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International Genealogy Resources
Australia
A list of Family History Centers in Australia, associated with the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. [3K]The Australian Association of Genealogists and Record Agents maintains a Web site with information on their professional society, membership benefits, credo, etc. (Reviewed in volume 1, number 9 of Everton's Genealogical Helper: online edition.)
The Telestra White Pages is a nationwide phone listing for Australia, with both residential and business listings. (Reviewed in volume 1, number 15 of Everton's Genealogical Helper: online edition.)
The Federation of Family History Societies is a British-based umbrella association of genealogical and historical societies around the world. Click here to see the latest list of contact information for their member societies in Australia.
Australian Family Tree Connections is a monthly genealogy magazine for those with an interest in family history in Australia. Their website includes sample information from the print edition and subscription information.
Another resource for ancestor searching down under is the Central Register of Indexing Projects in Australia. This is a web-based clearinghouse for any number of indexing projects of interest to family historians, such as newspaper indexes, surname indexes, cemetery indexes, etc.
Australia and New Zealand Passenger Lists is a cooperative effort between a number of people who have transcripts of ships carrying emigrants to these two nations. The site includes the names of ships, the dates they sailed, the ports they landed at, and the names and email addresses of the people who have copies of the passenger lists for each vessel.
Australia's First Families 2001 features an online database that is searchable by name, by a word in the text of a family story, a placename, a date, and even the name of an immigrant ship.
Canada
You may want to start with a list of Family
History Centers in Canada. (Family History Centers are affiliated
with the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, and are usually
located in meetinghouses of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints - the Mormons.) [3K]
There is also a paper about Canadian archives that are useful to family historians. [3K]
Another article includes information on books of value to genealogists tracing their Canadian roots. [4K]
Also, sources for Canadian genealogy [7K], and Canadian Vital Records [5K].
For those whose ancestors served in the Canadian armed forces, there is an excellent article on Canadian Military Records in the National Archives of Canada. [10K] Another, shorter article gives the address for where to write for service records in Canada and England. [1K]
Seeking your French-Canadian ancestry? Read this article on French-Canadian genealogical research for tips on how you can succeed.
Are you trying to locate the city or town where your ancestors lived? Try the Canadian Geographic Name Server, or its alternate.
There is also an article on Canadian Immigration records, for those seeking information on their Canadian ancestors' arrival in the New World. [8K]
Peter A. Kincaid (kincaid@nbnet.nb.ca) has compiled a Web page with the title New Brunswick Genealogical Information, with information on genealogical resources in New Brunswick.
The Acadian Genealogy Home Page includes background on Acadian genealogy, the Acadian Genealogy CD-ROM (Tiny Tafels on CD), and links to French-Canadian genealogical sites. (Reviewed in volume 1, number 10 of Everton's Genealogical Helper: online edition.)
The Web also has help for those seeking their ancestors in Alberta, with a site titled Alberta Genealogy, with its links to information on both the Alberta Family History Society (in Calgary) and the Alberta Genealogical Society (in Edmonton). (Reviewed in volume 1, number 12 of Everton's Genealogical Helper: online edition.)
If you are looking for ancestors in Nova Scotia, you may want to look at the database of informaiton from the 1891 census of Antigonish County, available at the SOCCGS Web Site. (Reviewed in volume 1, number 13 of Everton's Genealogical Helper: online edition.)
Lurking behind a very clean user interface is a powerful site for locating Canadian Genealogy Resources. The links are organized alphabetically by province, with an impressive array of resources such as adoptees, aboriginal races, bulletin boards, immigrant groups, etc.
National Atlas on SchoolNet - L'Atlas national sur le réseau scolaire, with its online gazetteer, map collection, queries section, and more (in English and French). (Reviewed in volume 1, number 16 of Everton's Genealogical Helper: online edition.)
The British Columbia History Internet/World-Wide Web Page hosts an extensive set of links to British Columbian and Canadian resources on the Internet, focusing on history and genealogy. (Reviewed in volume 1, number 18 of Everton's Genealogical Helper: online edition.)
The Federation of Family History Societies is a British-based umbrella association of genealogical and historical societies around the world. Click here to see the latest list of contact information for their member societies in Canada.
Loyalist Troops in the American Revolution is an article covering research in Loyalist records, with background information and links to sites with Loyalist data.
Vital records indexes from the 1870's are available online at the British Columbia Archives, along with information on the Archives' holdings, location, services, etc.
LOYALISTS-IN-CANADA serves as a forum for those who are seeking their Loyalist ancestry. Using the mailing list, Loyalist descendants can share information they have, ask for help in their search, and assist other genealogists who share their Loyalist heritage. To subscribe to LOYALISTS-IN-CANADA, send an email message to maiser@rmgate.pop.indiana.edu with a single line message: sub LOYALISTS-IN-CANADA-REQUEST. You will receive an email response with more deatiled information on the discussion list.
