DFHS | Links

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

•Civil Registration

•General Genealogy

•Devon Surnames

•Devon Groups and Societies

•Devon Places

•Devon Councils

•Neighbouring FHSs

•Emigration/Immigration

•Getting Started

•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

•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 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

•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

•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

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

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

•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

•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

•Venn Family Tree

•Welsman & Milloy Family Tree Pages:

•Whicker (Descendents of William Whicker)

•WINDEATTs on the Web

•Wonacott Family History

•Devon Groups and Societies

•Devon History Society

•The Devonshire Association

•Devon Places

•Devon Places

•Devon Gazetteer

•Domesday Book

•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

•South West Images

•Exeter Cholera Map

•Exeter Memories

•Exeter Time Trail

•Plymouth maps

•Ermington Parish Online

•Exeter Local History Society

•Exmouth Guide

•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

•Tiverton Museum of Mid-Devon Life

•Torquay Pottery Ancestry

•Westleigh, North Devon

•Exeter & Devon History

•History section - Devon & Cornwall Constabulary

•Force Family Tree - Devon & Cornwall Constabulary

•Devon Councils

•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

•Cornwall FHS

•Somerset and Dorset FHS

•Emigration/Immigration

•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

This page last revised Friday, 24 October 2008
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