| FAMILY HISTORY |
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| Getting Started - Roy Stockdale's newbies guide to family history |
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| The Federation of Family History Societies |
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| East Yorkshire Family History Society |
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| East Yorkshire Genealogical Services - (Which hold meetings in Pocklington) |
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| York Family History Society |
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| UK Origins and Gareths List |
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| LOCAL ARCHIVES |
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| Hull City Archives |
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| East Riding Archive & Local Studies Service (with free online catalogue) |
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| Hull University Archives (with free online catalogue) |
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| Borthwick Institute of Historical Research (University of York) |
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| West Yorkshire Archives |
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| Lincolnshire Archives |
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| A2A - Access to Archives: free online catalogue of the UK archives network |
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| The Archives Hub - collections in UK universities and colleges |
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| Yorkshire Museum of Farming have a large library and archive facility available to the public by appointment |
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| NATIONAL ARCHIVES |
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| The National Archives |
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| 1901 Census |
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| BIRTH, MARRIAGE and DEATH RECORDS |
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| Yorkshire Births Marriages and Deaths - the free online index for Hull and Sculcoates Registration Districts plus other parts of Yorkshire 1837-2005 (in progress). |
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| UK BMD - for other free BMD sites in the United Kingdom |
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| Register Offices of England and Wales - current addresses. |
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| Civil Registration in England and Wales |
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| Registration Districts In England and Wales |
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| Free BMD Project - the General Register Office indexes to births, deaths and marriages in England and Wales from 1837. Now over 132 million records (mostly pre-1914). Free |
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Ancestry - free access to scanned images of the General Register Office indexes for England & Wales 1837-2005. |
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Family Relatives - scanned images of the GRO indexes for England & Wales 1837-2005, with full surname indexes for the period 1866-1920. Also includes Overseas Indexes. Commercial site, minimum payment £6. Free access to GRO 1984-2005. |
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"Find My Past" - formerly 1837online - scanned images of the GRO and Overseas indexes. Commercial site, minimum payment £5, vouchers available. |
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| CENSUS RECORDS |
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| DIRECTORIES |
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Historical Directories - Digital Library of 18th, 19th and early 20th-century trade and historical directories from England and Wales. |
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| DNA |
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| GENERAL USEFUL LINKS |
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| HISTORY ORGANIZATIONS |
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| Yorkshire Archaeological Society - Roman Antiguities Section |
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| HULL & EAST YORKSHIRE WEBSITES |
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| Hull boundaries, churches and parishes |
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| Hullwebs - for information about the city of Hull |
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| Hull History Centre - the best collection of printed material about Hull & District |
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Hull Mailing List - Mailing list for questions on Family History, hosted by Rootsweb. To join the list, send an email with the message "subscribe" to:
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| Your Fair Ladies - Family and Local History - Love It, Learn It |
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IMMIGRATION & EMIGRATION (see also Ships & Seafarers) |
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| Emigration from the UK: guide to records in the Public Record Office. |
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| UK Passenger Emigration Lists: 1890 to 1939 now available (commercial site). |
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| Ellis Island - on-line listings of arrivals from 1892 to 1924. Basic searches are free of charge. |
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| Castle Garden - database of 10 million arrivals in the USA 1830-92. Free. |
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| Australia - arrivals from 1788 onwards. Free. |
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| Emigration from Hamburg - Lists are now available 1890-1914. Commercial site. |
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| Transmigration via the port of Hull |
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| Moving Here: the story of Immigration to England. Free. |
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| Genes Reunited: the UK's largest family tree and ancestry website (charge to access full features). |
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| Cyndi's List - the large free listing of genealogy sites on the web |
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| GENUKI - the free Genealogical Information Service for the UK and Ireland |
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| Rootsweb Genealogy Community - hosts mailing lists on surnames, regions and many other topics |
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| Find My Past - pay-per-view site with over 17 million records supplied by Family History Societies of England & Wales |
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| The Origins Network - online access to UK records (commercial site) |
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| Immigrating to the United States in the modern era |
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| IRELAND SCOTLAND & WALES |
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| Ireland: Cyndi's List gives a comprehensive list of useful websites |
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Irish Origins, with full access to Griffith's Valuation (commercial site) |
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| Authentic Ireland - Irish Genealogy Online Resources |
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| Scotland: on-line indexes to Births, Marriages and Deaths from 1855, Old Parish Registers 1553-1854 and the censuses 1841-1901 (commercial site). |
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| Wales: the GENUKI pages provide an excellent introduction. |
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| LIBRARIES |
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| Familia - the guide to family history resources held at public libraries in the UK: |
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| The British Library - online public access catalogue |
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| Newspapers - British Library |
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| The British Newspaper Archive |
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| MAPS & PHOTOS |
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| East Riding Map Archive Service |
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| Old Maps - OS maps from 1854 |
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| For Plans of Hull (and of all the UK) in 1856. For the Hull section select "Yorkshire" and then "K" for Kingston upon Hull |
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| Online Images - photographs of Hull Francis Frith |
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| THE MORMONS - Search of Parish Records |
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| Familysearch - The single most useful genealogy site on the internet. Includes the IGI, Ancestral File, Pedigree Resources File, PAF recording software and the Family History Library Catalogue: |
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| International Genealogical Index (for detailed searches) |
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| Key to IGI batch numbers (Hugh Wallis) |
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| Archer software up to date Pocklington Batch numbers |
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NEWSPAPERS & BOOKS |
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| Hull Daily Mail (Hull's Daily Paper) |
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| London Gazette - on line listings of WWI & II records plus civilian and military medals of the 20th century: |
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| Newsplan - History through local newspapers in the Yorkshire and Humber region |
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| Google Books with Advanced Proxy Search |
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| The British Newspaper Archive |
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| NON-CONFORMISTS RECORDS |
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| A selection of births/baptisms, marriages and deaths/burials from UK non-conformist registers, mostly pre 1837. Commercial site. |
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| PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICES |
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| The Ships List - information on vessels and passengers. Free. |
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PORT - the gateway to maritime information and resources |
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| Maritime History Archive at the Memorial University of Newfoundland (contains much UK material) |
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| Society of Genealogists |
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| SURNAMES |
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| The Guild of One-Name Studies |
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| GENUKI Surnames Lists |
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| Rootsweb surname lists |
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| Surname distribution maps for Great Britain 1881 and 1998. Free. |
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| TRADE UNION RECORDS |
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| Warwick University Modern Records Centre |
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| WAR RECORDS |
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| Debt of Honour - maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Online index and register of deaths in World Wars One and Two: |
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First World War Medal Rolls. As almost everyone who fought received a campaign medal, this is the most complete roll-call of those who fought. Gives regiment and army number. Free index. |
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| Army WWI Pension Records (WO364) |
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| Soldiers Died in the Great War. Commercial Searchable database |
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| Heroes of Hull - dedicated to the soldiers, sailors and civilians of Hull |
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| WILLS |
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| Wills proved at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1384-1858 (index searches are free) |
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| Death Duty indexes 1796-1903 (commercial site) |
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| WORKHOUSES |
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| UK Workhouses |
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| COMMERCIAL DATABASES |
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| 1837Online.com |
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| Find My Past |
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