Websites to help you search for information
Archive
archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more. Good for old magazines and books (FREE)
Census
www.ons.gov.uk/census The office for national statistics. The census asks questions about you, your household and your home. In doing so, it helps to build a detailed snapshot of our society. Information from the census helps the government and local authorities to plan and fund local services, such as education, doctors’ surgeries and roads. (FREE)
www.nomisweb.co.uk Nomis is a service provided by the Office for National Statistics, ONS, to give you free access to the most detailed and up-to-date UK labour market statistics from official sources. (FREE)
www.freecen.org.uk The FreeCEN database is just a finding tool. Whilst they make every effort to ensure accurate transcription, errors exist in both the original census and the transcription. Please verify any result with the actual census at your local library or similar resource. (FREE)
IRELAND
www.census.nationalarchives.ie/ The household returns and ancillary records for the censuses of Ireland of 1901 and 1911, which are in the custody of the National Archives of Ireland, represent an extremely valuable part of the Irish national heritage. (FREE)
www.census.nationalarchives.ie/ The household returns and ancillary records for the censuses of Ireland of 1901 and 1911, which are in the custody of the National Archives of Ireland, represent an extremely valuable part of the Irish national heritage. (FREE)
USA
tinyurl.com/mzw6wxe Guidance to search through USA census records (FREE)
tinyurl.com/mzw6wxe Guidance to search through USA census records (FREE)
Colour old Photographs
colourise.sg Upload a black and white photograph. Their deep learning model performs best on higher resolution images that prominently feature human subjects and natural scenery. We do not store images that you upload for colourisation. (FREE) CURRENTLY NOT WORKING BUT WE HOPE THEY WILL START AGAIN
Crime Maps
police.uk/pu/your-area/hertfordshire-constabulary/rickmansworth-and-district/ View current and historical crime data in your area. (FREE)
www.ukcrimestats.com/Postcode Search current and historical crime data via postcode (FREE)
Directories
forebears.io/news/kellys-directories-project-complete Kellys Directory. Forebears have completed a project to digitise one edition of Kelly's Directory for each county in England and the directory for South Wales. Most of the selected directories were published around the year 1900. Slater's Directory of North & Mid Wales has also been digitised, as Kelly's did not publish a directory for this area. Forebears will shortly commence a further digitisation project focusing on a different time period. (FREE)
specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4 Kelly's Directories The collection contains 689 directories, with at least one directory for every English and Welsh county for the 1850s, 1890s and 1910s. Searchable by name, place and occupation this is an essential tool for local, urban and family history. (FREE)
Family Trees
www.ancestry.co.uk UK's largest family history site. Start discovering today. Search Census Records. Search Your Surname. Build Your Family Tree. Marriage Records. Immigration Records. Billions of records. 14 Day Free Trial. Start Searching Today. Death Records (Paid for but sometimes have free weekends)
www.findmypast.co.uk Trace your ancestry and build a family tree by researching extensive birth records, census data, obituaries and more. (Paid for but sometimes have free weekends)
(www.thegenealogist.co.uk Great place to search for your ancestors and the details of their lives. (FREE)
www.familysearch.org FamilySearch. FamilySearch is a nonprofit organization and website offering genealogical records, education, and software. It is operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and is closely connected with the Family (FREE)
www.freereg.org.uk Search Parish registers (FREE)
www.freebmd.org.uk Search Births, Deaths and Marriages (FREE)
SCOTLAND
www.scottishindexes.com/ Great website for searching Scottish family records (FREE)
www.nrscotland.gov.uk/ Helping with family searches (FREE)
www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ Searching family records. Free to search but paid for to view (Jan 21 30 credits / 6 views £7:50)
www.scottishindexes.com/ Great website for searching Scottish family records (FREE)
www.nrscotland.gov.uk/ Helping with family searches (FREE)
www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ Searching family records. Free to search but paid for to view (Jan 21 30 credits / 6 views £7:50)
IRELAND
www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/ The website is now home to the historic records of Births, Marriages and Deaths of the General Register Office. These records join the Indexes to the historic records of Births, Marriages and Deaths that were already available on the website. (FREE)
www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/ The website is now home to the historic records of Births, Marriages and Deaths of the General Register Office. These records join the Indexes to the historic records of Births, Marriages and Deaths that were already available on the website. (FREE)
Groups
www.local-history.co.uk/Groups You will find links to the websites of 654 local history and related societies, with contact details for a further 561 societies.
