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

•The Times Of My Life

•Devonians with Black Heritage

•Ford Park Cemetery

•Civil Registration

•Devon Register Offices

•Registration Districts in Devon

•Researching family history - General Register Office information

•FreeBMD 1837-1929 - an ongoing project

•Ordering GRO certificates online

•Adoption records : Directgov - Government, citizens and rights

•Registration Districts in England and Wales

•UK BMD Local Register Offices online

•Pay-per-view for GRO indexes 1

•Pay-per-view for GRO indexes 2

•England & Wales Registration Certificate Tutorials

•Share your UK Birth, Marriage and Death Certificate Information

•FFHS - Research Tips - Researching Adopted Persons in England & Wales

General

•All about the censuses

•Free access to Ancestry in Devon Libraries

•Free access to Ancestry in Plymouth Libraries

Free Access to Censuses relating to Devon

•Pre- 1841 census

•1841 Devon FreeCEN - in preparation

•1841 Devon census project

•1851 Devon Census Name Index - Free to DFHS members

•1861 Devon FreeCEN - almost complete

•1861 Devon census project

•1881 Free on Family Search

•1891 Devon FreeCEN

Pay-per-view sites

•1841-1901 censuses - free indexes - pay per view images

•Census records for 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901 censuses

•The Genealogist - search online census, etc.

•1911 census - free index - pay-per-view images

•1911 census blog

•1841-1901 Scottish censuses - pay-per-view images

•1911 Irish census - free access to images

•1911 Census at Devon Record Office

Census information year-by-year

•1801-2001 census dates

•1841 census information

•1851 information

•1861 information

•1871 information

•1881 information

•1891 information

•1901 information

•1911 information

•1921 information

•1931 information

•1931 loss of census

•General Genealogy

•Federation of Family History Societies

•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

•IGI Batch numbers for Devon

•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 Forum - Devon

•Family Tree Folk Genealogy Gifts, etc.

•Irish Roots Magazine

•Lost Cousins

•Naval History

•Royal Air Force Museum

•National Army Museum

•Royal Marines Museum

•Royal Naval Museum

•BBC - WW2 People's War - Archive List

•Researching a soldier of the British Army of 1914-1918

•Parish Chest

•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

•Expert Links: English Family History and Genealogy

•Devon Surnames

•Surnames in Devon FHS's databases

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•Bath, Bathe and de Bathe

•Blackmore Family

•Boyland Ancestral Journey

•Braddon Family History

•Brinsmead Family from Devon

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•Champion Family History

•Clode.com Hosted by: Gerald K Clode

•Cockram, Cudmore, Dunn and Folland

•Cruwys One-Name Study

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•Faulkner Family History (sic)

•Foale Family Home Page

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•Nick Gould Home Page

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•Harris, from Devon, family history.

•Hingston One-Name Study

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•Luc(k)raft One Name Study

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•Mitchell Family

•Mitchell Home Page

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•Prance Family

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•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

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•Tapscott-Kennington

•Tolleys of Devon

•turnertree's Home Page

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•Venn Family Tree

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•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

* •Local History Societies in Devon

•Devon Places

Devon

•Devon Places

•Devon Gazetteer

•Domesday Book

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

•Explore North Devon

•Digitised tithe maps of East Devon AONB

•British counties

•Devon Parishes

•Devon Heritage

•English Heritage Images of England

•Historical maps

•South West Images

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•Aveton Gifford

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•Dartmouth Archives

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•Ermington Parish Online

•Exeter Cholera Map

•Exeter Local History Society

•Exeter Memories

•Exmouth Guide

•Exeter City Council Bereavement Servics

•Exeter Time Trail

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•Littleham Genealogy

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•Marldon Local History Group:

•Modbury Heritage

•Moretonhampstead

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•Petrockstowe One Place Genealogy

•Plymouth History - Old Plymouth

•Plymouth maps

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•Salcombe Online Website

•Silverton Local History Society

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•Tiverton Museum of Mid-Devon Life

•Torquay Pottery Ancestry

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•Westleigh, North Devon

Miscellaneous

•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

NEW ZEALAND

•Birth, Death and Marriage Historical Records

This page last revised Monday, 28 June 2010
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