British Abroad, British Abroad : All Classifications
Map by kind permission of GENUKI
| Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Land Tax / Lay Subsidy, School / Educational Records, Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Poll / Electoral / Voters Registers, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Other Records |
| Title: | The Genealogist Website |
| Link: |  |
| Description: | The Genealogist Website |
| Extra Info: | Subscription site. Includes many university registers, trade directories and more. |
| Classification: | Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | 1820 British Settlers to South Africa |
| Link: | http://www.1820settlers.com/ |
| Description: | 1820 British Settlers to South Africa |
| Extra Info: | Information about the 1820 British settlers to South Africa, including transcribed letters, photographs and pictures of some of the settlers and a forum. |
| Classification: | Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | 1820 Settler Correspondence - Cape of Good Hope |
| Link: | http://www.eggsa.org/1820-settlers/index.php/home.... |
| Description: | Letters from the Settlers of the Cape of Good Hope |
| Extra Info: | This correspondence concerns the immigration scheme for the Cape of Good Hope following the Napoleonic Wars. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Alex Rogers' Website |
| Link: | http://www.reocities.com/SoHo/Workshop/2299/geneal... |
| Description: | Alex Rogers' Website |
| Extra Info: | Includes some lists of passengers to Australia. |
| Classification: | Newspapers |
| Title: | Andrews Newspaper Index Cards, 1790-1976  |
| Link: | Andrews Newspaper Index Cards, 1790-1976 : Free Index |
| Description: | Andrews Newspaper Index Cards, 1790-1976 |
| Extra Info: | This unique card index was compiled in England from the 1790s until about 1970 and features a collection of notices from newspapers and various official sources, such as the London Gazette. |
| Classification: | Companies / Employee and Union Lists |
| Title: | Anglo Burmese Library |
| Link: | http://www.angloburmeselibrary.com/ |
| Description: | The Anglo Burmese Library |
| Extra Info: | Includes employee lists of the Burmah Oil Company and the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company. Information on the Burma railways appears to be for members only. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Archives Office of Tasmania - Names Indexes |
| Link: | http://www.archives.tas.gov.au/ |
| Description: | Archives Office of Tasmania - Names Indexes |
| Extra Info: | Click on Research, then Family History. Includes passenger details, convicts, naturalisations and more. |
| Classification: | Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records |
| Title: | Australian Convict Transportation Registers  |
| Link: | Australian Convict Transportation Registers - Ships Arriving 1791-1868 |
| Description: | Australian Convict Transportation Registers - Ships Arriving 1791-1868 |
| Extra Info: | Information available in these registers includes: name of convict, date and place of conviction, term of sentence, name of ship on which sailed, departure date, and name of colony sent to. |
| Classification: | Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records |
| Title: | Australian Convict Transportation Registers  |
| Link: | Australian Convict Transportation Registers - First Fleet, 1787-1788 |
| Description: | Australian Convict Transportation Registers - First Fleet, 1787-1788 |
| Extra Info: | Information available in these registers includes: name of convict, date and place of conviction, term of sentence, name of ship on which sailed, departure date, and name of colony sent to. |
| Classification: | Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records |
| Title: | Australian Convict Transportation Registers  |
| Link: | Australian Convict Transportation Registers - Second Fleet, 1789-1790 |
| Description: | Australian Convict Transportation Registers - Second Fleet, 1789-1790 |
| Extra Info: | Information available in these registers includes: name of convict, date and place of conviction, term of sentence, name of ship on which sailed, departure date, and name of colony sent to. |
| Classification: | Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records |
| Title: | Australian Convict Transportation Registers  |
| Link: | Australian Convict Transportation Registers - Third Fleet, 1791 |
| Description: | Australian Convict Transportation Registers - Third Fleet, 1791 |
| Extra Info: | Information available in these registers includes: name of convict, date and place of conviction, term of sentence, name of ship on which sailed, departure date, and name of colony sent to. |
| Classification: | Institutions / Workhouses / Hospitals etc., Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
| Title: | Blacksmiths Index |
| Link: | http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~... |
| Description: | A Genealogical Index of Blacksmiths and Related Occupations |
| Extra Info: | As well as blacksmiths, includes many other related occupations, also blacksmiths residing in asylums and workhouses. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Bound For South Australia 1836 |
| Link: | http://boundforsouthaustralia.net.au/ |
| Description: | Bound For South Australia 1836 |
| Extra Info: | Follow the journey of those who sailed to Australia in 1836. |
| Classification: | Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records |
| Title: | Braidwood Gaol, NSW Australia, Gaol Entrance Book |
| Link: | http://members.pcug.org.au/~ppmay/braidwood.htm |
| Description: | Braidwood Gaol, NSW Australia, Gaol Entrance Book 1856-1899 |
| Extra Info: | Search results include the ship the inmate arrived on, place of birth and physical details. |
| Classification: | Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Bristol Home Children |
| Link: | http://emigrated.bafhs.org.uk/index.php |
| Description: | Bristol Home Children |
| Extra Info: | Information on the children from Bristol who were sent to Canada 1869-1939. |
