So that those with family in Jersey 
don’t feel neglected by the previous post the excellent http://www.guernsey-society.org.uk website has a Wikipedia for Jersey.
Archive for the ‘Local History’ Category
Jersey Wikipedia
September 25th, 2011 
Linda Elliott 
Posted in Getting Started, Local History, Take It Further 
Tags: Channel Islands, Family History, Genealogy, Jersey, Wikipedia 
No Comments »Guernsey Wikipedia
September 25th, 2011 Linda Elliott 
What an excellent site http://www.guernsey-society.org.uk is for genealogists with Guernsey connections. There is a separate Family History Section and also a Wikipedia called Donkipedia. Lots to look at on this site; A – Z of Guernsey families with family trees, articles, old photos, articles and selected books available to purchase or online.
Take a look!
Church Photographs
August 28th, 2011 Linda Elliott 
Have just found this rather useful website, it contains photos of churches and chapels, some are old postcards which give an idea of what the churches looked like before the modern day encroached on them.
Take a look!
Posted in Church Records, Local History, Take It Further, Where Did They Live? Tags: Chapels, Churches, Family History, Genealogy, Photographs No Comments »Selborne Hampshire Riots
August 22nd, 2011 Linda Elliott 
If you have ancestors who were involved in the Swing Riots of 1830 then you will be interested in this website. John Owen Smith gives good background history of the riots that occurred in Selborne, Hampshire.
On the front page of this site there are some good links to history websites for this area of Hampshire.
http://www.johnowensmith.co.uk/riot/index.htm
Fulham website
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An excellent website for those with ancestors from Sands End & Fulham, London. The website is run by Frank Czucha and includes history, stories, photos, a forum and a wealth of background information.
Well worth a look, congratulations to Frank and all who contributed their memories & stories.
http://www.sandsendrevisited.net/
Posted in Local History, Where Did They Live? Tags: Family History, Frank Czucha, Fulham, Genealogy, Local History, London, Sands End No Comments »Wonston Hampshire Registers online
June 6th, 2011 Linda Elliott My mother’s maiden name is Hawkins and her family all 
came from Wonston & Sutton Scotney in Hampshire so I was thrilled to find the website for the village online. It must be a couple of years since I put Hawkins and Wonston into Google so it has sprung up since the last search.
Amongst details of Church services etc, it has a short history of the Church and a transcript of some of the parish registers. Lovely site, well done the PCC of Wonston!
Lincolnshire Heritage Collection
June 4th, 2011 Linda Elliott Lovely website if you have Lincolnshire family. 
Plenty of topics to interest from Parish Registers to old letters to photographs. Even Margaret Thatcher gets a section of her own!
Posted in Local History, Where Did They Live? Tags: Archives, Family History, Genealogy, Heritage, Lincolnshire No Comments »Macclesfield Residents
April 10th, 2011 Linda Elliott Great website if you have family living in Macclesfield in the 17th century. The intro on the site says ……
This website has been created for family and local historians who are interested in tracing their ancestors amongst the inhabitants of the Manor and Forest of Macclesfield around 1611. The Survey was, in broad terms, the first census-type survey made in the district, and is invaluable to researchers who have not been able go back to this period in history and beyond.
This website lists all those freeholders, copyholders and tenants living in the area at the time of the Survey, which was commissioned by Prince Henry, the Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall and Earl of Chester, and made by 23 persons of standing in the local community.
700 persons are listed in the Name Index, which has been transcribed from a large book (reference LR 2/200) held at The National Archives, Kew, London. There is also a House Name Index containing 64 house names; and an index of Extracts from Escheators Books showing 37 entries that relate to periods much earlier than 1611, the earliest of which is 1362 – 1363. All these indexes are free-to-access.
Posted in Land & Property Records, Local History, Where Did They Live? Tags: Family History, Genealogy, Macclesfield 2 Comments »Australian Vintage Picture Resource
March 25th, 2011 Linda Elliott 
Picture Australia is a one stop shop for digitise images from around Australia & New Zealand. The images are sourced from places such as National Archives Australia, New Zealand National Library and Australian War Memorial.
Worth a visit if you find you have ancestors from the antipodes.
http://www.pictureaustralia.org/
Technorati Tags: National Library of Australia,pictureaustralia,Australia,New Zealand,Genealogy,Family History
Southern Brooks Archaeology
March 17th, 2011 Linda Elliott 
Great site for those who live or have ancestry in the South Gloucestershire area covered by this website.
The pages covering the history of Stoke Gifford are wonderful and a template for what all village history websites show be like. Must make a start on the website I keep thinking about on the village of Goosey in Berkshire (yes I know it is now in Oxfordshire, but my granny who was born there would not agree with you!!)
