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| | | | Yesterday's Names - helping you discover more about the lives of your ancestors |
 | www.abebooks.co.uk - find more than 80 million out-of-print books worldwide.  Abebooks is a great place to buy rare or out-of-print secondhand books for your family history research. In the search box on the left, just try typing into the Title or Keyword field the name of a place where your ancestors lived, or their occupation. Give it a try - you'll be amazed at what you might find! | | There are a few individuals and organisations with web sites that contain extracts from old parish magazines. Listed on the right are links to a selection of free sites that we've spotted, but if you find any others, do please email us at info@yesterdaysnames.co.uk and we'll add them to the list. | | 
| If you've not discovered FreeBMD yet, then you're missing out! It's not fully complete yet, but www.freebmd.org.uk is a great free resource for tracking down English & Welsh Birth, Marriage & Death registrations. |
 | If you are researching Australian, Canadian, or American relatives, then you might want to consider Ancestry.com.au
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Your Family Tree magazine is well worth a look - as well as having loads of news and great articles, it regularly includes samples of Yesterday's Names data on its cover CD! You can read all about it at www.yourfamilytreemag.co.uk. |
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 | If you need professional help with your research, then English Roots provides a family history research service for people wishing to trace their English ancestors. Services include researching and preparing family histories and family trees, tracing living relatives, location photography, training, and organising family reunions. English Roots family histories make unique and special gifts. Go to www.english-roots.com to find out more. | | Trying to locate a parish? If so, you might find the following free sites helpful : |
If you want general advice on how to go about researching your family history in the UK, or want to find out more about a particular area, then GENUKI is a good place to start. For general advice for beginners go to www.genuki.org.uk/gs, or for information about a specific place, go to www.genuki.org.uk/big and click on the map. |  | | An interesting site called OneGreatFamily is well worth a look. Their site includes Genealogy Browser - a free downloadable family tree program that allows you to view, edit, and print your family tree. This program includes many unique features which are available for anyone to use. Users who pay a subscription can also collaborate with other subscribers who the site's unique family tree matching software has identified as having shared individuals in their family trees. |  
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| If you've not found it yet, the other site always worth exploring is Cyndi's List, which lists well over a quarter of a million links to family history web sites. You'll find it at www.cyndislist.com. Enjoy! |
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