Internet-based genealogical resources
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The internet is ideally suited to genealogical research for two key reasons:
- It removes the constraints of time and money involved in long and costly trips to remote parish churches, etc. Much of the interest in online genealogy has been driven by those in North America and Australasia tracing their roots in the British Isles.
- Genealogy is a collaborative activity. Only a limited amount of progress can be made through individual research. The Internet has allowed researches across the globe to share information and so build their own family trees more rapidly and more extensively than would have been possible before.
A number of general interest genealogy web sites exist that could help with your project:
- English Origins
- Family Search - the IGI index
- GENUKI UK and Ireland
- Genes Connected
- Online Parish Clerks for the County of Lancashire
- Rootsweb
- Society of Genealogists
- Veterans Agency (MOD service records)
The following web sites are referred to in other pages of this section of the web site:
- Adoptions in Salford (Salford City Council's family placement team)
- After Adoption
- Barnado's
- Borthwick Institute of Historical Research
- The Children's Society
- Family Records Centre
- Greater Manchester County Record Office
- Manchester & Lancashire Family History Society
- Lancashire Births, Marriages & Deaths
- Lancashire Record Office
- Public Record Office
- Salford's cemeteries and crematoria
- Salford Local History Library
This page was last updated on 05 November 2008
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