Essential Genealogy Sites :-
www.genuki.org.uk - The premier UK genealogical web site. Covers every county in the UK with online trade directories, gazetteers, information on places, libraries, archives, censuses and much, much more.
www.cyndislist.com - US based site covering the whole world. Has an enormously useful A-Z subject list with over 240,000 links to every possible genealogical topic.
web.archive.org - site aims to give you easy access to information and links to the main UK family history sites on the web.
Birth, Marriages & Deaths :-
www.direct.gov.uk - UK Government web archive showing a list of other public records
www.gro.gov.uk - from the General Register Office (GRO), including birth, marriage, civil partnership, death, adoption and commemorative certificates.
www.ukbmd.org.uk - Links to all well known web sites, including Civil Registration, that offer indexes and information about UK births, marriages and deaths
www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk - GRO Scotland's database of births, marriages, deaths and census.
www.familysearch.org - The LDS genealogy sites of over 400 million names including the International Genealogical Index (IGI)
www.bdm.nsw.gov.au - Australian (NSW) births (to 1905), marriages and deaths (to 1945).
www.findmypast.co.uk - A chargeable service. View digitised images of GRO indexes 1837 - 2006
Wills & Census :-
www.1901censusonline.com- 1901 census for England and Wales.
www.freecen.org.uk - A growing voluntary project to put all UK censuses online.
www.ancestry.co.uk - A chargeable service for census and other genealogical records.
www.census-online.com/links/England - A variety of transcriptions and indexes
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk - all PCC Wills 1384-1858
www.scottishdocuments.com - 520,000 Scottish documents wills 1500-1901
Emigration and Immigration :-
www.ellisisland.org - Passengers to US 1892-1924. Not all were emigrants; many were just visitors or returning from a visit to the UK.
www.jubilation.uwaterloo.ca - Emigration information and lists of ships sailing to Canada
Passenger Lists :-
www.immigrantships.net - Immigrant Ship Transcribers Guild.
www.blaxland.com/ozships - Australian arrivals and departures 1788-1968
www.hotkey.net.au/~jwilliams4/ships.htm - Hundreds more shipping lists.
Military & Maritime :-
www.cwgc.org - Commonwealth War Graves Commission site includes Debt of Honour Register - details of those who died during both World Wars. Includes some civilian deaths.
www.welshmariners.org.uk/index.php - Welsh Master Mariners, Mates and Engineers 1800-1945
Other useful sites :-
www.look4them.org.uk - A website of 7 official UK organisations who can help you to find missing persons.
www.hiddenlives.org.uk - Website that looks into late Victorian and early 20th Century children in care.
www.oldbaileyonline.org - 197,745 criminal trials 1674-1913
www.historicaldirectories.org - Trade Directories - all can be searched at once
www.gazettes-online.co.uk - London, Belfast and Edinburgh Gazettes
www.jgsgb.org.uk - The Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain
www.old-maps.co.uk - A chargeable website of old maps of Great Britain including The Wirral.
www.maps.cheshire.gov.uk - Plenty of old maps to look at from tithe maps to early 20th Century Ordnance Survey maps .
www.workhouses.org.uk - Extensive information about workhouses.