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EXTERNAL LINKS
This page gives links to a number of external sites which I have found useful. It is not meant to be exhaustive and in particular I have not tried to to give all genealogy sites. For the most part I have given links to sites which relate to Lancashire, Cambridgeshire, Black Isle of Scotland, or to family names. I do my best to check links but my time is limited and I am sorry if some are out of date.
BLACK ISLE AND ROSS-SHIRE CAMBRIDGESHIRE LANCASHIRE NAMES AND FAMILIES SCOTLAND TRANSCRIPTS & INDEXES OTHER SITES |
| AINSWORTH | John Higson's site has details of Ainsworth (or Cockey) Church |
| AINSWORTH | A description and picture of the Presbyterian/Unitarian chapel at Cockey Moor or Ainsworth |
| ASTON | Aston's 1808 Gazeteer of Lancashire |
| BOLTON | General information on Bolton and surrounding area including Edgeworth, Turton, Blackrod, Horwich |
| CAROL BENNETT | Carol's choice of Lancashire Links |
| EDENFIELD | Edenfield Genealogical Society Mostly information about the family but also information about the village |
| GREATER MANCHESTER GAZETEER | A good introduction to some of the administrative areas of what is now Greater Manchester. It includes Ramsbottom, Bury, Bolton, Walmersley, Tottington. It explains the administrative areas from the 19th century as well as the existing ones |
| LANCASHIRE BMD | This site is now (August 2002) in the very early stages of development and has limited coverage. But it's Cheshire equivalent is an excellent resource and this should prove equally valuable for researchers hoping to track down and order statutory birth, marriage, death certificates from local registrars. |
| LANCASHIRE GENWEB | Links to all aspects of Lancashire |
| LANCASHIRE HILL COUNTRY | This site has some useful information on several places in Rossendale |
| LFH&HS | Lancashire Family History & Heraldry Society The site gives access to fiche sales, contact addresses and telephone numbers, email addresses of various officers. And files of available fiche can be downloaded. |
| LPRS | Lancashire Parish Register Society The society devotes itself to transcribing and publishing the parish registers of Lancashire |
| LANCASHIRE VIRTUAL GATEWAY | Lancashire Virtual Gateway has lots of links to all aspects of the county although I have found the navigation a little obscure at times. An excellent site. |
| MLFHS | Manchester and Lancashire FHS |
| MAPS | Some large scale maps of several Lancashire towns. |
| PENDLE WITCHES | A good summary of the Pendle Witches |
| RAMSBOTTOM AND BURY | Sharon Bunter's very informative site with pages on both these towns and their churches. A very well laid out site. |
| RAMSBOTTOM HERITAGE SOCIETY | The society operates a Heritage Centre and also have a number of useful books |
| ROSSENDALE | Site of the Rossendale branch of the LFH&HS. There are pictures and history of churches in the area |
| SALFORD ROOTS | Joan Lawler's site has some transcripts of churches in Salford as well as other information |
| TODMORDEN AND WALSDEN | Dorothy Hargreaves and Lynda Briggs have set up this very well planned site which covers many aspects of the area |
| TOTTINGTON | A personal site that has some newspaper extracts about the village and some early photographs top of page |
| CAMBRIDGESHIRE GENWEB | Lots of Links |
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| CSL | Cambridgeshire Surnames List |
| CFHS | Cambridgeshire Family History Society |
| HADDENHAM | Information on the parish |
| OVER | Parish of Over top of page |
| EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY | The Geography Department of Edinburgh University have some good background information on administration etc |
| INVERNESS | Ian Dexer's pages about Inverness |
| OLD PARISH REGISTERS | This site dedicated to the BLAIR family has information on the OPRs |
| BLACK ISLE INFO | Not a genealogy site but has background information on all aspects of the Black Isle |
| BLACK ISLE PARTNERSHIP | Site devoted to the Black Isle |
| CROMARTY COURTHOUSE | The old courthouse is now the museum. It has an online militia list and a list of householders |
| GEORGE HAMILTON | George Hamilton has PATERSON relatives in the Black Isle |
| RESOLIS | Jim Mackay's site with pictures of the parish |
| ROSS & CROMARTY | The genuki pages for the county with a good number of links |
| WAYFARERS PROJECT | A project of Ross & Cromarty Heritage Society to record some local communities top of page |
| NORMAN BUCKLEY | Norman offers general help with UK genealogy and also pictures of churches in Cheshire |
| DINGWALL | This is the Genforum message page |
| GREENHALGH | Genforum postings for the name |
| AARON GREENHALGH | Aaron Greenhalgh in Canada |
| KEVIN GREENHALGH | Kevin Greenhalgh's family |
| GREENHALGH | Evelyn Wilcock has a site which includes the Greenhalgh family in Bolton area of Lancashire top of page |
| MARTIN | Andrew Martin has information on Martin in Cambridgeshire and also WATERS and TINGEY top of page |
| ALAN GODFREY MAPS | This company supplies large scale maps of many UK towns based on originals from around 1900 |
| BALH | British Association for Local History |
| FAMILY HISTORY RECORDS | A UK Government umbrella site with links to General Register Office, PRO etc. A good starting point for births, marriages, deaths, census etc |
| FAMILY HISTORY REGISTER | A site where you can search a family name to find other researchers with the same interest |
| FREE BMD | Free search of the UK birth, marriage, deaths indexes. Not nearly complete and gives access only to the "St Catherine's" indexes up to about 1900 - not the records themselves |
| GENUKI | Main page for GENUKI. Lots of links on all aspects of UK genealogy |
| OLD MAPS | View large scale (about 1:10 000) maps of Britain dated about 1850-1900 depending on area. |
| PLACE SEARCH | Provided by Ordnance Survey. Search for places in UK. Down to small hamlets in size. Uses modern names |
| SURNAME WEB | Here you can enter links to your website under your main research names |
| 1891 CENSUS PLACES | Provided by GENUKI this is a locator for places named in the 1891 census top of page |
Last update 07/11/2005