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

On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 11:29:47 +1300, "Ross Richards" <[email protected]> wrote: >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 Adrienne Glad you put this one first - whilst most of the other sites are useful, I feel, IMHO, that GENUKI should be the first stop for anyone researching a new county, be they from the UK or abroad: most county pages will give you a good grounding on what's available and what isn't - although there are always exceptions, with one or two counties a little behind the times, but in the main the amount of info available for some counties is superb - Devon perhaps being the to which we would probably all aspire to ? http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/genuki/DEV/DevonContents.html Paul 50.33.50N 02.26.70W

Adrienne Beside the 1901 census site, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission url is also incorrect, it should read: www.cwgc.org Jon Baker Calne, Wiltshire, UK Family History: www.vectis10w.freeserve.co.uk Calne & District Skittles League: www.calneskittles.org.uk Researching: RYALL (Isle of Wight/South Africa), DOWNTON (Dorset/IOW/NZ), KEEN (Gloucs/IOW), WALKER (Oxford/Nova Scotia), JOHNSON (Gloucs), BAKER (London/Hampshire), HAYTER (Hampshire), HUGHES (Co Armagh), STEWART (Co Down) <snip> > > COMMONWEALTH GRAVES http://cwgc.org/ > Fascinating historical stuff here. ______________________________