The Canadian Great War Homepage covers Canada's Role in World War I (1914-1918), with a timeline, statistics, major battles, biographies, and links to other resources on Canada, World War 1, and genealogy.
The Parchemin database is built around the three and a half million notarial records compiled in Quebec, beginning in the early years of the seventeenth century. Unfortunately, not all of those records are indexed as yet, but approximately 30,000 of them have been indexed for this website, sponsored by the curator of those notarial records -- the Chambre des notaires du Quebec.
Sub-titled "Canada's Genealogy & Heritage Magazine", The Global Gazette is a bi-weekly Net publication sponsored by Ontario-based Global Genealogy Supply.
The National Archives of Canada, like its cousin to the south, is an important repository of its nation's documents. Among the information packets online from this archive are pages on its military records, census schedules, land records, immigration lists, loyalist records, and probate records.
Germany
If you need to correspond with someone in Germany, requesting
genealogical information, you will find these form
letters useful. These were compiled by the staff of
the Family History Library, and come complete with English
translations. [8K]
Do you think you might be related to German nobility? Check out the relatively new German Nobility Index, a Web page with a search engine to a database on the current heads of Germanic noble families (this includes noble families outside of the borders of present-day Germany) with biographies, pictures, arms, etc. A German version of this page is also available.
The Odessa Group has produced a Web page with information on Europe, with a special focus on Germans from Russia, Odessa ... a German-Russian Genealogical Library. This includes a "library" of references on the subject, with pointers to other genealogical sources, and pointers to other Internet sources of information on Eastern European countries.
Another group with an interest in Germans from Russia is the American Historical Society of Germans From Russia, with its excellent collection of online and print resources for genealogists. (Reviewed in Volume 1, Number 14 of EGH:online)
Are you looking for a good online German-English dictionary? Check out the offering at Englisch-Worterbucher aller Art, which also includes French, Italian, Danish, Dutch, Portuguese, Japanese, and Russian dictionaries. (Reviewed in volume 1, number 15 of EGH:online.)
Ireland
The Irish Genealogical
Society, International boasts a membership in the thousands,
with participants from Ireland to Australia. Their website has
some data from Griffith's Valuation List for Kerry, membership
information, their publications and resources, etc.
The United States isn't the only nation with a national document storehouse. Ireland has their own National Archives, with documents on the Potato Famine, prisoner transportation, and other topics of vital interest to genealogists.
The best way to contact others with an interest in genealogy in the British Isles is through the UK + Ireland Genealogy Web page, with its vast (and up-to-date) library of links to genealogical information in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and around the world. (Reviewed in volume 1, number 17 of EGH:online.)
This excellent Web page with information on Irish genealogy is a good place to begin your search for resources on the Internet.
Another good starting point is Roberta Gaynor's article, "Finding Your Ancestors in Ireland", with basic information on Irish genealogical research and resources. [26K]
A smaller file contains a bibliography of sources for Irish genealogical research. [2K]
One of the main resources of genealogical information in Ireland is Griffith's Valuation Lists, a type of tax list that can be used as a census substitute in locating your family. This article tells you what it is, and how to use it. [4K]
The North of Ireland Family History Society has constructed a Web page with information on the society, its publications, a database of its members' interests, fragments of the 1851 census of Antrim, and links to other Web sites.
The Federation of Family History Societies is a British-based umbrella association of genealogical and historical societies around the world. Click here to see the latest list of contact information for their member societies in Ireland.
Griffith's Valuation Lists are a standard resource for locating families in the Emerald Isle. This article in EGH:online shows what information they contain, how to use them, and where to find them.
The excellent site for the The National Archives of Ireland covers the basics of family history research, and how to use such basic resources as Irish census schedules, tithe applotments, wills and administrations, and vital records. Each section contains good explanations of its subject and where to locate the records discussed -- both in the Republic of Ireland (the publisher of this material) and in Northern Ireland.
The Dublin Directory 1850 Online involves combining data from two different parts of the directory so that you can read all of the information on each person in one place. Still a work in progress, the directory is accessed by alphabetic lists of surnames. Individual entries give the full name of the head of the house or business, the address, and the occupation.
South Africa
The Federation of Family History Societies is a British-based
umbrella association of genealogical and historical societies
around the world. Click here
to see the latest list of contact information for their member
societies in South Africa.
United Kingdom
You can now access the booklist of the London-based
Society of Genealogist via the World Wide Web, with essential
titles for those seeking their ancestors in the United Kingdom.
The best way to contact others with an interest in genealogy in the British Isles is through the UK + Ireland Genealogy Web page, with its vast (and up-to-date) library of links to genealogical information in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and around the world. (Reviewed in volume 1, number 17 of EGH:online.)
