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My favourite FREE family research websites

FreeBMD

The building blocks of your family tree will be the dates of the vital events in your ancestors' lives - their births, marriages and deaths. Without these you will never be sure of your pedigree.

One of a trio of projects to make these records free to all, FreeBMD is transcribing GRO indexes. Search here for your ancestors, locate the GRO reference and order the certificates you need.

Currently containing over 15,000,000 records, this site is updated monthly. Make it your first port-of-call.

FreeCEN

A sister site of FreeBMD, FreeCEN is transcribing Census records.

Census records are invaluable to family researchers, telling you where your family lived and who they lived with. Find brothers and sisters, and sometimes aunts, uncles and even grandparents. See what jobs they did, and find out where they were born.

This project is far from complete but is updated on a regular basis, so if your ancestors aren't there yet, visit often.

Local Records

These page are a collection of websites, ordered by County, where you can find local records - birth, marriage and death indexes, census records, parish registers, and more.

It is no means complete and I add to it as I find new sites.

WorldConnect Project at RootsWeb

The WorldConnect Project is the world's single largest collection of family trees on the internet. There are currently (October 2008) over 550,000,000 names in the collection.

Search the database, or add your own family tree and contact other members with your ancestors in their trees.

The National Archives of Ireland

Currently only the 1911 Dublin census is available to search, but the digitisation of the entire Ireland 1911 census is underway.

The intention is to then make the 1901 census available.

The project will take some time to complete but for now, if you're looking for your ancestors in Dublin in 1911, this is the site to visit.




Ellis Island Foundation

Between 1892 and 1954 the vast majority of emigrants from the UK to America passed through the immigration processing centre at Ellis Island, New York.

Many passenger lists survive, and this is the place to find them.

CastleGarden.org

Before Ellis Island became America's main immigration processing centre, Castle Garden was, for a short period, the receiving station for immigrants passing through New York.

Search their passenger lists for your ancestors if you can't find them on the Ellis Island site.

Interment.net

Interment.net provides thousands of transcriptions of cemetary records and tombstone inscriptions from around the world.

The content is donated, and donations are received regularly. New records are added almost daily, so visit at regular intervals.

GENUKI

Genuki (Genealogy UK & Ireland) is THE authority on genealogical research on the internet, and there is nothing you can't learn somewhere in its pages.

A list of the kind of information you can find there simply wouldn't do it justice. This is an absolutely must-see site for both beginners and seasoned family researchers.

Clare County Library

If you have family connections in County Clare in Ireland, this is the site to visit.

Census Records, Directories, School Records, Land-Owners, Military Records, Wills and much, much more.


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