T L Messingham

Links

9 Lives Cat Rescue

General Genealogy Sites

Ancestry.co.uk: Annual subscription. Not too cheep, but worth every penny. I have made extensive use of the census returns of England/Wales and Scotland for 1841 to 1901.

Family Search 1881 census: FREE. Search the 1881 census (note "Lost Cousins" below).

Family Search (IGI): FREE. Basic information on baptisms and marriages, mainly for pre-National Registration but includes a fair amount of post-1837 information.

FreeBDM: FREE. On-line database of reference numbers for National Registration certificates from 1837 (to 1900, with later years being added all the time). This site is very useful for finding the maiden name of a wife.

Genes Reunited: Annual subscription. Nice and cheep, and great for making contact with others researching shared ancestry.

Lost Cousins: FREE (for the basics). Input the details of your ancestors from the 1881 census (see "Family Search" above) and check to see if others have the same.

Other sites I use

British History Online: transcriptions of historical documents and books.

British Jewry: Fantastic databases of information, not to mention a great community of listers willing to help.

CWGC: Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Hampshire: Petersfield, East Meon, and more. Parish Register transcriptions.

Headley(near Bordon), Hampshire: an excellent site of historical information by John Owen Smith.

TNA: The National Archives at Kew. I have used the "Documents Online" facility to download several wills (small fee).

Completely unrelated to genealogy, but sums me up nicely

Science fiction:

Torchwood

Official BBC site: Torchwood

Doctor Who

Question: Just how old was Jamie supposed to be in "The Two Doctors" ??????

My collection of Doctor Who Links

The Poems of Dimity Telfer

"Doctor Who" novels by Simon Messingham

The Doctor Trap

Published
4th September 2008

Strange England

Zeta Major

The Face-Eater

Tomb of Valdemar

The Infinity Race

The Indestructible Man