Useful Links to help you in your Family History / Local History research in Leicestershire and Rutland!
We have deliberately kept them in a random order so everyone has a fair chance of being seen. Sites are rotated daily.
From Ireland - Irish Genealogy and Family HistoryOver 14,000 Gravestone photographs! Leicestershire HistoryOur County, Our History
British War Grave PhotographsWartime Leicester - Civilian Roll of HonourThe Old BaileyThe Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913
The National ArchivesFriends of Leicestershire MuseumsGhost Signs of LeicestershireForces War Records |
BMD IndexAccess the Birth, Marriage and Death Records - Complete Index 1837-2005
Greater Wigston Historical Societyformed in 1980 by Duncan Lucas
Wartime LeicestershireIrish Newspaper Archives
Victoria County HistoryLeicestershire on Victoria County History
Bottesford Living Historyincludes Muston
Search The London GazetteFind my pastExcellent website that helps you Find My Past!
GenfairThe “One-Stop Shop” for Family and Local Historians
Enderby Heritage Group |
Kirby Muxloe Website - Snippits and Snapshots
Sources for tracing Agricultural Labourers
Drill Halls
Certificates of British Citizenship
1881 Census - Residents of Leicester Union Workhouse
The Geneva Convention - WWII
Cardinal Wolsey on the History Learning Site
The Womens Land Army on wikipedia
Freedom on Information Act
Veterans UK - Service Records
WWI On wikipedia
What was a Canary Girl?
Wigston Framework Knitters Museum
Leicestershire and Rutland Family History Society
The White Lion Society - Heraldry
War Memorials in Leicestershire
Lincolnshire FHS
Hospital Records Database
The Buildings of Hinckley
Ireland Prison Registers 1790 - 1924
The Leicester Quarrymen's Church in Dalbeattie, Scotland
Harnessing the power of the Criminal Corpse
WWII Resources held at The Record Office for Leics & Rutland
Historic Graves - Ireland
English Heritage - People and Places