You are here: Home » Libraries & Archives » Archives and Local Studies » Useful Links » Useful websites - Family History
Useful websites - Family History
Honorary Secretary: Anne McQueen
12 Birchitt Road, Bradway, Sheffield, S17 4QP
Membership Secretary: Paula Newton
Membership Secretary
5 Breydon Avenue, Cusworth, Doncaster, DN5 8JZ
Email membership@doncasterfhs.co.uk
5 Breydon Avenue, Cusworth, Doncaster, DN5 8JZ
Email membership@doncasterfhs.co.uk
Secretary
36 Warren Hill, Rotherham, S61 3SX
Sheffield Mormon Family History Centre
at Wheel Lane, Grenoside, Sheffield
NB no postal address
Tel 0114 245 3124
Access to census 1841-1901, also military records, printed indexes, directories, reference books; some Irish, Scottish and Welsh records. Also includes some Yorkshire parish and probate records. FREE access is available at all Sheffield Libraries.
General Register Office Index to births, marriages and deaths from 1837 to date, including consular and armed forces.
Order birth, marriage and death certificates online from the General Register Office. Information on adoption and stillbirths.
Births, marriages and deaths to 1983 (Incomplete).
Links to 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881 and 1891 and 1901 census with full surname and street indexes.
Search the 1881 census and International Genealogical Index.
The Family Records Centre site provides information on births, marriages and deaths, census, migration etc from government records.
Sheffield Indexers' forum for questions and discussion. Index to 1841 census for Sheffield, work in progress on index to City Road cemetery burial registers; indexes of some parish registers to follow.
Digitised public records from the National Archives including, Prerogative Court of Canterbury wills 1384-1858.
Sources for family historians in public libraries in Britain and Ireland.
Includes national database of mining deaths and injuries in Great Britain 1850-1972.
Indexes to marriages, wills, witness depositions and apprentice records
Maps showing surname distribution from 1881 census and 1998 electoral register.
Genealogical information for Britain, Ireland, Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. Includes a link to Register Office contact details and changes of name.
Cyndi's list of genealogy websites.
Lists any one-name studies registered with the organisation.
Provides information and many useful links about tracing your catholic ancestors.
Information on the migration of Jewish, South Asian, Irish and Caribbean communities to England.
BBC site on family history.
Federation of Family History Societies (contact details and useful addresses).
Register with the site and search 48.5 million records of baptisms, marriages, burials, census indexes, monumental inscriptions by the Federation of Family History Societies.
Selected records of the India Office and East India Company for British family history in India and South East Asia
14 Charterhouse Buildings, Goswell Road, London, EC1M 7BA
Tel: 020 7702 5485
Email library@sog.org.uk
Provides guidance on where to find information on your English and Welsh ancestors.
How useful is this page?