On this page you will find links to websites that have information relevant to the whole country.
| Classification: | Census, National |
| Title: | 1939 Register from Find My Past |
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| Description: | 41 million lives recorded in one day at the outbreak of World War II |
| Extra Info: | Records of people younger than 100 and still alive, or who died after 1991 are officially closed. |
| Classification: | GRO BMD, Births, Deaths, Marriages, National, Parish Records, Wills / Probate |
| Title: | Birth, Marriage & Death Certificates - BMD Index |
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| Description: | Complete GRO indexes online & Non-Parochial BMDs service. Includes overseas BMD's for armed forces. |
| Extra Info: | Includes Pre-1837 Non-Conformist BMDs |
| Classification: | GRO BMD, Baptisms, Births, Burials / Cremations, Deaths, Marriages, National, Parish Records, War Memorials & Other Memorials |
| Title: | Find My Past - BMD's, Parish Records and More |
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| Description: | Find My Past - BMD's, Parish Records and More |
| Classification: | Census, National |
| Title: | Find My Past's England and Wales Census Land and Survey Records |
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| Description: | Find My Past's England and Wales Census Land and Survey Records |
| Extra Info: | Censuses for 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901, 1911, 1921 and various others. |
| Classification: | Census, National |
| Title: | Genes Reunited's Censuses |
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| Description: | Censuses for 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1891, 1901 and 1911 |
| Classification: | GRO BMD, Births, Deaths, Marriages, National |
| Title: | Genes Reunited's BMD |
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| Description: | Birth, Marriage and Death Indexes 1837-2006 |
| Extra Info: | Includes WW1 & WW2 death records. |
| Classification: | Baptisms, Births, Burials / Cremations, Deaths, Marriages, One Name Study, National |
| Title: | Guild of One-Name Studies |
| Link: | https://one-name.org/ |
| Description: | Surnames Registered with the Guild of One-Name Studies |
| Extra Info: | A good place to start and see if your surname is being researched. The guild maintains a list of registered one name studies, many of which have data and information online. |
| Classification: | Baptisms, Births, Burials / Cremations, Deaths, Marriages, One Name Study, National |
| Title: | The Surname Society |
| Link: | https://surname-society.org/ |
| Description: | The Surname Society - encouraging members to collaborate in their surname studies |
| Extra Info: | Membership is open to any individual, group or association with an interest in surname studies, regardless of their location in the world, the surname studied, or level of research expertise. One registration fee allows you to register multiple surnames. |
| Classification: | Births, Deaths, General, Marriages, Obituaries, National |
| Title: | British Newspaper Archive |
| Link: | https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/ |
| Description: | Explore over 200 years of history - British Newspaper Archive |
| Extra Info: | Access also available via selected subscriptions to Find My Past and Genes Reunited |
| Classification: | Census, National |
| Title: | British Surnames |
| Link: | https://britishsurnames.co.uk |
| Description: | Research the origins and distribution of your surname |
| Extra Info: | Information on similar surnames, most common surnames, surname distribution maps as well as surname meanings and etymologies. |
| Classification: | Divorces, National |
| Title: | Civil Divorce Records, 1858-1918 |
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| Description: | Civil Divorce Records, 1858-1918 |
| Classification: | National, War Memorials & Other Memorials |
| Title: | Commonwealth War Graves Commission. |
| Link: | https://www.cwgc.org |
| Description: | Commonwealth War Graves Commission. |
| Classification: | GRO BMD, Births, Deaths, Marriages, National |
| Title: | Free BMD |
| Link: |  |
| Description: | GRO Civil Registration Indexes |
| Extra Info: | Based on the GRO's secondary indexes. |
| Classification: | Census, National |
| Title: | FreeCen Project |
| Link: |  |
| Description: | FreeCen Project |
| Extra Info: | A 'free-to-view' online searchable database of the 19th century UK census returns. |
| Classification: | Baptisms, Burials / Cremations, Marriages, National, Parish Records |
| Title: | FreeReg Project |
| Link: |  |
| Description: | Transcriptions for Parish Registers |
| Classification: | GRO BMD, National |
| Title: | GRO BMD Registration Information |
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| Description: | Government BMD Registration Information |