HALS - Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies
https://tinyurl.com/ychlq2kp houses the former Hertfordshire Record Office and the former Hertfordshire Local Studies Library. It collects and preserves archives, other historical documents and printed material relating to the county of Hertfordshire and the Diocese of St Albans from the 11th to the 21st century. HALS is located in Hertford, in the Register Office Block adjacent to County Hall. (FREE)
Hertfordshire Regional Planning Report 1927
cashewnut.me.uk/WGCbooks/web-WGC-books-1927-1.php Hertfordshire Regional Planning Report 1927 by Alan Cash. An excellent point of reference for town planning that was produced less than 20 years after the act came into effect. (Town Planning Acts of 1909-1925)
History of England
historicengland.org.uk/sitesearch 400,000 of the most historically and architecturally significant places in England. The most important historic places in England are listed. The List includes buildings, battlefields, monuments, parks, gardens, shipwrecks and more. (FREE)
historicengland.org.uk/images-books/archive/collections/images-of-england Historic photographs of England (FREE)
www.british-history.ac.uk/search?query=croxley British History Online is a digital library of key printed primary and secondary sources for the history of Britain and Ireland, with a primary focus on the period between 1300 and 1800. We aim to support the learning, teaching and research of our users from around the world. (FREE)
Maps
maps.nls.uk In our Map images' resource you can access and view all the maps we have scanned as high-resolution, colour, zoomable images. The maps date between 1560 and 1964 and relate primarily to Scotland. We also have maps of areas beyond Scotland, including maps of England and Great Britain, Ireland, Belgium, and Jamaica. (FREE)
maps.nls.uk/view/102345925 Croxley Green 1868
maps.nls.uk/view/104202091Croxley Green 1898
maps.nls.uk/view/101579871 Croxley Green 1899
maps.nls.uk/view/104202088 Croxley Green 1914
maps.nls.uk/view/101579868 Croxley Green 1921
maps.nls.uk/view/101579865 Croxley Green 1947
maps.nls.uk/view/189258470 Croxley Green 1960
maps.nls.uk/view/103191409 Croxley Green 1961
maps.nls.uk/view/189258467 Croxley Green 1966
www.archiuk.com/search ARCHI UK is the database of more than 200,000 British Archaeological Sites covering the whole of England, Scotland and Wales. It is regularly updated with 10,000 new additions made to the database every year. The map slider to mix the old and new maps is excellent.
https://tinyurl.com/y4oso74d Victorian map of Croxley Green
https://tinyurl.com/y6o7e894 1950s map of Croxley Green
https://tinyurl.com/y4oso74d Victorian map of Croxley Green
https://tinyurl.com/y6o7e894 1950s map of Croxley Green
Military
astreetnearyou.org This personal project is just an attempt to explore the local legacy of the First World War, but at a global scale. At the heart of it is the legacy of those who died in the conflict, and especially the scale of the imapct that that would have had on their local communities, it would also never have been possible without the significant legacy created by those who remained, from the families who sent in photographs of their loved ones and which formed the Imperial War Museum's founding Bond of Sacrifice Collection, through the people who diligently compiled official records in the early 1920s and which formed the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's records, right up to the modern-day professionals, volounteers and individuals who have shaped these records, shared them, and also significantly increased and enriched them, especially under the guise of First World War Centenary projects like Lives of the First World War (FREE)
www.forces-war-records.co.uk Search From More Than 23 Million Military RecordsFill in the form below to search our unique database of more than 23 Million records. Get information on your ancestors, and the military unit they served in. Learn about the battles they fought and what life was like for them. (Basic search is free but paid for)
www.cwgc.org Commonwealth War Graves. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) honours the 1.7 million men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died in the First and Second World Wars, and ensures they will never be forgotten.(FREE)
www.greatwar.co.uk Great website for researching WW1. There re also some links to other websites. Worth visiting if you are researching WW1 (FREE)
www.theworldremembers.org A non-profit Canadian company, based in Toronto, Canada, whose sole purpose is to build and facilitate The World Remembers. (FREE)
www.iwm.org.uk/memorials The IWM is compiling the War Memorials Register - the comprehensive national register of UK war memorials and the names of the individuals they commemorate. (FREE)
www.everyoneremembered.org More than one million Service men and women gave their lives in the First World War so that future generations could live theirs.The Royal British Legion is committed to ensuring their sacrifice is never forgotten: search those remembered and continue to commemorate their lives by leaving a short message of remembrance.
National Army Museum
http://www.nam.ac.uk Connecting people with our collections is at the heart of what we do. The Online Collection showcases a growing selection of our objects for you to explore and discover. (FREE)
Newspapers
www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk The British Newspaper Archive is a partnership between the British Library and findmypast to digitise up to 40 million newspaper pages from the British Library's vast collection over the next 10 years. (Paid for)
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper Trove - The National Library of Australia, in collaboration with Australian State ... runs the Australian Newspaper Digitation Program with the aim of making as ... News is published on the Trove home page and then moves to our news archives. (FREE)
www.loc.gov/ Library of Congress USA has lots of information and viewable newspapers FREE
Photographs
www.flickr.com Flickr - almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world (FREE but account needed)
WW1
www.ww1cemeteries.com WW1 Cemeteries. The original idea behind this site was to record our visit to all 940, 1914/1918 Commonwealth cemeteries with 40 or more burials in France and Belgium. In all it took us six years to complete the task that we set ourselves back in 1998. (FREE)
freepages.rootsweb.com/~worldwarone/military/WWI/HomeFront/BestWarTimeRecipes/BestWarTimeRecipes.txt WW1 Recipes (FREE)
www.bl.uk/world-war-one Supported by over 500 historical sources from across Europe, this resource examines key themes in the history of World War One. (FREE)
ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ World War I Centenary: Continuations and Beginnings, a substantial collection of learning resources available for global reuse. (FREE)
WW2
www.ww2cemeteries.com WW2 Cemeteries. The original idea behind this site was to record our visit to all 940, 1914/1918 Commonwealth cemeteries with 40 or more burials in France and Belgium. In all it took us six years to complete the task that we set ourselves back in 1998. (FREE)
bombsight.org The Bomb Sight project is mapping the London (including Croxley Green) WW2 bomb census between 7/10/1940 and 06/06/1941. (FREE)
