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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 Record Office Their site says: "Enquiries asking for a search of one year in one baptism, marriage or burial register or one street in one census will normally continue to be answered and the cost of a photocopy charged."

The cost of the above, if you supply the specifics of what, when, and where, is £2.
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)
Durham County Council

List of Areas Covered
  • 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)
  • you can order online a certificate found in the index for £7 plus postage/handling
FreeBMD
  • free incomplete list of GRO index entries
  • can sometimes deduce spouse in marriages
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
  • free search, displays spouse in marriage
  • provides printable order form; certs cost £7
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
  • free search, displays spouse on marriage certs
  • can order cert online for £7
Sunderland Register Office
  • free search, displays spouse on marriage certs
  • has marriages 1837 to 2005, births & deaths only 1990 to 2005
  • provides printable order form; certs cost £7
Find My Past
(previously 1837online.com)
  • 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.org
  • 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
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.
Harry Tootle's Mining Dictionary Extensive list of mining occupations and terms; very useful for understanding just what great-grandpa did as a "shifter" or a "trimmer" or a "viewer".
The Northeast Maps, photos, & histories of northeast Durham, Yorkshire, and Northumberland, plus books for sale