Durham County Record Office County Hall Durham DH1 5UL Telephone (0191) 383 3253 e-mail: record.office@durham.gov.uk website: www.durham.gov.uk/recordoffice USER GUIDE 11: USEFUL WEBSITES Issue no. 2 February 2008 The Record Office website (www.durham.gov.uk/recordoffice) contains a great deal of information about the records we care for, including family and local history, coal mining, and access to all of our catalogues. However, you may also find the following websites useful, particularly when you are tracing your family tree. Record Office staff have looked at all the sites, but please note that, as they are all external websites, Durham County Record Office cannot be held responsible for the information contained therein. Some sites require payment for information, while others provide it free of charge. If you would like us to consider adding another site to this list, or you find any broken links, please contact us. CIVIL REGISTRATION Durham County Registration Service: www.durham.gov.uk/gro/newgro.nsf/search?open&C0117235080908092006$ Darlington Registration Service: www.darlington.gov.uk/Living/Register+Office/RegOfficeSearch.htm Tees Valley Indexes: www.teesvalley-indexes.co.uk/ Sunderland Registration Service: www.sunderland.gov.uk/public/editable/life-episodes/bdm/ccs09b-d-m.asp Gateshead Registration Service: www.gateshead.gov.uk/People%20and%20Living/marriages/copy%20Certificates.aspx South Tyneside Registration Service: www.southtyneside.info/communitysupport/register/ St. Catherine’s House Indexes: www.1837online.com ; www.freebmd.org.uk ; www.rootsweb.com ; www.ancestry.co.uk Birth, marriage and death certificates for England and Wales: www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates Registration districts in England and Wales (1837-1974): www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/reg CENSUS www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/census (1841-1901) www.ancestry.co.uk (1841-1901) www.familysearch.org (1881) PARISH REGISTERS Durham County Record Office: www.durham.gov.uk/recordoffice International Genealogical Index (parish register entries) : www.familysearch.org Diocese of Durham Church of England parishes and clergy : www.durham.anglican.org/diocese/places/index.htm Parishes in the Diocese of Durham that have web pages: http://anglicansonline.org/uk-europe/england/dioceses/durham.html MILITARY HISTORY Durham County Record Office: www.durham.gov.uk/recordoffice The DLI Museum: www.durham.gov.uk/dli The National Archives website: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/militaryhistory/?homelink=main_military The Imperial War Museum: www.iwm.org.uk World War 1 Campaign Medals Index:www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/default.asp The London Gazette: www.gazettes-online.co.uk/index.asp?webType=0 Army service records: www.army.mod.uk/contacts/divisions/records.htm Commonwealth War Graves Commission: www.cwgc.org North East War Memorials Project: www.newmp.org.uk COAL MINING Durham County Record Office: www.durham.gov.uk/recordoffice Durham Mining Museum website contains information about County Durham collieries, including photographs and details of people killed in colliery accidents: www.dmm.org.uk MAPS, PHOTOGRAPHS AND PRINTS Durham County Record Office: www.durham.gov.uk/recordoffice The Durham Record for photographs: www.durham.gov.uk/durhamcc/usp.nsf/pws/6BC84A1CE166D77F80256EE10033E5FE?opendoc ument English Heritage listed buildings: www.imagesofengland.org.uk Pictures in Print: www.dur.ac.uk/picturesinprint Durham GIS system for old maps: www.durham.gov.uk/durhamcc/usp.nsf/pws/gis+-+online+mapping NEWSPAPERS The British Library Online Newspaper Archive: www.uk.olivesoftware.com/ DIRECTORIES AND GAZETEERS www.historicaldirectories.org contains digitised images of 12 directories for County Durham. www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions/index.jsp contains the full text of three 19th century gazetteers: John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales (1872); Frances Groome, The Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1885); John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887) OTHER Ancestors on Board, outward bound passengers: www.ancestorsonboard.com ARCHIVE REPOSITORIES Durham County Record Office: www.durham.gov.uk/recordoffice Tyne & Wear: www.tyneandweararchives.org.uk Northumberland: http://pscm.northumberland.gov.uk/portal/page?_pageid=106,54411&_dad=portal92&_schema=P ORTAL92&pid=448 Teesside: www.middlesbrough.gov.uk/ccm/content/leisure-and-culture/local-history-and-heritage/teesside- archives.en North Yorkshire: www.northyorks.gov.uk/archives Cumbria: www.cumbria.gov.uk/archives Durham University Library: www.dur.ac.uk/library/asc/about/ Newcastle University Library: www.ncl.ac.uk/library/specialcollections/subject_guide_about.php UK repositories www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archon www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search LIBRARIES Clayport, Durham: www.durham.gov.uk/durhamcc/usp.nsf/pws/Libraries+Durham+Clayport+- +Durham+Clayport+Library Newcastle: www.newcastle.gov.uk/libraries Northumberland: www.northumberland.gov.uk/drftp/10854.asp Gateshead: www.asaplive.com/Local/Home.cfm?Login=Done South Tyneside: www.southtyneside.info/learningandleisure/libraries Sunderland: www.sunderland.gov.uk/libraries/Localstudies.asp Darlington: www.darlington.gov.uk/Education/Library/Centre+for+Local+Studies Online regional, national and international Library Catalogues: http://aesica.dur.ac.uk/delores/databases/opacs.asp FAMILY HISTORY ORGANISATIONS Northumberland & Durham Family History Society: www.ndfhs.fsnet.co.uk/ Genuki: www.genuki.org.uk/gs Society of Genealogists: www.sog.org.uk BBC: www.bbc.co.uk/history/familyhistory HANDLISTS:USERGUIDE11WEBSITES/2-Apr-08/12:38 page 1