Tuesday, 12 June 2007

General family history research links

Free birth, marriages and death indexes for UK from ancestry.co.uk and free 1881 census, although other searches cost money.

Free - but not always reliable - name searches from the Church of Latter Day Saints, or Mormons. Access to the information was one of the conditions for allowing them to microfilm the parish records etc. Bear in mind that the records on the International Genealogical Index have been compiled by volunteer researchers and may have made some unintended changes.

Free searches of archive materials at a2a. Although many items only have a brief summary and title, others include whole transcripts of wills or deeds, and it includes a lot of interest to the family history researcher.

I will update this posting as new sources occur to me. I will also be compiling pages for each county for Dickins research that will also be applicable to other surnames.

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