Interesting sites to help piece together your family history

Charles Booth Online Archive
Search for streets in London to find out their relative ‘class’ and ‘wealth’ status.

Coal Mining History Resource Centre
Find out which mine your ancestors worked in; index of injuries, fatalities and disasters.

GRO
Order copies of birth, marriage and death certificates online.

Historical Directories
Searchable online images of historical directories.

Image Search
English Heritage site. Search through a database of images for photos of towns, villages, cities etc…

Old Maps
Type in a UK census address & this site will give you its modern day equivalent including postcode.

Port Cities
Dynamic site charting the history of Britain’s reliance on seafaring cityfolk. Liverpool, Bristol, London, Hartlepool & Southampton.

Spacial Literacy
How many Jones’ were there in England in 1881? Where were they scattered by 1998? Search this excellent database for your own surname.

Measuring Wealth
How much was their legacy really worth in today’s terms?



Ford Family wiki site - I developed this to help gather information on the Ford family. Contact me for access.

The Ship’s List
International shipping information including passengers.

Victorian occupations
What exactly did a tweenie, a mango or a saucer do?

Vision of Britain – great site full maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions for Britain between 1801 and 1901.

Bulletin Boards 

Genforum Message Boards

UK Rootsweb Genealogy Bulletin Board Index

Large overarching sites with a wealth of searchable data

Ancestry.co.uk 

International Genealogical Index

Find my past

GENUKI

Roots Web Genealogy

National Archives (UK)

National Archives (Australia)