The Metcalfe Society - Sites of interest to researchers

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Familybmd.com Help and advice to make family history research easier.
Gerry Palliser's Local and Family History Resource
University of Leicester, Historical Directories Databases - click here to go to search screen

Ancestry.com Millions of records online including Census, Military, Immigration, Periodicals, Court & Land, as well as family tree collections. Offers include a 7-day free trial of U.S Federal Census Images.
Article about Documentation in Family History Research From Genealogy.com.
British Merchant Mariners of the 19th & 20th Centuries
Cyndi's List of Genealogical Sites on the Internet. The Metcalfe Society is listed at:
Distant Cousins Genealogy Index Numerous links
Family Chronicle Magazine the magazine written for families researching their roots - Free Introductory Issue available.
Family Records.gov Consortium Numerous links to UK records including the Orient and India
FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service LDS on-line - IGI, Ancestral File, Family History Library, order products.
Family Tree Searcher - Find Family Trees Easily Enter your ancestor information just once to search for family trees at multiple online genealogy databases
Foreign language translation: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.
GED (file) to WWW (page) Surname Database List
Genealogy: Advice for Effective Searches Answer a series of simple questions and get free, customized advice on the most effective next steps for searching your ancestors -
HotBot: A Good Search Engine: Tips on searches
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild A searchable database of many transcribed ships.
Metcalfe Family Genealogy Forum -USA
Modern Equivalents of Latin Place-Names in early printed books
Producing Quality Research Notes From the U.S. Board for Certification of Genealogists.
Roots Web's Guide To Tracing Family Trees
Surnames, Family Associations & Family Newsletters: Surnames Beginning with "M"
UK Monumental Inscriptions is an archive website to store photographs and transcriptions of the headstones and monuments in our cemeteries. Its primary use is to provide a single place for researching family history and genealogy to find information on Cemeteries and Graveyards with the United Kingdom, and eventually to have a full and useful searchable database of the transcriptions from all of the Headstones.

Australian Genealogy Addresses
Australian Family History Compendium
Archives of Australia
First Families 2001 a database and collection of stories about the people of Australia - first family is the earliest person in a family known to have lived in Australia.
Index to Inward Overseas Passengers from Foreign Ports 1852-1859 (indexed by Surname).
KENDALL Families in New South Wales, Australia Information has been extracted from the IGI, convicts records and the Blue Books of the colony 1788 - 1824.
Shipping links Australian and NZ passenger lists online

British Columbia Cemetery Finding Aid, The Searchable Database of interments from more than 2000 cemetaries in B.C.
British Columbina Vital Stats Agency, The Information on how to obtain certificates.
Calgary & Foothills Pioneer Research
Canadian Expeditionary Force A searchable database to personnel files of WWI soldiers. Records can be ordered.
Canadian Genealogy and History Links
Halton (Ontario, Canada) Genealogy and Local History
Halton Local Historical Databases Search form - enter Metcalf or spelling variant to obtain references to wills, land records, newspaper mentions, business directories, census, and militia records
inGeneas - Canada genealogy research: they are experts in Canadian passenger lists and immigration documents; has on-line databases.
Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid, The Searchable Database of interments from more than 3800 cemeteries, etc in Ontario
National Archives of Canada, The
Nominal Census of Yale District, B.C. Searchable Database Covered an area Hope, north to Kamloops, east to the provincial border and south to the International Boundary and included the Kootenay region..
Vernon, B.C. and District Family History Society - Cemetery Monument Inscriptions
Vital Statistics - Death Registration Index Search Gateway Searchable Database 1872-1976
Vital Statistics - Marriage Registration Index Search Gateway Searchable Database 1872-1921

Births Deaths & Marriages Exchange Certificates - UK
Cheshire Births Deaths & Marriages Online
Chesterfield & District Family History Society
COPAC is the Online Public Access Catalog, providing unified access to the online catalogs of some of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland.
England & Wales Vital Document Supply Agency for Family Historians and Genealogists
Guild of One-Name Studies
Hugh Wallis's Genealogical Web Sites Various IGI database searches available
Post Office Archives
Public Record Office - UK
Ranks, Professions, Occupations and Trades Another GenDocs site.
Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts Webpages
Society of Genealogists, UK
UK & Ireland Genealogical Information Service (GENUKI)
Wharram Percy Lost Medieval Village - A Study of Settlement on the Wolds
Wirksworth, Derbyshire One Place Study: An incredible site filled with information and 18 databases.
Yorkshire Births Deaths & Marriages Online

Family History in India Website for people tracing their British, European and Anglo-Indian family history in India, Burma, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
India Office Records :Sources for Family History Research