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Here are some links to other sites of interest. The fruits of my personal research into my branch of the Billington family can be found at - www.billogs.com/billington/index.htm Barnsley Family History Society site has items of interest for those searching for their Barnsley ancestors - www.barnsleyfhs.co.uk Huddersfield and District Family History Society site contains information about the genealogical/family history resources available in and about the area -www.hdfhs.org.uk Although my family is from West Yorkshire, the Billington family name emerged as a notable English family in the county of Lancashire in the township and manor of Billington within the parish of Blackburn. William Billington held the manor in 1332, along with his brother Adam Billington. There are a great number of Lancashire Billington's, including the hangmen of Bolton! For more information see - www.users.bigpond.com/telglen A biography of my great Uncle Fred Billington can be found in David Stone's "D'Oyly Carte Who Was Who" at -http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/whowaswho/B/BillingtonFred.htm An infamous Billington, was a John, who went from Lincolnshire on the Mayflower to New England in 1620. His son Francis, in fact, nearly blew up the Mayflower! John Billington was the first pilgrim to be executed by hanging, The family were one of the few, who endured the first winter in America. There is a reconstruction of their house in Plimoth Plantation, which I visited in 2002. Read more about the family at http://members.aol.com/calebj/billington.html My grand mother Sarah Billington's maiden name was Fozard. Carol Parker in New South Wales has an excellent website on the Fozard family at - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~fozzard/index.html There is a list devoted to Yorkshire surnames at - http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/YKSlist/yks.htm Some general genealogy sites 1837online.com site you will find an entire copy of the indexes of Births, Marriages and Deaths for England and Wales from 1837 to 2001. These images are available to search, view (including zooming in on those awkward-to-read names), save to disk and print for a modest charge - www.1837online.com Access to Archives site covers 326 record offices across England, and is an index of records held in a range of local records offices and libraries, universities, museums and national and specialist institutions. - www.a2a.pro.gov.uk BDM-Certificates is a service to purchase official UK Birth, Marriage and Death certificates and have them delivered to your door. - www.bmd-certificates.co.uk Cyndi's list is a comprehensive list of genealogy links across the world. - www.cyndislist.com Family History Online - A pay-per-detail FFHS site offering free searchable access to the records held by its member societies - www.familyhistoryonline.net FreeBMD (Births, Marriages and Deaths) A UK site dedicated to providing free access to the Civil Registration index for England and Wales for the years 1837 to 1901. http://freebmd.rootsweb.com FreeREG Like its sister FreeBMD, the FreeREG project website is a finding tool, trying to provide free access to UK church parish register records for baptism, marriage and burial from 1538 to 1837 - http://freereg.rootsweb.com GENDEX WWW Genealogical Index indexes thousands of World Wide Web databases containing genealogical data for nearly forty million individuals, and gives you the ability to locate and view data of interest to you on any of these databases, without having to go and visit each of the databases separately. - http://www.gendex.com/gendex GenCircles provides a Global Tree consists of over 60 million ancestors submitted to GenCircles by our users. - www.gencircles.com Genes Connected A community site aiming to help mainly UK researchers share family tree information online. - www.genesconnected.co.uk GENUKI is a virtual reference library of primary historical resources. Records are organised by county. - www.genuki.org.uk Irish Public Records can be researched through the National website at - www.nationalarchives.ie Northern Ireland's Records can be researched through - http://proni.nics.gov.uk RootsWeb A free site that enables you to search for names across its database sources, RootsWeb was initially a US concern but is now part of the WorldConnect Project to share genealogy information globally. - www.rootsweb.com Scotland's Public Records can be viewed on this pay per view records website. - www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints A massive site that pools the resources of a wide range of international genealogy databases including the International Genealogical Index (IGI) - www.familysearch.org The Federation of Family History Societies (FFHS) This provides an alphabetical list of family history societies. - www.ffhs.org.uk The National Archivist is providing online access to a unique collection of archives across the United Kingdom. The database is being built up of digital images of original registers, entry books and indexes, reproduced under licence. Searching is free, but view your images to save and print from as little as 20 UK pence. - www.nationalarchivist.com This page was last modified on Monday October 17, 2005
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