Internet & Websites
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.
Below are 2 lists.
Firstly,some useful sites recommended by members, but there are many more out there. Please e-mail the Society if you find any other really useful sites and they will be added to this list.
Secondly, are websites set-up by Society Members themselves who have researched their own family names and then gone on to construct their own websites.
* Civic, Theatre and Music Hall Research http://www.entertainer-genealogy.org.uk
* Commonwealth war graves http://www.cwgc.org.uk
* Dick Eastmans genealogy Newsletter http://www.ancestry.com/columns/eastman/index.htm
* Electronic Library http://www.netLibrary.com/
* Encyclopedia Britannica http://www.britannica.com/
* Ezine, the free email newsletter of the Federation of Family History Societies: http://www.ffhs.org.uk/ezine/intro.php
* Family History News mailto: UK-FAMILYHISTORYNEWS-L-request@Rootsweb.com
* FFHS http://www.ffhs.org.uk/
* Free BMD http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/
* Gen Web Sites Directory www.chez.com/agi
* Genforum (web based discussion) www.genforum.com
* GENSERVE www.genserve.com/
* GENUKI http://www.genuki.org.uk/
* GOONS One Name Studies www.one-name.org
* Gravestones www.gravestonephotos.com
* HANN/E www.hannfamily.org.uk
* HAWGOOD David Hawgood's Home Page http://www.hawgood.co.uk
* HURLEY One Name Studies www.one-name.org/profiles/hurley.html
* Information on Deeds and Leases http://www.directlinesoftware.com/
* Maps http://uk5.multimap.com
* Merriott families www.merriottfamiliesgenealogy.net
* Randall family www.randallfamilyhistory.com
* USA Maps www.mapsonus.com
* Naval-History.Net has researched and published original data for 14 years. In the case of World War 2, this includes Admiralty War Diaries and Action Reports. The War Diaries from August 1939 to March 1942 are combined with other primary sources into a day-by-day account. The period April 1942 into 1946 is covered by a growing number of War Diaries ranging from the Home and Mediterranean Fleets to the British Pacific Fleet. All can be found at http://www.naval-history.net/xDKWW2-3900Intro.htm The Diaries make fascinating reading in their own right. They also provide detailed movements of hundreds of ships and the men who sailed in them. To research ships and men, you can also use the search box in the top lefthand side of www.naval-history.net.
* Newtons of Furness in Cumbria from the 1780's http://www.dixonnewton.webspace.virginmedia.com
** PAF Review www.saintclair.org/paf/
* Palaeography www.amberskyline.com/treasuremaps
* Poole History Online: http://www.poolehistory.org.uk
* Post Codes http://www.afd.co.uk/pcsearch.htm
* The National Archives, Kew www.pro.gov.uk
* Record Offices & Archives www.oz.net/~markhow/englishros.htm
* Registration Districts - Places & RD they fall under www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/civreg/places/
* Roots Web Mailing Lists www.rootsweb.com/~maillist
* SCOTTS at www.one-name.org
* Society of Genealogists www.sog.org.uk
* Sources www.gensource.com/
* Steve Laceys Gateway www.gengateway.com
* Street map www.streetmap.com
* Surname Lists for counties www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/genuki/SurnamesList/
* Surname Web www.surnameweb.org
* Time Obituaries www.rootsweb.com/~obituary
* UK Papers online www.thepaperboy.com/uk/
* Upwey and Broadwey Local History website www.upweybroadweyhistory.co.uk
This is a list of Society Members who have Web Pages which may be of interest to Family Historians. If you maintain, or know of, any such pages, and would like them included here, please e-mail the Society .
Arnaud C. Aurejac: http://arnaud.aurejac.free.fr/
Lynne Marie Stockman: http://www.obliquity.com/family/
Roy Parkhouse: http://www.parkhouse.org.uk
David Pike: www.math.mun.ca/~dapike/
Alan Brown: http://www.ajbrown.me.uk
David Bennett: http://www.parloc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
Tony Meighan: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~horlergenealogy
Richard W Hinde: www.cstone.net/~rwhinde
Phil Sherwood: www.sherwoodfam.plus.com
Phil Sherwood also manages the Web Site for the Trott One-Name Goup: www.sherwoodfam.plus.com/tonrg
Mick Gray: http://www.mick-gray.co.uk
Jan Davis: http://www.somersetlarders.com/
Jane Taubman: http://www.taubman.org.uk/family
Eddie Hann: http://www.hannfamily.freeserve.co.uk
Maurice L Dake: http://www.dakehome.com
Allan Chinn: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/c/h/i/Allan-Chinn-PQ/index.html
Terry Belbin: http://www.belbin.net
Mike Matthews: http://www.boddyparts.co.uk
Brian Howard: http://www.imi.uk.com/rowsellsite/rowsellwelcome.htm
Sue Osborne: http://www.merriottfamiliesgenealogy.net
Liz Saunders: http://www.lizweb.net
Maggie Silver: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/i/l/Margaret-A-Silver/index.html?Welcome=1061903036
Mark Wareham: http://www.southwilts.co.uk/site/My-family-history-by-Mark-Wareham/index.htm
Ian Padfield: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/p/a/d/Ian-G-Padfield/
Brian Randall: http://www.randallfamilyhistory.com/
Tony Voss: http://genealogy.antipole.co.uk
Colleen Tapscott: http://www.somtapscott-kenningtonlincs.co.uk/
Debbie Kennett: http://www.one-name.org/profiles/cruwys.html
Mike Hurley: www.one-name.org/profiles/hurley.html