| GENUKI Cyndi's list | ||
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Who are you? |
There is a lot of information out there about you. Try 192.com and the UK phone directory |
You may have to register to use 192.com |
| And where you live | UpMyStreet - the real life guide to your neighbourhood | |
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| Try Google, a search engine, put your name in speech marks eg "Joe Bloggs" In Google select 'Images' from the menu at the top. Are you there!? |
Try Alta Vista, if you don't like the look of that lot. |
| Gateways |
GENUKI provides the most comprehensive collection of links for the UK. More.. Cyndi's list is world wide with more than 240,400 links by October 2004; by far the most comprehensive gateway The Search engine, YAHOO, has a directory structure and genealogy is found under Arts/Humanities/History |
UK Genealogy gateway - similar to GENUKI, but more limited.
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Information Leaflets |
Available from the Society of Genealogists The National Archives provide a number of leaflets on just about everything |
A
- Z of British Genealogical Research |
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The National Archives |
In April 2003 the Public Record Office
(PRO) and the Historical Manuscripts Commission (HMC) were combined to
form The National Archives (TNA). There is now a single website. All the records will be transferred to Kew in the near future. If you need a Reader's ticket (ie original documents) it will be at Kew The FRC provides public access to both the TNA and GRO records on film or microfiche or CD or printed book, but not the original source. |
TNA 'Search our collections' includes |
| On Line Tutorials, Books | The Genealogist's Internet - index by Peter Christian. TNA 2009 GENUKI by David Hawgood. 2002 On Line Tutorial by Roy Stockdill | |
| Can you trust what you have found? | Look at the URL, then the domain Who wrote the page? check the credentials. Is it up to date? Look for indicators of quality Who links to the site? | Evaluating
Websites - Cornell University - John Hopkins |
