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Useful websites

The Local Studies and Archive service recommends the following websites:

Anglo-German Family History Society

Archon Directory

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

Charles Booth Online Archive

Centre for Metropolitan History

East of London Family History Society

Family Records Centre

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.

GENUKI for genealogists and family historians in the British Isles.

Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section

Hackney Archives Department

Huguenot Library

Huguenot Society of Great Britain

Island History Trust

Jewish Genealogical Society

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 London and the South East

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - for free access to this subscription service enter the prefix 'TH' followed by your library card number.

Tower Hamlets History On-Line includes many interesting articles about social conditions in the borough's past.

Tower Hamlets Registrars Office

Thursday, December 4, 2008


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