Here are some useful links you can connect to. Inevitably, addresses may change, and we will try to keep up with any such changes. We believe that the information is correct at the time of posting but should you find any inaccuracies we would be pleased if you would let us know. We are adding links all the time so why not bookmark this page visit regularly.

1901 Census On-Line (pay-per-view) [PRO]
Access to Archives (A2A)
Ancestry.co.uk (subscription site for UK data)
Cyndi's List (Cyndi Howells)
FamilyHistoryOnline (pay-per-view for FHS records) [FFHS]
FamilySearch
GENUKI
Guild of One-Name Studies
RootsWeb
Society of Genealogists
The Parish Chest

FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETIES

Many Family History Societies produce publications related to their county. You may wish to consider purchasing your own copy of relevant resources to aid your research. Links to all known on-line publication lists can be found at:
Family History Society On-Line Catalogues
You may also wish to consider supporting research in this area by joining the society. Details can be found at their respective web-sites which are listed above or see:
Genuki's Family History Society Listings

RECORD OFFICES

Gloucestershire Record Office,
Clarence Row, Alvin Street, Gloucester (01452) 425295 Opening hours, contact details.

Bristol Record Office. Very Brief description of holdings (CLOSED on FRIDAYS)

Somerset Archive and Record Service,
Obridge Road, Taunton, TA2 7PU Somerset (01823 278805)
Their e-mail address is 100064.2776@compuserve.com

Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office
County Hall East, Bythesea Road, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, BA14 8BS
tel: (UK) 01225 713709 (Overseas) (+44) 1225 713709 Fax: (UK) 01225 713993 (Overseas) (+44) 1225 713993
E-mail: wsro@wiltshire.gov.uk

Glamorgan Archive Service, County Hall, Cathays Park, Cardiff CF1 2NE (0222 7820282)

Gwent Record Office, County Hall, Cwmbran, NP44 2XH (01633 644866 Fax:01633 648382) Their e-mail address is 113057.2173@compuserve.com

OTHER WEBSITES

INTERNATIONAL SITES

• We have a 'sister' website in the USA which is run by CINDY HALE in PHOENIX, Arizona. It's quite different from this one and is really worth a visit, especially if you are in North America. But it's also of interest to HALEs worldwide, so don't miss it ! The URL is : http://members.aol.com/haleroots/index.html
  (NOTE: This site does not appear to have been updated since September 2001)

• DAVID HALE's excellent site in Australia devoted to the HALE name.
  The Hale Connection
  

• Descendants of Thomas Hale of Watton-at-stone, Hertfordshire, England who emigrated to the New World in 1637 and settled in Massachusetts.
  Hale Family Organisation

• Two of the largest genealogical sites are : GENUKI http://www.genuki.org.uk and
• CYNDI'S LIST at http://www.cyndislist.com/

  If you can't find what you're looking for on either of these sites then it probably doesn't exist. (Both in our top 10 list)
  

• Family Search /(IGI)
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) site. Access to the International Genealogical Index (IGI) and lots of other family history sources. (In our top 10 list)

GLOUCESTERSHIRE SITES

GLOUCESTERSHIRE COMMUNITY SITES

  »  Alderton Parish Website http://www.custodian.com/alderton/index.html
  »  Amberley : http://www.amberley.org/
  »  Berkeley : http://web.ukonline.co.uk/saint.marys
  »  Bishop's Cleeve : http://www.btinternet.com/~bishops_cleeve/
  »  Bisley Parish Website : http://www.bisley-with-lypiatt.gov.uk/
  »  Bourton on the Water :www.digital-brilliance.com/hyperg/towns/bourton.htm
  »  Chalford Hill Our village web site : http://www.chalfordhill.org.uk/
  »  Cheltenham Spa - Centre for the Cotswolds : http://www.cheltweb.co.uk/index.htm
  »  Cheltenham official site: http://www.cheltenham.gov.uk/
  »  Cirencester : http://www.cirencester.co.uk
  »  Dursley : http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/john_kaye/dursley.htm
  »   Dursley : http://www.john.wilkes.dial.pipex.com/dursley.htm
  »   France Lynch : http://www.kingsheadfrancelynch.co.uk
  »  The City of Gloucester, the Crossroads of England : http://www.softdata.co.uk/gloucester/gloucest.htm
  »  Nailsworth : http://www.nailsworth.com/
  »  Painswick : http://painswick.co.uk/
  »  Randwick : http://www.appleonline.net/randwick/
  »  The Royal Forest of Dean : http://www.fweb.org.uk/dean/
  »  Selsley : http://www.selsleyvillage.freeserve.co.uk/
  »  Virtual Stroud : http://www.stroud.org.uk/ A tour of Stroud in photographs. Guide yourself around Stroud by clicking on the arrows. RECOMMENDED.
  »  Digital Stroud http://www.digitalstroud.co.uk Lots of useful info about the town.
  »  Tetbury : http://www.tetbury.org.uk/
  »  Tewkesbury Web : http://www.tmgcon.com/tewksweb/
  »  Tormarton : http://tormarton-glos.tripod.com/index.html
  »  Winchcombe : http://pages.britishlibrary.net/winchcombe
  »  Woodmancote :http://www.woodmancoteparish.freeserve.co.uk/

