Featured Site: (6/25/08) Many websites contain flawed pedigrees of the royal families of Europe. Harvard-educated Neil Thompson, PhD, LLB, FASG, FSG and Col. Charles M. Hansen, FASG are leading a project to publish an accurate account of the ancestry of Europe's royalty. Visit the Graphical Index to the Ancestry of Charles II to view 149 tables of free royal pedigrees. Courtesy: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy.
Featured Site: (5/15/08) England Vital Records -- News just in! FamilySearch has uploaded a large collection of English vital records. Find it under "England Baptisms 1700-1900" and "England Marriages 1700-1900." Searches are free! Courtesy FamilySearch.
Featured Site: (5/1/08) Some Notes on Medieval English Genealogy is the place to find "dark age" ancestors online. The creators of this site have found staggering numbers of old books about medieval families on the web. Of particular note, don't miss the Victoria County History Place Index and the superb guide to thousands of Feet of Fines images and abstracts. Courtesy: Chris Phillips.
Featured Site: (4/1/08) Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1872). A key source for English research, these digitized volumes identify civil registration districts, nearby towns, and population counts for every parish in England. Detailed descriptions help genealogists gain a 'sense of place' for localities where ancestors resided. Courtesy: A Vision of Britain through Time, produced by the Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System (Department of Geography, University of Portsmouth).
Featured Site: (3/17/08) Staffordshire Marriage and Burial Indexes. For years, our company wrote to England by post to search Staffordshire's superb marriage (285,000+ entries) and burial indexes (776,000+ entries). Covering Staffordshire and parishes in bordering counties, the same information can now be accessed instantly at a fraction of the cost. Courtesy: Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry, presented in association with the Federation of Family History Societies.
Featured Site: (2/18/08) Boyd's Marriage Index is a nationwide index to English marriages culled from parish registers, bishop's transcripts, and marriage licence paperwork. This index contains more than 7 million entries dating from 1538 through 1840. It is extremely useful for finding marriages that took place outside of the couple's home parish. Courtesy: British Origins, presented in association with the Society of Genealogists.
Featured Site: (2/11/08) Index to Surnames in Lincolnshire Family History Society Publications contains nearly 93,000 names taken from 74 publications. A tremendous resource for those of us with Lincolnshire roots. Courtesy: Lincolnshire Family History Society.
Featured Site: (1/21/08) London Inhabitants within the Walls 1695 (see Census and Census Substitutes). In accordance with the Marriage Act Tax, officials recorded details regardings families living in the Metropolis in 1695. Returns for most London parishes survive. A reconstructed list of London residents in parishes where returns do not survive is available at the Guildhall Library in London. Courtesy: British History Online, University of London.