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Finding Your Ancestors on the Internet

Some Internet Sites for Family History Research

For further sites, see the Web Resources section of the OFHS web site.

Web Site Address Description
Google www.google.co.uk A Superb Search Engine.
Your single most useful resource
Family Search www.familysearch.org LDS site, contains IGI, UK 1881 Census (except Scotland), etc.
Ancestry.co.uk ancestry.co.uk Census, B.M.D. and other records (subscription or pay-per-view)
FreeBMD www.freebmd.org.uk Births, Marriages & Deaths (now approaching 100% coverage for most years 1837-1915)
FreeCEN
FreeREG
www.freecen.org.uk
www.freereg.org.uk
Census & Parish Registers (coverage still sparse, see web sites for details)
Find My Past www.findmypast.com Various on-line records (subscription or pay-per-view)
GRO Web Site www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content On-line ordering of Birth, Marriage and Death certificates once you have the GRO reference, from FreeBMD etc.
Old Maps www.old-maps.co.uk First Edition OS maps of the UK
UK Multimap uk.multimap.com Modern maps of the UK, plus aerial photographs
1901 Census www.1901census.nationalarchives.gov.uk Free to access index. Pay-per-view to see full data.
RootsWeb www.rootsweb.com
Host for many genealogical resources, including the following two items.
OXFORDSHIRE-L lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/ENG/OXFORDSHIRE.html Oxfordshire Mailing List
OXSIL http://www.rootsweb.com/~oxsil/ Ox. Surname Interest List
GENUKI www.genuki.org.uk Genealogy Resources for UK and Ireland including the following two items:
Mailing List Index www.genuki.org.uk/indexes/MailingLists.html Mailing Lists
Surname List Index www.genuki.org.uk/indexes/SurnamesLists.html Surname Interest Lists
Federation of Family History Societies www.ffhs.org.uk
www.familyhistoryonline.net
Federation's Web Site
Pay-per-view Database
Cyndi's List www.cyndislist.com Vast list of genealogy links, worldwide.
Oxfordshire County Council www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/oxfordshirestudies
www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/oro
www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/heritagesearch
Oxfordshire Studies (OxS)
Record Office (ORO)
Heritage Search
Oxfordshire VCH www.victoriacountyhistory.ac.uk/Oxfordshire Victoria County History of Oxfordshire
British History Online www.british-history.ac.uk A wealth of original material
National Archives www.nationalarchives.gov.uk With global search facility
A2A www.a2a.org.uk Access to Archives
FamilyRecords.gov.uk http://www.familyrecords.gov.uk Links to various government records for family historians
Historical Directories www.historicaldirectories.org Large range of digitised UK directories.
ViewFinder http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk English Heritage's on-line image resource including many photographs by Oxford's Henry Taunt.
GRO for Scotland www.gro-scotland.gov.uk Entry to all the on-line resources of the GRO for Scotland
Scotlands People www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk On-line Scottish Genealogical Records (Pay-per-view)
Scots Origins www.scotsorigins.com Enhanced Scottish IGI data.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission www.cwgc.org Details of servicemen killed in action.
Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry www.gutenberg.org/etext/20395 Downloadable text from Project Gutenberg, of
"The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry" by G. K. Rose
OFHS www.ofhs.org.uk Oxfordshire Family History Society
Etymology www.etymonline.com Origins of words, placenames, etc.
Palaeography www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/palaeography/ How to read old documents (part of National Archives web site)
Latin Names www.freereg.org.uk/howto/latinnames.htm A useful list of the Latinised versions of names found in old registers, wills and on monuments (part of FreeREG web site)
Some other miscellaneous & local interest sites
www.domesdaybook.co.uk Domesday Book
bible.gospelcom.net/bible Bible Gateway
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse Workhouses
history.chadwyck.co.uk/noframes19/search Historical Newspapers
www.bl.uk British Library
www.bodley.ox.ac.uk Bodleian Library
www.lib.ox.ac.uk/olis OLIS (Oxford Libraries Information System)
http://www.headington.org.uk/oxon/index.htm History of Oxford
members.aol.com/Rosevear1/titlepg.htm Oxford Turnpike Trusts
  http://homepage.mac.com/john.ward/oxfordshirechurches/Menu171.html Oxon. Churches (John Ward)
www.oxfordshirechurches.info/ Oxon. Churches (Brian Curtis)
www.whipple.org/oxford/marriagebonds.html Oxon. Marriage Bonds
http://www.oahs.org.uk/oxof.htm Oxoniensa On-Line
http://faces.oxfordshirefhs.org.uk Faces of Oxfordshire
http://www.darkarchivist.com The Dark Archivist
www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/external/cumnor Cumnor Parish Record
www.eynsham.org.uk/record.htm Eynsham Record
www.headington.org.uk/ Headington
www.shotover.org.uk Shotover