LOOKING FOR HELPFUL WEBSITES FOR YOUR RESEARCH?
Check out the many websites recommended by BCGS members, sorted here by topic. These are updated from time to time. Please comment on your own favourites and these will be added to the lists. While this is not meant as a comprehensive list of genealogy and family history links, these are links our members have found very useful.
BCGS MEMBERS’ WEBSITES
TOPICS
BRITISH HOME CHILDREN; BRITISH CHILD MIGRANTS
BACKUP YOUR GENEALOGY! AND CLOUD STORAGE
CHARTS AND FORMS FOR GENEALOGY
HANDY GENEALOGY AIDS AND TOOLS
GENEALOGY MYTHS, FRAUDS, SPOOFS AND SCAMS
MILITARY (worldwide links; see also individual countries)
REUNIONS
COUNTRIES / GEOGRAPHIC AREAS – always check for free place-specific tutorials and records/images/indexes at FamilySearch.org Also at the larger commercial websites, like Ancestry.com and World Vital Records. (Commercial sites may be available to you free at a local library or a FamilySearch Family History Center.)
GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND – general websites (See also Ireland)
CANADA
Canada’s Provincial Archives – A BCGS Web Guide – pdf download.
Friends of Archives in Canada – A BCGS Web Guide – pdf download.
- British Columbia – see the BC Research pages for BC queries, and the BCGS Research Projects page and additional BC Research pages for links to BC newspapers and obituaries, BC Public Libraries, BC historical and genealogical groups, and more.
- Manitoba
- Quebec – see the BCGS Quebec Special Interest Group webpage.
- Yukon
EUROPE – general links (see also individual countries)
EASTERN EUROPE – general links
CHANNEL ISLANDS - Jersey and the Bailiwick of Guernsey
HOLLAND – see NETHERLANDS
IRELAND (See also Great Britain and Ireland above)
NETHERLANDS (Holland)
PORTUGAL (with links for researching Portuguese outside of Portugal)
SCANDINAVIAN / NORDIC COUNTRIES, See the BCGS Scandinavian Special Interest Group webpage.
UNITED STATES
OTHER LINKS
GENEALOGY FOR CHILDREN AND TEENS
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