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☞  Searching for "GENUKI" plus a county/town/village name produces variable amounts of that particular community's useful information for up to around 40 subject-headings such as Archives & Libraries, Church Records, Directories, Gazetteers, Maps, Memorial Inscriptions, Societies and Voting Registers.  The "Societies" facility may identify family-history groups serving that location.  A triangle (△) means that there is currently no data for that particular subject.  There is a full explanation, by David McFarlane of GENUKI Suffolk, in issue 23 of our Newsletter — please visit our Downloads page.  Various links to GENUKI follow below, including a useful Suffolk bibliography (most of which publications we hold in our Help Centre: see our Index page to check which). 

 

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OUR  LOCAL  AND  MAIN  LINKS


⎋  Family etc. History Groups in Suffolk

⎋  FREE websites for Family Historians

⎋  Support our Friends and Advertisers — incl. several local Museums (useful information sources).

Ancestry

Benhall and Sternfield History Group

bibliography of Suffolk books — We hold copies of most of these publications in our ⎋ Help Centre

Chapman 3-letter codes —
          used in genealogy to identify the administrative divisions in the UK, Ireland, IOM, Channel Is.

Family Search 
          English Jurisdictions 1851 map by Parish, County, Civil Registration District, Diocese, 
               Rural Deanery, Poor Law Union, Hundred and/or (ecclesiastical) Province

FindMyPast

FreeBMD

         ☞ Read some useful hints here about using the FreeBMD and GRO websites together.

General Register Office (GRO)

GENUKI Suffolk — genealogical information specific to Suffolk    ☞ see note at the head of this page

Gravestone Photographic Resource — for Suffolk here

Lowestoft & District Independent Archive (LADIA) — "Keeping local history local"  [also see our blog]    RECENTLY LAUNCHED

Parish Chest — Family History Federation's "research aids from the experts" and
          "comprehensive one-stop online shopping experience for all Family Historians" ! — read more here.
    RECENTLY RELAUNCHED

Saxmundham and District Local History Society

Suffolk Family History Society (SFHS)

Every issue of the Suffolk Family History Society's quarterly "Suffolk Roots" magazine from 1975 to 2013 can be viewed in the SFHS Members' online area, if you are also one of their members: this includes browsing Contents lists and searching (by text string, by place, by name or by ship).  In addition, the bulk of the original printed issues from 1979 to 2005 are held in our Help Centre, so are listed in our Index (with reference-ID's prefixed "SKROOT").

⎋  Suffolk Local History Council (SLHC) 
          — the umbrella local history organisation for the County, and a valuable source of information.

Suffolk Local History Recorders' Scheme

☞ There are many more Suffolk-specific links under "S" in our A-to-Z list below.

 

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OUR  FULL  A-to-Z  LIST


⎋ — links so annotated lead initially to another page on this website for further selections

☞     Please suggest any other useful websites that you are aware of !

All Record Sets — "Search more than 1000 years of historical record sets" at FindMyPast

See list in the invaluable Family History Federation's FHF «Really Useful Leaflet» — download it here.

1901 Census for England and Wales

1911 Census for England and Wales

1911census.org.uk — actually includes useful background information on ALL censuses, not just 1911 

1939 Register for England and Wales     RECENTLY EXTENDED
          The National Archives guide
          Ancestry
          Find My Past with annual subscription or pay-as-you-go
          MyHeritage
          Who lived in your house in 1939?

A Street near You — WWI casualties mapped   

Access to Archives (A2A)

Aldeburgh: One Place Study

"Aldeburgh Voices" oral history — set up by ADLHS to record history of Aldeburgh and district

Aldringham-cum-Thorpe Roll of Honour, 1939-1945

Ancestor Search  — Lots of useful utilities

Ancestry

Archaic Medical Terms

ARCHI UK Maps

Archival-box manufacture made-to-measure   LINK RECENTLY ADDED — ALSO SEE HERE

Army Museums Trust

The Association for Suffolk Museums

Benhall and Sternfield History Group

bibliography of Suffolk books — We hold copies of most of these publications in our ⎋ Help Centre    

Billion Graves — "the world's largest resource for searchable GPS [=satnav] cemetery data"

                    ⎋ Gravestone cleaning tips — We have a PDF print of this in our records [ref. HOW CLN GRV].

Britain from Above — aerial photographs

British Association for Local History nationally promotes local history and serves local historians

British History On-Line  (click a tile to view maps)

British Library

British Listed Buildings

British Newspaper Archive

British Regiments in the Peninsular War, 1808-1814 (and their modern titles) 
The 12th (East Suffolk) Regiment of Foot was then in Réunion and Mauritius;  1881: Suffolk Regiment

Calendars:    Perpetual Calculator > 1752 ⬇︎download     Multi-country historical calendar, 1000-2100

Catholic records in Great Britain

Chapman 3-letter codes —
          used in genealogy to identify the administrative divisions in the UK, Ireland, IOM, Channel Is.

