Ormskirk and District Family History Society

Potentially useful online resources (compiled by Richard Clare and Kate Hurst - October 2019)

North West Group of Family History Societies:

http://www.nwgfhs.org.uk/

Lancashire Archives:

https://www.lancashire.gov.uk/libraries-and-archives/archives-and-record-office/

Lancs OPC :

http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Search/indexp.html

Lancs BMD :

http://www.lancashirebmd.org.uk/

Free BMD :

https://www.freebmd.org.uk/search

Family Search :

https://www.familysearch.org/en/

British Newspaper Archive,  searchpage

Search the index for free, When you have a big enough list of returns, pay your months fee and look them all up :

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search

Skem history:

http://www.skemheritage.org.uk/ackerley/bookcase.htm

LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL CANAL SITES :

Leeds & Liverpool Canal Society :

http://www.llcs.org.uk/html/genealogy.html

Register of Canal Boats, Wigan Urban Registration Authority, 1878-1907 :

https://www.wigan.gov.uk/Docs/PDF/Resident/Leisure/Museums-and-archives/archives/WiganCanalBoatsRegister18781951.pdf

Boat Examiners Reports, Wigan Urban Registration Authority, 1879-1914

http://www.wlct.org/wigan/museums-archives/images/Wigan%20Canal%20Boats%20Examiners%201879_1943.pdf

Leigh, Register of Canal Boats; 1878-1879 & 1879-1934 :

http://static.premiersite.co.uk/23415/docs/7035684_1.pdf

Leigh Canal Boats: Health Department Inspector’s Report Book, 1901-1960 :

https://www.wigan.gov.uk/Docs/PDF/Resident/Leisure/Museums-and-archives/archives/Leigh-Canal-Boats-Inspectors-Report-Book-1901-1960.pdf

SPELLWEAVER - Canal and River Boatmen

    For anyone interested in their canal and river boat ancestors :

http://www.spellweaver-online.co.uk/index.php/10/

A FEW MORE :

Old Mersey Times (various newspaper extracts relating to Liverpool and surrounding areas):

http://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/

1871 Worrall's Directory of Warrington :

http://cheshiredirectories.manuscripteye.com/book3.htm

Richard Houghton's site :

https://www.lbmhs.co.uk/

Scarisbrick family site :

http://scarisbrickfamily.homestead.com/membersML.html

Scarisbrick Family Tree:

http://scarisbrick.name/

Liverpool and SWL FHS website:

https://www.lswlfhs.org.uk/

Liverpool and SWL facebook page :

https://www.facebook.com/groups/lswlfhs/

St Helens History This Week facebook page :

https://www.facebook.com/groups/sthelenshistorythisweekgroup/?ref=share

This is a page from a metal detecting site, which contains an extraordinary amount of the history of Halsall:

http://www.metaldetectingagency.co.uk/history-of-where-i-come-from.html

The St. Chad's Kirkby site:

https://qyqkkmdtdhptcwnyx1hweg-on.drv.tw/rosalindlloydspages/

Relevant to our meeting on the Norse heritage of West Lancashire, the Wirral & West Lancashire Viking Research Page:

https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/-sczsteve/

Wigan Archeological Society, includes a great history of Wigan:

http://www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk/index.php

Sutton Beauty; A fantastic site about the village of Sutton, just outside St.Helens:

https://www.suttonbeauty.org.uk/

The Ormskirk registers 1557 - 1626    from Archive.org :

https://archive.org/details/registersofparis01orms/page/n7

On the subject of Archive.org, here is the returns page you get simply by typing "Ormskirk" in the search box! :

https://archive.org/search.php?query=ormskirk

Lancashire Genealogy links:

http://www.genealogylinks.net/uk/england/lancashire/

MAPS:

Probably the most extensive collection of maps of U.K. available:

https://maps.nls.uk/

Another excellent U.K. map site:

http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/

An excellent site of Liverpool maps:

https://liverpool1207blog.wordpress.com/old-liverpool-maps/

Another site of Liverpool maps:

http://historic-liverpool.co.uk/old-maps-of-liverpool/

ODFHS Members' Websites

Kathryn Baird's Memories of Aughton site:

https://aughtonmemories.wordpress.com/

Finally.....

A page of old occupations:

http://rmhh.co.uk/occup/index.html

A calendar, so you can work out the day of the week your ancestors were married:

https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/?year=1888&country=9