Resources

Welcome to our resources page

This page is for basic information on resources and researching in Britain.

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Research Favourites (in no particular order)

Britain (General)

http://www.genuki.org.uk.uk.uk For anything and everything about researching in the UK

http://freebmd.rootsweb.com GRO Birth Marriages and Deaths registrations are being put on line here

http://www.cwgc.org/ War dead databases

http://www.old-maps.co.uk/ Old maps

http://www.bt.com/archives/index.htm How to find old telephone numbers

http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/archiveSearch.asp?WebType=0&Referer=WW1 London Gazette, all sorts of things from name changes, military announcements etc (thanks to Miriam Margolyes for this)

Jewish Links

http://www.jewishgen.org All things Jewish

http://www.jeffreymaynard.com Anglo-Jewry records pages

http://www.jewishgen.org/cemetery/brit/ British Jewish cemeteries

http://www.unitedsynagogue.org.uk/ United Synagogue pages

http://www.thejc.com/Homepage.asp The Jewish Chronicle on-line

http://www.avotaynu.com/csi/csi-home.html Avotaynu Surname Index

http://www.avotaynu.com Avotaynu main website. Avotaynu has a free weekly newsletter

http://www.jewish.co.uk/ Your online Jewish community site

http://susserarchive.org.uk South-West Jewry and much, much more

http://www.jgsgb.org.uk/ The Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain

http://stevemorse.org/jcal Hebrew and civil date converter [Remember Hebrew date changes at dusk, civil date changes at midnight, so evening dates may be a day out]

www.haruth.com/JGJewishGenealogy.html A fairly definitive list of Jewish Genealogical websites

28 May 2003 - The Jewish Chronicle Newspaper and its website "thejc.com" today announced an exclusive deal with JewishReunion.co.uk www.jewishreunion.co.uk from JMT Ventures Limited in which JewishReunion has been re-launched making it the biggest and best resource to locate long-lost friends or family. [Miriam Margolyes]

Migration

http://www.ellisislandrecords.org For ancestors who left England for the United States

http://www.heo-online.de/pages/e_heo.html For ancestors who left from Hamburg

Stephen's Ellis Island Search tool is also available at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/EIDB

http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/borders_timeline.htm A fabulous page at Jewish Gen which details border changes for those researching in Belarus/Lithuania/Poland

http://www.nara.gov/genealogy/passport.html
http://home.att.net/~arnielang/ship09.html
http://www.scan.org.uk/knowledgebase/topics/passports_topic.htm
http://www.ukpa.gov.uk/history.htm Passport related websites [Submitted by Carole]

Other

http://www.google.com The definitive search engine for internet

http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/ Find a mailing list at Rootsweb

http://www.maxpages.com/poland Recommended by Rosemary Wenzerul

http://www.archives.gov.by/eindex.htm for Belarus recommended by Miriam Margolyes

http://www.bh.org.il/Genealogy/index.asp for those researching in Israel. The Beth Hatefutsoth holds films of records made by the LDS plus a wealth of other material.

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