Difference between revisions of "The Playground"

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| width="800" style="color:CornflowerBlue" bgcolor="LightGoldenRodYellow "|'''The Most Useful Sites'''
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[http://www.example.com Family History Online]
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[http://www.ancestry.co.uk Ancestry]
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[http://www.familysearch.org Family Search (LDS)]
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GRO
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FindMyPast
  
  
 
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| width="800" style="color:white" bgcolor="LightSteelBlue "|'''General Hints & Tips For Online Searching'''
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| width="800" style="color:white" bgcolor="CornflowerBlue "|'''Family History Detectives - Visual Step by Step Guides'''
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| width="800" style="color:white" bgcolor="LightSteelBlue"|'''Family History Detectives - Visual Step by Step Guides'''
 
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[[Visual Introduction to Family Search]]
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[[Tracking down your ancestors before 1900]]
  
  
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| width="800" style="color:CornflowerBlue" bgcolor="LightGoldenRodYellow "|''' Searching for Hatches, Matches And Dispatches '''
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[[Searching the FreeBMD site]] (FREE)
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[[Searching the IGI – including Hugh Wallis and using batch numbers]] (FREE)
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[[Searching for BMD on FindMyPast]] (FREE SEARCH – THEN PAYING)
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[[Searching for BMD on ScotlandsPeople]] (FREE SEARCH – THEN PAYING)
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[[Searching for BMD on Family Relatives]] (FREE SEARCH – THEN PAYING)
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[[Partial FreeBMD - finding a birth reference]] (PAYING)
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[[Using the Complete BMD indexes on ancestry]] (PAYING)
  
  

Revision as of 15:03, 10 March 2007

Experimenting with layout and colour and learning how the code works at the same time.


The Most Useful Sites
General Hints & Tips For Online Searching
History Detectives - Visual Step by Step Guides
Searching for Hatches, Matches And Dispatches
Searching Census Returns

The Most Useful Sites

Family History Online

Ancestry

Family Search (LDS)

GRO

FindMyPast


General Hints & Tips For Online Searching


Family History Detectives - Visual Step by Step Guides

Visual Introduction to Family Search

Tracking down your ancestors before 1900


Searching for Hatches, Matches And Dispatches

Searching the FreeBMD site (FREE)

Searching the IGI – including Hugh Wallis and using batch numbers (FREE)

Searching for BMD on FindMyPast (FREE SEARCH – THEN PAYING)

Searching for BMD on ScotlandsPeople (FREE SEARCH – THEN PAYING)

Searching for BMD on Family Relatives (FREE SEARCH – THEN PAYING)

Partial FreeBMD - finding a birth reference (PAYING)

Using the Complete BMD indexes on ancestry (PAYING)


Searching Census Returns

Searching the 1881 census on the LDS (FREE)

Searching a census on ScotlandsPeople (FREE SEARCH – THEN PAYING)

Searching a census on Ancestry (1891) (PAYING)

Refine your search (1891) (PAYING)

The surname may have been written differently (PAYING)

Missing family in 1861 (PAYING)

Finding images from a particular parish (PAYING)


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Leicestershire Lincolnshire LONDON (Middlesex) Norfolk
Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire
Rutland Shropshire Somerset Staffordshire
Suffolk Surrey Sussex Warwickshire
Westmoreland Wiltshire Worcestershire Yorkshire
Channel Islands and Crown Dependencies