Your Family Tree Magazine

March 2011

TOP FAMILY HISTORY RESOURCES

Essential Family History Websites

VITAL RESOURCES:

The Genealogist
w. www.thegenealogist.co.uk
A jam-packed service featuring a huge number of searchable databases and excellent search facilities.

Top Data CDs and Software

SOFTWARE:

RootsMagic
w. www.genealogysupplies.com
If you're new to family history, RootsMagic is a great starting point. Easy-to-use program with powerful search function and ability to work on more than one database at once, which you can combine and print in one document. The Platinum edition also comes with £105 worth of data.

   
DATA CDS:

Overseas Births, Marriages and Deaths 1761-1924
w. www.genealogysupplies.com
Six CDs that cover nearly 200 years of marine, consular and regimental BMDs is a great help in finding census absentees.

   
 

English Army Lists and Commission Registers 1661-1714
w. www.genealogysupplies.com
A thorough collection of early military records to find your ancestors after the English Civil War.

   
 

S&N Directories
w. www.genealogysupplies.com
S&N has a huge range of 19th and 20th century directories for all of England and Wales' counties. Most include lists of tradesman, residents and businesses that can fill in your forebears' whereabouts between censuses.

   
 

Chatham, Plymouth and Portsmouth Memorial Registers 1914-1921
w. www.genealogysupplies.com
A full list of Royal Navy casualties remembered on memorials in these three maritime towns.

   
 

Clergy List
w. www.genealogysupplies.com
A full list of churchmen in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland in the mid-19th century, with details of churches and funding.

   
 

Army List 1814
w. www.genealogysupplies.com
Find your ancestors who were officers in Wellington's army, which fought in the Napoleonic Wars before finally defeating the Emperor at Waterloo.

More Information:

Suffolk, Wingfield Church Registers 1538-1838 available from GenealogySupplies.com

Find more Genealogical Research Data CDs records at GenealogySupplies.com