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A Manx Notebook

An Electronic Compendium of Matters Past and Present Connected with the Isle of Man.

Ancestry.com - Isle of Man Genealogy & Isle of Man Family History Resources

Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

BritishIslesGenWeb Project

Coins of the UK

Gives a good deal of history of the coinage of the United Kingdom by regnal years.

Copyright for Family Historians

Article by David Hawgood pertaining to copyright issues in the United Kingdom.

First Steps in Family History

From the Federation of Family History Societies. This online brochure provides answers to a new researcher's first questions about family history.

Free UK Genealogy

Free UK Genealogy is a CIO (Charitable Incorporated Organisation) acting as an umbrella organisation for FreeBMD, FreeReg and FreeCEN. We work with volunteers to make transcriptions of the England and Wales Index of Births, Marriages and Deaths, historic Parish Registers and 19th Century Censuses. Each of the projects is a significant undertaking and in total, more than ten thousand volunteers have contributed over 350,000,000 records.

Genealogy of the UK

A directory of UK online resources, including archives, libraries, directories, surname lists, parish registers, cemeteries, war memorials, electoral rolls and censuses.

Genealogylinks.net - UK Genealogy

GENUKI - UK & Ireland Genealogy

HMSO Guidance Notes - Copyright Guidance

For UK documents under Crown Copyright (including census & civil registration documents), the HMSO has revised its stance on enforcing their copyright. These guidelines can help genealogists understand what they may and may not do with UK Crown Copyrighted information without prior approval from the HMSO.

Isle of Man - Genealogy

Isle of Man Genealogy | isleofman.com

A starting point for anyone researching Manx ancestry.

Latin in Parish Records

Article by Alison U. Ring.

Manx Genealogy Bulletin Board

Methodism in the Isle of Man

MyHeritage - Isle of Man $ New!

MyHeritage has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

Sources for Family History by the Manx National Heritage Isle of Man

Surname Studies (formerly Modern British Surnames)

Surname Studies is devoted to the resources available for the study of the distribution, incidence and statistical analysis of the surnames of Britain, mainly post-1837, and primarily as a mass phenomenon.

The Manx Manorial Roll

A detailed discussion of the early (mostly pre 1700) Manx records with a particular focus on those of genealogical importance.