West Middlesex Family History Society

Links to other useful sites

The list below contains a miscellany of sites that are likely to be useful to family historians researching in the UK.

• Familia A web-based directory of family history resources held in public libraries in the UK and Ireland.
• Internet Library of Early Journals Scanned images of 18th and 19th Century magazines, including: Annual Register; Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine; Gentleman's Magazine; Notes and Queries; Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society; The Builder.
• British History Online A digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Among these are the Victoria County Histories for Middlesex and the Survey of London.
• Old Maps This site provides online access to Britain's most extensive digital historical map archive which is jointly owned by the Landmark Information Group and Ordnance Survey, Britain's national mapping agency. Fully searchable.
• Historical Directories A fully searchable database of eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth century local and trade directories from England and Wales.
• Old Bailey Proceedings 1674-1834 A fully searchable online edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of ordinary people ever published, containing accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials
• Manorial Documents Register Searchable for some English counties, including Middlesex, plus the whole of Wales.
• Curious Fox A contact site for those researching family history, genealogy and local history in the UK and Ireland. Every UK county, town and village has a page for enquiries.
• National Trust Names Provides distributions of surnames in the UK, based on data from 1881 and 1998.
• TheOriginalRecord.com Contains scans of historical books and documents containing over 10 million entries relating to families in the British Isles and colonies.
• GenDocs Provides extensive lists useful for research in Victorian London, including churches, workhouses, hospitals, pubs, lodging houses and street indexes.
• Frith Photo Collection Provides a searchable facility to locate old photographs of places in the UK.
• Workhouses An extensive site providing detailed information about the workhouse as an institution, plus a finding aid for details on their location, history, staff and residents.
• Archaic Medical Terms A glossary that can be helpful when interpreting information on death certificates, etc.
• FamilyRecords.gov.uk: Genealogy Software A review of some of the software packages available for family historians.
• Moving Here A migration website from The National Archives, covering Caribbean, Irish, Jewish and South Asian migration to Britain.