Liverpool & South West Lancashire FHS - Forum

Thanks to our Education Officer, I think having these in a handy list will prove useful.

Free websites
www.familysearch.org – the IGI

http://labs.familysearch.org – has Irish civil registration on it as well as more parish records

www.freebmd.org.uk

www.ukbmd.org.uk

www.lancashirebmd.org.uk

www.cheshirebmd.org.uk

www.lan-opc.org.uk

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a - access to archives

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

http://www.xmission.com/~nelsonb/lws.htm Lancashire wills

http://www.cheshire.gov.uk/Recordoffice/Wills/ Cheshire Wills

http://www.cwgc.org – commonwealth war graves commission website

www.genuki.org.uk

www.liverpoolhistoryprojects.co.uk – Catholics in Liverpool

www.census.nationalarchive.ie – Irish 1901 and 1911 census

http://www.freecen.org.uk/ - a free resource for Census, nowhere near complete but entirely free and run by volunteers.

http://www.freereg.org.uk/ - as above but for registrations - Birth Marriages and Deaths.

http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/

Government sponsored site, currently engaged in adding parish register records. Nowhere near complete but the database now contains church records for Dublin City, Carlow, Cork and Kerry.

http://www.liverpool-city-group.com

has lots of old Liverpool plates and photos of streets, schools, churches and buildings.

Also has a complete A-Z street map for 1901 and old Liverpool history eBooks and fine art prints.

I hope you find it useful

http://www.locatemyname.com - distribution of surnames across countries and regions
Currently has: UK, USA, Canada, Italy, France, Romania

Cheshire County Council have the following historical directories as free pdf files available at

http://cheshiredirectories.manuscripteye.com/index.htm


A Collection of Directories for Cheshire

Year Directory Name
1789 Cowdroy's Directory of Cheshire
1822-3 Pigot's Directory of Cheshire
1857 Post Office Directory of Cheshire
1864 Morris & Co.'s Directory of Cheshire
1871 Worrall's Directory of Warrington
1878 Post Office Directory of Cheshire
1883 Slater's Directory of Cheshire and Liverpool
1895 Slater's Directory of Warrington, Widnes & St Helens
1902 Kelly's Directory of Cheshire
1906 Kelly's Directory of Cheshire
1910 Kelly's Directory of Cheshire


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http://www.staffordshirebmd.org.uk/
http://www.northwalesbmd.org.uk/
http://www.northeastbmd.org.uk/

Free Irish cemetry records.

http://www.interment.net
http://www.historicgraves.ie

and a new free one ( Ireland )

http://www.ulsterancestry.com/ua-free-pages.php