Links

1.	English Parish Registers - OPC's
	The above site lists the English counties where the On-line Parish Clerks projects provide for the transcription of historical records at parish level.
2.	English Gazettes
	This site allows you on-line access to the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes which are the Official Newspapers of Record for the United Kingdom. It is a cross-governmental resource containing information about many different categories and has supplements containing honours and awards, awards for valour, promotions, company law notifications, etc.

3.	FreeREG
	This objective of this site is to provide free Internet searches of baptism, marriage, and burial records, that have been transcribed from parish and non-conformist registers of the U.K. As at 3 Jun 2009 the FreeREG database contained 1,386,212 Marriages, 4,499,662 Baptisms, 2,392,038 Burials. Click here to open their home page.
4.	FreeBMD
	FreeBMD is an ongoing project, the aim of which is to transcribe the Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales 1837-1983. As at 23 May 2009, the FreeBMD database contains 168,060,664 distinct records. Click here to open their home page.
5.	FreeCEN
	FreeBMD aims to provide a "free-to-view" online searchable database of 19th century UK census returns. As at 23 May 2009, the FreeCEN database contains 14,838,132 distinct records. Click here to open their home page.
6.	The Proceedings of the Old Bailey London
	A fully searchable online edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing accounts of nearly 200,000 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court 1674 to 1913.
7.	English Newspaper Announcements
	Not unlike the Ryerson Index in Australia, this site provides over 1 million family announcements from over 330 newspapers updated daily.
8.	Manchester Burial records
	This is an on-line index of burial records from the Manchester City Council which may be searched without charge. There is a small fee to pay to see the entry from the burial register. The free index gives the burial date, name of deceased, cemetery name, grave number and a listing of all the people buried in that plot.