Tracing Your Family History on the Internet: A Guide for Family Historians- Second Edition by Paton Chris

Author:Paton, Chris
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Bisac Code 1: WQY; REF013000; REFERENCE / Genealogy & Heraldry
ISBN: 9781473831919
Publisher: Casemate Publishers & Book Distributors, LLC
Published: 2014-01-09T05:00:00+00:00

The London Historical Records Collection hosted on Ancestry.co.uk.

The Origins Network also has several major Londoncentred collections online, including Boyd’s Marriage Index from 1538–1840, St Andrew Holborn Marriage Index 1754–1812, Marriage License Allegations 1694– 1850, Archdeaconry Court of London Wills Index 1700–1807, Surrey and South London wills extracts 1470–1856, London Apprenticeship extracts 1442–1850, a London Burials Index for 1538–1853 and a London Consistory Court Depositions Index for 1700–1713.

The AIM25 site at www.aim25.ac.uk has a searchable catalogue of over a hundred archives, livery companies, societies and more within the M25 area, whilst a catalogue for all of London’s libraries can be found at http://tinyurl.com/yd63txl. An online catalogue for London Metropolitan Archives is available at http://tinyurl.com/yd6c2rc, and its London Generations database can be accessed at http://tinyurl.com/cacbngj. This now comprises detailed research guides for records extant for each of London’s boroughs.

The City of Westminster Archive’s WESTCAT catalogue (http://tinyurl.com/yedsqov) provides some useful indexes, such as St Martin-in-the-Fields Settlement Examinations from 1732–1755, a Survey of London index to street names, and the Motco Project, a database of prints, maps and images of London.

The Institute of Historical Research’s Guildhall Library Manuscripts site at www.history.ac.uk/gh links to various guides and indexes for business records, livery companies, Lloyd’s captains registers, probate inventories from the Peculiar Court of St Paul’s Cathedral and marriage licenses from St Katharine-by-the-Tower (1686–1802).The London Metropolitan University’s Women’s Library website, with a catalogue of holdings, is at www.lse.ac.uk/library/newsandinformation/womenslibraryatLSE/home.aspx.

Historical paintings and images of the city, and several virtual exhibitions depicting life in London across time, are available at http://collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk. Images from the Illustrated London News Picture Library can also be consulted at www.iln.org.uk – many editions are also hosted on The Genealogist.

Locating London’s Past (www.locatinglondon.org) is an interesting project linking data from various digitised records projects and maps from 1746 and 1869–80. If, for example, you wish to locate the sites of all crimes recorded in a particular area, as recorded on the Old Bailey Online site, you can do so. A similar map project for historic images can be found at www.visithistoriccities.com. An interesting project called Bomb Sight (http://bombsight.org) is mapping the London Second World War bomb census between 7 October 1940 and 6 June 1941, allowing users to locate where bombs fell but also to discover memories and photographs from the period.

The London School of Economics has also created a site dedicated to Charles Booth’s nineteenth-century poverty maps for the city at http://booth.lse.ac.uk, with various notebooks and additional resources included. Various nineteenth-century cholera maps of the city drawn up by John Snow can also be found at www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow.html, and Greenwood’s London map of 1827 at http://users.bathspa.ac.uk/greenwood. A Victorian London AZ is online at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/hitch/gendocs/lonstr.html, whilst an aerial survey of the city taken in 1949 can be viewed at www.oldaerial photos.com.

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