Favourite Websites

External Links

Here is a list of my favourite websites. All entries link to external sites.

Research and Organisations

• Mortimer History Society – Society focused on history of the medieval Mortimer family of Wigmore and the Welsh Marches
• Mortimer DNA Project – The Mortimer DNA Research link
• Mortimer Name Study – One Name Studies – Mortimer / Mortimore
• History of Castles
• Castle Wales – Website focusing on a history of Welsh castles, with individual articles on each castle
• Coat of arms – Galleries of beautifully rendered coats of arms, following original medieval heraldry rolls
• Mortimer.co.uk – Family history of the Mortimers of Plymouth and Combeinteignhead, dyers and shopowners
• Mortimer UK surname distribution – Geographic distribution of Mortimer family members, 1841-1911

Archives / Reference

• National Archives – Home of the UK Archives, safeguarding historic records dating back 1,500 years
• Archive.org – Home of the Internet Archive, a huge library of historic books and reference works
• Hathitrust Digital Library – A huge collection of items from libraries around the world
• GenUKI – A virtual reference site for genealogical sources covering every UK parish- UK genealogy starts here
• UK Genealogy Archives – Free UK Genealogy Sources
• Heraldic Visitations – Details of the 16th and 17th century Heraldic Visitations which covered landed families
• FreeBMD – UK Civil Registration – a database of births, marriages and death from 1837
• FreeREG – A free database of voluntarily transcribed parish records
• Familysearch – The world’s best free genealogy site
• Medieval Genealogy Online Sources – A list of medieval sources available online
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography – Biographies of notables throughout history

Local Heritage

• Forest of Dean Family History Trust – Resources and parish registers for genealogists studying families who lived in or near the Forest of Dean, between the Severn and Wye Rivers in Gloucestershire / Monmouthshire / Herefordshire
• Devon Heritage – A website focusing on Devon genealogy and local history

Galleries

• Rare Old Prints
• Ancestry Images

Premium Family History Sites (£££)

• Ancestry – The best paid family history site
• Find my past – The best UK-focused family history site

Online Trees

• Wikitree – An online community of genealogists collaborating on freely accessible family trees