england general board

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  • Please be sure all postings are appropriate for this board, i.e., general inquiries about research in England. If you know the locality, please post to that country and county board. If you know the surname but not the locality, your post is more appropriate posted to that surname board. Posts that do not pertain to the England and do not explicitly mention the connection will be moved either to an appropriate locality board or to an appropriate surname board in accordance with message board rules.
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If you have any questions or problems using the boards or search features, contact me at the above address. I can't help you with your research, but I'll be happy to respond to polite messages. 
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Good luck with your research!


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Mailing Lists
There are a plethora of lists on which to discuss United Kingdom family history. See information at  http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/UK/ for  lists.



Helpful sites:
* RootsWeb's home page contains additional information and a wealth of tips.
* To find mailing lists: http://www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/gen_mail.html and http://www.genuki.org.uk?indexes/Mailinglists.html
* GENUKI, genealogical information for England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man
* FamilySearch.org for the 1881 census, IGI, and much more
* The National Archives
* Government records and other sources
* A2A database (archives held throughout England)
* Available British census indexes, transcripts, and images
* 1901 census
*
General Register Office for England and Wales - BMD Certificate ordering service
* Links to on-line transcriptions of UK births, marriages and deaths by county
* FreeBMD -- transcriptions of the Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales
* BMD exchange site (find and exchange unwanted certificates)



* The Ships List for passenger lists, shipping schedules, ship descriptions, wreck data, and other shipping and immigration information
* UK geography, boundaries, etc.
* Old maps
* Modern maps: http://uk8.multimap.com/map/places.cgi, http://www.streetmap.co.uk/, http://www.ordsvy.gov.uk/getamap/getamap_index.htm
* Trade and post office directories: The Digital Library of Historical Directories
* Cyndi's List, categorized and cross-referenced index to genealogical resources on the Internet:
* To find a Family History Centre near you
* Parish locator - PARLOC - freeware can be downloaded
* GENUKI Church Database
* Search IGI batch numbers
* FreeCEN : UK Census Online Project
* Society of Genealogists
* Guild of One-Name Studies
* Federation of Family History Societies - An alphabetical list of member societies
* RootsWeb Surname List (RSL) — more than one million surname entries


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