on the Internet
  
  
• The Domesday Book Online A site designed "to enable visitors to find out the history of the Domesday Book and to give an insight into life at the time of its compilation".
  
  
• English Heritage have placed more than 20,000 previously unseen images on the internet. You can do a simple search by county or place
  
  
• Family Tree Magazine
• familysearch is maintained by the LDS
  • You can search the IGI and view their Ancestral Files
• Federation of Family History Societies Has details of the National Burials Index and Family History Books
  
  
• GENfair - the Online Family History Fair and Genealogy Bookstore
  GENfair and FFHS Publications Ltd announced some time ago that they'd agreed terms for the purchase of GENfair by FFHS Publications Ltd. Either of the two links take you to the Genfair index
• GENUKI homepage - the starting point for genealogy in the U.K. and Ireland.
  • GENUKI FAQ's (frequently asked questions)
  • The latest info about UK and Ireland FHS
  • Genealogy mailing lists
  • Surname lists
• The Gillies Archives of plastic surgery is the most complete archive of medical notes from the Great War. The Queen's Hospital, Sidcup, Kent performed plastic surgery of the face between 1917 and 1925, and today's Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup possesses a unique collection of over 2500 case files relating to that era.
• GOONS - Guild of One-Name Studies. Some of our surname interests are listed, including Leather and Stead/Steed(e)
• Guildhall Library The "Place in the Sun" project -using the online index of Sun Fire Office policy registers 1816-27
  

• Handwriting - a simple course in deciphering old handwriting
• Historical Directories - the University of Leicester's Historical Directory Digitisation project

• IGI - photocopies available from Family Tree Services
• IGI search via the LDS familysearch
  • IGI Batch Numbers
    
    
• JiGraH Resources Graham & Jill Hadfield can help with printing large charts, unlocking data on old discs, web page design etc.

• London Gazette, includes information from WW1 and WW2
• Love Tokens Guy de la Bedoyere discusses coins that have been engraved with some sort of personal message or information
• Lunatic Asylums and Mental Hospitals, Index of English and Welsh - based on a comprehensive survey in 1844, and extended to other asylums.
  

• Marriages for runaway couples were sometimes conducted over the anvil at Gretna:
  • Gretna Green Blacksmith's Shop
• The Manorial Documents Register (MDR), maintained by HMC on behalf of the Master of the Rolls. A more basic search facility than A2A, with some duplication, but contains additional references for some English counties and for all of Wales
• Mediaeval and early-modern palaeography - there's a practical course in reading early writing available on line. Future updates will be available only on cd
• Medieval Genealogy
  
• Methodist Archives and Research Centre at John Rylands University Library of Manchester
  • Methodist Ministers and Probationers who have died in the Work is now sorted by letter of surname
• Money and Coins - English Milled Coinage of the 17th Century
  

• Names - On-line English Names Directory, for all pre-1974 names. By Graham Jaunay
• The National Archives : The Public Record Office (PRO) and the Historical Manuscripts Commission (HMC) joined together to form a new organisation - The National Archives (TNA)
  • The National Register of Archives (NRA) contains information on the nature and location of manuscripts and historical records that relate to British history.
  • The Manorial Documents Register (MDR) identifies the location of manorial records. The MDR is partially computerised
  • There is an on line catalogue (formerly PROCAT) at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/default.asp
    
• National Portrait Gallery - search the collection by artist, portrait or sitter
• The Age of Nelson - "two new massive and authoritative databases covering the Royal Navy officers who fought in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815, and the seamen and marines who fought at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805."
• Newgate Prison A list of inmates, victims and those associated with the prison, by Jeff Alvey (his original site does not seem to be available any longer but the executions are still available)
  • List of Executions from 1606, extracted from 'Haydn's Dictionary of Dates'
• Newspaper Library, Colindale - for newspapers which have been published and which are held by the British Newspaper Library at Colindale, London. Colindale is well worth visiting whilst it remains open, and ordering in advance is recommended. Searching for what you may want beforehand, though, seems to have become more complicated now the information has been incorporated into the British Library's catalogue. Try to search through:
  
  • Newspaper Library Catalogue - searching
• Newspapers, Australian: "Digitised Newspapers and more". Try the Advanced search
  
  
• Occupations and Trades
  • The GENUKI site has excellent links to several sites, including
    • old occupations explained from the USGenWeb Project
    • trades
  • The Olive Tree's pages
    
• Old Bailey : The Proceedings of the Old Bailey London 1674 to 1834
• Old Maps: http://www.old-maps.co.uk/ This is a wonderful site. Find where your ancestors were living in the last century with maps dating from about 1883
• Office of National Statistics, part of U.K. Statistics Authority - for post July 1837 English and Welsh births, marriages and deaths enquiries. Includes list of fees charged for certificates. If you want to find or order a certificate, try www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/
• One Place Studies. Links to research about a town or village, created and maintained by either a single genealogist (who may not live there) or a local history group.
• One Name Studies (see GOONS above)
• Ordnance Survey