 
 

OTHER GLOUCESTERSHIRE SITES OF INTEREST

Genealogy

Everyone doing genealogical research in Gloucestershire should visit Graham Thomas' "All The Cotswolds" Site

ROD NEEP has a list of currently available books on the FOREST OF DEAN and some on Gloucestershire in general.
It will be found at: http://www.fweb.org.uk/dean/deanhist/books.htm

Forest of Dean Genealogy Pages :
http://www.forest-of-dean.net/
Nailbridge HALEs
Ruardean HALEs

Gloucestershire Genealogy / Flight Family History :
http://www.glosgen.co.uk/index.htm

Monumental Inscriptions - Gloucestershire : http://www.neep.demon.co.uk/mis/glos/index.htm
Gloucestershire Towns and Parishes : http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/GLS/Parishes.html
Gloucestershire library guide to genealogy Routes to Roots (A basic list of sources for Gloucestershire Family History available at Gloucester Library)

Other

Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society : http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/ihr/bg/
The Cotswold HyperGuide : http://www.digital-brilliance.com/hyperg/
Gloucester Online : http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/
Gloucestershire Internet Business Park : http://www.glosibp.co.uk/
Prinknash Abbey, Gloucestershire : http://web.ukonline.co.uk/david.w34/_prinknash.html
Visit Gloucestershire & the Cotswolds : http://www.visit-glos.org.uk/
Welcome to the Cotswolds : http://paul.star.co.uk/cotswolds/

Cheltweb
Gloucestershire Constabulary
Gloucestershire County Council
Gloucestershire Gateway
Gloucestershire Health Authority
Gloslink
Gloucestershire Pages
Gloucestershire Pubs
Kings Head France Lynch Pub
Virtual Gloucester

FARM ACCOMMODATION

Westley farm

WELSH SITES

• A beautifully designed site The VALLEY CONNECTION contains a Welsh Web directory with links to over 3000 sites in 400 categories. Recommended. http://www.valleyconnection.co.uk/
  
• The Welsh Family History Archive : : http://www.jlb2005.plus.com/wales/index.htm
  Maintained by JOHN BALL this is a wonderful on-line resource for all things Welsh.
  
• If you have COAL MINING ancestors the place to look for a general history of Welsh mining is History of Welsh Mining
  or
• http://www.swan.ac.uk/swcc/index.htm for the South Wales Coalfield Collection. Their e-mail address is :mailto:miners@swansea.ac.uk

• Welsh Coal Mines
  This website contains lots of information on coal mines with particular emphasis on collieries in Monmouthshire.
  
• GENUKI Wales
  The section of the Genuki Website devoted to Welsh genealogy sources.
  
• The Wales Genealogy site is at :
  http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wgen/monmouthshire.htm
• Genealogical Index of South and West Wales
  Many sources of useful info for those with roots in SW Wales are available via this new Website.
• KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF MON 1901
• 1901 Directory for Newport
• 1847
• Kelly`s Newport 1848
• John`s Newport Directory 1880
• Cardiff trade directory 1795

MONMOUTHSHIRE SITES

• If you have an interest in the BLAENAVON area of Monmouthshire http://members.tripod.com/~Family_Thomas/blaenafon.htm is worth a visit.
  
• If on the other hand it's ABERTILLERY you're interested in http://www.abertillery.net/
  is the place to look.
  There are specific genealogy pages on the site with interests of others also listed. The owner, David Llewellyn, will help where possible with enquries for the town with various sources available he has, including the 1891 census - not indexed though, so an address would be an advantage. There is also a message board which has proved useful and history pages to aid your research.
  
• There's a terrific site for those interested in the SIRHOWY VALLEY of Monmouthshire at:
  http://www.geocities.com/jenks436/intro1.html
  
• For those who remember CRUMLIN VIADUCT there's a treat in store at:
  http://www.crymlyn.welshcoalmines.co.uk/ where you'll find some spectacular views of the bridge
  
• And if you want to find out a bit about the CROSSKEYS AREA and much more of the Sirhowy Valley
  http://www.xkeys.freeserve.co.uk/ is an excellent starting off point.
  Cross Oak, Oakdale
  
• The town of CALDICOT has a community web site at: http://www.caldicot.com/links.html
  
• Kelly's 1901 Trade Directory for Monmouthshire
  Bryan Morgan has uploaded a copy of the entire Kelly's 1901 Trade Directory for Monmouthshire, providing a wonderful resource for anyone researching their family history in Monmouthshire at the end of the 19th century.
  
• Everything you want to know about the town of MONMOUTH :
  http://www.monmouth.org.uk/
  Also : http://www.monmouthshire.org.uk/ for a more general view of the county.

