The National Archives for Wills, Military, and many other - a major site
Consider checking The National Archives regularly:
before we look at their databases Kew researching yourself or Employing Researchers etc
The Government site The National Archives (was the PRO Pubic Record Office) http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ - most of the following are linked from the main page but listed here as significant in their own way.
Public Record Office DocumentsOnline Home - http://www.documentsonline.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ - new databases continually appearing - keep an eye on them - service records, medals etc
PROCAT Reader -
http://www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/default.asp
Use "Search the Catalogue" for keyword searches for regiments
etc. even names
And the "go to reference" search on top left can be used to check
census locations. LDS 1881 which often just gives a street in London without
suburb - for example use reference RG11/471 (drop any leading zeros) and result
is
"Registration Sub-District 1A Mile End Old Town, Western Civil Parish,
Township" (often abbreviated as MEOT versus MEOT for Mile End New Town)
Another search possibility is to check Missing records from Census - very often
people search and search and in fact the area they want has been lost. Enter the census reference in Series Code box and the word "missing"
in the phrase box.
One of sites linked from TNA is A2A http://www.a2a.org.uk/ which is a catalogue of enormous archives
The above sites can be used to search for the following but I have a separate page for other places that might be useful
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1901 Census of England and Wales Online
- - this was first site with 1901 others have it now visit English Census help
for links
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Associated with PRO and TNA is the Family Records Centre a valuable resource
to visit in London for census and BMD http://www.familyrecords.gov.uk/frc/default.htm
Various Acts of Parliament of Interest to the Genealogist http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Eframland/acts/actind.htm
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Note: The so called National Archivist ceased April 2006 - it was not a Government
site - their data is now at .http://www.1837online.com/Trace2web/
which became findmypast and 1/2008 has merged with Scotland's People
