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There are a large number of internet sites and places where you can find relevant information to support your research in the UK.. Listed below are various sites we have stumbled across in our researches which you may just find useful.
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Royal Military Asylum |
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Web-site of the Royal Military Asylum for children, which opened in Chelsea in 1801. Contains a lot of detail, census extracts, births, deaths, etc. |
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UK census links |
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Several very useful census links to available transcriptions of census on the net. Some require a fee to view, but many are free. |
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National Archives |
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Home page of the National Archives, which now inlcudes the Historic Manuscripts Commission. This has a national catalogue of holdings. |
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Familysearch |
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Site of the Church of Latter Day Saints, which provides free lookups for baptisms, marriages and a few deaths |
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Getting more from the 1881 census |
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An outstanding article from a series by author Mark Howells. Explains how to do the searches that early versions of the Folio Viewer software would not permit. |
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Church Plans on-line |
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Lottery funded project in which the Lambeth Palace library has published a large number of plans of British churches |
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Birmingham Canal Navigation Society |
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Web-site of the local society which aims to conserve the 100 miles or so of canals round Birmingham. Contains history of our canals, many photographs and much, much more |
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