

Its 70,000-odd pages provide genealogical links and information for every county in the British Isles, with pages devoted to individual towns and parishes. Genuki is the oldest and most comprehensive gateway to online resources for British and Irish genealogy.


Indexes to the records won't be online until 2008, but the site provides an online ordering service for the certificates you'll need to get started. Its website carries official information about birth, marriage and death records. The GRO is the government agency responsible for civil registration in England and Wales. It provides information about the main types of national record and where to find them, along with links to the websites of the relevant national bodies. This is the UK government's official genealogy portal. There are links for many general topics too, such as tutorials, genealogy software, and a wide range of occupations and religious denominations. There are separate pages devoted to each country or region of the world, with particularly good coverage of the USA and UK. For the more experienced, the Next Steps section looks at older records.Ĭyndi's List - a collection of over 260,000 links to online resources for genealogy - is the definitive genealogy directory. There are video clips, in which Nick Barratt explains the basics, and supporting material on occupations, military service, and migration. The core of the BBC's Family History site relates to the Who Do You Think You Are? television series. A collection of introductory articles about all aspects of genealogy, with links to some of the main online resources.
