Australian Gateway site

For those of you with Australian connections, this site is an excellent gateway site into Australian genealogy
Web Sites for Genealogists

Making the Most of Genealogy Mailing Lists - Where to Find Them & How to Use Them

Subscribing to appropriate mailing lists is an easy way to network with other genealogists to share distant ancestors, get answers to questions, request look-ups and swap research information with people who share an interest in your family name, geographic area, occupation, etc
Making the Most of Genealogy Mailing Lists - Where to Find Them & How to Use Them

British Library Newspaper Archives

Explore two million pages of 19th century newspapers
49 local and national titles using keyword
Searching is free, but this is a subscription site
In addition, there is the Times Digital Archive ( http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/archive/) which contains digitised copies of The Times from 1785 to 1985. Again, this is a subscription site

British Newspapers - Home

Genealogy research methods

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Genealogy research methods

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Introductory Video Guides

Here are several introductory video guides to help you in some key areas of family history research
Introductory Video Guides

A man named Mozingo

An interesting story of Joe Mozingo's uncovering surprising news that his Roots lay in African ground
Ancestry and genealogy: A journalist named Mozingo wonders about his name - latimes.com

Bedfordshire Genealogy Archives

With Rushden sitting so close to the Bedfordshire border, a number of our U3A genealogists have family trees from that County.
This is a site giving information on the records held in the Bedfordshire and Luton Archives

Bedfordshire County Council: Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service

BBC - Family History: Get Started

The BBC has a very good site focussed on Family History Research, have a look at the "Get Started" section then look elsewhere around the website for a lot of good stuff!


BBC - Family History: Get Started

A miscellany of Genealogy information

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A miscellany of Genealogy information

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"Who do You Think You Are?", Old Occupations links

Who do You Think You Are? Old occupations links

Medieval Genealogy and a few other links

Medieval Genealogy and a few other links

Some more Google and Genealogy

Some more Google and Genealogy

Google and Genealogy

Google and Genealogy

Further surname links

Further surname links

Surname Origins, Charts and Genes Reunited links

Surname origins links

Australian and Canadian migration links

Australia / Canada emigration links

Using Genealogy Mailing Lists

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Using Genealogy Mailing Lists

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U3a genuki

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U3a genuki

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UK surnames and their origins

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UK surnames and their origins

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Using Parish Registers in Family History research

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U3a parish registers

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Using Census Records in Family History Research

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Using Census Records

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Using Civil BMD records in Family History research

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U3a bmd

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Some general genealogy links

Notes From U3A Genealogy Group Meeting Aug 19th 2009

U3A Genealogy Group introduction

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Starting the blog

I intend to use this blog as an extension to the U3A Genealogy course lessons that I run in Rushden, available to all of the course members. And because of the nature of a blog, anyone on the internet.
It will also provide a single repository for me to keep a record of all the interesting websites and other interesting genealogy information that I come across.