| Classification: | Other Records |
| Title: | Bristol University Adventurers List |
| Link: | http://www.bris.ac.uk/hispanic/latin/research.html |
| Description: | Bristol University British and European Adventurers in Gran Columbia 1810-1890 |
| Extra Info: | Also lists nationality, with date of birth and occupation on some records. |
| Classification: | Other Records, Journals / Diaries |
| Title: | British Community in Brazil the 19th Century |
| Link: | http://www2.brazil.ox.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file... |
| Description: | British Community in the 19th Century - Bahia, Brazil |
| Extra Info: | A downloadable paper about the British wholesale merchants in Brazil. Includes details of the everyday life. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | British Home Children |
| Link: | http://www.britishhomechildren.org/ |
| Description: | British Home Children - Information and Database |
| Extra Info: | Need to register to look at the database, shows the agency, ship and arrival year and more. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | British Home Children Website |
| Link: | http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~... |
| Description: | British Child Emigration Scheme to Canada 1870-1957 |
| Extra Info: | Over 100,000 British children were sent to Canada by over 50 different child care organisations. |
| Classification: | Newspapers, Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | British India Family History |
| Link: | http://valmayukuk.tripod.com/ |
| Description: | British India Family History |
| Extra Info: | Includes a list of some who were born and died on the voyage to India. Also has photograph of some of the British railway workers of the area. |
| Classification: | Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa |
| Link: | http://www.bifhsgo.ca/ |
| Description: | British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa |
| Extra Info: | Click on projects. Includes lists of the 'home children' the children who travelled to Canada between 1869-1932. |
| Classification: | Newspapers |
| Title: | British Newspaper Archive through Genes Reunited  |
| Link: | http://www.GenesReunited.co.uk/ |
| Description: | British Newspaper Archive through Genes Reunited |
| Extra Info: | As an additional feature within the Genes Reunited Platinum subscription the price should be lower than the subscription prices on the British Newspaper Archive site. |
| Classification: | Information, Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | British Pathe Film Archive |
| Link: | http://www.britishpathe.com/ |
| Description: | British Pathe Film Archive 1896-1970 |
| Extra Info: | All sorts of social history on film as well as royal visits, wing walkers, early pictures of heathrow, swimming galas and much more. |
| Classification: | Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records |
| Title: | British People in Argentina |
| Link: | http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy/ |
| Description: | British People in Argentina |
| Extra Info: | Includes a list of British residents and merchants. |
| Classification: | Newspapers, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Sports Clubs and Associations |
| Title: | British Presence in South Patagonia |
| Link: | http://patbrit.org/ |
| Description: | British Presence in South Patagonia |
| Extra Info: | A wealth of information about those British who settled in here. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | British South Africa - A History of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope |
| Link: | http://www.archive.org/details/britishsouthafri00c... |
| Description: | British South Africa - A History of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope |
| Extra Info: | Online Book. Lists the names of many settlers and the ships on which they sailed. |
| Classification: | Other Records |
| Title: | Brits in South America Database |
| Link: | http://www.bisa.btinternet.co.uk/ |
| Description: | Brits in South America Database |
| Extra Info: | List of Britons living and working in South America with details of the data source. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Brooklyn Genealogy Information - Passenger Lists |
| Link: | http://www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/ImmNat/Pass/ |
| Description: | Brooklyn Genealogy Information - Passenger Lists |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Castle Garden Immigration Centre (USA) |
| Link: | http://www.castlegarden.org/ |
| Description: | Castle Garden Immigration Centre (USA) - (1820-1892) |
| Extra Info: | Immigration centre prior to Ellis Island. Search by name of the individual fro the 11 million immigrants, or by ship. |
| Classification: | Poll / Electoral / Voters Registers |
| Title: | Census & Electoral Rolls  |
| Link: |  |
| Description: | Census & Electoral Rolls |
| Classification: | Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records |
| Title: | Changi Museum Website |
| Link: | http://www.changimuseum.com/ |
| Description: | Changi Museum Website |
| Extra Info: | Almost 5,000 records of registered civilian internees in Singapore during the Japanese Occupation in 1942-1945. Includes date of birth and occupation. |
| Classification: | Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | Colonial Film Database |
| Link: | http://colonialfilm.org.uk/ |
| Description: | Colonial Film - Moving Images of the British Empire |
| Extra Info: | The website holds detailed information on over 6000 films showing images of life in the British colonies. Over 150 can be viewed online. The archive can be searched by date, country, topic or keyword. |
| Classification: | Newspapers, Religious Lists / Records, Other Records, Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | Connected Histories |
| Link: | http://www.connectedhistories.org/ |
| Description: | British History Sources, 1500-1900, from the Universities of London, Hertfordshire, and Sheffield |
