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Anglo-American Legal Tradition

More than 8,500,000 documents from Medieval and Early Modern England (1201-1879) from the National Archives in London digitized and displayed through The O'Quinn Law Library of the University of Houston Law Center by license of the National Archives sponsored by the University of Houston Law Center and by the University of Houston Department of History.

Chronological Tables of Local and of Private Acts

A chronological table covering the 26,000 Local Acts of Parliament passed between 1797 & the end of 1973 & the 11,000 Private, later described as Personal, Acts passed between 1539 & the end of 1973.

English Counties, Parishes, etc. for Genealogists

This site does a good job of explaining some of the more mysterious organizational structures of interest to the genealogist with UK ancestors. [The original link is gone. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

Index to Various Acts of Parliament of interest to the Genealogist

Website of the UK government : Directgov