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 Rootsweb US Death Records Database
  England Top Databases Search A collection of over 190 English databases of probate, census, directory and other databases, search all databases in one search
Ancient Petitions, Henry III - James I - 13thC & 17thC Search and download over 14,000 images from the series of Ancient Petitions which draws together petitions addressed to the king, to the king and council, to the king and council in parliament, to the chancellor, and to certain other officers of state. You can search on any or all of the following: Petitioner name, Places mentioned, Occupation, Subject, Other Keywords
Anglo-Jewry 1851 Database
England GenWeb Project  including Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England.  this project is being developed  in an effort to help researchers find local resources and reference information.
British Ancestors Home Page (fee) research sevice by church of Latter Day Saints
British Chancery Records, 1386-1558 index of more than 286,500 individuals who were involved in the Chancery Court proceedings between 1386 and 1558
British Coastguards 1841-1901
British-Genealogy.com a well presented site with  useful information/tutorials about interpreting parish documents through the ages.
British Home Children British Home Children Site for researchers of 100,000 British Home Children emigrated to Canada 1870-1940. Names of +3,000 Home Children.
British Monarchs 1066-1901
Brits in South America Database over 8,500 entries c
DataMarine's War Brides More than one hundred thousand British war brides and large numbers of children sailed away, mostly bound for Canada, the United States, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand
Death Duties, 1796 - 1811 courtesy National Archives;  focuses on the death duty payable on wills and letters of administration proved in the "country courts". You can search over 70,000 names
Direct Resources  over 900,000 names from  18 English counties , free initial search
Docklands Ancestors search is free, fee for more details
Domesday Book Online - Index of Landowners in England in 1085AD the Domesday Book was commissioned in December 1085 by William the Conqueror, who invaded England in 1066. The first draft was completed in August 1086 and contained records for 13,418 settlements in the English counties south of the rivers Ribble and Tees (the border with Scotland at the time

 

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England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915 free access to the Civil Registration index of Births for England and Wales
England & Wales, FreeBMD Marriage Index: 1837-1915 free access to the Civil Registration index of Marriages for England and Wales , search by name or by year of marriage
England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index: 1837-1915 free access to the Civil Registration index of Deaths for England and Wales
England & Wales, Birth Index: 1916-2005 Civil Registration index of Births for England and Wales
England & Wales, Marriage Index: 1916-2005 Civil Registration index of Marriages for England and Wales
England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2005 Civil Registration index of Deaths for England and Wales
England and Wales Visitations 18th & 19thC over 600 pedigree charts of English and Welsh families
England Message Boards read and post messages with other genealogy researchers
English Denization Records, 1690
English Electoral Polls from the 18th Century
English Trade Directories of the the 19th Century searchable index

 

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England GenWeb Project a part of the British Isles GenWeb Project; created in an effort to help researchers find local resources and reference information.
England (General): Parish and Probate Records range in date from the early 1500s to the mid- to late-1800s.
England Wills Exchange Database a collection of Old England wills
Family Deeds Project free searchable database of old deeds by name or county (document or transcription can be ordered for a nominal fee)
French Refugees in Great Britain in the early 1700's
Hackney coaches of 1662 a list of the 400 hackney coach licenses of England in July and August of 1662 giving names and addresses
Historical Directories
is a digital library of local and trade directories for England and Wales, from 1750 to 1919. It contains high quality reproductions of comparatively rare books, essential tools for research into local and genealogical history
Index of Places in England and Wales
Index of Transcripts and Extracts of Parish Registers and Bishops's Transcripts baptism, marriage and burial transcriptions for many parishes here compiled by David Cheek, Dennis ? and Paul Benyon
Free Databases for Genealogical Searching Stephen van Dulken covers a huge collection of online material here

 

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Genealogy of the UK a guide to finding online genealogy resources, including archives, libraries, surname lists, parish registers, cemeteries, directories, war memorials, electoral rolls, censuses..
Genuki one of the largest UK genealogy sites on the web
Index of Police Constables listed in Police Orders of 1868
India Genealogy Links see this page, here at genealogylinks.net for British India genealogy records (cemeteries, censuses, military rosters)
Jewish Genealogy Links (here at genealogylinks.net) has many online databases for UK Jewish genealogy research
List Of Executions - England 1606 Onward
Munk's Roll database of obituaries of members  of the Royal College of Physicians
MultiMap : great online service: enter Town/city find where it is on a map
Names extracted from Post Office Files 1863-1944

National Archives of Canada Miscellaneous Immigration Index Great Britain to Canada 1801-1849
National Database of Mining Deaths and Injuries in Great Britain
Nominees of the first British tontine of 1693  A list of the 1012 nominees form Britain and continental Europe to receive benefit of survivorship from the first British tontine giving names and ages, in 1693, adresses and a description which usually includes the name of the father, his address, and rank, profession or occupation
Obituary Lookup Volunteers will do free lookups on obituaries
Pallot's Pallot's Baptism Index for England: 1780 - 1837100,000 records that are a valuable resource for those seeking ancestors in the Greater London area
Parish and Probate Records in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland more than 15 million names in this collection, from the 1500s to the 1800s

 

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Parish Registers a selection of birth, death and marriage records can be found for several counties here
Poor Law Union Database lists all Church of England parishes and many additional places and gives the name of the Union that place belonged to and an indication of which Record Office holds the records for that Union
Public Record Office of England & Wales National Archives Office, unfortunately little is available online.
Return of Owners of Land 1873
Rootschat useful information posted here by visitors to these message boards
Rootsweb's UK & Ireland searchable record database (over 220,000 records)
Royal Genealogies
Rulers of England & Great Britain from 859AD
South Africa Genealogy Links includes databases of emigrants from the UK to South Africa
Speakers of the House of Commons, 1377-1832
Surname Interest Lists for UK & Ireland lists people researching a particular surname in a particular county/parish.
The Workhouse; huge resource of databases of workhouse inmates - a site dedicated to the workhouse - its buildings, its inmates, its staff and administrators, and even its poets
United Kingdom Genealogy has a large collection of online data including "returns of owners of land", Heralds Visitations and Trades Directories

 

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UK Adoptions Message Board
UK Lookup Exchange request searches of records by volunteers
UK Genealogy a useful site; a page for each county, includes libraries and registration office addresses
UK Telephone Directory Enquiries   Search over 17 million records in the British Telecom database (updated daily)
UK  Transcriptions Web-site maintained by Malcolm Platt-Grigg, this site has transcriptions for several counties of England as well as a database of surnames
UK People Finder Search all 192.com residential listings, a total of 55 million records
UK & Ireland Obituary Collection scroll down page to select UK countries - hundreds of UK newspapers
Vicar-General Marriage Licence Index is a genealogical finding aid comprising a surname index which lists over 356,000 people who were issued with marriage licences by the Vicar-General of the Archbishop of Canterbury between 1694 and 1850. There are 52,800 different surnames occuring in the index and part of this web site is devoted to listing them and showing their frequency.
1837 Online (small fee) indexes of Birth, Marriages and Deaths for England and Wales from 1837 to the present day