| Extra Info: | Burney collection of newspapers, British History Online, the Charles Booth Archive, Old Bailey Online and much more... |
| Classification: | Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records |
| Title: | Convicts Transportation Register Database |
| Link: | http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/info/fh/convicts |
| Description: | Convicts Transportation Register Database |
| Extra Info: | Queensland State Library archives. Also lists details of where they were convicted and the ship the arrived on. |
| Classification: | Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Cook County, Illinois Naturalisations |
| Link: | http://www.cookcountyclerkofcourt.org/NR/ |
| Description: | Cook County, Illinois, Naturalisation Declarations of Intention |
| Extra Info: | An ongoing project. Search by surname or place of origin (note some peculiar spellings such as Chestshire and Cordiff). |
| Classification: | Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Cornish People in Latin America |
| Link: | http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/cornishlatin/ |
| Description: | Cornish People in Latin America |
| Extra Info: | Surname search for ancestors, may also give details of when and which ship they travelled on, their occupation and other useful dates. |
| Classification: | Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records |
| Title: | Descendents of Convicts Group |
| Link: | http://home.vicnet.net.au/~dcginc/ |
| Description: | Descendents of Convicts Group of Australia |
| Extra Info: | Lists of convicts, with dates, who are ancestors of the members of the society. |
| Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Other Records, Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | Digital South Asia Library |
| Link: | http://dsal.uchicago.edu/ |
| Description: | Digital South Asia Library |
| Extra Info: | Click on reference for the searchable Imperial Gazetteer of India. Also includes photographs and maps of India and South Asia. |
| Classification: | Other Records |
| Title: | Diocese of London Consistory Court Wills Index |
| Link: | http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/LGNL_Se... |
| Description: | Diocese of London Consistory Court Wills Index, 1514-1858 |
| Extra Info: | Scroll down the page for index. This index contains wills for some who served on merchant ships, including the East India Company, some who were innkeepers and many more.. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 Vol 1  |
| Link: | Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 Volume 1 |
| Description: | Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 Volume 1 |
| Extra Info: | This volume brings together a list of all Scots emigrants appearing in ships' passenger lists before 1825. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 Vol 2  |
| Link: | Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 Volume 2 |
| Description: | Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 Volume 2 |
| Extra Info: | This volume is based largely on previously published information, such as government serial publications, newspapers, articles in periodicals and family histories. It does however include some previously unpublished ships' passenger lists. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 Vol 3 |
| Link: | Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 Volume 3 |
| Description: | Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 Volume 3 |
| Extra Info: | This volume has been compiled from Scottish newspapers and magazines. Mainly birth, marriage and death announcements. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 Vol 4  |
| Link: | Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 Volume 4 |
| Description: | Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 Volume 4 |
| Extra Info: | This volume is compiled from the Scots who died in North America, but whom, instead of registering their testaments in Edinburgh, registered them with the prerogative court in Canterbury. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 Vol 5 |
| Link: | Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 Volume 5 |
| Description: | Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 Volume 5 |
| Extra Info: | This volume has an emphasis on Scottish settlers to Canada, East New Jersey and Virginia. Includes many passengers who travelled on the four ships from Greenock to Quebec in 1821. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 Vol 6 |
| Link: | Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 Volume 6 |
| Description: | Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 Volume 6 |
| Extra Info: | This volume contains abstracts of all documents pertaining to North America recorded in the Edinburgh Register of Deeds 1750-1825. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 Vol 7 |
| Link: | Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 Volume 7 |
| Description: | Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 Volume 7 |
| Extra Info: | This volume contains several hundred entries based on monumental inscriptions which identify individuals who settled in Canada, the United States and the West Indies. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Information |
| Title: | East India Company Ships |
| Link: | http://www.eicships.info/ |
| Description: | Information on all the ships, voyages and seafarers of the East India Company's mercantile services. |
| Extra Info: | Work in progress -- expect more data in future. |
| Classification: | Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Emigration Database |
| Link: | http://www.dunbrody.com/ |
| Description: | Emigration Database from the Dunbrody Famine Ship Website |
| Extra Info: | The Dunbrody famine ship carried many Irish passenger to America. Although this website includes a database of Irish emigration many of those on the list are English, Welsh and Scottish. |
| Classification: | Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Other Records |
