Tracing your Family Tree can be very time consuming see below a list of websites that have been compiled to help you.
The following sites may be of use to the amateur genealogist in tracing their family roots.
Some or all of the following details will be needed to get you started.
- Full Name
- Date of Birth - date/time/place
- Christening - date/time/place
- Marriage - date/time/place
- Death - date
- Profession/occupation details
| Government Records | Website Addresses |
| National Archives | www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
| Public Record Office (Northern Ireland) | www.proni.gov.uk |
| General Register Office (England & Wales) | www.gro.gov.uk |
| General Register Office (Northern Ireland) | www.nidirect.gov.uk/ |
| General Register Office (Republic of Ireland) | www.groireland.ie/ |
| General Register Office (Scotland ) | www.gro-scotland.gov.uk |
| National Archives of Ireland | www.nationalarchives.ie |
| National Archives of Scotland (NAS) | www.nas.gov.uk |
| Civil Registry (Isle of Man) | www.gov.im/registries/general/civilregistry/ |
| Scotland's People | www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk |
| Family Records Centre | www.gov.uk/research-family-history |
| Office of National Statistics | www.statistics.gov.uk |
| 1901 Census | www.ukcensusonline.com/census/1901.php |
| Historical Manuscripts Commission | www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sector/hmc.htm |
| British Library India Office | www.bl.uk |
| National Library of Wales | www.llgc.org.uk |
| Genealogical Societies | Website Addresses |
| Assoc. of Genealogists | www.agra.org.uk |
| Burke's Peerage & Gentry | www.burkes-peerage.net |
| Federation of Family History Societies | www.ffhs.org.uk |
| Guild of One-Name Studies | www.one-name.org |
| Irish Genealogical Research Society | www.igrsoc.org |
| Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain | www.jgsgb.org.uk |
| Scottish Genealogy | www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk |
| Society of Genealogists | www.sog.org.uk |
| UK and Ireland Genealogical Info. Service | www.genuki.org.uk |
| Online Databases | Website Addresses |
| Access to Archives Database (archives in publicly accessible collections) | www.a2a.org.uk |
| Ancestral Scotland | www.ancestralscotland.com |
| Ancestors | www.ancestors.com |
| BT Group Archives | www.bt.com/archives |
| Chineseroots | www.chineseroots.com |
| Cyndi's List | www.cyndislist.com |
| Free BMD (Births, Marriages, and Deaths) | www.freebmd.org.uk |
| Free Census | www.1901censusonline.com |
| Free Reg | https://www.freereg.org.uk/ |
| Family Search of the LDS | www.familysearch.org |
| Familia | www.heritagebuildsbridges.org.uk/heritage/links/Fam-Hist.htm |
| Genes Reunited | www.genesreunited.co.uk |
| My Trees | www.mytrees.com |
| My Family | www.myfamily.com |
| Origins (for British and Irish records) | www.origins.net |
| Rootsweb Surname List | www.rootsweb.com |
| English Origins | www.englishorigins.com |
| Scots Origins | www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ |
| Surname Profiler | www.spatial-literacy.org/uclnames |
| UKBMD (Local Authority online databases) | www.ukbmd.org.uk |
Last updated 7 February 2017