Resources for family research

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Research Favourites (in no particular order)

Britain (General)

http://www.genuki.org.uk For anything and everything about researching in the UK

http://freebmd.rootsweb.com GRO Birth Marriages and Deaths registrations are being put on line here

http://www.cwgc.org/ War dead databases

http://www.old-maps.co.uk/ Old maps

http://www.bt.com/archives/index.htm How to find old telephone numbers

http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/archiveSearch.asp?WebType=0&Referer=WW1 London Gazette, all sorts of things from name changes, military announcements etc (thanks to Miriam Margolyes for this)

Jewish Links

Nechama's List: "Jewish Records in the Family History Library Catalog" Nechama's List contains a detailed description of over 600 titles of newly filmed Jewish genealogy records.

"Judaism 101" basic website on everything Jewish, a great place to start if you are not Jewish.

The Jewish Historical Society of England-it's been around a long time and has a wealth of background materials and articles to delve into!

South African Jewish Rootsbank the intention is to create a comprehensive database of records and information relating to Jewish immigration to South Africa

The 1851 Project This link opens a new page which explains the project.

The Hyamson Papers This link goes to a British-Jewry webpage which explains what these are, what they contain & where you can see them.

http://www.itim.org.il/bin/en.jsp?enPage=HomePage_E ITIM a background to Jewish life in modern times. All you ever wanted to know about being Jewish (thanks Angie)

http://www.jewishgen.org All things Jewish

http://www.jeffreymaynard.com Anglo-Jewry records pages

http://www.jewishgen.org/cemetery/brit/ British Jewish cemeteries

http://www.unitedsynagogue.org.uk/ United Synagogue pages

http://www.thejc.com/Homepage.asp The Jewish Chronicle on-line

http://www.avotaynu.com/csi/csi-home.html Avotaynu Surname Index

http://www.avotaynu.com Avotaynu main website. Avotaynu has a free weekly newsletter

http://www.jewish.co.uk/ Your online Jewish community site

http://susserarchive.org.uk South-West Jewry and much, much more

http://www.jgsgb.org.uk/ The Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain

http://stevemorse.org/jcal Hebrew and civil date converter [Remember Hebrew date changes at dusk, civil date changes at midnight, so evening dates may be a day out]

http://www.haruth.com/JGJewishGenealogy.html A fairly definitive list of Jewish Genealogical websites

28 May 2003 - The Jewish Chronicle Newspaper and its website "thejc.com" today announced an exclusive deal with JewishReunion.co.uk www.jewishreunion.co.uk from JMT Ventures Limited in which JewishReunion has been re-launched making it the biggest and best resource to locate long-lost friends or family. [Miriam Margolyes]

Migration

http://www.en.nationaalarchief.nl/nieuws/nieuws/naaraustralie.asp?ComponentID=11275&SourcePageID=12907#1 Dutch migrants to Australia [thanks to Miriam Margolyes for this]

http://www.ellisislandrecords.org For ancestors who left England for the United States

http://www.heo-online.de/pages/e_heo.html For ancestors who left from Hamburg

Stephen's Ellis Island Search tool is also available at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/EIDB

http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/borders_timeline.htm A fabulous page at Jewish Gen which details border changes for those researching in Belarus/Lithuania/Poland

http://www.nara.gov/genealogy/passport.html

http://home.att.net/~arnielang/ship09.html

http://www.scan.org.uk/knowledgebase/topics/passports_topic.htm

http://www.ukpa.gov.uk/history.asp Passport related websites [Submitted by Carole]

Other

Latvian State Historical Archives, Slokas Isla 16, Riga LV -1007, Latvia or email: irinwein@latnet.lv - tell them what information you have and they will let you know free of charge whether that's enough for them to do further research. [thanks to Annette for the address and Gillian for the email link]

http://www.dutchjewry.org/default.htm submitted by Danielle Sanderson

http://www.google.com The definitive search engine for internet

http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/ Find a mailing list at Rootsweb

http://www.maxpages.com/poland Recommended by Rosemary Wenzerul

http://www.archives.gov.by/eindex.htm for Belarus recommended by Miriam Margolyes

http://www.bh.org.il/Genealogy/index.asp for those researching in Israel. The Beth Hatefutsoth holds films of records made by the LDS plus a wealth of other material.

GenAmi, the association of Jewish international Genealogy in France

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Ones you have to pay to use

Pauline thinks you need to know about: The FFHS website http://www.familyhistoryonline.net/ Pay for view indexes and transcriptions. Index entries cost 5p (except 'surname only' indexes which cost 3p) Transcriptions cost 7p (except census entries from 1851 onwards and marriage entries from July 1837 onwards which both cost 9p.) Any records not yet checked by the database provider cost 1p less in each case (i.e. 2p, 4p, 6p or 8p). Vouchers available from FFHS Publications or Virtual Vouchers by Credit Card. Vouchers last six months. New user searches enable one to see if names of interest are included. Databases included: http://www.familyhistoryonline.net/database/index.shtml

Eve would like to mention: www.1837online.com . It has all Britain's BDM's on line, searchable for what seems a very reasonable fee. (Fees are currently £5 minimum and 5p per page of GRO index. The session can be suspended for up to 2 months.)

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