Sunday, January 13, 2013

Top UK Genealogy web sites

A list of the 100 top genealogy web sites has been published by GenealogyInTime and I reproduce the sites most relevant to British genealogists:

4 FamilySearch records Worldwide free https://www.familysearch.org/
6 Ancestry.co.uk records UK pay http://www.ancestry.co.uk/
14 FindMyPast UK records UK pay http://www.findmypast.co.uk/
24 Genes Reunited records UK pay http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/
36 Free BMD records UK free http://www.freebmd.org.uk/
42 Roots Chat forum UK free http://rootschat.com/
53 ScotlandsPeople records Scotland pay http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/
58 Genuki records UK free http://genuki.org.uk/
59 British History Online records UK free http://www.british-history.ac.uk/
60 thePeerage records UK free http://thepeerage.com/
66 British Newspaper Archive newspapers UK pay http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/
72 Forces War Records records UK pay http://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/
82 Lost Cousins family tree UK pay http://www.lostcousins.com/
91 British-Genealogy forum UK free http://www.british-genealogy.com/
92 The Genealogist records UK pay http://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/
93 Commonwealth War Graves records UK free http://www.cwgc.org/

It should be realised that FamilySearch has one worldwide site while, for instance, Ancestry has several, the top being Ancestry.com. Compared with last year the number of free sites in the top 100 has dropped, while the British Newspaper Archive is a very respectable new entry.

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