"Tips and Links"

Qualicum Beach Family History Society

This page contains useful tips and links that take you to Canadian and International websites. Also given are links to other British Columbia family history websites. The links are given in response to Society members interests and do not represent any endorsement by our Society.

Donna Fraser sent in this link to an interesting website called Victoria's Victoria provided for historians by the University of Victoria. The site contains resources such as old maps and photographs. http://web.uvic.ca/vv/index.html

I was cruising the web the other day and started out looking for a nice photograph of the Empress of Canada. I eventually went from site to site, subject to subject, and enjoyed finding photographs, news articles etc. not only about ships but about ports and emigration/immigration. I hope you find these websites as intesting and absorbing as I did - Doug Dicken.

Port cities starting with Liverpool and then Southampton, Bristol etc. http://www.mersey-gateway.org/

Newspaper http://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/Emigrationmain.html

Liverpool http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~liverpool/captains.html

Liverpool and Emigration http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/archive/displayGuide.aspx?sid=67&mode=html&sorStr=&serStr=&pgeInt=&catStr=

Migration – free to search, pay to look at what you find http://www.findmypast.com/migration.jsp

Emigrants to Canada Hanbdbook 1864 http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/papers/emguide1864.html

The Tide of Emigration to The United States and to The British Colonies (1850) http://www.cornwall-online.co.uk/history/cmi/emi.htm

Two sites for Ellis Island

http://www.ellisisland.org/

http://www.nps.gov/archive/stli/serv02.htm

The Irish in Britain 1750 to 1922 – a bibliographic essay. University of Bradford. Lots of book recommendations.
http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/diaspora/guides/brit.shtml

A websiite containing some lists of passengers in emigrant ships http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/5978/Emigration.html

An excellent immigrant website with lots of information and links - from The University of Waterloo
http://www.ist.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/thevoyage.html

Some other ideas and links to sites of interest

Search Vancouver Island Newspapers between 1859 and 1921 at http://web.uvic.ca/vv/newspaper/index.php
This site provides access to four indices of tens of thousands of summarized transcripts of articles first appearing in newspapers published on Vancouver Island between 1859 and 1921.

Make a note of the Nanaimo Family History Society Spring Seminar. The speaker will be Dr. Christopher Watts of The National Archives in the U.K. Check for details at www.members.shaw.ca/nfhs

The Nanaimo Family History Society have purchased BC Vital Events microfiches. Why go to Victoria when they are available in Nanaimo. Details on their website at www.members.shaw.ca/nfhs

Mailing Lists are sometimes a useful adjunct to your research and you may also be able to contribute information yourself. To see what a mailing list looks like take a browse through the archives of a Rootsweb Mailing List for Norfolk in England at, http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/NORFOLK/2007-09
Click on a month's archive and browse through the letters. You will see conversations and exchanges of information and this will give you a good idea of what happens with these lists. To see the Rootsweb's mailing list index click on. http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/index.html

Just started doing French genealogy research? Then try the following website for information.
http://genealogy.about.com/od/france/a/french_ancestry.htm

Lookups in Norwegian Research reference books are offered at the following website,
http://www.rootsweb.com/~wgnorway/lookups.html

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Other Links of interest to Members.
The following website links will provide connections to Canadian and World wide genealogical sources. Some sites contain free search data entry boxes but some may also contain searches that lead to commercial sites.

Canadian Genealogy & History Portal Website

Canadian Genealogical Sources

Library and Archives Canada

Canadian Automated Genealogy

Latter Day Saints Family History Research Page

Cyndi's List major portal site

Genuki major portal site

British Columbia Cemetery Finding Aid

Links to free census indexes in various countries

1901 England & Wales Census/ PRO UK

Free Births, Marriages and Deaths (UK)

Links to cemetery transcriptions in various countries