Genealogy: Websites

Members can access 1 billion searchable UK family history records. Launched in 2002, Ancestry.co.uk’s extensive collection enables members to explore their family history using censuses, the fully indexed birth, marriage and death records, passenger lists, the British phone books, military and parish records. Members can also explore names in other family trees and upload photographs of their own, and in doing so connect to millions of other members making their own discoveries.

Archives in over 250 UK universities, colleges and museums.

Professional association for genealogy in England and Wales

Professional association for genealogy in Scotland.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission ensures that 1.7 million people who died in the two world wars will never be forgotten. It cares for cemeteries and memorials at 23,000 locations, in 154 countries.

A lobby group for the various national and international organisations sharing an interest in Irish genealogical research.

An index to genealogical resources for the United Kingdom and Ireland.

A genealogy index compiled by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

An educational charity with over 180 family history societies throughout the world.

Find the graves of ancestors.

GENUKI provides a virtual reference library of genealogical information of particular relevance to the UK and Ireland. It is a non-commercial service, maintained by a charitable trust and a group of volunteers.

Part of the UK Data Archive (see below) this site allows researchers to explore historic census data covering the period 1851-1911. User guides are available on the website.

Autobiographies, journals, diaries, reminiscences, images, and letters linked to hundreds of known LDS immigrant voyages, giving a composite history of Mormon immigration to America.

The UK government's official archive for England, Wales and the United Kingdom.

Established on 1 April 2011, following the merger of the General Register Office for Scotland (GROS) and the National Archives of Scotland. It is the main archive for sources of the history of Scotland as a separate kingdom and her role in the British Isles.

Contains the proceedings of the Scottish parliament from the first surviving act of 1235 to the union of 1707.

The official Scottish genealogy resource - Scottish census records, wills and testaments, birth certificates and death certificates, parish registers, valuation rolls, soldiers' wills.

Promotes and encourages the study of Scottish family history, and provides a forum for the exchange of information among members.

The Society, based in Edinburgh and founded in 1953, helps with research into Scottish family and local history.

A useful resource for tracing local and family history within Scotland.