Claude Cox Old & Rare Books — extensive stock on the history, topography and literature of Suffolk

National Coal Mining Museum: jobs in 19th Century mines

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Find War Dead (WWI and WW2)

Community Archives and Heritage Group — supports/promotes community archives in UK/Ireland

community archives: useful guidance on collections management (by Norfolk Record Office)

County Archives Research Network (CARN)

Curious Fox — village-by-village contacts for family history, genealogy and local history in UK/Ireland   

Currency Converter — guides to monetary values since the C13th converted to present-day prices   

Cyndi's List — Cyndi Ingle lives near Seattle, and has been running this site as a labour of love since 1996.

Deceased Online — cremation and burial records; photos of graves and memorials; cemetery maps

Deciphering Old Handwriting — a National Archives Tutorial

Digital Panopticon — tracing London Convicts in Britain & Australia, 1780-1925   

Directories of England & Wales by county — University of Leicester Special Collections Online

Discover Your Ancestors magazine "articles with the underlying theme of how our ancestors lived" 

East Anglian Film Archive is funded by the University of East Anglia — view 200 hours of film for free.

East Suffolk Historical — local authority's official mapping from 1875 to date

Ellis Island — database of 65 million records of passenger arrivals at the Port of New York

English Jurisdictions in 1851 map (from Family Search) by Parish, County, Civil Registration District,
              Diocese, Rural Deanery, Poor Law Union, Hundred and/or (ecclesiastical) Province

Family and Community Historical Research Society (FACHRS)

⎋ "Family etc. History Groups in Suffolk" webpage

⎋ Family History Federation — formerly the Federation of Family History Societies

The Family History Partnership  — publishers of handbooks and guides, incl.  "My Ancestor was ..." books 

Family Search

Family Tree Magazine

Find A Grave 

FindMyPast

Find War Dead (WWI and WW2)

Forces War Records — more than 26 million Commonwealth military records

FreeBMD

FreeCEN    LINK RECENTLY UPDATED

FreeREG    LINK RECENTLY UPDATED

FTAnalyzer [sic!] — family-tree analyser that finds errors in your tree and searches for census omissions

Richard Garrett & Sons of Leiston (agricultural machinery, etc.) archive at Suffolk Record Office   

The Genealogist

General Register Office (GRO)

Genes Reunited

GENEVA — "GENealogical EVents and Activities": list of family-history fairs etc.

GENUKI — genealogical information of UK and Ireland    ☞ see note at the head of this page      

GENUKI Suffolk     ☞ see note at the head of this page

⎋ Gravestone cleaning tips — We have a PDF print of this in our records [ref. HOW CLN GRV].

Gravestone Photographic Resource — for Suffolk here

The Great War Archive — personal experiences

Guild of One-Name Studies

Historic England Archive collections — over a million records online, including photos, since the 1850s

⎋ History of UK Registration/Censuses/etc

IGI Batch Numbers

Imperial War Museum

India Office Records : Family History Sources

International Genealogical Research Directory via Findmypast

Ipswich War Memorial  

Irish birth, marriage and death certificates online for free  

Liddle Collection — special historic collections of objects

London genealogy resources

Lost Cousins

Lowestoft & District Independent Archive (LADIA) — "Keeping local history local"  [also see our blog]    RECENTLY LAUNCHED

Maps:         ☞   See under "ARCHI UK MAPS" and "East Suffolk Historical" above
                       ☞   See under "Old Maps", "Ordnance Survey" / "OS" and "Vision of Britain" below
                       ☞  Compare two maps (say an old one and a modern one) side-by-side here or as overlays here
                       ☞  Compare maps using the British Library's Georeferencer — even your own uploaded scans!
                       ☞  Also see our "Old Suffolk maps" webpage  ⎋ 

Mills Archive — "permanent repository for the documentary and photographic records of … milling" 

MyHeritage [formerly GenCircles] — Explore the lives of your ancestors and discover your family history 

Names.org — US-based site offering name origins, statistics and popularity rankings for people's names

naming patterns/conventions

⎋  The National Archives

National Fairground Archive

Norfolk Online Record Search — trace Norfolk origins    

Norfolk Transcription Archive — parish register indexes (BMD), records of subsidy (tax) and muster    

Norwich Freemen Records Online "of all those ... admitted to the freedom ... over the last 700 years"   

Old Bailey — London's Central Criminal Court, 1674 to 1913

Old Maps

Old Occupations — listed by Hall Genealogy and World Through The Lens

One Place Study brings together local and family history to give a fuller picture of what life was like.

onesuffolk.net  is internet service provider for many Suffolk villages/organisations [site quality varies] 

