Cumberland Roots

 Useful Web Sites for Genealogists

 

This list has been compiled from suggestions by subscribers to the Cumberland List at Rootsweb, whom I thank very much. Some of these site addresses are up to two years old and may not be current. I apologise for the fact that I have not had time to make them live links but you should be able to cut and paste the URL addresses to your browser.

 

http://212.125.77.51/home.htm Listed Buidings Site in UK

http://63.195.75.26/ searchable census for parts of Cumberland

http://come.to/ostle Ostle website

http://communities.msn.co.uk/MatterdaleMatters Matterdale website

http://cpcug.org/user/jlacombe/terms.html Occupations directory

http://home.earthlink.net/~gaalli/allisonfamilyhistory.html Allison Family History

http://home.earthlink.net/~thekeither/Family/pages/lonsdale.htm Lonsdale Pit, Egremont

http://home.earthlink.net/~thekeither/Family/pages/montreal.htm Montreal Iron mines(Cumberland)

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/_glc_/1130/?Welcome=1030156441 Dalston Churchyard Inscriptions

http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ St Catherines house index(partial)

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ lostfound/ Index of Strays

http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/thevoyage.html. Canadiam Immigration

http://kendal.portland.co.uk/ Kendal website

http://markhousby.tripod.com Housby Family History

http://members.shaw.ca/justgen/cul.htm List of Links

http://members.aol.com/GrtClifton/index.htm site for Great Clifton

http://mss.nott.ac.uk/cats/port_londonplc_election.html Lowther information

http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/search_ships.shtml Shipping Lists

http://prodigi.bl.uk/nlcat/ Newspapers catalogued online

http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=CUMBERLAND-L Index of e-mails to Cumberland List

http://swj.members.easyspace.com/index.html Steve Hills family website

http://regiments.org/ Military History site

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/albion/albion2.html History of Cumberland and borders emigration

www.1891census.co.uk/ sells 1891 census fiches but also lists areas together.

www.1914-1918.net/home.htm First World War site

www.203.111.111.137/cgi-bin/bdm?form=indexes New South Wales BMD index

www.203.111.111.75/cgi-bin/bdm?form=indexes NSW BM&D index

www.abebooks.com directory of 2nd hand&Antique booksellers

www.actrix.gen.nz/users/ngaiopress/drhocken.htm passenger arrivals NZ

www.afd.co.uk/pcsearch.htm Postal Codes

www.agrinetinternational.com/uk/hayton-castle/ Hayton Castle Aspatria Cumbria

www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/ local maps

www.ancestordetective.com/watchdog.htm genealogy watchdog site

www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/3877.htm commercial site, but helpful

www.ancestry-search.co.uk Headstone Inscriptions in Whitehaven area

www.ancientfaces.com Database of Ancestoral photos

www.angelfire.com/de/BobSanders Master mariners index

www.anzac.org/ war graves database

www.archives.ca Canadian National Archives

www.archives.ca/02/020122_e.html Canadian 1901 census

www.archives.ca/exec/naweb.dll?fs&0202&e&top&0 Canadian Archives Service

www.attgendept.nsw.gov.au/bdm NSW BM&D index

www.avoca.vicnet.net.au/ dpsoc/dpspaget.htm Melbourne Dead persons society

www.backtoroots.co.uk Commercial Research Service

www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/Services/IndexSrch.html New South Wales records

www.bibliomania.com/Reference/Webster/index.html Old Dictionary with medical& farming terms

www.bl.uk/collections/manuscripts/collectn.html Information on early research

www.bookfinder.com self explanatory

www.booksearch-at-hay.com Second hand books website

www.bordernet.co.uk/ Border Web

www.brad.ac.uk/acad/diaspora. Irish Genealogy

www.bt.com/phonenetuk/ Current phonebook

www.btinternet.com/ grigg/fulllist.html Roland Griggs very good website

www.caldbeck.simplenet.com/tour.html Site covering Caldbeck and area

www.carlislecathedral.org.uk/wpages/1index.htm Carlisle Cathederal website

www.perthdps.com/ Passenger ships to NZ

www.catholic-library.demon.co.uk/ Catholic Churches

www.chapelbooks.co.uk Sells books papers etc on Genealogical matters

www.census.pro.gov.uk/index.jsp Temporary 1901 census site

www.church-directory.com Directory of Churches

www.churchsurf.com/ Church Directory

www.cofe.anglican.org/location/index.html Church of England site

www.cohsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/db/ship2.pl State of Victoria immigrants 1852-1879

www.cpcug.org/user/jlacombe/terms.html Occupations

www.cumberlandroots.co.uk Barry Lawmans site

www.cumberlanduk.com/ Old Cumberland website

www.cumberlanduk.com/members/kevinrobinson/freecenhome.htm 1891 census transcription project

