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Links to External Websites which may be of interest to you

BMD Certificates    Britain    Censuses    Family History    Gloucestershire    Military    Miscellaneous    Tewkesbury    

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Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates:

• Free_BMD   (free but not comprehensive and very busy except between Midnight & 6 a.m.!  Improved speed and coverage lately.)

• 1837 Online   (pay on line: £5 minimum charge with irritating time limit but comprehensive official records 1837-1983)

• Buying Certificates on line   (ONS currently £7 and c 3 weeks.)

Britain:

• British Pathe Database - view and download movie clips from the database of the famous newsreel company. Search on "Tewkesbury" and you will find several items, including Princess Alice opening the Hospital. 

• From BALH local history news via John Loosley. www.rgs.org the website of the Royal Geographical Society which has an on-line catalogue and by putting in Gloucestershire it came up with a total of 33 maps in its collection. www.visionofbritain.org.uk which is a vision of Britain between 1801 and 2001 including maps, statistical trends and historical description. This site will soon have complete census statistics from 1801 to 2001 and already has a lot of useful information.

• National Archives formerly known as Public Record Office.

• National Archives (PRO) on-line:   (access for free and £3 for certain documents: wills from 1820-1829 and 1840-1858 (£.3.50 per will); miscellaneous images (free).

• National Archives (ex-PRO) Local History Catalogues   (including GRO) - A2A: The A2A database contains catalogues of archives held across England and dating from 900 to the present day.  

• London Gazette on line (free)

• www.workhouses.org.uk   A complete history to the workhouse, search by county and town, includes residents in censuses.

Census Returns:

• 1881    (free)

• 1841-1891     (pay on line)

• 1901    (pay on line - but vouchers have no time limit.)

• Scotland 1871-1901    (This website is not free - access is £6 for 30 page credits temporarily valid for 168 consecutive hours.)

• Details of arrangements for 1911 census. Will be available from 1 JAN 2012 but advance access will be available for a £45 fee, http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/1911census/

 Family History:

• Gloucestershire Family History Society 

• www.ancestry.co.uk has added significant World War I information. 

• A new website www.ancestor-search.info  let John know what you think.

• Need research in Gloucestershire? Try Gloucestershire Genealogical Research

• Try Genes Re-United which is trying to build on success of Friends Reunited.

• Forest of Dean Family History pages

• Mike English's parish register transcriptions Tewkesbury and the surrounding parishes are all included.

• GENUKI Gloucestershire section

• Members may be interested in this new website, http://www.bbc.co.uk/legacies

• to gain help from recent BBC2 series "Who do you think you are? http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/familyhistory/index.shtml

• www.familysearch.com: Probably the most useful site on the web, the LDS pioneers in the field of genealogy, the International Genealogy Index (IGI).

• Burgham family of the Forest of Dean

• Glosgen - Stuart Flight's extensive Gloucestershire ancestry plus much more.

• Comprehensive Scottish online resources at Scotlands People.

Gloucestershire:

• The Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society now have the complete contents of a total of 113 volumes (1876-1995) of their Transactions journal available online, thanks to Ray Wilson. You can search the index or browse the full List of Contents using this link - TBGAS-Online

• Gloucestershire Local History  (advice from Hugh Conway-Jones: As many will know, there is a page on the Gloucestershire Local History Website that provides links to a range of websites that are useful for local history research. The page includes specific Gloucestershire sites and also national sites that have relevant Gloucestershire information. To see what is covered, just click on this link: http://www.gloshistory.org.uk/lhcsites.htm)

• BBC Gloucestershire

• Geoff Sandles comprehensive Gloucestershire Pubs website

• Gloucestershire County Record Office

• County Library Service information finder, LOCATE:

• Five of the Gloucestershire volumes of The Victoria County History can be accessed via http://www.british-history.ac.uk/subject.asp?subject=5&gid=13 A further three Gloucestershire volumes are due to be added by the end of 2007.

• Gloucester - extensive site on the city of Gloucester both contemporary and historic

• John Wilkes's collection of Gloucestershire photographs

• Purton Hulk Tours

• Friends of Deerhurst Committee

• Gloucestershire County Council Archaeology Service

• G.I. Gateway    (John Dixon's website concerning GI's at Ashchurch during World War II) 

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission    (free and even includes civilian dead in WWII - now with information about cemeteries.)

• Australian War Memorial website with extensive details of the Australian involvement in World War I

• Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment 

• British Army World War I service and pension records are online for first time via The National Archives website. You can now search for surnames beginning with the letters A and B. When the project is complete you will be able to search c.2.5 million soldiers' records. Searching the name index is free. Pages from the original files are available by subscription or with Pay per View from Ancestry.co.uk  Search WW1 Soldiers' Documents Online  

• British Prisoners of War - interviews and reports are online via The National Archives

• The Western Front Association (Cheltenham & Gloucestershire)

Miscellaneous:

• Idealist Publisher: Bekon: www.bekon.com/

• Almost any reference you need scanned and copied on to cd. http://www.archivecdbooks.com/

• Useful dates http://www.johnowensmith.co.uk/histdate/

• Do you use Microsoft Excel for historical dates?

  • Untried advice from Glos.History Yahoo-Group

  • Have you discovered to your cost that Microsoft Excel has problems working with dates prior to 1900? This feature has caused me problems over the years and like most people I have resorted to a solution of placing the year in its own column and treating the year as a number. Recently I came across a solution called XDATE (stands for Extended Date) that I wish I had discovered sooner. This is a free plug-in for Excel that will permit dates before 1900 to be calculated. Rather than describe the whole utility, why not download it for yourself? A full explanation is given by the author on www.j-walk.com/ss/excel/files/xdate.htm According to the author XDATE will handle dates back to 0100, however it may be prudent to accept accuracy from 1752 when the Gregorian calendar was introduced in England, Scotland and Wales.

Tewkesbury:

• Tewkesbury Net Website

• Tewkesbury Library   (Computers in the Library can be booked on-line via this page using Library Card and follow links)

• Tewkesbury School

• Tewkesbury Borough Museum

• Photos of the last barge to leave Healings Mill on 25 March 2007.

• Jack Boskett's photo website - has pictures of the floods and many railway photos.