Useful Sites
Further Sources of Information
There are endless sites useful to anyone interested in family and local histories in Derbyshire.
The large commercial sites are well known, but often, less well known, more specialised sites, can be equally helpful. Here we list some of the sites we believe you may find interesting.
This is not an exhaustive list, if you know of other useful sites, please let us know so that we can review them.
Ancestry
Ancestry is the best known, largest and most popular of the commercial family history sites. It contains vast ever growing collections of records, including many from Derbyshire.
Users can also build their own family trees, and refer to the public trees of other users.
Ancestry are promoting the use of DNA testing to help with family history research. They compare test results with existing records to provide hints for shared ancestors.
This is a paid membership site.
Findmypast
https://www.findmypast.com
Findmypast have huge record collections, many in partnership with other agencies. Of particular interest are the newspaper archives, not available on Ancestry.
Users can build their own family trees.
Like Ancestry, they are promoting the use of DNA testing, and have a somewhat different approach to presentation of results.
This is a paid membership site.
Genuki
https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DBY/
GENUKI is to serve as a “virtual reference library” of genealogical information that is of particular relevance to the UK & Ireland. It is a non-commercial service, provided by an ever-growing group of volunteers in cooperation with the Federation of Family History Societies and a number of its member societies.
The record sets on this site are unique and well worth searching.
This is a free to use site.
Derbyshire Marriage Index
GENUKI is to serve as a “virtual reference library” of genealogical information that is of particular relevance to the UK & Ireland. It is a non-commercial service, provided by an ever-growing group of volunteers in cooperation with the Federation of Family History Societies and a number of its member societies.
The record sets on this site are unique and well worth searching.
This is a free to use site.
A Brief History
We need to distil a brief history of ‘The Royal’ from the press pages and/or other sources.
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