If you have a Personal Data Assistant (PDA) then you may be interested in this free software to run under Windows CE, although I personally prefer to use Excel spreadsheets for data capture when I am in the Library.
I have four separate Custodian II databases - two are for storing the data for my two one-name studies, one keeps track of all the odd bits and pieces I collect for my specific family, and the fourth houses my indexes of Hampshire village parish registers! I couldn't work without it!
Great site for discovering publications for sale from Family History Societies all over the country. It is very easy to use, and I have found the service to be faster than contacting the society direct. My last order was placed around 10pm on a Friday, I received confirmation on Saturday, and the pamphlets arrived on Monday!
Barney Tyrwitt-Drake produces well-thought-out software and indexes, such as Pigot's Commercial Directory of Berkshire, and the Posse Commitatus for Buckinghamshire. You can order over the web from the Society of Genealogist's Online Bookshop.
This service is superb! If you need certificates from New South Wales, then just email this transcription company, and you will receive, almost by return email, a transcript of the certificate. You can pay by credit card - just fax the number separately, for security. I have used them a couple of times, and I am a very satisfied customer!
As this project grows, so it becomes more useful. People are giving up their valuable time to transcribe the indexes of the General Register Office, and provide a valuable search engine. Covers England and Wales, 1837 to date, Births, Marriages and Deaths.
I chanced upon this one day, and although I have not found any of my relatives in it, you may find one of yours! It is the fruit of Michael Foster's research into the accuracy of the GRO's indexes of Marriage Records. He extracted all the marriages for some sample years and put them into a series of spreadsheets which he then sorted and analysed, finding gaps, missing spouses, duplication, and other horrors! Read "A Comedy of Errors or The Marriage Records of England and Wales 1837 - 1899" for the full gory details. As a public service, he has placed the spreadsheets as text documents onto the web, so that you can download them and search at your leisure.
This site allows you search births, deaths and marriages in NSW for the latter half of the nineteenth century, plus for some of the twentieth (births only until about 1917, deaths right up to the 1950s). Once you have the reference number you can order either the certificate itself from the Registry, or a transcription from one of the Transcription Agencies.
An index of all marriage licences granted by the Vicar-General between 1694 and 1850. The Index was produced by the Society of Genealogists, and a fee is payable for an index search. I have not availed myself of the service, but you might well find that elusive detail here about your ancestor.
This is the German site, much talked about on Genealogy lists, which hosts an enormous collection of miscellaneous British datafiles, containing everything from a few articles, to the complete TwoPercent 1851 Census transcripts, by county! But be warned - this census is only a very very small part of the overall 1851 census. I certainly have not found ANY of my relatives in it! You would do best to check with Ron Taylor's Census Surname index for the names you want before spending the time downloading the TwoPercent from this site.
Search Your Surname On The Web (by Steve Lacy) is a useful site for finding unusual information.