A list of Family History Centers in Britain, associated with the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. [4K]
For a list of print references for genealogical research in the British Isles, go to the Society of Genealogists Bookshop, which features hundreds of works for genealogists available from the oldest genealogical society in the U.K. (Reviewed in Volume 1, Number 14 of Everton's Genealogical Helper: online edition)
Although most of its maps are not online, the Ordnance Survey - Gazetteer of Place Names does have information on its maps for sale, and a searchable database of localities to help you find that elusive town, village, or parish your ancestor came from. (Reviewed in volume 1, number 17 of EGH:online.)
The Federation of Family History Societies is a British-based umbrella association of genealogical and historical societies around the world. Click here to see the latest list of contact information for their member societies.
Are you looking for an ancestor who served in the British Navy? You may want to look at the computerized index to entries in the Chatham News for the period 1885 to 1987. This Acrobat-format file covers casualties, decorations, shipping losses, etc.
You can learn the basics of locating an ancestor in the British merchant marine by reading the article British Merchant Marine Records, appearing in the 4 March 1997 issue of EGH:online. This article discusses records available in the Public Record Office and how to use them, and includes links to other online resources.
Did you have an ancestor who was a passenger on that fateful maiden voyage of the HMS Titanic? Or perhaps someone who was a member of the crew, or one of the entertainers on the voyage? If so, this website can be invaluable in your studies, with its comprehensive list of every voyager on the ship, and short biographies on many of them.
Cunard was one of the main carriers of passengers from the British Isles to America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. You won't find the passenger lists themselves, but the website for the Cunard Archives at the University of Liverpool does contain an excellent explanation of the shipping company, and tells you how to locate other information on British shipping.
Tracking your ancestors in Northumberland can be made easier with a visit to the Northumberland Genealogy section of the GENUKI project. You will find an alphabetic list of the towns in the county with information about each, as well as information on using such valuable resources as civil registration records, cemteries, military records, and poorhouses.
The Royal Families of the World website includes biographical and genealogical data on royal families from the European countries of Belgium, Denmark, Great Britain, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Norway, and Sweden, as well as royalty in Iran, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Thailand.
The Newgate Prison in London was home to many a ne'er-do-well and criminal for centuries. This site does not chronicle every inmate of that institution, but it does include the names of every Newgate criminal executed between 1606 and 1895, and provides a very good history of that infamous gaol.
The archives of the Methodist Church in England moved from London to John Rylands University in 1977, and the Methodist Archives and Research Centre now has a home on the World Wide Web, where you can learn about the history of Methodism in Great Britain, and discover how the Methodist Archives at John Rylands (in Manchester) can help you as you seek your Methodist ancestry in England.
Are you stumped by those strange year references in British records that give the name of a king or queen and the year of his or her reign, rather than using the "standard" Anno Domini designations? Well, you can get fast relief by visiting the English Calendar, where you can type in a "regnal" year (like "8 George 1"), and get the A.D. equivalent.
The Vicar-General Marriage Licence Index is a project headed by Colin Allen and David Squire in cooperation with the London-based Society of Genealogists, are working to index all of the marriage licenses issued by the Vicar-General of the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1701 to 1850.
Genealogists with ancestry on both the north and south of the Mersey now have two online forums to discuss their interests. The DERBYSGEN and LANCSGEN mailing lists have been organized to help anyone with an email box and an interest in history and genealogy in the English counties of Derbyshire and Lancashire. To subscribe to the LANCSGEN-L list, send an email message to lancsgen-l-request@rootsweb.com with the single line message in the body: subscribe lancsgen-l. To subscribe to the DERBYSGEN-L list, send an email message to derbysgen-l-request@rootsweb.com with the single line message in the body: subscribe derbysgen-l
The Buckingham section of the GENUKI website includes a good example of how a county's parishes were organized, with maps showing the outlines of the ancient hundreds in that shire, and a full list of parishes included in each of them. There is also a good basic introduction to the subject, and a brief history of the county's hundreds and their importance.
Out on the southwest corner of Wales, just south of the city of Pembroke, are four parishes of the Church in Wales: Stackpole Elidor, St. Petrox, Bosherston, and St. Twynnells. Even together they do not comprise one of the world's great metropolises, but they do share a fairly unique attraction for genealogists connected to the Internet: transcripts of their parish registers are available on the World Wide Web.
Derek Boys has performed a marvelous service to genealogists with Durham roots by transcribing the marriage entries for St. Paul's, Spennymoor, Durham for 1863-1914, and then making the transcripts available to anyone with access to the World Wide Web.
While the records in their collection are not online, Britain's Public Record Office has an excellent selection of tutorials and other guides to this most important archive for genealogical research in the United Kingdom.
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