Potentially useful online resources (compiled by Richard Clare and Kate Hurst - October 2019)
North West Group of Family History Societies:
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 :
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 :
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 :
Scarisbrick family site :
http://scarisbrickfamily.homestead.com/membersML.html
Scarisbrick Family Tree:
Liverpool and SWL FHS website:
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:
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:
