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150 years of Henry Cook

We need photos/memoribilia of anything to do with Henry Cook and his work in Gosport, United Kingdom and Deauville, France. Schooners, Portsmouth and Gosport Seamans Mission Halls and Coffee and Reading Rooms, Ragged Schools. Are you related to Henry Cook?

Adoption Contact Register

UK adoption contact register for adoptees and birth relatives.

Adoption, Search & Reunion

This UK-based website contains a free searchable database of where to find adoption records in the UK and Ireland and how to access them. It also includes advice on searching for and making contact with birth relatives and information about the legislation in force in England and Wales and the intermediary services that are now available to adopted people and birth relatives. There is also a section especially for agencies and professionals who offer advice on accessing information and intermediary services.

Ancestors and Royal Family Of England - Alan G Freer

Covers the descendants of Henry VII in part.

Ancestry.com - Search Family & Local History Records

Searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images available with fee-based subscription.

Anglo-Jewish Research

From the Jewish Genealogy in Australia web site.

Anthony J. Camp - Royal Mistresses and Bastards: Fact and Fiction 1714-1936

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Black and Asian Studies Association (BASA)

The aim of the association is to foster research and to disseminate information on the history of Black peoples in Britain.

British 1820 Settlers to South Africa

A free website, dedicated to the British Settlers to South Africa in 1820, their descendants and researchers. All the information has been generously supplied or posted by the members of this website. Searchable Settler databases with over 150,000 names, the ships, transcriptions, photos, etc.

British Home Child Group International

To provide free research, genealogical tips and reunite families of British Home Children world-wide.

British Kings & Queens

Regnal-list[s] of British monarchs from earliest times, with some genealogical-data.

British-Jewry

The web site for the British-Jewry mailing list. Open to all and houses some browsable databases plus basic information on reseraching Jewish heritage in Great Britain. Access to all parts of the site is entirely free of charge.

Burke's Peerage & Gentry

Over 15,000 records from Britain's hereditary and titled families. The lineages go back hundreds of years, showing how individuals contributed to the nation's history and heritage throughout the centuries.

Burke's Peerage and Burke's Landed Gentry

A free searchable and navigable database containing images of both Burke's Peerage, and Burke's Landed Gentry, 1847-49. Also contains links to transcripts of pedigrees from the Landed Gentry editions of 1862 and 1879

Canterbury Roll - University of Canterbury - New Zealand

The Canterbury Roll is a 15th-century English genealogical text. It was created in the late 1420s to early 1430s and subsequently modified on a number of occasions before final revisions were made to it, most probably during the reign of Richard III (1483–1485).

Chartist Ancestors

For those wishing to trace the involvement of their UK ancesters in the campaign for the right to vote.

Cracroft's Peerage

Comprehensive guide to the British Peerage and Baronetage.

Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage

A free version of Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, 1896 to view online. Pedigrees and surnames indexed and searchable.

Dukes of the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Lists dukes and dukedoms of the UK. Provides some background information on current title holders.

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