British Isles Genealogy Directory

UK-wide and England

• Ancestry.co.uk [pay site]

• Births, baptisms, marriages, deaths & burials

  • BMDIndex.co.uk [1837-2005] [pay site]
  • BMDregisters.co.uk — Official non-conformist & non-parochial BMDs [1534-1865] [pay site]
  • Commonwealth War Graves Commission
  • deceased online [UK & Ireland burials & cremations]
  • FreeBMD [free birth, marriage & death registration index for England & Wales]
  • FreeREG [free baptism, marriage & burial index for England & Wales]
  • Gravestone photographic resource
• British Library Catalogue
• City of London — Archives and city history
• Copac academic and national library catalogue
• FamilySearch
• Family Tree [magazine]
  • Family History Forum
• Federation of Family History Societies
• FreeCEN [free 1841-91 UK censuses]
• The Genealogist [pay site]
• GENUKI UK & Ireland Genealogy

• Maps and place names

  • England Jurisdictions 1851 [counties, hundreds, parishes, registration districts, etc]
  • British Isles Maps and Views [archival]
  • Old-maps.co.uk
  • Public Profiler gbnames [surname distribution maps]
  • Searchable, interactive, present day map of the British Isles [UK & Ireland]
• The National Archives
• Roots UK

• Shipping and migration

  • Ancestors on board [passengers leaving the British Isles 1890-1960]
  • UK Incoming Passenger Lists 1878 to 1960 [pay site]
• Society of Genealogists
• Southampton online archive collections

Isle of Man

• Manx Family history records [imuseum]

Northern Ireland

• General Register Office — Northern Ireland
• Irish Family History Foundation
• Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

Republic of Ireland

• IrelandGenWeb Project including 1864 birth registration index
• Irish Ancestors
• Irish Lives Remembered
• Irish Origins
• The National Archives of Ireland
  • 1901 & 1911 Censuses
  • Ireland to Australia transportation database [convicts 1788-1868]
• The National Library of Ireland
• RootsIreland.ie [pay site]

Scotland

• General Register Office for Scotland
• Highlands and Islands Emigration Society [passengers leaving Scotland 1852-57]
• National Archives of Scotland
  • Search cataogue
• National Library of Scotland
  • Family History
• ScotlandsPeople [pay site]
• Scottish Archive Network
• Scottish Association of Family History Societies
• Scottish Genealogy Society

Wales

• Association of Family History Societies of Wales
• National Library of Wales
  • Family History
  • Wills 1300s-1858
• WalesGenWeb