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If you are new to the Internet, you may not know where to start using it for Family History research. On the other hand, you may have been using the World Wide Web for some time, and have come across sites you have found useful, and which you would like to tell others about.
Below are some Internet sites, with a brief description of each, which Members have found of use, either whilst researching their Somerset and Dorset ancestry, or doing work of a general genealogical nature.
Please note: the Society does not knowingly provides links to commercial Web Sites or ones which charge for their services; if you consider any of the Web Sites listed falls into these categories, please e-mail the Society and its inclusion will be re-assessed.
If you have found similar sites and think others may find them useful, or have visited these sites and have any comments about them, please e-mail details to the Society .
Not listed here are Web Sites linked elsewhere on these pages, such as GENUKI, or which are specific to areas outside our two counties.
Ancestro-search.info. For newcomers to genealogy it can be difficult to find out what information is available to them and where to look for it. The reference type web site www.ancestor-search.info is aimed principally at guiding newcomers to genealogy on WHERE to seek information on their English and Welsh ancestors in a systematic structured way.
Within this large web site (it runs to over 250 pages) there is a county-by-county guide to family history societies
For each family history society listed , the guide aims to provide:
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a link to the society’s web site |
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the correspondence address of the recommended contact within the society |
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a telephone contact number where appropriate |
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an e-mail address if there is one |
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a link to the Federation of Family History Societies web site if the society is affiliated |
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a note on any facilities provided such as a research room together with a link to the society’s web page providing details |
Cyndi's List - a very useful page with links to all sorts of things Genealogical all over the world. If you don't look anywhere else go here!
David Hawgood's Home Page- information on David's own publications and research. Also some links to major sources or organisations.
The National Archives - all about the National Archives (aka the PRO), researching there, publications, even employment, and several other topics.
The PRO also has a family history website at www.familyrecords.gov.uk Apparently this gives researchers easy access to information about the PROs holdings, and those holdings of other Government bodies such as the India Office at the British Library (please note that the indexes, census returns,
Roots Surname List Finder - a worldwide "Members
Interests" type database. Find others researching your names, and
submit your own for inclusion on the database.
COPAC - searches UK University libraries for any
subject - author/periodicals/subject - can be rather slow.
A list of Registration Districts and addresses of
Registrars can be found at http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/RegOffice/
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (The Mormons) have set up a Family Search site to complement the IGI and Vital Records Indexes.
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Society Members Steve Chapman has compiled a list of possibly useful locations. These have not all been checked, so if you find any problems with them, please e-mail the Society and we will alter the entries.
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