| Classification: | Burials / Cremations, Census, Marriages, National |
| Title: | JewishGen: The Home of Jewish Genealogy |
| Link: | https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/UK/ |
| Description: | JewishGen UK Database |
| Classification: | General, National, Pedigrees |
| Title: | Landed families of Britain and Ireland |
| Link: | https://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/ |
| Description: | Research into the landowning families of the British Isles and the country houses which they owned. |
| Classification: | GRO BMD, National |
| Title: | Marriage Locator |
| Link: | http://www.marriage-locator.co.uk/ |
| Description: | Cracking the code of the GRO Marriage Index |
| Extra Info: | If your county of interest has a Local BMD website, you are recommended to check there first as many of the Local BMD websites identify the marriage venue directly. Otherwise this site aims to indentify the marriage venue based on the GRO index. |
| Classification: | DNA Research, National |
| Title: | Medievalists.net |
| Link: | https://www.medievalists.net/ |
| Description: | Where the Middle Ages begin. |
| Extra Info: | Includes the largest-ever study of Viking genetics |
| Classification: | General, National |
| Title: | named: by PublicProfiler |
| Link: | https://named.publicprofiler.org/ |
| Description: | Predicting places from names in the UK |
| Extra Info: | The website is part of a wider research project funded by the ESRC. |
| Classification: | Banns, Baptisms, Births, Burials / Cremations, Deaths, Marriages, National, Parish Records |
| Title: | Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial BMDs |
| Link: | https://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/affiliate/?affid=... |
| Description: | Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial BMDs from the National Archive, hosted by The Genealogist |
| Extra Info: | They include the birth records at Dr Williams' Library in London, hospital records of maternity, overseas registrations for British citizens and those on board ships. |
| Classification: | GRO BMD, Births, Census, Deaths, Marriages, National |
| Title: | People Finder from 192.com |
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| Description: | 1861 Census, GRO BMD index 1837-2004, Electoral Rolls & Business Directories. |
| Classification: | General, National, Heir Hunters / Probate Researchers, Family Tracing Services |
| Title: | People Trace UK |
| Link: | https://www.peopletraceuk.com/ |
| Description: | People Trace UK |
| Extra Info: | Electoral rolls search. |
| Classification: | National, Wills / Probate |
| Title: | Search probate records for documents and wills |
| Link: | https://www.gov.uk/search-will-probate |
| Description: | Search the government's probate records for documents and wills |
| Extra Info: | UK Government Probate Search for Wills and Probate |
| Classification: | National |
| Title: | Society of Genealogists |
| Link: | https://www.sog.org.uk/our-collections/ |
| Description: | County Sources in the Library of the Society of Genealogists |
| Extra Info: | An important source of off-line information. |
| Classification: | Births, Deaths, Marriages, National |
| Title: | The Jewish Chronicle Archives |
| Link: |  |
| Description: | The Jewish Chronicle from 1841 - search Births, Marriages and Deaths announcements. |
| Classification: | GRO BMD, National |
| Title: | The National Archives |
| Link: | https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ |
| Description: | Explore over 1,000 Years of History from Domesday to the Present Day |
| Classification: | National, Wills / Probate |
| Title: | The National Archives Online Collections |
| Link: | https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ |
| Description: | The National Archives - Collection of Digitised Public Records |
| Classification: | Adoption Records, National |
| Title: | UK Birth Adoption Register |
| Link: | http://www.ukbirthadoptionregister.com/ |
| Description: | UK Birth Adoption Register |
| Extra Info: | The Contact Register was founded by Missing Links UK in association with LookupUK.com as a resource for all adopted people, birth parents, brothers, sisters and extended natural family, to get in contact with one another, to register their interest. |
| Classification: | National, Wills / Probate |
| Title: | WILLS - Find a Will from UK Government Site |
| Link: | https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/#wills |
| Description: | Search for the will or probate of any person in the UK who died in or after 1858 |
| Extra Info: | UK Government Probate Search for Wills and Probate, including wills of soldiers who died while serving in the British armed forces between 1850 and 1986 |
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