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.
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| 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
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- 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
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| FreeBMD |
- free incomplete list of GRO index entries
- can sometimes deduce spouse in marriages
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| 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
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| YorkshireBMD |
- free search, displays spouse in marriage
- provides printable order form; certs cost £7
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| Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
- free search, displays spouse on marriage certs
- can order cert online for £7
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| 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
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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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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 |