Cumberland Roots
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