Cool new sites
23/01/10 16:57
Old maps - I love this site! It's an old map of London (other world maps available too) laid over google maps, so you can see exactly where your ancestors lived, and what it there today. It helped me place 'cottages' and 'alleys' which no longer exist.
Oral histories at the British Library - this is an amazing collection of sound recordings of people talking about their own pasts from a range of British locations. It is to record accents and dialects, so it gives you an idea of how your ancestors may have spoken, as well as finding out about their daily lives in the early 20th Century.
Currency Converter from the National Archives - find out what a will or salary might have been worth back then.
Deptford Pigots 1840 - trade and persons directory transcribed by Janet & Richard's Genealogy, this is great for those of you researching in this area of London/North Kent.
Oral histories at the British Library - this is an amazing collection of sound recordings of people talking about their own pasts from a range of British locations. It is to record accents and dialects, so it gives you an idea of how your ancestors may have spoken, as well as finding out about their daily lives in the early 20th Century.
Currency Converter from the National Archives - find out what a will or salary might have been worth back then.
Deptford Pigots 1840 - trade and persons directory transcribed by Janet & Richard's Genealogy, this is great for those of you researching in this area of London/North Kent.