www.cumbria.com/edenlinks/ Les Strongs site

www.cumbria.com/bulletin/board.htm Cumbrian message board

www.cumbria.gov.uk/archives/ Cumbria Archives

www.cumbria1st.com/ Cumbrian Information Books & Towns

www.cumbria-the-lake-district.co.uk/ Interactive map of the Lake District

www.cwaas.org.uk/ Cumb & West Antiquarian Society

www.cwgc.org/ War Graves Commission searchable database

www.du.edu/ tomills/military/uk/bargxref.htm Index of British Army Web sites

www.dur.ac.uk/Library/asc/geneal01/howard1.html Hayton Castle again

www.edenlinks.com/ Cumbrian Genealogy Site

www.englishhistory.net/tudor/life.html Tudor England website

www.ex.ac.uk/ RBurt/MinHistNet/1896-34.htm Mines site

www.familynet.co.uk Range of Genealogical services

www.familysearch.com/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp. The online IGI

www.fhsc.org.uk/genuki/reg/cul.htm Cumberland Registration Districts

www.findagrave.com/ Database of burial places of the famous

www.firstct.com/fv/oldhand.html Dechiphering old handwriting

www.firstfamilies2001.net.au Early Australian Immigrants

www.freespace.virgin.net/alan.tupman/sites/ships.htm Shipping lists

www.freespace.virgin.net/owston.tj/poor2.htm some poor law and bastardy a brief explanation

www.gendocs.demon.co.uk/trades.html Old Trades Directory

www.genealogylinks.net/uk/england/cumbria/ List of Cumbrian Links

www.genealogy.com/genealogy/index.html Home Page of Family Tree Maker

www.gensoftsb.com/winsoft.htm Genealogy software compared

www.genswap.com/free.html Volounteer lookup site

www.genuki.org.uk Another large genealogy site

www.genuki.org.uk/big/parloc/search.html parish locator

www.genweb.net/ gen-cds/private.html Volounteer lookup site

www.geocities.com/jillcou/ Jill Coulthards family site

www.geocities.com/Heartland/Trail/8333/index4.html IGI batch numbers

www.glorecords.blm.gov/default.asp American Land Records

www.gonmad.demon.co.uk/cumbria/index.html Cumbrian Dictionary

www.gpiag-asthma.org/drpsmith/amt1.htm Old Medical terms

www.greatprogs.com/ Free Genealogy software

www.gretnagreen.com/gretna_story.html Gretna green site

www.griggr.members.beeb.net Roland Griggs website

www.hmc.gov.uk/home.htm Historical Manuscripts

www.hmc.gov.uk/mdr/mdr.htm Manorial Documents register

www.hmc.gov.uk/NRA/nra2.htm National Record of Archives

www.hmc.gov.uk/nra/nra2.htm UK National Register of Archives

www.homepages.rootsweb.com/ angels/ Volounteer lookup site

www.homepages.rootsweb.com/ hornbeck/chart.htm Relationship chart

www.infobel.com Current phone directory

www.infokey.com/hall/biblio.htm Surnames biblio

www.inscript.co.uk Lost Contact website??

www.inscriptions.fsnet.co.uk St James's Church Whitehaven MI's

www.instinct-training.co.uk/ti/ Non genealogical info on Cumberland

www.instinct-training.co.uk/ti/wc/chwc.htm Churches in Cumberland

www.interment.net/ Record of Cemeteries

www.istg.rootsweb.com/ Immigrant ship transcribers guild

www.istg.rootsweb.com/index1.html Immigrant Ships

www.judandk.force9.co.uk/workhouse.html Union Workhouses

www.knowhere.co.uk/board/kb350/ Workington Notice Board

www.lakelandcam.co.uk Excellent daily photographs of the Lake District

www.landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/victov.html Victorian Britain site

www.lds.org Latter Day Saints web site full of links

www.leedsindexers.co.uk/Internet_Tools.htm 1901 census extractor

www.lightage.demon.co.uk/ Police and Criminal Archives

www.lineone.net/ c.john.halliday Scottish Hallidays website

www.loc.gov Library of Congress(America)

www.localhistory.co.uk/la. Self Explanatory

www.love-lane.freeserve.co.uk/genuki/WES/ Westmorland pictures

www.lysy2.archives.nd.edu/words.htm Latin translations

www.lyvennet.com/ Cumbrian Dialect

www.magicnet.net/ noble/genuki/cfhspub.html Cumberland Family History Society site

www.magicnet.net/ noble/genuki/culcro.html Glasson information

www.mantey.co.uk Fred Manteys excellent website

www.mariners-l.freeserve.co.uk Maritime records

www.members.aol.com/GrtClifton/index.htm Clifton & Broughton Cross info

www.members.aol.com/rprost/passenger.html Ships & Passeger lists

www.members.tripod.co.uk/familyhistory2/ using familysearch.org and the UK P.R.O web sites

