Links to other sites of relevance to Devon and genealogy. Please contact the  if you would like to suggest a site to be linked, or if you find any broken links. Newly-added links are marked thus: *

Websites to help you research your Devon Ancestors:

Getting Started Back to top

First Steps in Family History

Getting Started in Genealogy and Family History

Newbies' Guide

Family History - Your Guide to Resources

Your Official Source for Family Records

Where to find information on your ancestors in England and Wales

Moving On Back to top

Surnames in Devon FHS's databases

Devon FHS message board

Devon-L mailing list

Who is researching your surnames?

Rootsweb Surnames list

Guild of One Name Studies

Devon Pages

Devon Contents

Devon Record Office

Plymouth and West Devon Record Office

North Devon Record Office

NOTE: there are no south or east Devon record offices - these are both covered by the main Record Office in Exeter

Devon information

West Country Studies Library

Plymouth Local and Naval Studies Library

Plymouth Barbican Archive

Devon Newspapers

Newspapers at the British Museum Library

Early Devon topographical prints

Devon Museums

Devon History Society

Workhouses including Devon

Exeter Cathedral Library and Archives

Bal Maidens & Mining Women Home Page

Friends of Devon's Archives

A vision of Britain through time

Magna Britannia: volume 6 Devonshire

British Maritime History

Plymouth Naval Base Museum

Adoption, Search & Reunion

Civil Registration Back to top

Births, marriages and deaths England & Wales

FreeBMD - and ongoing projects

FreeCen - UK Census Online Project

FreeREG - Search English Parish Register Transcripts and Indexes

Registration Districts

Pay-per-view for GRO indexes

Ordering certificates online

United Kingdom Death Certificates

England & Wales Registration Certificate Tutorials

Share your UK Birth, Marriage and Death Certificate Information

Census Back to top

General

Various publications and indexes for Devon Census

Accessing census records

Census Fact Sheet

Devon census images on CD

Free access to Ancestry in Devon Libraries

Free access to Ancestry in Plymouth Libraries

1841-1891

1841-1891 free index, pay-per-view image

1851

1851 Devon Census Index - Free!

1861

1861 Devon census project

1861 & 1891 free index, pay-per-view image

1881

1881 census

1891

Devon 1891 census complete, 1861 Devon started

1861 & 1891 free index, pay-per-view image

1901

1901 free index, pay-per-view image

General Genealogy Back to top

Federation of Family History Societies

Family History Online, free index, pay per view databases

The National Archives (TNA), Kew, London

TNA Documents Online, free index, pay per view images

A2A Access to Archives UK Archives network

Genealogy in UK and Ireland

Society of Genealogists

Commonwealth War Graves - WW1 and WW2

Devon and Dorset Military Museum

Military Genealogy: Family History, Family Tree, Ancestry, War Casualty Records

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - search IGI and other databases

BBC Family History

Genealogical events calendar

GRO Scotland

GRO Northern Ireland

GRO Republic of Ireland

Archives in universities and colleges

Anglican Sources for Tracing Family History

Ancestry Aid

British Genealogy - Home Page

British Maritime History - Genealogical Guides

Burke's Peerage - free index, subscription for full records

Crew List Index Project - Crew lists

Cyndi's List

Devon Link Exchange

Family Heirlooms

Family History links

Family History Quests

Family Tree Folk Genealogy Gifts, etc.

Family Tree Forum - Devon

Lost Cousins

Parish Chest

Pay-to-download, upload-to-sell documents

Various Acts of Parliament of Interest to the Genealogist

War Memorials database

UK Genealogy Interests Directory

Tools for Genealogists

The Genealogy Guide

Historical Directories

Census of Ireland 1911

Devon Surnames Back to top

Surnames in Devon FHS's databases

Bath, Bathe and de Bathe

Blackmore Family

Boyland Ancestral Journey

Braddon Family History

Brinsmead Family from Devon

Clode.com Hosted by: Gerald K Clode

Cockram, Cudmore, Dunn and Folland

Cruwys One-Name Study

Faulkner Family History (sic)

Finch Family

Foale Family Home Page

Harris, from Devon, family history.

Hingston One-Name Study

Luc(k)raft One Name Study

Mitchell Family

Mitchell Home Page

Nick Gould Home Page

Prance Family

Sercombe: A Compilation of Sercombe Families

Sherriff Family History, the Parish Registers of Modbury & Yealmpton, Devon

Sommerwill - A Devon Family

Symons from Rockbeare Genealogy Home Page

Tapscott-Kennington

Tolleys of Devon

turnertree's Home Page

Uglow Page

Venn Family Tree

Welsman & Milloy Family Tree Pages:

Whicker (Descendents of William Whicker)

WINDEATTs on the Web

Wonacott Family History

Devon Groups and Societies Back to top

Devon History Society

The Devonshire Association

Devon Places Back to top

Devon Places

Devon Gazetteer

Domesday Book

UK Villages

BBC - Devon - Help us create an A-Z of Devon towns and villages

Explore North Devon

British counties

Devon Parishes

English Heritage Images of England

Historical maps

Devon UK

South West Images

Maps

Exeter Cholera Map

Exeter Memories

Exeter Time Trail

Plymouth maps

Ermington Parish Online

Exeter Local History Society

Exmouth Guide

Bampton

Cullompton

Dartmouth Archives

Littleham Genealogy

Marldon Local History Group:

Modbury Heritage

Moretonhampstead

Petrockstowe One Place Genealogy

Plymouth History - Old Plymouth

Salcombe Online Website

Silverton Local History Society

Staverton

Tiverton Museum of Mid-Devon Life

Topsham, UK

Torquay Pottery Ancestry

Westleigh, North Devon

Exeter & Devon History

History section - Devon & Cornwall Constabulary

Force Family Tree - Devon & Cornwall Constabulary

Devon Councils Back to top

Devon County Council

East Devon District Council

Exeter City Council

Mid Devon District Council

North Devon District Council

Plymouth City Council

South Hams District Council

Teignbridge District Council

Torbay Council

Torridge District Council

West Devon Borough Council

Neighbouring FHSs Back to top

Cornwall FHS

Dorset FHS

Somerset and Dorset FHS

Emigration/Immigration Back to top

Moving to UK from overseas

History of Immigration to Britain

Passenger lists and related information

Passenger lists with over 30 million records from ships sailing to destinations worldwide

What Passenger Lists Are Online?

AMERICA

British Home Children

America's First Immigration Center

Ellis Island, New York arrivals 1892-1924

Welsh Mormon settlers in Utah

AUSTRALIA

Australian state of Victoria

Assisted emigrants to SA 1847-1866

Female emigrants to NSW 1833-37

Assisted emigrants to NSW and Victoria 1839-1896

Assisted emigrants in Victoria 1813-1871 and passenger lists for ships arriving 1852-1911

Assisted passages from Galway and Tipperary to Australia 1828-1852

Assisted emigrants on Sophia arrived WA 1850

Highlands and Island emigration 1850s

Paper about assisted emigration from Wilts to SA early 1850s

* Queensland Convict transportation database

CANADA

Home children to Canada

Home children to Canada 1869-1930

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This page last revised Saturday, 12 July 2008
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