Genealogy
This still needs a lot of work (and I'm adding to it periodically). If anyone can help fill the gaps or make any corrections please let me know. My contact details are on the Home Page.
Gateway Sites Societies Useful National Sites Useful North-East Sites
Register Offices (N.E.) BMD Indexes (N.E.) Mailing Lists
* NEW * Online Articles: Genealogy
Durham Records Online - a
commercial site, but definitely worth a look. Free search facility of
over three million County Durham census and
parish records + pay-to-view record transcriptions. Baptisms, marriages,
burials and cemetery records for much of the county are available for easy and
instant access.
Yorkshire Archaeological Society – Family History Section
Annfield Plain Family History Society
Easington Family History Group - contact sought.
Elvet Local & Family History Group
Hartlepool Family History Group (Hartlepool Central Library), contact Francis Wilson on 01429 222884.
Hebburn Family History Group, c/o Hebburn Community Centre, Argyle Street, Hebburn, NE31 1BQ (tel: 0191 4242523).
Hemlington Family History Club, contact Beryl Kay on (01642) 597278.
Ingleby Barwick Library's Family History Group, contact the library on (01642) 528528.
Seaton Delaval Family History Society - contact sought.
Sedgefield Family History Group
The Searchers Family History Group (South Moor)
FamilySearch (Mormons) and here (and scroll down to 'UK')
1851 Parish Info/Maps (Mormons)
Iannounce (newspaper family notices)
UK GRO Registration Districts & Volume Numbers (changes over the years)
Durham & Northumberland Wills Online ('N.E.Inheritance Project')
Gretna Green Marriages, 1794-1895
Register Offices (North-East)
Register Offices throughout the North-East seem to be in a constant state of flux. At the moment, there are 12 points of contact covering the region for the purposes of obtaining copy certificates, etc., thus:
County of Durham (all of the present-day county, inc. the 'old' districts of Durham Central, Durham Eastern, Durham Northern, Durham South-Western and Durham Western - except for Darlington area, see below)
South Tyneside (inc. Jarrow)
This link is also useful for Register Office details/contacts, as is this link .
Additionally, many of the region's BMD records are now indexed...
The best starting point for genealogy mailing lists is the GENUKI page here. Click on 'England', then head for 'Durham' or 'Northumberland' (or even, perhaps, 'Yorkshire'). An almost identical result can be attained by clicking here. The Northumberland & Durham FHS also have there own 'NE Ancestors Forum' (open access) and 'NE Ancestors Mailing List' (members only).
If anyone knows of any other resources in this regard please let me know via the email link on the homepage.
Here you will find online articles penned by myself, readers of 'The Hub' and, occasionally, transcriptions of pieces which are out of copyright. Where the article is already online the hyperlink will take you away from this website. I have just begun this service - so please help me out with some useful links to relevant material. If you have written something which you'd like to have considered, then let me know - but try to give them a North-East flavour wherever possible. Please remember that there is plenty of cross-over between genealogy, local history and archaeology, so check all sections for articles of interest.
Link 1: General Articles -
A Rough Guide to Electoral Registers & Associated Records
A Rough Guide to the Land Tax & Associated Records
A Rough Guide to the Hearth Tax
Link 2: 'Families' Articles -
The Shipleys - Mariners & Whalers