Hello Roy, Would you be willing to list your top five favourite sites? Whenever I see your name I always read your emails with the understanding that I will often learn something new. Thanks for the Historical Directories site. It's a wealth of information. Julie Kane ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roy Stockdill" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 11:24 AM Subject: Re: [ENG-YKS-BRADFORD] Dating photos and photographers. > From: "Roy Stockdill" <[email protected]> > >> From: "Sue Rylands" <[email protected]> >> >> > I have just had 3 lovely clear photos sent to me of Ellen >> > CHARLESWORTH born 1852 Bowling who married Richard WADDINGTON born >> > 1839 Buttershaw. >> > >> > The photograhers name was J. Exley of Great Horton, also of Shipley. >> > >> > Can anyone help me date these please? >> > >> > Many thanks, >> > Sue < >> >> Try searching the website of online directories run by Leicester >> University at:- http://www.historicaldirectories.org/> > > Further to my previous message, the experienced ones among you will > already know of this excellent website. However, newcomers may not be > so familiar with it, so I thought I would bring it to your attention. > > It is very valuable for tracing ancestors who may have been prominent > citizens in their particular town or village or especially tradesmen, > businessmen and such like. Of course, many female traders appeared in > the pages of these directories as well. You can search by location, > decade or keywords and you will find a number of social, court and trade > directories for Bradford from the 1850s through to 1912. > > If you find an ancestor in a directory you will then have an address, > which > then helps you with further searches in the censuses. I have it as one of > my top "favourites" sites and use it constantly. > > -- > Roy Stockdill > Guild of One-Name Studies: www.one-name.org > Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: > www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html > > "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, > and that is not being talked about." > OSCAR WILDE > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.407 / Virus Database: 268.12.10/459 - Release Date: 9/29/2006 > >

From: "Julie" <[email protected]> > Hello Roy, > > Would you be willing to list your top five favourite sites? Whenever > I see your name I always read your emails with the understanding that > I will often learn something new. Thanks for the Historical > Directories site. It's a wealth of information. > > Julie Kane The sites I use the most are not necessarily my favourite ones, however this is because these are the ones I need to use, inevitably, as a near- professional genealogist. I will have to list more than 5 but here are the Top 10 I use constantly, some of them umpteen times a day...... FamilySearch - http://www.familysearch.org/ FreeBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl 1837online - http://www.1837online.com/HomeServlet 1901 census - http://www.1901censusonline.com/ The National Archives - http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/ FamilyHistoryOnline - http://www.familyhistoryonline.net/ Digital Library of Historical Directories - http://www.historicaldirectories.org/ UKBMD - http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/index.php Access to Archives - http://www.a2a.org.uk/ Genuki Yorkshire - http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ Here's my favourite site when I just want to browse, read some fascinating court cases from the Old Bailey and have fun... http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/ You will note I don't list Ancestry! This is because I prefer to support British pay-per-view sites (like 1837online and FamilyHistoryOnline) whenever possible and I only use Ancestry occasionally by buying 10 one-off images from a census the others haven't yet got or I might use the indexes; however, I am trying very hard not to give them a year's subscription! As a heavy user of 1837online, I have a deal that allows me unlimited access to virtually all their records and I rarely need Ancestry. -- Roy Stockdill Guild of One-Name Studies: www.one-name.org Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE