UNITED KINGDOM SIG
SIG Leader Susan Well swell01060@yahoo.com
The United Kingdom SIG is for researchers with ancestors in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
Learn new techniques and new websites. Share your queries and triumphs with a group of genealogists at all stages of searching.
Please see our Events page for dates and locations of meetings.
Here are some of the links mentioned in our UK SIG meetings:
ancestry.co.uk – Subscription – UK version of ancestry.com.
The content is the same as the UK databases in World Elite ancestry.com. You do not need both.
familyhistoryfederation.com - Free – Site of the former Federation of Family History Societies: List of family history societies in England and Wales and their 'Really Useful' publications.
visionofbritain.org.uk - free - maps of island of Great Britain with community descriptions from vintage gazetteers.
findmypast.co.uk – Paid site or pay per view – Mega-site with census and BMD records.
Take special notice of the emigration lists.
genuki.org.uk – Free – Genealogy of the United Kingdom and Ireland, a combination genealogy handbook and web directory.
Provides links arranged geographically and education for UKI newbies. Also has a gazetteer, parish finder and list of family history societies.
safhs.org.uk – Free – Site of the Scottish Association of Family History Societies.
Lists the family history societies in Scotland and more.
nationalarchives.gov.uk/ – Free – Website of the UK National Archives, social history, occupation records, military records.
scotlandspeople.gov.uk – Pay per view – Public/private partnership with BMD registers, census records, valuations, wills, kirk session records and coats of arms.
sog.org.uk – Free – Site of the Society of Genealogists, London.
Also, maintains largest gen library in UK.
thegenealogist.co.uk – Subscription – Site lists databases it has available.
ukbmd.org.uk – Free – Is a directory with links to online transcriptions of birth, marriage, and death records.
The following sites are free and contain results of ongoing volunteer transcription projects:
freebmd.org.uk - Post-1837 birth, marriage and death indexes, now on ancestry.com
freecen.org - Census data
freereg.org.uk - Parish register transcriptions