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Dorset Online Parish Clerks |
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Dorset Online Parish Clerks |
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OTHER USEFUL WEB SITES
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| This is not a comprehensive list of sites that cover family history, local history, general history, maps, photographs and tourist information. The first two sites listed below will provide far more recommendations. As the possible links are boundless I have just included what I consider are the principal sites. | |
| Dorset Gen Web | Links to lots of sites |
| Paul Benyon's Genealogical Links | Links to lots of sites |
| Genuki | Information on all Dorset parishes specifically for family historians |
| Freecens | Find out how the project to get all the Dorset census on-line is progressing |
| FreeBMD | The project to get all parish registers on-line |
| FreeReg | The project to get the index of births marriages & deaths 1837+ on line. Records available to search. |
| Dorset Parish Register Transcriptions | Transcripts of Dorset Parish Records |
| LDS Site | The LDS family history site with free access to millions of historic records including the 1881 census. |
| Dorset Churches | Michael Day's descriptions of Dorset churches, many with photographs |
| Richard's Church Album | Richard's photos of churches in many counties including Dorset. |
| Somerset & Dorset Family History Society | List of services and publications for purchase |
| Dorset Family History Society | List of services and publications for purchase |
| Dorset Record Office now the Dorset History Centre | Introduction to the service they offer |
| Dorchester Reference Library | Local Studies Collection including books on Dorset, Directories & Old Newspapers now at the Dorset History Centre |
| A2A | On line archives, brief details of what they are and where they are. |
| PRO catalogue | The PRO online catalogue, PROCAT, contains details of our holdings of over 9 million files, organised by creating department. Search these to identify the PRO reference of documents you wish to consult. You can then order these or request copies The E 179 database contains detailed information about over 25,000 documents relating to the taxation of lay people in England between c.1200 and 1688. |
| 1901 Census | The index for this is free but to view the pages you have to pay. |
| Archive CD Books | A commercial site offering CD copies of historic books, census, registers at reasonable prices. |
| S&N | Another commercial company selling genealogical data, etc. |
| Images of Dorset | Some beautiful photographs of the county. |
| Dorset Magazine | More beautiful photographs and some interesting articles |
An excellent resource for South Derbyshire [Note: This in not an OPC project] |
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