Janet’s REMIT Family History page 2 LU3A Here are some links you will find useful:     more added soon & suggestions welcome Click here for Ancestry web page Ancestry - the main web site to use www.familyecho.com Family Echo draws your Family Tree   www.familysearch.org Family Search - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints provides an online search of the millions of names in its International Genealogical Index www.freereg.org.uk Free Reg - free Internet searches of baptism, marriage, and burial records, that have been transcribed from parish and non-conformist registers of the U.K. www.freeBMD.org.uk Births, Marriages and Deaths from 1837 - great site  lots of stuff up to the 1960s FindMyPast.co.uk This has the 1939 records on. 1939 web page.  £6.95 for one household, £24.95 for 5 households (4.99 each), £54.95 for 15 households (£3.66 each) but credits only valid for 90 days. Or try the Leicestershire (and perhaps the Leicester) Library service. Let the rest of the group how you got on. Also consider joining the Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society £13 for a year for free access to Ansestry, FindMyPast and other site you have to pay for (see below for link) - Well worth the money! and now Find My Past is available free at the Leicester Records Office in Wigston. URL: http://www.lrfhs.org.uk/ Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society web site   Map and photos of Leicester held at Leicester University More than 1000 photographs of streets and individual buildings in Leicester demolished between 1955 to 1975, mainly as a result of the postwar slum clearance programme, but also in connection with other developments.  http://leicestershireancestors.weebly.com/ Really interesting site about Leicester - have a look www.genuki.org.uk GenUKI - massive web site full of links to all sorts of specialist family history web sites www.visionofbritain.org.uk Vision of Britain - between 1801 and 2001 including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions - maps are fascinating www.afhs.ab.ca/data/old_diseases.html To find out what an old fashioned illness is called now www.british-history.ac.uk British History on Line www.cwgc.org Commonwealth War Graves Commission www.ww1tigers.com Leicester WW1 soldiers (Tigers) //probatesearch.service.gov.uk Wills from the National Archives www.cyndislist.com/uk/ Cyndislist - huge database of Family History sites, UK & worldwide www.interment.net Internment.net  Lists cemeteries all over the world - you might just be lucky and find something Workhouses.org.uk Background on workhouses and database. Childrenshomes.org.uk Background on Children’s Homes FreeCEN.org.uk Free site for Census records Findagrave.com Does what it says on the box! Database of Slave ownership in Britain Tracing African-Caribbean people who came to fight in WW2 Wonderful story about a man who traced his grandfather, a violinist on the Titanic, and his Jamaican family Interesting article about a drive to get mothers name on birth certificates.

Find My Past web site YouTube training sessions.  This is a paid for site, it is not cheap but it has a lot

of stuff not available on Ancestry, especially Military Records, the 1939 Records and overseas records.  

Click here to go to YouTube (this is a link to finding records from abroad. You will see the free training sessions on the records available. There are other sessions you will see down the left hand side.  This is a session on tracing Military records. This is a link to a video about the 1939 Records Advice on staying safe on the internet Barcelona