This page contains links to the Federation and other Societies. There are also links to other sites which members and visitors may find of interest.
The links to other sites on this page are provided as an aid to research. Royston Family History Society is not responsible for the content of these sites.
A2A
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Data of 9.6 million records from around 400 Record Offices/Archives across England and Wales.
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Ancestor-Search.Info
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Site provides guidance on where to find information on your ancestors in England and Wales.
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Ancestry
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Major U.S. commercial provider of British census, BMD and other data. Civil registrations 1837-2004 can be viewed FREE if you register, otherwise all downloads by subscription.
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Cyndis List
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250,000 listings of c.150 categories.
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Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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Commonwealth War Graves Commission lists approximately 1.7m men and women from WW1 & WW2 in 23,000 cemeteries & memorials, plus 7,000 commonwealth civilians of WW2.
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Ellis Island
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1892 - 1924 listings of 25m passengers & crew at NY arrivals (Also some into Adelaide are there (?) maybe their ship went that way round).
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Family BMD
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"Making family history research easier"
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Family Search
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints (LDS) - Salt Lake is known the world over to family historians for it's enormous contribution of Parish Registers and 1881 census. Roughly c1550 - c1880.
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Free BMD Project
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Volunteers are loading the GRO from September quarter of 1837- not yet completed.
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Freecen
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Associated with Free BMD, volunteer project to UK Census.
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Gazettes Online
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Online versions of London, Edinburgh & Belfast Gazettes - official government announcements - honours, medal awards, bankruptcy
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Historical Directories
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Leicester University site offers digitised social, trade, & commercial directories from England and Wales from 18th century to WW1
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Melbourn Village
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Find out more about the village where the Society holds its meetings.
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National Archives
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Official website of the National Archives for government records from Doomsday 'til now. The catalogue contains 10 million records from Central Government, law courts and UK National Bodies.
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National Archives - Documents Online
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TNA collection of digital records, including Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills from 1384-1858, WW1 Campaign Medals, WW2 seaman's medals, death duty registers, Victorian prisoners, files from Security Services. Searching is free but document downloads are chargeable.
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Old Bailey Online
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Published proceedings of the London Criminal Court - 1674/1834, listing defendants, witnesses, judges, jurors. Links to original images, background material on crime, punishment and sentencing.
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Parish Chest
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Parish Chest is an Aladdin's Cave bursting with parish registers, family tree charts, census records, directories and maps, etc., and houses the UK's largest range of family history products, bringing together almost 150 suppliers and over 26,000 products in one easy-to-use website.
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Public Record Office
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The official archive for England and Wales
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Royston Museum
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The town museum for Royston in Hertfordshire
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Samuel South & Sons
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A web site is dedicated to the history of Samuel South & Sons and the South family
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SG8
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The eMagazine and Business Directory for Royston and the villages in the SG8 postcode area
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UK & Ireland Genealogy (GENUKI)
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Major guide and gateway to British and Irish family history arranged on a county by county basis, some to individual parishes.
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UK BMD
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Gateway to online BMD indexes held by local registrars. (Similar to GENUKI).
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Worldconnect.Rootsweb
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Database of c. 400,000 family trees submitted
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