• The Parish Chest You can buy Powys FHS publications over a secure server
• Photographs by Julie Woodhouse who lives in Tansley and photographs landscapes from various parts of the world, including many of Derbyshire, which are commercially available.
• Population : Histpop - The Online Historical Population Reports Website, providing access to hundreds of official documents relating to the history of civil registration and the taking of the censuses.
• Postcards
  • Dating old postcards published by Valentine - see the University of St. Andrews website
  • Dating old postcards published by Frith - a list of the numbers of cards published 1894 - 1940
  • Dating old postcards published by Judge - a list of the numbers of cards published 1921 - 1935
    
• Public Record Office - UK. See National Archives above

• Regiments.Org is a "comprehensive catalog of web resources pertaining to military history, with emphasis on the British Empire and Commonwealth"
• Registration Districts for births, marriages and deaths in England and Wales after Sept 1837
• RootsWeb - search for others with the same surname interests
• The Royal British Legion supports ex servicemen

• ScreenGenes - digital restoration and preservation of images. You can learn how to restore your own family photographs and present them on the web
• Slang - UK
• Society of Genealogists - including their publications list.
  • For those who have a family coat of arms and crest, see 'The right to arms' at http://www.sog.org.uk/leaflets/leaflets.shtml and download the .pdf file
• St Catherine's Marriage Index
• Surnames Database Extract of an Office of National Statistics database of surnames in use in England, Wales and the Isle of Man in September 2002
• Surname Web - Details of web sites maintained by other genealogists
  
  
• The Soldier in later Medieval England

• U.K. Genealogy Archives
• U.K. maps and London Street Map UK
• U.K. - Lewis Topographical Dictionaries, 1831 have been provided by Mel Locki (1831 of England & Scotland, 1837 of Ireland and 1833 of Wales)
  
  
• Victorian England
• The Victorian Turkish Bath Databank, a not-for-profit educational project in the UK by Malcolm Shifrin

• War Graves - see Commonwealth War Graves above
• Wills
  • (1) General Information. Please see our Matlock Wills Calendar.
    Although it is primarily concerned with Matlock, it has information for anyone wanting to obtain copies of or learn about wills
    • The GENUKI website also has some information
      
  • (2) Post 1858 Wills
    The Court Service Website has information on obtaining Probate Records.
    
  • (3) PCC Wills
    It is now possible to download images of many PCC wills 1670-1858, though not adms at present
    www.documentsonline.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
    DocumentsOnline (formerly PRO-Online) 'allows you online access to the Public Record Office's collection of digitised public records, including both academic and genealogical sources'.

• ANDREWS
  • What's in a name - The Surname Andrews
    Desmond Holden's article from the Peak Advertiser of 27th October 1997
    
    
• BRYAN
  • Dieter Retz
    BRYAN's from Matlock Bath, DBY.
    His wife has written a book which includes them: "My Moreland Family", by Pamela Marion Retz
    
    
• CLAY
  • Kathryn Morano
    Genealogical Pot-pourri for CLAY family in Wirksworth, DBY, ENG
  • Alan William Bloor
    His CLAY ancestors, from Wirksworth, plus Belper and elsewhere
  • Kelly's Directory, 1891 Clay surname extracts from Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Rutland
    
    
• DARK(E)
  • Frank Bax has two pages on the DARKES
    • DARK(E) Families of Devon - a page of links
    • DARK(E) Family - UK research - information he has been sent
      
  • Joan Smith Descendants of John Darke
    
    
• EXELL
  • Exall and Exell Surnames Wills Calendar, Navy Joiners and ONS references of EXELL deaths in England and Wales Sep 1837 - Dec 1904. Also Exall deaths Sep 1837 - Dec 1880
    
    
• MOTTRAM
  • Clive MOTTRAM has a page dedicated to his 2Xg grandfather, George Austin MOTTRAM
    
    
• PICKSTONE
  • Nevil Pixton's page has a photograph from a reunion and contact details for the PICKSTONE / PIXTON Surname Not available
  • Fred Pickstone's website provides details of his research
    
    
• SMITHIES
  • BMD The first four and a half years of Births, Marriages and Deaths registered in England and Wales (Sep 1837 - Dec 1841) and Casualties of War
    
    
• STEAD
  • Stead-Steed ONS
    The official web site , hosted by Robert Steed
  • The History of the Moravian Church - several Steads, in Gomersal, Pudsey and Ockbrook, belonged to this church so this History may be of interest
    
    
• YARWOOD
  • Boultbee Family History The YARWOODs married into this family

• Custodian 3 for Family Historians A series of databases with pre-defined forms, specially designed to store genealogical information

• 'Generations - Grande Suite' - we use it for all our research. We know that Generations is no longer supported by Sierra, so we have removed a link to their site. This is a pity as we've found it to be an excellent, easy-to-use package.
  

And for those wishing to publish their web sites, though don't want to type in all the html themselves, the best package around is Dreamweaver.