www.freebmd.org.uk
A searchable index to birth, marriage and death records for England and Wales. You’ll need the reference number from here to order your ancestors’ BMD certificates via the General Register Office. FreeBMD is an ongoing volunteer project, part of FreeUKGen initiative, so keep checking back if you can’t find your ancestors listed.

 

www.freecen.org.uk
Sister site to FreeBMD aimed at making 19th-century census records free online. Part of the FreeUKGen project, along with www.freereg.org.uk (concentrating on parish registers).

 

www.familysearch.org
The world’s largest, free, genealogy site with billions of searchable historical records and research guidance via its Research Wiki, online courses and more. Provided by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as the Mormon church).

 

 

www.genuki.org.uk
The UK and Ireland Genealogical Information Service is a virtual reference library of genealogical data, with links to all the county record offices in the UK, family history societies and much more.

 

www.cyndislist.com
This remarkable site, a labour of love by American Cyndi Howells, is an enormous, constantly updated, categorised index of more than 325,300 genealogical links worldwide. So whether you’re tracing American or Scandinavian ancestry, or anything else in-between, this is a great jumping off point.

 

www.UKBMD.org
Full of useful information and a great base for exploring the records for England and Wales. The site provides more than 2,300 links to websites that offer online transcriptions of UK births, marriages, deaths and censuses, plus a wide range of other indexes and transcriptions, from parish records to monumental inscriptions.

 

 

http://gbnames.publicprofiler.org
Family names profiling website based at the University of London that is investigating the distribution of surnames in Great Britain. For world family names maps.

 

www.census.nationalarchives.ie
The National Archives of Ireland free Census of Ireland search site: note only 1901 and 1911 censuses are available.