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Useful websites
The Local Studies and Archive service recommends the following websites:
Ancestry - Researching your family tree? Discover genealogy, family trees and family history records online. This service is only accessible at your local Idea Store or library
Anglo-German Family History Society
Archon Directory
BBC Family History - hints, tips and ideas for tracing your family history
BFI Films - Petticoat Lane 1903 and 1926
British History Online includes digitised copy of the 'Survey of London: Volume 27 Spitalfields and Mile End New Town
British in India - Online Maritime Guides
Building History includes researching historic buildings in the British Isles
Burke's Peerage - definitive historical guide to the UK titled and landed families
Centre for Metropolitan History
Church Plans Online
Cyndi's List - useful starting point for genealogists
East of London Family History Society
Eastside Community Heritage Hidden Histories
Family Search includes the International Genealogical Index (IGI) which includes references to individuals taken from parish registers.
Federation of Family History Societies includes a directory of member societies and a number of useful information sheets about family history.
Genmaps - images of English, Welsh and Scottish local history maps
GENUKI for genealogists and family historians in the
Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section
Hackney Archives Department
Hall-Carpenter Archives - Britain's major resource for the study of lesbian and gay activism in the UK, from the 1950s to the present day.
Historical Directories - local and trade directories from England and Wales for the period 1750 - 1919
Huguenot Society of Great Britain
Images of England
Island History Trust
JewishGen - Jewish genealogy search
London Metropolitan Archives includes parish registers, school and workhouse records.
Moving Here
The National Archives
Newham Archives and Local Studies
Newsplan - history and society through local newspapers in
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - for free access to this subscription service enter the prefix 'TH' followed by your library card number.
Refugee Council Archive - over 35,000 items relating to migration and refugees.
Researching Historic Buildings in the British Isles
Tower Hamlets History On-Line includes many interesting articles about social conditions in the borough's past.