| Title: | English Adventurers and Emigrants, 1609-1660 |
| Link: | English Adventurers and Emigrants, 1609-1660 |
| Description: | English Adventurers and Emigrants, 1609-1660 From The Records of the English High Court of Admiralty |
| Extra Info: | Includes details of their profession and residence before emigration. Only those who settled in colonial America. |
| Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, School / Educational Records, Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Associations and Civil Officials Lists, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records, Photographs / Pictures, Journals / Diaries |
| Title: | Families in British India Society |
| Link: | http://www.new.fibis.org/ |
| Description: | Families in British India Society |
| Extra Info: | The Fibis database and FIbiWiki sections appear to contain most of the information. |
| Classification: | Information |
| Title: | Family History Books via Family Search - BETA |
| Link: | http://books.familysearch.org/primo_library/libweb... |
| Description: | Family History Books via Family Search |
| Extra Info: | more than 40,000 digitized genealogy and family history publications from the archives of some of the most important family history libraries in the world. Read online for free. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Other Records |
| Title: | Family History South Australia |
| Link: | http://www.familyhistorysa.info/ |
| Description: | Family History South Australia |
| Extra Info: | Includes many ships passenger lists and naturalizations. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records |
| Title: | Free Settler or Felon Website |
| Link: | http://www.jenwilletts.com/ |
| Description: | Free Settler or Felon Website |
| Extra Info: | Includes details of convicts and free settlers in the Hunter Valley area of New South Wales, Australia |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records |
| Title: | Freemantle Prison, Western Australia |
| Link: | http://www.fremantleprison.com.au/Pages/default.as... |
| Description: | Freemantle Prison, Western Australia |
| Extra Info: | Includes a convicts database with details of where they came from, the ship they travelled on, occupation and more. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | Genealogy Quest |
| Link: | http://www.genealogy-quest.com/ |
| Description: | Genealogy Quest |
| Extra Info: | Although this is mainly a US site it has some transcriptions of ship's passenger lists from the very early years (1600's). Look under collections. |
| Classification: | Associations and Civil Officials Lists, Companies / Employee and Union Lists, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc. |
| Title: | Genes Reunited : Search Indian records  |
| Link: | Genes Reunited : Search Indian records |
| Description: | Search hundreds of Indian records between 1793 and 1933. |
| Extra Info: | East India Company pensions, Bengal Civil Service Gradation, East India Register, Indian Army & Civil Service |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | Genes Reunited : Search passenger lists |
| Link: | Genes Reunited : Search passenger lists |
| Description: | Search UK departure passenger lists between 1890 and 1960. |
| Classification: | Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Genes Reunited : Search passport applications |
| Link: | Genes Reunited : Search passport applications |
| Description: | Search hundreds of UK passport applications between 1851 and 1903. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Photographs / Pictures, Journals / Diaries |
| Title: | Gjenvick Archives |
| Link: | http://www.gjenvick.com/ |
| Description: | Gjenvick Archives |
| Extra Info: | A large private collecton of historical documents from the 1800s through 1954 with emphasis on Steamship and Ocean Liner documents, photographs and passenger lists. |
| Classification: | Other Records |
| Title: | Global Shark Attack File |
| Link: | http://www.sharkattackfile.net/ |
| Description: | Global Shark Attack File |
| Extra Info: | List of shark attacks worldwide, fatal and non fatal, includes source reference (eg date of newspaper article, books etc). |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | Highland and Island Emigration Society |
| Link: | http://www.angelfire.com/ns/bkeddy/HIES/1.html |
| Description: | Highland and Island Emigration Society |
| Extra Info: | Includes passenger lists of mid 1850's from Scotland to Australia. |
| Classification: | Newspapers |
| Title: | Historic Australian Newspapers |
| Link: | http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home |
| Description: | Historic Australian Newspapers |
| Extra Info: | Fully searchable, mentions convicts, ship's captains and more about British people on Australian soil. |
| Classification: | Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records |
| Title: | Hudson Bay Company Archive |
| Link: | http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/hbca/biographica... |
| Description: | Hudson Bay Company Archive - Biographical Sheets |
| Extra Info: | Information sheets on those who worked for the Hudson Bay Company, for many it includes place of birth, positions in the company and more. |
| Classification: | Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | Images of Empire from the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum |
| Link: | http://www.imagesofempire.com/ |
| Description: | Images of Empire from the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum |
| Extra Info: | Many galleries attributed to named individuals. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Immigrant Ships to New Zealand 1835-1910 |
| Link: | http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~... |
| Description: | Immigrant Ships to New Zealand 1835-1910 |
| Extra Info: | Includes details of the dates of the journeys and some occupations and ages of the passengers. Includes ships and lists of the 'Parkhurst Boys' sent to New Zealand in 1842-3. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Immigrants to Canada in the Nineteenth Century |
