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This is by no means intended to be an exhaustive list, but simply a pointer to some of the more useful sources of on-line data and information, and to some sites which provide much bigger collections of information and in some cases lots of links to other sources.
Information Sources
- The Family Search Web
Site
This is the Web Site of the Church of Latter Day Saints (LDS) which provides access to their vast on-line databases (click on the "SEARCH" tab, and be sure to use the "RESEARCH WIKI" option)
- Family
Search: a Guide to the British Batches
A website that provides information on British Isles Extracted Batches that were formerly a part of the International Genealogy Index created by the LDS.
- FreeBMD
A volunteer project to transcribe the Civil Registration indexes of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales and provide free access to the transcripts and to images of the indexes.
- Marriage Locator
An initiative of the Guild of One-Name Studies which enables one to interpret the Marriage Index created by the General Register Office for England and Wales. By using it you may be able to determine where your ancestors were married - not just in which Registration District, but in which church. Note that this is still very much a work in progress, and not all the data needed for all marriages is yet available. The Web Site states that new data is continually being added. The link is at the bottom left of the page.
- FreeCEN
A similar project to FreeBMD providing free access to a database of UK 19th century census returns. It is not as far advanced as FreeBMD in terms of the amount of data available. There is also a FreeREG project for transcripts of parish records, which is even less advanced.
- Genuki
A large and useful collection of genealogical information for the UK. Includes information on resources available for each county as well as general information.
- DustyDocs
Provides links to free Web Sites in the British Isles containing Parish Records; has information on Occupations and Diseases, and also has various Guides and supplementary sources listed.
- Find my Past
Pay-per-view or subscription Web Site providing access to images of birth, marriage and death (BMD) indexes for England and Wales, to all Census records for England and Wales from 1841 to 1921, the England and Wales 1939 Register, as well as a wide range of other source documentation.
- The General
Register Office (GRO) and the GRO Certificate
Ordering Service
Once you have the reference for an event (either from FreeBMD, Ancestry or Find my Past) you can order from the GRO a full certificate with all details of the event. - National Archives (UK)
Provides access to the collections of the PRO and historical documents held by The National Archives
- Ancestry.com and Ancestry.co.uk
Subscription Web Sites providing access to a large collection of databases and family trees - Geneanet
A collaborative Web Site that declares that its data sets are available for free to any interested people. There is an optional annual subscription that provides extra search options and records.
- Billion Graves
As of the date of this page this Web Site claims to have details of 587 Lovelock burials. - Find a Grave
As of the date of this page this Web Site claims to have details of 1644 Lovelock burials. - Historical Directories
A University of Leicester project. Historical Directories is a digital library of local and trade directories for England and Wales, from 1750 to 1919. It contains high quality reproductions of comparatively rare books, essential tools for research into local and genealogical history. - Association of British Counties
From the home page:
"A society dedicated to celebrating and promoting the 92 historic counties of the United Kingdom and the important part they play in our culture, heritage and geography."
Maps
Present day maps, useful for finding place locations :- Cartophilia
An archive of over 4500 maps which are free to downloaded. - Old Maps Online
Scans of historical maps, some of which may be available for free download.
Collections of Family History Information
There are a large number of Web sites which gather together a lot of information concerning family history, and this page is not intended as a substitute for them. Here are a couple of the more well known ones:- Cyndi's list
Probably still the biggest and best collection of information and links to Web Sites concerned with family history - Rootsweb
One of the earliest genealogy Web sites. Now owned by Ancestry.com but Rootsweb still provides access to a number of free databases and hosts many family trees and mailing lists archives (including the Lovelock List archive!).
Some Web Sites of Particular Interest to Lovelock or Loveluck
Family Historians
- The Moonrakers Web
site
Web site concerned with family history in Wiltshire
- The
Loveluck and Related Families in Glamorgan
Useful Resources
- British History
Online
An excellent resource for UK history - Christian
Burials
An insight into some UK burial customs. - Old Bailey Trials
Contains proceedings of trials up to 1913. Lovelocks are mentioned as witnesses, victims, jury members or felons in some 55 records, and Lovelucks in but one.
- Numberway
Brings together in one place links to phone directories for a large number of countries
UK Inflation Calculator
-
The Bank of England's Inflation
Calculator will enable the determination of the
present-day cost of goods and services that were originally
supplied in any year back to 1209.