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This is a list of web sites that may be useful for following up on information you find at this site:

Photocopies of Census and Parish Register entries
Durham County Record Office	Provides a searchable online catalogue of their holdings. Charges for photocopying an entry in a parish register are here (you must supply the parish name, event date, and relevant names).
Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints (LDS) Catalog	If you have an LDS Family History Center near you, you can rent films of many parish registers and census records for a small fee and make your own copies of entries. Not all registers have been filmed. Do a Place Search on the parish or town of interest to see what's available.
Civil Registration of Births, Marriages, and Deaths (GRO indexes)
FreeBMD	free incomplete list of GRO index entries can sometimes deduce spouse in marriages from match in page numbers
Durham County Council	search GRO indexes for some Durham registration districts has all marriages for the covered districts, births & deaths for some districts & periods (very incomplete, so if you don't find a birth/death here, don't assume it doesn't exist) does not provide a list of what towns or areas are covered by their index (used to, but it got deleted in a site reorganization and it hasn't been restored yet) you can order online a certificate found in the index for £7 plus postage/handling
Tees Valley Indexes	free search of GRO indexes at Middlesbrough, Hartlepool, Stockton-on-Tees and Redcar & Cleveland register offices provides printable order form; certs cost £7
YorkshireBMD	displays spouse in marriage provides printable order form; certs cost £7
Newcastle-upon-Tyne	displays spouse in marriage can order cert online for £7
Gateshead Register Office	displays spouse in marriage; can add mother's maiden name or spouse's name as search filters some gaps in coverage
South Tyneside Register Office	covers South Shields, Jarrow, Westoe, Whitburn, Cleadon, Harton, Hebburn, Boldons cannot order certificate online
Sunderland Register Office	displays spouse in marriage has marriages 1837 to 2005, births & deaths only 1990 to 2005 provides printable order form; certs cost £7
Find My Past	search all GRO indexes minimum £5 for 50 page views searching for a name produces only pages that contain the correct alphabetic range for the name you searched for, so you can waste a lot of units looking for unusual names that do not appear on those pages
FamilyRelatives	search all GRO indexes minimum £6 for 60 units; each page of the index costs an average of 3 units 1866-1920 are fully searchable; searches in other periods produce only pages that contain the correct alphabetic range for the name you searched for, so you can waste a lot of units looking for unusual names that do not appear on those pages
Identity & Passport Services (was General Register Office)	order online any certificate found in the GRO indexes for £7 this site does not have the indexes; you need to search the indexes at one of the above sites first, or you can pay the GRO more money to search for you
Maps - find the place your ancestor lived in
Streetmap	Shows tiny farms and hamlets if you zoom in to the maximum level.
Old Maps	Shows maps of towns, parishes, farms, from the 1850-1870s
UK Genealogy
GenUKI	General information site covering the UK, good descriptions of parishes, lists of available records, some free transcriptions
PROCat	The National Archives Online Catalogue - search government documents for your ancestor
DocumentsOnline	Search for wills, download image for small fee
British-Genealogy.com: Censuses	Excellent description of how the census was taken, why the census images available today are actually transcriptions by the enumerator, and how to reference a piece/folio.
Coal Mining & Northeast England History
Durham Mining Museum	Histories of the collieries of Durham and surrounding counties; descriptions of mining disasters and lists of the dead and injured; list of mining occupations and terms.
Durham Miner	Research projects on County Durham mining history - browse the titles listed here and read randomly
Coalmining History Resource Centre	Includes Ian Winstanley's accident database, photos, stories, Harry Tootle's list of mining occupations and terms; very useful for understanding just what great-grandpa did as a "shifter" or a "trimmer" or a "viewer".
History of Tudhoe Village	Jeremy Hutson's excellent site on the history of Tudhoe
East-Durham.co.uk	David Angus' local history project (lots of old photos)
North East England History Pages	David Simpson's collection of history articles, including a Geordie dictionary, maps that show & discuss the origins of place-names, and photos
North East History	Site of the Northern Echo (newspaper) short history articles