F/H   INFORMATION

• Family Search Site (LDS)
• One of the 1st ports of call for those new to genealogy. Giving you I.G.I., Pedigree, 1881 Census and covers most of the world in varied detail.
• Familysearch New Search Site
• The new search development by Familysearch
• Free BMD from 1837 (Hosted)
• Hosted Site-Births/Marriages/Death records from 1837 Free searches
• Surnames % in census 1841-1891
• Your-Family-History surnames % covering all census from 1841-1891, and much more.
• Ancestry a major site (p)
• Ancestry.co.uk is a major site for Genealogy, a lot free, but mostly by subscription.
• Free BMD from 1837 (Original)
• Births/Marriages/Death records from 1837 Free searches
• Community site, sharing family trees worldwide.
• Rootsweb is an Ancestry.com community site, enabling family trees and info to be shared worldwide.
• Findmypast (p)
• Findmypast holds substantial records including the recent addition of FFHS records
• BBC Family History Pages, with great info.
• THe BBC Family History Page with great help and facts/info
• Online Parish Clerks Project
• This is an ongoing expansion, easy to search if parish transcribed.
• SOG Society of Genealogists. (p)
• SOG Society of Genealogists. Good records and info

GENEALOGY SITES

• Cyndislist
• Cyndislist.com one of the major Genealogy Sites. Covers everything you may need to know see entry under Directories
• Genforum.Genealogy covers
• Part of Ancestry, but more USA orientated if you have USA relatives.
• Lost Cousins Site
• Lost Cousins Database site that can prove useful in connecting people searching same info.
• Rootsweb Search Databases
• RootsWeb enables you to search free over 977,000 surnames and find anyone who may be researching your family.
• Rootschat Forum for researching
• Rootschat enables you to take part in a forum with interested researchers and get help.
• Share your BMD Certificates
• Has someone out there already got a certificate, they may be prepared to pass on.
• Tribalpages Family Databases
• A very good site where you can place your family tree and search existing trees. A lot of free USA info.
• Global Genealogy(p)
• A good source of Books-C/D's-Forms-and Genealogy Data

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GOVERNMENT SITES

• National Archives Records Site (General)
• The Public Records Office site will enable you discover what services are offered
• National Archives (Research Guides).
• Research guides that help you identify how to obtain info held by Nat.Arch.
• National Archives covering A2A Records in local areas
• National Archives covering A2A Records in local areas, and full detail on how to search/trace
• National Archives (Family History Portal)
• National Archives Family History on their new portal
• Family Tree Forum
• Forum for where local records are held.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS

• HTML(DOG) and CSS Tutorials
• TA great book, but an even better site with full tutorials on how to use HTML-CSS
• Elizabeth Castro's HTML-CSS 6th Ed
• A book (5th Ed) that I relied on heavily to write my first Web Site now being replaced with 6th Edition
• For Dummies
• A very large publisher of books to meet all levels of skill. Look at Web Development section and E-bay
• The Genealogist's Internet
• This book is the latest version published early 2009 and gives you a full understanding of how to research on the net.
• ineasysteps Site
• This publisher produces reasonably priced books covering HTML - CSS - Web Design and many more. Good for beginners.

CENSUS

• Ancestry all Census (p)
• Ancestry, allows you to find the person, based your input, but for further data subscription required.
• 1881 Census from Familysearch
• Full version of 1881 Census. A good place to start your research as Familysearch has I.G.I. and Pedigree
• 1911 Census by Subscription (p)
• The Government have allowed the 1911 Census to be released earlier than normal, but you have to buy credits to view.
• 1901 Census online (p)
• The 1901 Census online, view by credits.
• Free Census Pro
• This project is similiar to FreeBMD, but Census.
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DIRECTORIES

• Cyndislist as an Internet Directory
• Cyndislist as well as having actual data, is mainly a directory of sources
• Genuki.org
• Genuki is a must when starting out to learn about the various areas of research-records-parishes-history.
• Parishchest (p)
• A very substantial site to find a lot of supporting material-books-c/d-societies.
• Federation of Family History Societies
• The Society helps keep all local family history groups together in one national organisation. It has a lot of contacts which are useful.
• Ukfamilyhistory.bravehost.com
• A really helpful site covering many aspects, including Relationships, How to start, Historical Trade Journals and many more.
• dmoz.org Directory of Websites
• A major directory of website names and purpose mainly produced for search engine. If you have a site, you must register it
• The Guild of One-Name Studies
• A directory whose purpose is to register the surnames being studied by researchers in case there is any overlapping research.
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PROGRAMS-VALIDATION

• Parish Locator Download site
• Parish Locator download, enabling you to view all U.K. Parishes-Radius-Distance-LOcation-Charts.
• Date calculation program
• This Calculator is made for Family History-Age-Census-Relationships
• Validate your CSS Sheets
• Use W3C CSS validation regularly to keep your Style Sheets validated.
• jQuery Language- Javascript Ext.
• jQuery a great extension to Javascript, Look at sliding element.
• Xenu Link checker
• One of the best free link checkers, covers local directories as well as Websites
• Adobe Reader Update/Download Site
• Everyone should have this program, but if not or you wish to update, then here it is.
• PHP Learn all about it!
• Learn about PHP now so you can consider its advantages early on.
• Scrubtheweb-getting your pages right
• Scrub the Web providing many tools for getting your pages correct for max. optimization.
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WEB SITE ESSENTIALS

• HTML-CSS Full References
• Good place to printout XHTML-CSS and other articles.
• www.web-wise-wizard.com- no longer available
• Very good overall site for webmasters of all levels
• Iron Spider-Good for HTML-Kit
• Iron Spider covers most areas, but Tutorial on HTML-KIT is helpful for beginners.
• Visibone HTML-CSS-Character Foldouts
• Visibone provide excellant Tags-Styles-Character Foldouts in colour which yo can keep in front of you as you work.
• Hypergurl Web Design
• An all round site with many links and examples
• Web Design from Scratch
• Good for getting an idea from examples and articles/books on design in UK
• Sharebrain- Main Menu
• A great site for all sorts of developments-see below for colour tools/schemes !!
• Sharebrain- Colour Tools-Schemes
• Fantastic selection of colour schemes - tools - resources
• Colorschemedesigner
• A great tool if your in to colour schemes.
• Freecsstemplates
• I am pleased to recommend their templates, as I used a number in my site
• Themebot great templates
• Great for all sorts of templates-Page-Blog-Web Tools
• W3 The World Wide Web
• The World Wide Web Consortium: Leading the web to its full potential
• Meyerweb-All the latest news
• A great site to see the latest developments in HTML-CSS-Design
• Dynamicdrive
• Great for Tools-CSS Library-Forums-Scripts
• CSS.Maxdesign-Web-Training
• Has some great info/layouts
• cssdrive- The lot
• Another superb site to look at, matched by some great tutorials. Go to Gallery and Resources
• seoconsultants-a must visit
• A business that gives back a lot to the web industry. Has tremendous resources to view.
• Tutsplus-Aricles-Tips-Help
• Great for all sorts of sites-articles-help-more of a directory.
• How to Create-Everything covered
• Excellant for Tutorials-Examples-Browsers
• w3schools
• For training purposes, every subject covered. Learn everthing here
• Bignosebird
• Useful site that covers a lot of subjects
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  Date last updated 20th March 2010