Dear List, Was someone looking for the name MAIS this past week or so? I was just following up on some info supplied by Jo and came across a John MAIS who was curate at St James Bristol in 1806 at the marriage of my GASTRELL/ ALVIS couple. Cheers Bev -----Original Message----- From: Ross Richards <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, 21 January 2003 8:36 Subject: [WSX] Favourite Websites >Hi there fellow lister. >Do you know that some of us who have been playing around wiith genealogy on our computers assume an awful lot!!! >I was asked to speak at a genealogy society meeting in a small NZ town recently and decided that the use of computers in researching and making contact with others with similar interests was the way I was going to go. It amazed me how few even knew how to use batch numbers on IGI to search out other family members from the same parish church. I took with me a photocopied selection of some of my favourite sites and found that most were unknown to them - consequently I'm going to share them with you as I know some of you will find them of value. > >GENUKI UK & IRELAND http://www.genuki.org.uk/mindex.html >A great wealth of information here as well as links to as much again. Great lookups also offered in seperate counties. Also some online cencus and parish records. >NB there is also a search engine for this site:- http://www.genuki.org.uk/search.html > >COMMONWEALTH GRAVES http://cwgc.org/ >Fascinating historical stuff here. > >WORLD CONNECT http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi >I was particularly fortunate in finding two branches of my family on this and was able to make contact with two more distant relies. > >UK ARCHIVES www.a2a.pro.gov.uk >Here you need to use all possible spelling of a surname eg Crump in the 1600s was spelt Cromp Crompe Crump Crumpe. > >1901 BRITISH CENCUS www.cencus.pro.gov.uk doesn't cost to find names but to get details it does. Rather than print off the sheets I saved them to disk to save time and printed them later when I wasn't paying for my time - pays to get organized before you start paying and find the folk first so you are getting best value for your dollar when downloading. > >GENEALOGY LINKS www.genealogylinks.net/ > >UK SURNAMES LIST www.county-surnames.co.uk/index.mv > >UK BIRTH MARRIAGES DEATHS http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl >A vast number of records between 1837-1902 Still incomplete but another 4 million odd added on New Years Eve. A great way of finding wives surnames. > >FAMILY SEARCH - IGI, 1881 cencus and more. http://familysearch.org/ >As stated above, this site can be used in a variety of ways. Remember when using batch numbers to change the last number as bigger parish records are split up into time periods. The C can sometimes be replaced with a P, and by using a M instead you find the marriages. > >BATCH NUMBER http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tyeroots/index4.html >Here are a number of batch numbers for churches sorted by county. > >TRADE DIRECTORIES www.historicaldirectories.org/ > >VILLAGES/FAMILIES UK http://curiousfox.com/ >A new site which could prove interesting - it's up to you to add your bit. > >NEW ZEALAND GENEALOGY SEARCH ENGINE http://downtown.co.nz/genealogy/ >Must be good - it accesses my site as well as lots of shipping records etc. > >AUSSIE/NZ BMD www.rootsweb.com/~ausbdm/ > >That'll keep some of you out of mischief for a while. Happy hunting >Adrienne > > >==== WESSEX-PLUS Mailing List ==== >Looking for a modern UK map site - try these......... >http://uk8.multimap.com/map/places.cgi http://www.streetmap.co.uk/ >http://www.ordsvy.gov.uk/getamap/getamap_index.htm >