| Link: | http://jubilation.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/the... |
| Description: | Immigrants to Canada in the Nineteenth Century |
| Extra Info: | Includes lists of organisations sponsoring the emigrants, information about the Allan Line, arrivals at Grosse Island in 1866, land records for those who bought land and more. |
| Classification: | Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records |
| Title: | Index to Tasmanian Convicts |
| Link: | http://portal.archives.tas.gov.au/menu.aspx?search... |
| Description: | Comprehensive Index of all Convicts Transported to Tasmania |
| Extra Info: | This index of all convicts transported to Tasmania was created by indexing all original records held from the beginning of transportation in 1804 until 1853 when transportation ceased. |
| Classification: | Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
| Title: | Institute of Chartered Accountants |
| Link: | http://www.icaew.com/en/library/subject-gateways/a... |
| Description: | Institute of Chartered Accountants |
| Extra Info: | An index to obituaries and photographs of individuals from 1874 to 1965. Also has some details about evolutions of the larger accountancy firms |
| Classification: | Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
| Title: | Institute of Chartered Accountants - List of Members 1904 |
| Link: | http://www.archive.org/details/listofmembers19000i... |
| Description: | Institute of Chartered Accountants - List of Members 1904 |
| Extra Info: | Online book. Lists the members in 1904 and details of their employment. Also includes some members practicing abroad. |
| Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Tithe Records, Information |
| Title: | Internet Archive |
| Link: | http://www.archive.org/ |
| Description: | Internet Archive |
| Extra Info: | Has many scanned books. Click on texts and then search the archive. Note gazetteer and gazetteers give different results. |
| Classification: | Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Italian Genealogical Group - US Naturalisations |
| Link: | http://www.italiangen.org/ |
| Description: | Italian Genealogical Group - US Naturalisations |
| Extra Info: | Click on Databases Naturalizations, then scroll down the pages for the databases. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Other Records, Journals / Diaries |
| Title: | Libraries and Archives of Canada |
| Link: | http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/index... |
| Description: | Libraries and Archives of Canada |
| Extra Info: | Includes passenger lists from Liverpool, Southampton, Glasgow, Belfast and Dublin to Canada, immigrant diaries, naturalisations and more. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | Lloyd's List marine news 1740 - 1837 |
| Link: | http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lloydsList/ |
| Description: | Lloyd's List marine news 1740 - 1837 |
| Extra Info: | Lloyd’s List is a newspaper devoted to shipping news. In particular it records the movements of ocean going vessels and marine news of casualties, ‘speakings’ and other events involving individual vessels. |
| Classification: | Associations and Civil Officials Lists, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Other Records |
| Title: | Malta Family History |
| Link: | http://website.lineone.net/~stephaniebidmead/ |
| Description: | Malta Family History |
| Extra Info: | British men and women in Malta. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | Manifest of Passengers Arriving in the St. Albans, VT District through Canadian Pacific, and Atlantic Ports, 1895-1954 |
| Link: | http://www.archive.org/details/manifestofpa0001190... |
| Description: | Manifest of Passengers Arriving in the St. Albans, VT District through Canadian Pacific, and Atlantic Ports, 1895-1954 |
| Extra Info: | Online book. There does not seem to be an index of ships or passengers. Lots of ships travelling from Japan, Hong Kong and the Far East. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters |
| Link: | http://mariners.records.nsw.gov.au/ |
| Description: | Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters |
| Extra Info: | The sites lists ships by year and month as well as a surname search. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | Melbourne Star - Blue Star Line |
| Link: | http://www.melbournestar.co.uk/ |
| Description: | Melbourne Star - Blue Star Line |
| Extra Info: | Includes details of the Malta convoys 1943, as well as some passenger lists. |
| Classification: | Journals / Diaries |
| Title: | Memoirs of Sarah Speedy |
| Link: | http://www.speedy.co.nz/recollections/ |
| Description: | Memoirs of Sarah Speedy |
| Extra Info: | Born near Waterloo into a British army officer's family, the authoress accompanied her parents and later her husband on military tours of duty to India and beyond. This is her story of her travels and family life. |
| Classification: | Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Photographs / Pictures, Journals / Diaries |
| Title: | Moving Here - 200 years of Migration to England |
| Link: | http://www.movinghere.org.uk/ |
| Description: | Moving Here - 200 years of Migration to England |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | Nanaimo Family History Society |
| Link: | http://members.shaw.ca/nanaimo.fhs/ |
| Description: | Passenger Ship Lists Indexing Project |
| Extra Info: | Indexing project for ships arriving in Canada approx 1900-1921. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
| Title: | Natal Settler Families, South Africa |
| Link: | http://www.genealogyworld.net/rose/ |
| Description: | Natal (now Durban) Settler Families |
| Extra Info: | Ships and passengers who arrived in Natal port (now Durban), South Africa. Also includes other information about Natal, including Chemists allowed to practice in Natal in 1899. |
| Classification: | Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
