Genealogy Links

I've spend over ten years (off and on) researching my family tree and here are links to the internet resources that I've found most useful.

Software

http://www.genopro.com/ -- (freeware) I've been using it since November 2004 and it seems to do exactly what I need
http://www.genopro.com/beta/ -- I'm actually using the beta version of the next release and it's working fine

Online Resources

http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ -- the Official, fully searchable index of Scottish:
- Births from 1553-1903
- Marriages from 1553 to 1928
- Deaths from 1855 to 1953
- Census data from 1881 to 1901

http://www.scottishdocuments.com/ -- the Official, fully searchable index of over 520,000 Scottish wills and testaments dating from 1500 to 1901

http://www.nls.uk/digitallibrary/map/index.html -- the online map service of the National Library of Scotland. This website has a great range of old maps that you can view online

http://www.familysearch.org/ -- a free service of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that provides a wide range of genealogical data. Since I've only been interested in their International Genealogical Index I've bookmarked that Search Page

http://www.anesfhs.org.uk/ -- the website of the The Aberdeen & North-East Scotland Family History Society. This website is a good starting resource for researching your family tree if it extends into Aberdeenshire. I've found their free searchable Memorial Inscription Database (the text on gravestones) at very useful

http://home.chilitech.net/~mmjeffery/aberdeen.htm -- this website gives you online access to the census data of some parishes

http://www.tayvalleyfhs.org.uk/index.shtml -- the website of the Tay Valley Family History Society. This website is a good starting resource for researching your family tree if it extends into Perthsire and Angus

Copyright © 2004, Joe Dorward