• Wales Lookup Exchange Homepage
•  Mid-Wales Lookup Exchange
•  All Wales Lookup Exchange
•  One Name Database Lookup Exchange
• Look-up Exchange (Wales) Homepage

  Click here for the Glamorgan GENUKI Page

There are extensive details for GLAMORGAN references on the Glamorgan List page

Registration Offices are listed by COUNTY at http://www.fhsc.org.uk/genuki/REG/index.htm. This site gives a very useful breakdown of exactly which villages etc were covered by which Register Office at which dates, and also includes the addresses from which Certificates may currently be purchased.

Information on Monmouthshire registration districts HERE

LOCAL GOVERNMENT SITES

Blaenau Gwent Borough council http://www.blaenau-gwent.gov.uk/
Caerfilli County Borough Council http://www.caerphilly.gov.uk/
Torfaen County Borough Council http://www.torfaen.gov.uk/
Monmouthshire Council http://www.monmouthshire.gov.uk/
Newport County Borough Council http://www.newport.gov.uk/

Glosnet Gloucestershire's Official Pages. Gloucestershire on the internet. 20,000 pages of information on Gloucestershire, ranging from population of villages, through details of Record Office and libraries to tourist and commercial information.
Cheltenham's official site is http://www.cheltenham.gov.uk/

Did you know that there is a Rootsweb list devoted to the name HALE ? To subscribe just send the single command "subscribe" in the body of a message to :
HALE-L-request@rootsweb.com (Almost all of the subscribers are in the USA)

Mailing Lists.

Two formats are available, just choose one..

Mail mode, which means that you will receive every posting made to, e.g. GLOUCESTER as a separate e-mail.
To subscribe just send a message to GLOUCESTER-L-request@rootsweb.com.
that contains (in the body of the message) the command subscribe and no additional text.

Alternatively, Digest mode, (several postings are combined and sent to you together as a single large message).
Send the same message as above to GLOUCESTER-D-request@rootsweb.com

They also have message boards: http://boards.rootsweb.com/
All mailing lists can be found at: http://lists.rootsweb.com/
And RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/

You can search the GLOUCESTER list at : "http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=GLOUCESTER"

Exactly the same process as above applies to the Monmouthshire, Glamorgan or any other mailing lists.

For example:

RootsWeb list for Blaenau Gwent
A mailing list for anyone with a genealogical interest in the areas of Nantyglo, Blaina, Brynmawr, Tredegar, Abertillery, and Llanhilleth in the county of Monmouthshire (Gwent), Great Britain. You must be a subscriber to post to the list. To subscribe send the word "subscribe" (without the quotes) as the only text in the body of a message to blaenaugwent-l-request@rootsweb.com (mail mode) or blaenaugwent-d-request@rootsweb.com (digest mode).

Check out the web site GRO They tell you all about ordering birth, death or marriage certificates from July 1, 1837 up to present day. If you have the index number for the required certificate (can get them from LDS family history centres, although they don't usually list the death index numbers), ie Volume and page number, you can order by credit card (£8 per certificate required). If you can't provide the reference number, the ONS will do a look up of 1 year either side of the year you give them. The cost in total is then £11 per certificate that they do. They will post first class to you within 28 days.

MAPS

http://www.streetmap.co.uk
http://www.multimap.com
Will find almost any place in the UK. Multimap also gives "sounds like"
suggestions.
http://www.maporama.com/share
This one will also find places in other parts of the world.  

READING OLD HANDWRITING

(courtesy of Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild helpful URLs http://istg.rootsweb.com/)

• How To Read A 200-Year-Old Document and Other FAQs
  http://earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/howto.html

• Examples of Letters of the 17th Century Found in Parish Registers
  http://www.rootsweb.com/~genepool/oldalpha.htm

• British & Early American Handwriting ~ several pictures of old handwriting. If you click on the picture, it enlarges and you can print it...a must.
  http://www.tngenweb.org/sullivan/sull-tid.htm#handwriting

• OLD-WORDS. A mailing list for the discussion of old words, phrases, names, abbreviations, and antique jargon useful to genealogy. You must be a subscriber to post to the list. To subscribe send the word "subscribe" (without the quotes) as the only text in the body of a message to old-words-l-request@rootsweb.com (mail mode) or old-words-d-request@rootsweb.com (digest mode).

• OLD-ENGLISH. A mailing list for anyone who is deciphering old English documents to discuss interpretations of handwriting and word meanings. You must be a subscriber to post to the list. To subscribe send the word "subscribe" (without the quotes) as the only text in the body of a message to old-english-l-request@rootsweb.com (mail mode) or old-english-d-request@rootsweb.com (digest mode).

• Early English Handwriting
  http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dave_tylcoat/handwrit.htm

• There is a site dedicated to gen/handwriting problems at:
  http://www.oldscript.co.uk/phpBB2/

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