| Title: | National Archives - Documents Online - Navy Records and Indexes |
| Link: | http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline... |
| Description: | National Archives - Documents Online - Navy Records and Indexes |
| Extra Info: | Includes medals awarded to merchant seamen in WWI and WWII, also an index to seamen's names 1860 -1867, and more. |
| Classification: | Other Records |
| Title: | National Archives - Selected Cabinet Papers |
| Link: | http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/ |
| Description: | National Archives - Selected Cabinet Papers 1915-1979 |
| Extra Info: | Collection of cabinet papers, covering topics such as the economy, the death penalty, immigration controls and much more. |
| Classification: | Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
| Title: | National Archives - WWI Merchant Seamen's Medals |
| Link: | http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline... |
| Description: | National Archives - WWI Merchant Seamen's Medals |
| Extra Info: | Campaign medals issues to merchant seamen in world war one. Free to search, but pay to view medal cards. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), USA |
| Link: | http://aad.archives.gov/aad/ |
| Description: | National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), USA |
| Extra Info: | Includes passenger lists for New York arrivals for the Irish famine period 1846-1851. Can search by passenger, ship or date. |
| Classification: | Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists |
| Link: | New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 |
| Description: | New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 |
| Extra Info: | Assisted immigrants had their passages subsidized or paid for by another person or agency. This collection is four different series of records. Information listed may include name, age, and native place. |
| Classification: | Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records |
| Title: | New South Wales, Australia, Certificates of Freedom |
| Link: | New South Wales, Australia, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1867 |
| Description: | New South Wales, Australia, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1867 |
| Extra Info: | Includes name, ship, native place, offence, date and place of trial, sentence, height, complexion and more. |
| Classification: | Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records |
| Title: | New South Wales, Australia, Convict Death Register |
| Link: | New South Wales, Australia, Convict Death Register, 1826-1879 |
| Description: | New South Wales, Australia, Convict Death Register, 1826-1879 |
| Extra Info: | Includes name, age, transport ship, date of burial and comments. |
| Classification: | Information |
| Title: | New Zealand Archives |
| Link: | http://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ |
| Description: | New Zealand Archives |
| Extra Info: | Includes references to probate records for UK citizens, British companies and more. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc. |
| Title: | Newfoundland Grand Banks Genealogy |
| Link: | http://ngb.chebucto.org/ |
| Description: | Newfoundland Grand Banks Genealogy |
| Extra Info: | Includes some passengers on the list of ships claiming to be English / Irish but born in Newfoundland. Also 1770 Muster Roll for Dartmouth (under passenger lists). |
| Classification: | Newspapers |
| Title: | NewspaperArchive.com |
| Link: |  |
| Description: | NewspaperARCHIVE.com is the world's largest online newspaper archive |
| Extra Info: | Pay per view site, click on browse newspapers then UK map to see which newspapers and publications are included. |
| Classification: | Newspapers |
| Title: | Newspapers Online via Google |
| Link: | http://news.google.com/newspapers |
| Description: | Newspapers Online via Google |
| Extra Info: | Many newspapers are being put online. Currently there are only a handful from the UK and Ireland, but this is growing. Many newspapers from USA and Canada that could help with ancestors who emigrated. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | O'Flynn and Flynn One Name Study |
| Link: | http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/flynn/ |
| Extra Info: | O'Flynn, Flynn and variants. Includes naturalizations in New York and Georgia, Boston passenger lists and more. |
| Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Hearth / Window Tax, Religious Lists / Records, Information, Other Records |
| Title: | Open Library |
| Link: | http://openlibrary.org/ |
| Description: | Open Library - Scanned Books Online |
| Extra Info: | Use the search facility and select e books only. Some English trade directories, journals, historic accounts of counties and more. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | P & O Heritage and Archives |
| Link: | http://www.poheritage.com/ |
| Description: | P & O Heritage and Archives |
| Extra Info: | Includes British India Steam Navigation Company, the Orient Line and other companies absorbed into P&O. The archive contains photographs, ephemera, fact sheets on the individual ships, with the shipbuilders' details and more. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York 1897-1957 |
| Link: | http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=SHIPNAME%2... |
| Description: | This link will take you to the internet archive search. In the search box at the top left replace the words SHIPNAME with the name of the ship you are interested in. |
| Extra Info: | Not all ships have been added to the keywords yet. For example type Trent. These are online books, sadly, without indexes. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, 1897-1957 |
| Link: | http://www.archive.org/details/passengercrewlis153... |
| Description: | Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, 1897-1957 |
| Extra Info: | Online book. There does not seem to be an index of ships or passengers. There appear to be only four ships in the list Moltke, Finland, Kronprinz Wilhelm and Berlin. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, 1897-1957 |
