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Parish registers & Online Transcriptions Archive Looking for a particular name? Select a parish and select baptism, marriage or burial and then Press CTRL+F and type in the name required What this means is that as well as transcriptions completed by ourselves, we will also include entries from volunteer transcribers. Links to other transcription web sites will also be included as it seems a waste of energy to duplicate the great work already completed by others.
Warwickshire Online Parish Clerks Important: please read the explanation of the scheme before contacting an Online Parish Clerk (OPC) (if you have previously read this explanation, jump to the list of parishes but please remember that new information is being added to this explanation, as well as to the table) If you are looking for research help click on the initial letter of the parish in which you are interested in the main table on this page (alternatively use your browser's search/find facility). The table is arranged strictly alphabetically. Little Packington is found among the Ls, not the Ps, and Bishops Itchington is amongst the Bs, etc. The only exception to this is Great and Little Wolford (which is one parish), which is among the Ws, as it it usually known as 'the Wolfords'.
Free Genealogy Resources - Home How to find family records using the best free Internet resources Bookmark This Site (Ctrl+D) There are literally millions of web pages on genealogy and it is easy to get lost so that you can't see the forest for the trees. Where do you go first? England Many sets of records were kept for England and Wales together, so that the problems of locating them and using them are very similar in the two countries. For convenience such records are described here, rather than on the British Isles pages. Counties N.B. GENUKI is organised on the basis of historic counties. To find which GENUKI pages cover more modern counties and county boroughs, please see: Modern and Administrative Counties and County Boroughs.
Welsh Record Offices and Archives on the Web Current as of July 16, 2005 Signing the Register by Edmund Blair Leighton. County Index: General Information: Tracing Master Mariners Debbie Beavis The filmed volumes of Lloyd's Captains' Registers found in large archives worldwide are frequently cited as the main, if not the only source, for tracing the career of a Master Mariner. This is unfortunate as they are just one of the sources available and they do have limitations. The purpose of this posting is not to explain the reasons for and methods of compiling information at each source, which for most people is irrelevant.
Lighthouse Personnel In England, Wales and the Channel Islands, c1790-1911 Merchant Marine Contents Provided to GENUKI by Stan Waight and his team of contributors - see Acknowledgments Table of Keepers Table of Stations by county Location map of the lighthouse sites British Coastguards 1841-1891 Merchant Marine Contents Provided to GENUKI by Stan Waight and his team of contributors. Merchant shipping: crew lists and agreements 1747-1860 1. Early musters No systematic records of the crew of merchant ships was kept until 1747. Until that date, the researcher must rely upon the chance survival of material amongst records kept for other purposes, especially State Papers and those of the Colonial Office, the Treasury, High Court of Admiralty and High Court of Delegates. Most of these records are not indexed in a way which will assist a search for a specific ship or seaman.
Merchant seamen: registers of service 1835-1857 2. Essential information 2.1 How do I access these records? All of the merchant seamen service records from 1835 to 1857 are available to view online at findmypast.co.uk. 2.2 What are merchant seamen service records from 1835 to 1857? Merchant seamen service records are made up of four different registers which cover different date ranges. War dead: First and Second World Wars This is an introductory guide to records of deaths of British and Commonwealth servicemen and women and also, to a lesser extent, civilians who died in the First and Second World Wars. This guide will help you to find out if the information you are looking for exists and, if it does, whether it is held at The National Archives or in other archives. What do I need to know before I start? Try to find out:the name of the person the approximate date of death the branch of the armed forces and the unit, if applicable What records can I see online? Army Roll of Honour (1939-1945)Search the Army Roll of Honour for details of British Army casualties in the Second World War (WO 304) on findmypast (£).
Officers Died This information is intended as a memorial to those listed and has been compiled from various books, casualty lists, medal rolls, newspapers, and memorials. Some of the main sources are listed. If you can add any names/information please contact me. I am slowly transferring casualty rolls into this web site from the Other Ranks site. To those people who have 'lifted' entire sections from my web site and pasted them into their own - shame on you!
British Prisoners of War c.1760-1919 This is a brief guide to researching records of British prisoners of war during the First World War and before. Records of British prisoners of war for this period are varied and can be complicated. They are also incomplete.