Collecting Chicago’s Forgotten Black History
A Chicago Tribune article
ENGLAND
British National Archives
The National Archives is home to millions of documents,
files and images that cover 1,000 years of history.
Directgov
Ordering birth. marriage and death
certificates
Deceased Online
Central database for UK burials and
cremations
London Metropolitan Archives
Federation of Eastern European Family History
Societies
Resource site for
ancestry in any of the countries between the Alps and the Urals, between the
Baltic and the Black Seas (Poland, Czech
Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia,
Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Ukraine,
Belarus, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia).
Form for requesting copies of documents from Family History Center
How to type accents in other languages Keyboard codes for typing foreign
vowels
On a Mac use the Option key instead
of Alt.
IRELAND
1901 &
1911 Ireland Census
1901 is earliest surviving census.
From Ireland - Great Genealogy Databases
Ireland Health Service - Order Birth, Marriage, Death
Certificates
Irish Passenger List Research Guide
Limerick City and County -- Look for online record search
Looking 4 Kin Genealogy & Family History Network & Chat
Helping hands helping one another with our family history & genealogy research.
Great resource for Irish archives and databases
Northern
Ireland Searches
Roots Ireland
- Family Records Database
Griffith's
Valuation 1848-1864
Ireland's Valuation office conducted its first survey of property
ownership in Ireland from 1848 to 1864. Griffith's
Valuation can be used as an excellent census substitute for the years after the
Great Famine as censuses prior to 1901 were destroyed.
POLAND
Polish Books of Residents and Other Lesser-Known
Sources
by
Fay and Julian Bussgang
Polish Roots
Polish
Genealogy Source. Includes section on origins and meanings of Polish surnames.
Polish National Archives
RUSSIA
ArcheoBiblioBase (Russian)
This newly revised expanded website presents updated major sections of the
ArcheoBiblioBase directory and bibliographic information system for archival
repositories in the Russian Federation, maintained in Moscow. The listed
information, presented in English by the International Institute of Social
History (IISH/IISG, Amsterdam), should alert researchers abroad to the wealth of
holdings and research opportunities in repositories in Moscow and St. Petersburg
and state archives throughout the Russian Federation.
Introduction to Russian Genealogy
Part 1
Part
2
A Dictionary of Period Russian Names
(and some of their Slavic roots)
A compilation of over 25,000 Russian names
Russian-English Name Cross-Index
SWEDEN
Genline
- Swedish Records (Not just a database)
SweGGate-Sweden
Genealogical Gate
SVAR-Swedish
archive information and records (Click on "English"
at the top of page)