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Samantha

Samantha Report 29 Jul 2012 19:34

Could somebody please advice me on some sites i could use to research my family, im preferably looking at ones that do not charge.

Thank You
Sam

Porkie_Pie

Porkie_Pie Report 29 Jul 2012 19:40

http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl

http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/local_bmd

http://freereg.rootsweb.com/cgi/Search.pl

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers.htm

https://www.familysearch.org/search/

Also use Google


Roy

George_of_Westbury

George_of_Westbury Report 29 Jul 2012 19:58

If you have Irish family, 1901 & 1911 census both free

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/


George

Researching:
My avatar is that of my Dad and shipmates, taken onboard HMS Blanche in 1938, place unknown From left to right, my Dad,Sidney Mellor and Sidney Bateman.

Samantha

Samantha Report 29 Jul 2012 20:59

Roy, George
Thank you very much for the information
x

mgnv

mgnv Report 30 Jul 2012 00:19

Roy's covered the most useful ones.

There are lots of others, but they tend to be locality-specific.
E.g., there's lots of parish records at http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/indexp.html but only from Lancashire.
Since you don't specify any localities, it's a bit pointless listing any here.

Check out http://www.genuki.org.uk/
There's not much there in the way of records, but a ton of info and links to other sites.

http://www.freecen.org.uk/cgi/search.pl can be useful, but their coverage varies greatly by location.
Check their coverage via the county details at http://www.freecen.org.uk/statistics.html first.
They do have nice household displays you can copy and paste.

It's also worth checking the collections at:
https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/list#page=1®ion=UNITED_KINGDOM_IRELAND
Some are unindexed (or only partially indexed) images only, so not completely searchable, except by browsing thru them.

You can do free searches at Ancestry.
There are some free data sets - you can search everything, but won't get full details on most without a sub.
The England & wales 1881 census is free there - I think it gives a nicer transcription display than FS, but you have to go thru a multi-step process:


Incidentally, although it's nothing to do with where to find records, I would copy & paste everything you find. My preference is to paste into a Notepad document (Windows start - All programs - Accessories folder - Notepad I use it so often that I right-clicked on it and created a copy I've pasted on my desktop) When you save the file you've been pasting into, give it a sensible name - Smith.txt or Jones.txt or whatever.

Samantha

Samantha Report 2 Aug 2012 21:10

Thank you mgnv