WELCOME: Let it be known to all, Certificates can only be bought after June 1837, that is when Civil Registration was introduced. Before that you will have to find the Church Registrars. Census in the UK are every 10 years, starting from June 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891 and 1901 they are only released to the public and online every 100 years, for privacy. Ancestral Chart, Start with yourself and work Backwards. (Download) http://genealogy.about.com/library/free_charts/bl_pedigree.htm UK Births, Marriages and Deaths. http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/ (Including all Counties, Scotland, Ireland, Isle of Man and Wales) http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ (Also for purchasing certificates) Lancashire http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/index.php Lancashire Look Up Exchange: http://aztecrose.tripod.com/LookupExchange.htm Cheshire. http://www.fhsc.org.uk:80/ http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/index.php http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/chs/ http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ http://brideindex.info/Pages/f1028.html Cheshire Look Up Exchange: http://mysite.orange.co.uk/cheshirelookup Commonwealth War Graves Commission. (Deaths and Debt of Honour Register) http://www.cwgc.org/ CyndisList. http://www.cyndislist.com/ Place Names. http://www.englishplacenames.co.uk/ Online Newspapers. http://www.onlinenewspapers.com:80/ Surname Searcher. http://www.kuijsten.de/navigator/uk/ Web Sites. Later Day Saints (The Mormons) (Free Software) http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp The National Archives. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/?source=home RootsWeb. Join a RootsWeb Mailing list. http://www.rootsweb.com/ Genuki,(UK and Ireland Genealogy) http://www.genuki.org.uk/ http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/ GRO website for purchasing certificates. http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/ Ancestry Maps. http://www.liverpool-genealogy.org.uk/Streets1841/1841_Census_Maps.htm http://www.lancashire-fhhs.org.uk/lancs/maps/regd1851.htm http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~genmaps/genfiles/COU_Pages/ENG_pages/lan.htm Current Maps. http://www.multimap.com/index.htm http://www.mapquest.com/main.adp UK Online Phone Book. http://www.ukphonebook.com/public?ses=plehdfofkbbleionlolomhcjhgfpimjkeljicaclhadgolmebkdfhiabcohmifei&index=1 Online Phone Books from other Countries available, just ask, I have in my Favourites, UK, Australia, America and New Zealand. Online Parish Clerks. (Lancashire) http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/ Cheshire Parish Register Project. http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~cprdb/Live/v3.3/menu.html An invaluable source for anyone with Merseyside interests :- http://www.liverpool-genealogy.org.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=734 SOME OTHER COUNTRIES. http://www.wayp.com/eng/southpas3.shtml Australia. http://www.coraweb.com.au/ http://www.historyaustralia.org.au/ifhaa/ http://www.angelfire.com/ns/aust/ http://www.naa.gov.au/ Canada. http://automatedgenealogy.com/index.html http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/passenger/001045-100.01-e.php http://bcdlib.tc.ca/links-subjects-newspapers.html Germany. http://www.genealogus.net/welcome.html America. http://www.bigyellow.com/ http://www.cyndislist.com/ http://www.ellisisland.org/ Pay Sites: For current relatives, phone numbers, addresses, electoral rolls, it is good. Some of it is free some of it is pay per view but increasing in it's content all the time, Just added satellite maps etc. http://www.192.com:80/ Note: ----------------- Message from Ian Hartas, UKBMD Dear all, It has been brought to my attention that there are a growing number of scam web sites out there which are trying to hijack users who are actually trying to visit the legitimate versions. Amongst the scam sites are: http://www.freebmd.com http://www.cheshire.bmd.org.uk http://www.wiltshire.bmd.org.uk I.e. subtle, but significant differences between these names and the real ones, which are respectively: http://www.freebmd.org.uk http://www.cheshirebmd.org.uk http://www.wiltshirebmd.org.uk There are several others, all along the same style, simply adding an extra 'dot' or changing the domain type from ".org.uk" into ".com" My guess is that any site that ends in ".bmd.org.uk" i.e. with a dot in front of the "bmd" is likely to be a scam, as this part of the web site name is known as the domain name and it can be prefixed by any other text, such as www.cheshire as in the example above. As UKBMD aims to link to all available genuine BMD and census web sites, my recommendation is simply that you add the UKBMD's site address into your "Favorites" list on your browser and then you can be assured that you will only be shown valid web sites. Safe surfing ! Ron Fitzpatrick, Thanks to, Bob Kirk. Kathy Binns. Gordon.W.Evans. Leslie Bush. Christine Cunningham. Henk Stroat E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (6.0.0.383) Database version: 5.10790 http://www.pctools.com/en/spyware-doctor-antivirus/