| USEFUL RESEARCH WEBSITES |
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| TITLE | WEB ADDRESS | |
| Skipton Civic Society | http://www.skiptoncivicsociety.org | |
| Borthwick Institute, York | www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/holdings/guides/research-guides/probate-courts | Especially relevant to Yorkshire |
| British Association for Local History | www.balh.co.uk | |
| British Library | www.bl.uk | Maps, voters lists & lots of other sources |
| British Newspaper Archive | www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk | 9 million pages.Gradually adding local newspapers too. |
| British Surnames | www.britishsurnames.co.uk | Distribution of surnames across Britain |
| Carleton in Craven Local History Group | www.carletonincraven.co.uk/local-history | |
| Commonwealth War Graves Commission | www.cwgc.org | Graves in 23,000 locations and 153 countries |
| Airedale & Wharfedale Family History Society | http://www.awfhs.org.uk/hub | |
| Craven Museum & Gallery | www.cravenmuseum.org | |
| Cyndis List | www.cyndislist.com/uk | Good for initial research |
| Deceased Online | www.deceasedonline.com | Five of the major London cemeteries.Site developing rapidly. |
| Durham County Record Office | www.durham.gov.uk/recordoffice | |
| East Riding Archives & Local Studies Centre | www.eastriding.gov.uk/leisure/archives-family-and-local-history | Beverley |
| FamilySearch | www.familysearch.org | Working with other major sites to increase UK content online. Formerly k/a Latter Day Saints (LDS/IGI) |
| Farnhill & Kildwick Local History group | www.farnhill.co.uk/farnhill-history.html | |
| Findmpast | www.findmypast.co.uk | Ongoing partnership with Federation of Family History Societies |
| FreeBMD | www.freebmd.org.uk | Births Marriages & Deaths records |
| Gargrave Heritage Group | www.gargraveheritagegroup.co.uk | |
| General Register Office | www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates | To order BMD certificates online |
| Genuki | www.genuki.org.uk | A good guide to other archives |
| Grace’s Guide | www.gracesguide.co.uk | Guide to industrialist ancestors |
| Hearth Tax Online | www.hearthtax.org.uk | some hearth taxes but not all, try locally |
| Historypin | www.historypin.org | Enables people to attach photographs and memories to a global map, especially WW1 items |
| Huddersfield Heritage Quay | www.heritagequay.org | Wide range of 200,000 documents and artefacts relating to Huddersfield |
| Huddersfield Local History Society | www.huddersfieldhistory.org.uk | |
| Hull History Centre | www.hullhistorycentre.org.uk | Winner of archive sector’s 2013 volunteering award |
| Imperial War Museum | www.iwm.org.uk | Access point for all the various IWM sections |
| Ingleborough Archaeology Group | www.ingleborougharchaeologygroup.org.uk | |
| Burley Local History & Archive Group | http://www.burleycommunitylibrary.weebly.com/burley-archive | |
| Lancashire Online Parish Clerk Project | www.lan-opc.org.uk | Records of Lancashire parishes to end of 19th century. Maps & parish listings |
| London 19th Century Photographers | www.photolondon.org | Database 1841 to 1901 |
| Mediaeval Wills | www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/guide/wil.shtml | First point of reference for researching for mediaeval wills |
| National Library of Ireland | www.nli.ie | |
| National Library of Scotland Maps | www.nls.uk/maps | A fast-growing library of digitised maps |
| National Wills Index | www.origins.net | For researching pre-1858 wills. Not complete but the best place to start. |
| Non-Conformist Marriage Registers | www.bmdregisters.co.uk | Not exhaustive |
| North Craven Heritage Trust | www.northcravenheritage.org.uk | |
| North Yorkshire County Record Office | www.northyorks.gov.uk/archives | Good place to start but be aware of many boundary changes causing records to be held in neighbouring regions |
| Northern Ireland, Public Record Office of | www.proni.gov.uk | |
| School Records | www.schoolrecords.org.uk | Information about Victorian school records & access to individual organisations |
| Scotland, National Archives for | www.nas.gov.uk | |
| Scotland, National Records of | www.nrscotland.gov.uk | |
| Silsden Local History Group | www.silsdenhistorygroup.co.uk | |
| Society of Genealogists | www.sog.org.uk | Largest genealogical collection in the UK |
| Staffordshire Gateway to the Past | www.archives.staffordshire.gov.uk | |
| Teesside Archives | www.middlesbrough.gov.uk/teessidearchives | |
| The Gazette | www.thegazette.co.uk | Access to all issues and sections of the London Gazette |
| The Genealogist | www.thegenealogist.co.uk | |
| The National Archives | www.nationalarchives.gov.uk | Access to 32 million records held by 2,500 archives around UK. |
| Upper Wharfedal – Out of Oblivion | www.outofoblivion.org.uk/upwharfedale.asp | |
| West Yorkshire Archives | www.archives.wyjs.org.uk | |
| Workhouses | www.workhouses.org | UK workhouses |
| Yorkshire Archaelological Society | www.yas.org.uk | |
| Yorkshire Dales Landscape Research Trust | www.cravenmuseum.org/archaeology/community-archaeology/ | |
| Yorkshire Film Archive | www.yorkshirefilmarchive.com | |
skiptonandcravenhistorysociety.com 