Poor Law Settlement Papers (In Great Britain)- Settlement Papers include several categories: Examinations papers, Settlement Certificates and Removal Orders. Vagrancy Passes were issued to permit a pauper to travel across parishes, usually as part of a Removal Order. All these can date from 1601 to 1834.
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Railway Ancestors Family History Society- The purpose of the Railway Ancestors Family History Society is to help members trace their Family Ancestry in England, Scotland, Wales and
Ireland, and also British Railwaymen Overseas,
by informing them of Records, Documents, Books, Special Collections, Etc., that exist in the Record Depositories and by discovering and investigating previously unknown sources.
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Register of Ships- Registration details of vessels such as rigging, tonnage, dimensions, propulsion, owners and Master. Transcribed from the Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping from 1764 up to 2003.
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Registration Districts in England and Wales (1837-1930)- The list shows the places in the civil registration districts in each county in England and Wales between 1st July 1837 and 31st March 1930. The same districts were also used to compile the decennial census for the years 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891 and 1901.
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Richard's Church Albums- A selection of church photographs in six albums covering the Counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucester, Northampton and Somerset, one for the City of Bristol, the eighth album containing some churches from other counties.
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Rossbret Asylums- Was your ancestor in an Asylum in the British Isles? Are you researching the History of Mental Health? Do you have a specific interest in the old Asylum buildings, then this is the site for you.
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Rossbret Workhouse Website- Workhouses in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland
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Roughwood British Churches Album- A collection of British Church photographs with an emphasis on Sussex.
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Society of Brushmakers' Descendants- The SBD is a U.K. Historical Society/ Family History Society that specialises in the brushmaking trade and the brushmakers
who have worked therein for the past few hundred years.
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The Agincourt Honor Roll- The list is the complete index of the Battle of Agincourt Honor Roll. The listings comprise about 1,200 names of the 5,700-man English Army. The battle took place in France in the year 1415.
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The Association of Genealogists and Researchers in Archives- A UK based association founded to promote and maintain high standards of professional conduct and expertise within genealogy, heraldry and record searching and to safeguard the interests of members and clients.
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The Domesday Book- Guides to the weights and measures and the technical terms used in the Domesday Book : the Survey of the Counties of England produced for William I in 1086.
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The Federation of Family History Societies (UK)- Principal aims are: to co-ordinate and assist the work of societies or other bodies interested in family history, genealogy and heraldry, and to foster mutual co-operation and regional projects in these subjects.
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The Francis Frith Collection- Historic photographs of 7,000 cities, towns and villages throughout Britain taken between 1860 and 1970.
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The FreeREG Project's- The FreeREG Project's objective is to provide free Internet searches of baptism, marriage, and burial records, which have been transcribed from parish and non-conformist church registers in the UK.
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The FreeUKGEN Initiative- FreeUKGEN is an initiative aimed at helping make high quality primary (or near-primary) records of relevance to UK genealogy conveniently and freely available online, in a coherent, easy to access and search, information retrieval system.
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The Heraldry Society (UK)- The Heraldry Society exists to increase and extend interest in and knowledge of heraldry, armory, chivalry, genealogy and allied subjects.
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The History of the Victoria Cross- This Web site includes an index of individual VC holder's names and a list (by County & Country) of the location of graves of VC holders in the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Commonwealth, and the rest of the World. Also displayed in this website is the location of all VCs when held by public bodies, world-wide, and lists of Victoria Cross attendees at various important gatherings of VC recipients.
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The Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies (UK)- The Institute was founded in Canterbury in 1961 as the first centre to provide a school for the study of the history and structure of the family and of subjects generally auxiliary to historical applications.
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The International Centre for Convict Studies- The International Centre for Convict Studies (ICCS) is an electronic archive of research, course materials, convict narratives and other information relating to the study of penal transportation and convict experience within the British Empire from 1600-1940. ICCS is a non profit consortium of scholars from Australia, Britain, Europe and North America.
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The Long, Long Trail- The story of the British Army in the Great War of 1914-1918.
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The Mausolea and Monuments Trust- The Mausolea and Monuments Trust is a charitable trust for the protection and preservation for the public of Mausolea and Sepulchral Monuments situated within the United Kingdom.
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The National Archives- The National Archives was launched in April 2003, and brings together two existing organisations, the Public Record Office and the Historical Manuscripts Commission. The National Archives will combine the services and expertise of both the PRO and the HMC.
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The Parish Register Transcription Society (UK)- The Parish Register Transcription Society was formed in April 1999, with the aim of publishing transcripts of Parish Registers and / or other manuscripts / records of use to researchers in family history.
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The Society of Genealogists (UK)- The Society of Genealogists offers a unique combination of research material, guidance and support for those interested in family history and the lives of earlier generations.
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The Somme (TV - Channel 4)- Told through letters, diaries and journals written at the time, the film draws on the thoughts and feelings of the men who fought there to capture the eyewitness experience of the Battle of the Somme
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