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For Family Historians: Contents

Was Your Ancestor a Doctor? | Links to British Genealogical Research | The British Overseas | Military | Trades | International Family History Research | Cyndi's Pages


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Was Your Ancestor a Doctor?

Contents: Qualifications - Published Sources - Army Doctors - Navy Doctors - East India Company Doctors -
The Colonial Office - Universities: England and Scotland - Universities in Ireland - Universities Abroad (France,
Netherlands and Germany) Paris, Leiden, Giessen and Leipzig - American Doctors - Licentiates of the Society of Apothecaries - The Oath of Association Roll of 1695 - Links - Other Messages


British Genealogical Research

The Federation of Family History Societies | The Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies | Family Tree Magazine | GENEVA: Genealogical Events and Activities | John Fuller's United Kingdom Mailing Lists | The Society of Genealogists | The Public Record Office | UK+Ireland Genealogy Index GENUKI Main Page (should be read first) and GENUKI Contents | The British Library | The British Library Newspaper Library | The UK Public Libraries Page | Familia: Family History Resources in Public Libraries in Britain and Ireland | England Look Up Exchange | GENUKI Contents page for the PRO site - you may find it easier to navigate! | The Open University Studies in Family & Community History | The PRO's About the Family Records Centre | You might want to try Browsing Journals at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Scotland Specifically

General Register Office of Scotland | National Museums of Scotland | Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland

 

Maps and Gazetteers
| Ordnance Survey Gazetteer

The British Overseas
Directory of British members of the Shanghai Municipal Police (1900-45) by Dr Robert Bickers | Immigration to Victoria: British Ports 1852-1859 part of theVictoria Public Record Office (Australia) site | Tony Hammond's British Emigrants in South America in the 1800s | Royal Commonwealth Society Collection at Cambridge University Library | Parish Register Copies from Overseas at the Society of Genealogists | Ian Poyntz's Indian Pages | The British in Singapore and Malaya | British Ancestors in India

Ships and Passenger Lists

The Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild | PRO Victoria Online Ships' Passenger Lists 19th Century arrivals in Australia | Kinships: The Passenger Vessels of Your Immigrant Ancestors. Commercial site offering pictures of a number of ships - for a fee | Immigrants to Canada in 19th Century: The Ships They Came On by Marjorie P. Kohli | Shipping Companies and Liners | The Cunard Line Archives

Military
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
. Their database DEBT OF HONOUR is now available and is searchable by surname. You can go direct to the Debt of Honour Search Page here | Crimean War Research Society | Boer War Virtual Library | The National Army Museum | Trenches on the Web: WWI Virtual History Pages

Trades
Was your ancestor a Customs Officer? Investigate A History of H.M. Customs & Excise | Was your ancestor an entertainer? You can read or post queries about showbiz ancestors at The Stage Newspaper Heydays Column or visit The Circus, Theatre & Music Hall Families Page | If your Ancestor was a Postman go to The Post Office Archives | If your Ancestor was a Photographer go to The Royal Photographic Society or The Fox Talbot Museum of Photography | The Livery Companies of Great Britain (the Great Twelve - Mercers, Grocers etc.) | The Other Livery Companies (13-100) | The Rural History Centre | Baffled by an unfamiliar occupation? try John Lacombe's Occupations Site or Tony Langham's Old Occupations List

Heraldry Section: The British Heraldic Archive | The College of Arms

Document and Deeds Research: Calendar of Saints Days | Reading Latin Documents | Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid


International Family History Research

French
Local Histories of 1700 French Towns and Villages at Monographies d'histoire locale | RootsWeb French Queries Site | Anglo-French FHS | Genealogy in France | Archives Nationales (Paris) | The Olive Tree Genealogy Huguenot Research Source List | The English language pages from a French site called The Internet Genealogical Directory - the chat pages are quite interesting and you may find a useful link or two

American

Ellis Island Immigration Museum | National Archives and Records Administration Washington D.C.

Canadian

Canadian Immigration Index | The National Archives of Canada | British Columbia Archives - this is a particularly good searchable site

Australian
New South Wales Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages | Archives of Australia | Tasmanian Family Link | Australian First Families 2001

South Africa

Anne Lehmkuhl - South African genealogical researcher / publisher | Conrod Mercer's South African Genealogy | Dick Whitlock's South Africa Pages | Africana Library Kimberley

 

International and Miscellaneous

Take a look at The World Genealogical Web Project | Hungarian Family History | Gordon Hillman's The Genealogist Web Page contains a Guide to Researching at LDS Family History Centres which may be useful if you are just starting out

Try some Genealogy Web Search Tools - I Found It! or Common Threads


My page is a far from comprehensive list - for that you should go to Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet - everything you would ever want to know about Internet Family History!

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