British National Archives
From online exhibitions to guides to genealogical record types, online collections to links to records elsewhere, this is the place to keep calm and carry on your British research.
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The British Newspaper Archive
Look for your British ancestors’ stories in this collection of 36 million pages dating as far back as the 1700s. One year’s full access costs about 100 USD, or you can pay as you go.
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FamilyRelatives.com
Some of the 1 billion UK- and Commonwealth-centric records here, such as censuses, are available elsewhere. But less-familiar sources such as probate registers and trade directories might hold the answers to your ancestral puzzles. One year costs just 49.95 USD.
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Gazetteer of British Place Names
Locate your kin in this exhaustive place name index of over 280,000 entries. Each lists the historical county and the main administrative areas in which each place lies, both before and after the 1844 Counties Act.
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National Archives of Ireland
A veritable pot of gold for Irish researchers, this free site features Irish censuses (1901, 1911 and surviving fragments), tithe applotment books, pensioner records, will collections, marriage records and Catholic convert rolls.
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National Library of Ireland
Once you’ve browsed the 373,000 images of Catholic parish records , check out these collections of old photos and searchable newspaper and manuscript catalogs.
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ScotlandsPeople
This National Records of Scotland site is sure to please with its more than 100 million church registers, censuses, valuation rolls and other documents. Access to wills is free (as is searching generally), but other records are pay per view.
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