www.members.tripod.com/ Caryl_Williams/ewills.html Wills exchange database

www.militarybooks.net/default.asp Commercial Military Books online

www.mmpublications.co.uk/ Commercial supplier of indexes

www.msgb.co.uk/msgb/lordships.html Lordships

www.nevisuk.net/dgfhs/ Dumfries & Galloway FHS

www.northcumbria.quaker.eu.org/ North Cumbria Quakers site

www.northpennineancestors.co.uk/ Self Explanatory

www.officialcitysites.org/unitedkingdom.htm Site covering British cities

www.ogs.on.ca Ontario Genealogical Society

www.old-maps.co.uk Old O.S.Maps

www.one-name.org/ One Name Indexes

www.ons.gov.uk/ Southport Certificates site

www.onthenet.com.au/ tonylang/Mainpage.html Occupations Directory

www.onthenet.com.au/ tonylang/occupa.htm Occupations(and other good stuff)website

www.open.gov.uk/pro/prohome.htm Public Records Office website

www.ordsvy.gov.uk Up to date O.S.maps

www.original-indexes.demon.co.uk/index.htm Commercial genealogy websie

www.oz.net/ markhow/englishros.htm English Records Offices and Archives

www.parloc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ParLoc.htm Parish Locator

www.phonenetuk.bt.com:8080/ Online UK phone directory

www.posom.com/hl/index.shtml Volounteer lookup site

www.pro.gov.uk/leaflets/ri2301.htm Genalogy leaflets

www.prov.vic.gov.au/access.htm Victoria(Aus) immigration information

www.pubsindex.freeserve.co.uk/index.htm database of Pubs Inns and their licensees

www.pwr.clara.net/clhf/clhfdate.htm Cumbria Local History Federation website

www.qfhs.mcmail.com/ Quaker Family History Society

www.quintinpublications.com/Catalog/cd.html Catalogue of old maps

www.railwayancestors.demon.co.uk/ Database of Railway workers

www.rallymap.demon.co.uk Books and Booklets for the Genealogist

www.rayspage.currantbun.com Millom website

www.reayw.freeserve.co.uk BT's for Allhallows,Dearham, Gilcrux, Flimby & Wigton parishes

www.regiments.org/milhist/ Regimental Military History

www.richardbyers.co.uk/genealogy/workington.html Workington Genealogy site

www.rootsweb.com One of the largest genealogy sites

www.rootsweb.com/ engcma/ Rootsweb Cumbrian GenWeb

www.rootsweb.com/ mailist/ Rootsweb lists

www.rootsweb.com/ quakers/index.htm Quakers web site

www.rootsweb.com/ tnraogk/index.htm Volounteer lookup sitemostly American

www.rootsweb.com/compass/ships.html Passenger ships

www.rossbret.co.uk UK Hospitals and Wokhouses site

www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk New version of Scots Origins

www.scroots.org/ South Carolina Genealogy forum

www.shipping.cohsoft.com.au Shipping UK - Aus

www.shoppersmart.com/otown/registrations/ Advice on getting BM &D certificates

www.s-h-systems.co.uk/ B&B booking system in UK

http://www.staffs.ac.uk/schools/humanities_and_soc_sciences/census/cebs.htm Enumerators information

www.standard.net.au/ jwilliams/data.htm 1851 Emigration scheme UK to Aus

www.standard.net.au/ jwilliams/mariners.htm Mariners

www.stas.net/gen/eng.html England Genealogy Links site inc. Chat room

www.statistics.gov.uk/nsbase/registration/certificates.asp GRO certificates site

www.stevebulman.f9.co.uk/cumbria/frames_home.html Steve Bulmans excellent site

www.streetmap.co.uk Place finder

www.symet.net/whitehouse/nzbound/ NZ passenger list

www.tcac.net/ ruthptb/Funny_Genealogy_Stuff.html Humerous Genealogy stories

www.themoor.ukf.net/ Cleator Moor Cumbria

www.theshipslist.com Shipping Lists

www.thisisthelakedistrict.co.uk/ Lake District information

www.trytel.com/ tristan/towns/towns.html Medieval links

www.uk.emb.gov.au/bisa/births%20deaths%20marriages/bdm_ons Australian records

www.uk.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?place=Aspatria Placename finder

www.uk.multimap.com/map/places.cgi place locations

www.ukbdmexchange.org.uk Swap-shop of BM&D certs

www.users.zetnet.co.uk/blangston/chswills/ Wills

www.usgenweb.com/ Volounteer lookup site mostly American

www.vanished.com/pages/unusual.html 100's of genealogy based sites, mostly American

www.w3g.med.uni-giessen.de/CGB/genetxt/ partial 1851 census returns

www.whitehaven.ukf.net/ History of Whitehaven

www.whitepages.com.au Australian White Pages