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From: "Steve Edwards" <>
Subject: [CHS] Web sites for Newbies
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 21:18:08 +0100


Following on from Natalia's suggestion and by way of repentance for having
joined in the geography debate can I offer the following from my Favourites
files which I have found useful along the way.

For well written tutorials regarding the contents of UK birth, death
and marriage certificates see:

http://www.dixons.clara.co.uk/Certificates/deaths.html

Substitute deaths in the above with birth or marriage as appropriate.

Caution some of these run to 12 pages - to save time on-line reading or
printing these it helps if you have MS Office to Cut and Paste the contents
into a Word document so they can then be printed or read at leisure
off-line.

To do this open the web site then click on Edit and Select All in the
browser followed by Copy and then minimise the web page. Next start
Word and Open a new document and Paste in the webpage contents copied
previously. The internet link can then be closed . The document can read,
printed or saved in word as appropriate

A comprehensive A-Z of Genealogical research is to be found at :

http:// www.genuki.org.uk/big/EmeryPaper.html

Again caution this is a massive 36 pages.

( I found some sections a little heavy with acronyms when reading it as a
newbie - a highlighter and cryptic notes in the margin help ease the
in )

A Six Point test of Cosanguinity ( short but sound advice ) is to be
found at

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/7530/undrstnd.html

I’ll not try to explain this one - best take a look and see.


Probably the key UK site - a very comprehensive site a compendium of UK
county by county data down to parish level, including registration
districts, where the old parish records are now, trade guides etc etc -
too much to summarise is to be found at:

http://www.Genuki.org/

Online Early series OS maps for the UK can be viewed at

http://www.old-maps.co.uk/

( The ones I’ve tried don’t print off too well at large scale as they
hope you will purchase copies from them ! )

For current OS maps the following site has a gazetteer search and I seem
to remember will also display the maps online - I believe this is still an
active link .

www.ordsvy.gov.uk/products/Landranger/lrmsearch.cfm

Generally be patient with online maps as they’re often slow to download.

Parloc Parish Locator freeware a gazetteer database and search software can
be downloaded and installed on your PC from:

www.dmbennett.freeserve.co.uk/ParLoc.htm

Provided you know the location of one UK parish it will do distance and
direction calculations regarding a second parish and also lists and plots
of the surrounding parishes.

The Church of LDS website and the IGI online etc. are at

http://www.Familysearch.org/

A directory of IGI batch nos for use with LDS Familysearch etc is at

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Trail/8333/index4.html


A new one I've just tripped over is Colin Pratt’s Genealogical Links at

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/1527/links.htm

it contains a long list of links to various genealogical sites - I am
assuming all his listed links are still active.


My apologies if any of these do not work – I’ve re-checked most of them this
evening.

Steve

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