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A step by step guide to tracing your family history 

Genealogical Directories and Lists    

UK National Burial Index  

Gazetteer of British Place Names

BBC Family History site   

Acts of Parliament of interest to Genealogists

Censustools.com - UK & US Electronic Census Forms

British Origins

London, Belfast & Edinburgh Gazettes

English Origins

Palaeography - Reading Old Handwriting

Deciphering Old Handwriting

Old English Handwriting

Reading Old Handwriting  

English Handwriting - 1500 - 1700

Reading Numbers & Dates in old Parish Registers

Old-English Mailing List

England Middle Name Indexes

UK Family Name Distribution

English Marriage in 1768 - "Handfasting"   

Marriage by Banns

Marriageable Age in the UK

England and Wales BMD Certificate Information

The Chapman Abbreviation Codes used in the UK

UK Census Information

English Register Office Details

Registration Districts in England & Wales 1837 - 1974

Map of the Counties - England, Wales & Scotland

English Counties & Parishes

Chapman Codes

A Chronology of State Medicine, Public Health, Welfare and Related Services in Britain: 1066 - 1999

Genealogy Calendar - find that day of the week! (in MS Excel format)  

Genealogy Calendar - self-extracting version of above (larger download)

Calist Calendar - self-extracting file

Multi-Year Calendar

Relationship Calculator

Relationship Charts - How to work out that distant Cousin! (download)

Calendar Changes in UK in 1752

Blank Research Forms

Medieval English Genealogy

The Workhouse

Rossbret Institutions - Asylums, Workhouses, Poor Law etc.   

Archived CD Books - A MUST!

Viking Connections

The Viking Network

1901 Census Decoder

How to Order Certificates from the PRO - including Application Form

Civic Heraldry of England & Wales

English & Welsh Registry Offices

British Library Newspaper Library Catalogue

British Library Newspapers On-Line

Newspapers On-line

England Newspapers On-line

Marriageable Age and Median Age Information

Railway Staff Registers On-Line

Finding Professional Researchers in the UK

Ancestors of Dover - Professional Researchers

Dating Old Photographs

Dating Old Photographs (2)   

Classy Image - Dating old photographs

Family Chronicle - Dating old photographs

Pre-decimal UK coinage   

Surname Origin List

UK Surnames List

Visitation of Cheshire 1580 & 1613

Textiles, Spinning & Weaving

Spinning the Web - Lancashire Cotton Industry

Manchester Cotton Industry

Glossary of Textile Terms

Lancashire Family History & Heraldry Society

Lancashire Towns & Parishes

Lancashire Towns & Villages

Lancashire Surnames List - Search for and post your names

Lancashire Record Office

Lancashire Cemeteries

Lancashire Workhouses

Greater Manchester Record Office

Lancashire Gazetteer, 1808

Liverpool 1825 (D A H Yates' Travels)

Chelsea Pensioners 

Wills in the UK

Wills of Famous People   

The Churches of Britain & Ireland

GENUKI Church Database

Cheshire Church Photographs

Cheshire Salt Industry, Inns & Weaver Navigation

"Iron" Churches

Ashton-under-Lyne Churches

Stone & Quarry Men of the West Country

Hugh Wallis's Genealogical Web Sites