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• COALMINERS Mailing List

  For anyone whose ancestors were coalminers in the United Kingdom or the United States. Archives: browse or search.

• FreeBMD-Admins Mailing List

  For discussing, implementing, developing and organising the FreeBMD project. Archives: browse or search.

• FreeBMD-News Mailing List

  A read-only mailing list for people who are interested in how the FreeBMD project is progressing. Archives: browse or search.

• FREEUKGEN-TECH Mailing List

  For technical discussions associated with the FREEUKGEN project which exists to bring source material relating to the United Kingdom online. Archives: browse or search.

• GBR-Maps-Online Mailing List

  For for the discussion and sharing of information regarding British maps and etchings, and their availability online.

• GEN-Ancestors-Lifestyle Mailing List

  For the discussion and sharing of information about how our British ancestors lived.

• GEN-Canals-Watermen Mailing List

  For anyone with a genealogical or historical interest in British canals and watermen.

• GEN-Census Mailing List

  For the discussion and sharing of information regarding British censuses and how to get the most out of them for genealogy research.

• GEN-Documents Mailing List

  For the discussion and sharing of information related to the reading of old British documents such as parish registers, wills, etc., including old handwriting and Latin.

• GEN-Emigrants Mailing List

  For the discussion and sharing of information regarding ancestors who emigrated from Britain to America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, etc. including both why and how they emigrated.

• GEN-Firstnames-origins Mailing List

  For the discussion and sharing of information the meaning and origins of first or given names found in Britain.

• GEN-Institutions Mailing List

  For anyone with a genealogical interest in British institutions such as work-houses and hospitals.

• GEN-Jewish-Roots Mailing List

  For anyone with a genealogical interest in British Jews in any time period.

• GEN-Mariners Mailing List

  For for anyone with a genealogical interest in British mariners, seafarers, and the British navy.

• GEN-Newspapers Mailing List

  For the discussion and sharing of information regarding old British newspapers and where to locate them, and the use of old newspapers in British family history research.

• GEN-Parish-Law Mailing List

  For the discussion and sharing of information regarding British parish law, poor law, rights of settlement, bastardy, etc. as it relates to our ancestors.

• GEN-Railwaymen Mailing List

  For the discussion and sharing of information regarding ancestors who were employed as British railwaymen and the history of the various British railway companies.

• GEN-Sojourners Mailing List

  For anyone with a genealogical interest in sojourners in Britain, those people who are visitors to a parish (passing through) such as Gypsies, travellers, circus and fairground people, travelling hawkers, and railway labourers.

• GEN-Surnames-Origins Mailing List

  For the discussion and sharing of information the meaning and origins of surnames in Britain including patronymics.

• GEN-Townlife Mailing List

  For the discussion and sharing of information on life in British towns and cities as it relates to our ancestors and family history research.