Family history websites

Libraries and Archives

Kent Libraries & Archives Online Reference Library has a page for family & local history resources including-

• subscription databases (such as the Times Digital Archives) 
• links to important local websites (such as the Kent Registration Service)
• links to important national websites (such as Free BMD)

Kent Archives

• Kent Archives Service website
• Kent Archives service online catalogue
• Here’s History Kent
• Ancestry Library Edition - only for customers using computers in Kent Libraries and Archives Centres

National Archives

• National Archives website
• Access to Archives (UK Archives catalogue)
• Documents Online (pay-per-view databases)

British Library

• British Library
• Integrated Catalogue

Family history websites

• Genuki (Links to genealogy websites - a UK website)
• Cyndi’s List (Links to genealogy websites - a US website)
• Rootsweb (Links to genealogy websites - a US website)

Online indexes, lists and records

• Free BMD (Searchable database with data drawn from Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales)
• Family Search (including searchable databases with data drawn from UK Parish Records)
• Kent Registration Services - Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates (including a selection of searchable indexes)
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission (including searchable register of soldiers who died in the 2 World Wars)
• Kent Archaeological Society
  • Transcriptions of many Kent Tithe Map Award Schedules (names of landowners, occupiers are included)
  • Transcriptions of many Churchyard Monumental Inscriptions (Inscriptions on tombstones are included)
  • Indexes to selected Kent Medieval & Tudor Wills
  • The East Kent Wills Index
• The Old Bailey (searchable records of trials from 1674-1913)
• The London Gazette (searchable archive includes lists of people receiving national honours & officers appointments, promotions & awards within the Armed Services)
• Find my Past (series of searchable Pay-Per-View records)
• The 1911 Census for England & Wales Online

Societies

• Federation of Family History Societies
• Kent Family History Society
• Folkestone & District History Society 
• North West Kent History Society
• Tunbridge Wells History Society

Courses

• Kent Adult Education Genealogy Courses

Places

• Kent historic towns
• Historic landscapes