Online Genealogical Index (OGI) — a search engine for online genealogical datasets for England & Wales 

[Ordnance Survey] OS Open Names lists definitive places, roads & postcodes in Britain – 2½m locations

OS Six-Inch England & Wales maps (1842-1952) & at other scales via Nat. Library of Scotland website
    ☞ When invited to "Select a Category", choose "England & Wales Ordnance Survey".
    The Index for the OS 25" Suffolk sheets (1841-1952) is here, and ...
                ⎋ read here about those dated 1904 and 1926/27 that we have acquired!
    For later OS National Grid Plans at 1:2500, click, and then select "⦿ National Grid 1:2500 1944-1991".
    To determine Nat. Grid mapping — https://suffolkmoths.co.uk/OSMap/OSmap_10k.php?grid=TM35
                or indeed most values between grid=TM03 and grid=TM59.  Out of interest, visit grid=OV00 !  

The Original Record

Parish Chest — Family History Federation's "research aids from the experts" and
          "comprehensive one-stop online shopping experience for all Family Historians" ! — read more here.
    RECENTLY RELAUNCHED

parish locator at FamilySearch    

⎋  Parish Registers   

passenger lists (shipping) etc.  ⎋

The Peerage — A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe

Perpetual Calendar Calculator (after 1752) 

Photographs dating   ⎋

photos:  Francis Frith — "vintage photographs for over 9,000 UK cities, towns and villages";
         also: 
Findmypast Francis Frith Collection
                   Historic England Photographs and Aerial Photo Explorer

Police History Society

Public Profiler — distribution of surnames in Great Britain

Quaker Deaths, 1810 to 1918 — FindMyPast worldwide search for deaths within the Society of Friends

Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service and ScarletFinders

Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies (agricultural manufacturers) archive at The Museum of English Rural Life
    ☞ also at  The National Archives  

RAF Museum

Researching your family's history from Ships' Passenger Lists   RECENTLY ADDED 

RootsChat

RootsWeb

UK Royal Mail Postcode Finder (≡ ZIP code) — Find houses, roads or localities, even if slightly misspelt!
                    Then use Google Maps with resulting code (typically "AAnn nAA", where "A"=letter, "n"=no.)

Royal Naval Patrol

Saxmundham and District Local History Society    RECENTLY ADDED

Saxmundham WW2 Memorial at St John's Church  

Scotland's People

Sizewell Hall — brief history

Snape History  

Society of Genealogists

Suffolk Archives Foundation

Suffolk bibliography — We also have most of these publications in our Help Centre: see our Index page   

Suffolk Churches "independent guide to Anglican, Catholic and non-conformist churches of ... Suffolk"

  ☞   interview with Simon Knott about his companion Norfolk website

Suffolk Church Records through FamilySearch, 1538 — 1900 

Suffolk County War Memorial Roll of Honour, 1914-1918 (WWI)   

Suffolk Family History Society (SFHS) — also visit facebook.com/SuffolkFamilyHistorySociety/

Suffolk Heritage Explorer

Suffolk Institute of Archaeology & History — founded in 1848.
                    A paper on their first 150 years is downloadable here, also articles from 1853 to 2015 here.

Suffolk Libraries' Special Collections

⎋  Suffolk Local History Council (SLHC) 
          — the umbrella local history organisation for the County, and a valuable source of information.

Suffolk Local History Recorders' Scheme

Suffolk Medical History Society — Meetings twice a year as lecture/lunches, usually in Woolpit.
          Contact: Humphry Adair at hmadair@doctors.org.uk

Suffolk place-names: elements and personal names

Suffolk Record Office   ⎋

Suffolk Records Society encourages study, preservation; annual "Volume" on subjects of interest

Suffolk Regiment — at "The Long, Long Trail" website

Suffolk Regiment Museum archive

Friends of the Suffolk Regiment

Suffolk Regiment (Wikipedia)

Suffolk Roll of Honour — Boer War, WWI and WW2 Rolls of Honour and war memorials

Suffolk Villages & Towns — History, Genealogy & Trade Directories (A-Z)

Surname DB explains the original meaning and translation of a surname

Surnames search — meaning, distribution from 1841 to 1911, top professions, most frequent forenames

Tithe Maps at The Genealogist (including for Suffolk)

UK Archival Repositories (ARCHON)

UK Census Online

USAAF Second Air Division on the American Library UK website

Vision of Britain "from 1801 to now: including maps ... and historical descriptions"

Voters' Registers — explanation by National Archives based on Cheshire Archives

War Graves Photographic Project

War Memorials Online

WDYTYA Web Directory — "Who do you think you are?"

Windmills in Suffolk

"Windrush" Passenger list (arrived Tilbury, 22/6/1948)

 

 

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