| Link: | http://www.archive.org/details/passengercrewlis153... |
| Description: | Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, 1897-1957 |
| Extra Info: | Online book. There does not seem to be an index of ships or passengers. There ships in the list are Lusitania, Graf Waldersee, La Provence, St. Paul, Cincinnati and Columbia. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, 1897-1957 |
| Link: | http://www.archive.org/details/passengercrewlis152... |
| Description: | Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, 1897-1957 |
| Extra Info: | Online book. There does not seem to be an index of ships or passengers. There ships in the list are Minas Geraes, Parima, Luisiane, New York, Prins Mauritz, Corrientes, La Bretagne, Vigilancia, Caracas, Maracas, Alleghany, Lapland and Celtic. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, 1897-1957 |
| Link: | http://www.archive.org/details/passengercrewlis152... |
| Description: | Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, 1897-1957 |
| Extra Info: | Online book. There does not seem to be an index of ships or passengers. There ships in the list are Ancon, Christopher, Prinzess Irene, Barbarossa, Mermudian, Tagus, Manuel Calvo, Mauretania, Merida, Panama, Metapan and Contre Admiral Coubet. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, 1897-1957 |
| Link: | http://www.archive.org/details/passengercrewlis153... |
| Description: | Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, 1897-1957 |
| Extra Info: | Online book. There does not seem to be an index of ships or passengers. There ships in the list are Kronprinzessin Cecilie, Duca Degli Abruzzi, Postdam and Kroonland. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, 1897-1957 |
| Link: | http://www.archive.org/details/passengercrewlis153... |
| Description: | Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, 1897-1957 |
| Extra Info: | Online book. There does not seem to be an index of ships or passengers. There ships in the list are Cedric, Germania, Lituania, Cristobal, Coamo, Bermudian Minnetonka, Prinz Sigismund, Carpathia, Sibiria, Havana and Maracaito. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, 1897-1957 |
| Link: | http://www.archive.org/details/passengercrewlis153... |
| Description: | Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, 1897-1957 |
| Extra Info: | Online book. No index of ships or passengers. There ships in the list are Furnessin, Annetta, Ponce, Ryndam, Suriname, Saratoga, Paul Paix, Prinz Joachim, Terence, United States Oceania, Minneapolis, Rosario di Giorgio, Marina, Obidense and Montevideo. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, 1897-1957 |
| Link: | http://www.archive.org/details/passengercrewlis152... |
| Description: | Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, 1897-1957 |
| Extra Info: | Online book. No index of ships or passengers. There ships in the list are President Lincoln, Bornu, Amerika and Venezia. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, 1897-1957 |
| Link: | http://www.archive.org/details/passengercrewlis153... |
| Description: | Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, 1897-1957 |
| Extra Info: | Online book. No index of ships or passengers. There ships in the list are Seguranca, Caledonia, Nieuw Amsterdam, Arabic, La Touraine Allemannia, Trent, Prins de Nederlander, Advance, Saratoga and Clement. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | Passenger List for the Indian Queen |
| Link: | http://www.familytreecircles.com/indian-queen-2808... |
| Description: | Passenger List for the Indian Queen, Liverpool to Wellington, NZ 1857 |
| Extra Info: | Passengers on the Indian Queen, which left Liverpool on 1 November 1856 and arrived in Wellington on 30 January 1857. |
| Classification: | Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | People's Network |
| Link: | http://www.peoplesnetwork.gov.uk/discover/simple |
| Description: | People's Network |
| Extra Info: | Items from a range of libraries, museums and archives including images and audio. Lots of photographs from mines in Durham to the scenery in Skye and much more. |
| Classification: | Other Records |
| Title: | Prince Edward Island Register |
| Link: | http://www.islandregister.com/ |
| Description: | Prince Edward Island Register |
| Extra Info: | Includes a Belfast scrapbook, natives of the Isle of Mull, some Devon records and much more. Quickest way to find these is to use the search facility. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records |
| Title: | Public Record Office of Victoria |
| Link: | http://www.access.prov.vic.gov.au/public/PROVguide... |
| Description: | Public Record Office of Victoria Online Indexes |
| Extra Info: | Includes passenger lists, plus convicts index 1842-54 and certificates of freedom index within the convict index. |
| Classification: | Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Journals / Diaries |
| Title: | Scarlet Finders - British Military Nurses |
| Link: | http://www.scarletfinders.co.uk/index.html |
| Description: | Scarlet Finders - British Military Nurses |
| Extra Info: | Includes the war diary of Matron-in-Chief, British Expeditionary Force for 1914-1919. |
| Classification: | Information, Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | Science and Society Picture Library |
| Link: | http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/ |
| Description: | Science and Society Picture Library |
| Extra Info: | Over 50,000 images from buildings, such as textile mills, to pictures of historical fire engines. |
| Classification: | Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
| Title: | Scots in Argentina |
| Link: | http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/scotsinargpat/ |
| Description: | Scots in Argentina 1800-1932, Including the Argentine and Chilean Patagonia |
| Extra Info: | Includes a list of Scots owners of sheep ranches in Southern Patagonia. May not work with all browsers. |
| Classification: | Servants / Slaves Lists |
| Title: | Slave Registers of former British Colonial Dependencies, 1812-1834 |
| Link: | Slave Registers of former British Colonial Dependencies, 1812-1834 |
| Description: | Slave Registers of former British Colonial Dependencies, 1812-1834 |
| Extra Info: | Records includes, name of owner, parish of residence, name, gender, age, and nationality of slave. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | Society for Irish Latin American Studies |
| Link: | http://www.irlandeses.org/ |
| Description: | Society for Irish Latin American Studies |
| Extra Info: | Includes names of Irish passengers to Argentina. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
| Title: | South African Genealogy |
| Link: | http://www.sagenealogy.co.za/ |
| Description: | South African Genealogy |
| Extra Info: | Includes passenger lists from England to South Africa and a list of medical practitioners, some of whom qualified at British univerities. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | South African Passenger Lists and Settlers |
| Link: | http://sa-passenger-list.za.net/index.php |
| Description: | South African Passenger Lists and Settlers |
| Extra Info: | Includes passenger lists from London, Glasgow, Liverpool etc. to Natal (Durban) and Cape Town. Also includes details of Haidee settlers. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | South African Shipping Lists and Transcriptions |
| Link: | http://www.genealogyworld.net/ellen/ |
| Description: | South African Shipping Lists and Transcriptions |
| Extra Info: | The shipping lists and transcriptions are from the South Africa Magazine in the late 1800's and early part of 1900's. |
| Classification: | Other Records, Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | The Army Children Archive |
| Link: | http://www.archhistory.co.uk/ |
| Description: | The Army Children Archive |
| Extra Info: | Information about what it was like to be an army child, includes sections on schooling, healthcare and hospitals. |
| Classification: | Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | The Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African Photographs |
| Link: | http://repository.library.northwestern.edu/wintert... |
| Description: | The Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African Photographs 1860-1960 |
| Extra Info: | A collection of about 7,610 photographs, depicting life, primarily in East Africa, between about 1860 and 1960. |
| Classification: | Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records |
| Title: | The Prisoners of the Ruhleben Civilian Internment Camp 1914-1918 |
| Link: | http://ruhleben.tripod.com/ |
| Description: | The Prisoners of the Ruhleben Civilian Internment Camp 1914-1918 |
| Classification: | Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc. |
| Title: | The Roll of Honour |
| Link: | http://www.roll-of-honour.com/ |
| Description: | The Roll of Honour - Lest We Forget |
| Classification: | Poll / Electoral / Voters Registers, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Companies / Employee and Union Lists, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Poor Rate, Other Records |
| Title: | The Society of Genealogists (SOG) |
| Link: | http://www.sog.org.uk/index.shtml |
| Description: | The Society of Genealogists (SOG) |
| Extra Info: | Can search for a surname for free, however a membership is required to access the detailed information. Check the catalogue to see what information is available online. |
| Classification: | Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc. |
| Title: | The Story of the Taiwan POW Camps and the Men who were Interred in Them |
| Link: | http://www.powtaiwan.org/ |
| Description: | The Story of the Taiwan POW Camps and the Men who were Interred in Them |
| Classification: | Religious Lists / Records, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
| Title: | The Surman Index Online |
| Link: | http://surman.english.qmul.ac.uk/ |
| Description: | Biographical Card Index of Congregational Ministers |
| Classification: | Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Other Records, Journals / Diaries |
| Title: | Trent University, Canada, Archives |
| Link: | http://www.trentu.ca/admin/library/archives/titles... |
| Description: | Trent University, Canada, Archives |
| Extra Info: | Searchable archives for historic materials generally relating to Peterborough and the surrounding counties of Victoria, Haliburton, Hastings, Northumberland and Durham in Canada. Includes many born in the UK and Ireland. |
| Classification: | School / Educational Records |
| Title: | University of Glasgow Story |
| Link: | http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/ |
| Description: | University of Glasgow Story |
| Extra Info: | Includes list of graduates 1451-1911. Many interesting details, some have dates of birth, some a list of appointments, and some list the countries outside the UK with which the graduates are associated. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | US National Archives |
| Link: | http://www.archives.gov/ |
| Description: | US National Archives |
| Extra Info: | Click on start your research, then access to archival databases(AAD). Includes a searchable database of passengers who arrived during the Irish famine 1846-1851. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records |
| Title: | War of 1812 - Privateers and Letters of Marque |
| Link: | http://www.1812privateers.org |
| Description: | War of 1812 - Privateers and Letters of Marque |
| Extra Info: | List of privateers and the letters of marque that they received, also the ships they sailed in. |
| Classification: | Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | Waymarking - Interesting Locations |
| Link: | http://www.waymarking.com/ |
| Description: | Waymarking - Interesting Locations |
| Extra Info: | Pictures of all types of interesting places and features including prisons, churches, pubs, schools and more. Easy to search. |
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