Please note that with the publication of the 4th Edition of The Genealogist's Internet in February 2009, the links for the 3rd Edition are no longer being updated.

13. History

Local and social history

Local history

• [200] BBC History: Local History
• [200] National Archives: Local History: Your Guide to Resources
• [200] Local History Magazine Getting Started
• [200] Victoria County History
• [200] Victoria County History: VCH Counties in progress
• [201] British History Online
• [201] Medieval English Genealogy
• [201] Medieval English Genealogy: Victoria County History: place index
• [201] Statistical Accounts of Scotland
• [201] Knowsley Local History
• [201] Digital Handsworth
• [201] Wiltshire Community History
• [201] Kingston Local History
• [201] Tomorrow's History
• [201] PortCities
• [201] Powys Heritage Online
• [201] Swansea History Web - some materials can now be accessed only by subscribers
• [201] The Gaelic Village
• [201] EnrichUK
• [202] Tithe Titles for Kelsall, Cheshire
• [202] Genuki: Tithe Book of Bolton with Goldthorpe, 1839
• [202] English Surnames Survey
• [202] Genuki: Online Parish Clerks
• [203] David Hawgood, One-Place Genealogy
• [203] David Hawgood, One-Place Genealogy: List of Studies by County
• [203] RootsWeb: ONE-PLACE-STUDY mailing list
• [203] British-Genealogy: Place Forums
• [203] Collect Britain: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import
• [206] William Arthur, Essay On The Origin And Import Of Family Names
• [207] SURNAME-ORIGINS mailing list
• [207] English Surname List
• [207] Cyndi's List: Surnames, Family Associations & Family Newsletters - General Surname Sites

Variants

• [207] Guild of One-Name Studies: Register of One-Name Studies
• [207] Thesaurus of British Surnames
• [207] National Archives & Records Administration: The Soundex Indexing System
• [207] Image Partners: NameX
• [207] Thesaurus of British Surnames: Links: On-line Surname Matching Systems

Distribution

• [207] FamilySearch
• [208] Surname Distribution Analysis
• [208] Surname distribution
• [208] Surname Distributions for Cornwall, Ireland, the Isle of Man and Scotland
• [208] GROS: Surnames in Scotland over the last 140 years
• [208] GROS: Ten Most Common Surnames in the Counties of the 1901 Census
• [208] Modern British Surnames
• [208] Gloucestershire Names and their Occurrence

Forenames

• [208] Behind the Name
• [208] About.com: Naming Patterns for Countries & Cultures
• [208] Diminutives and Alternative Names for the Most Common English Christian Names
• [208] Latinized Given Names
• [208] National Statistics
• [209] GROS: Popular Forenames in Scotland, 1900-2000
• [209] Image Partners: Forename Thesaurus

Understanding old documents

Handwriting

• [210] English Handwriting 1500-1700
• [210] National Archives: Palaeography: reading old handwriting 1500 - 1800. A practical online tutorial
• [210] Scottish Handwriting
• [210] Medieval & Early Modern Palaeography
• [210] Medieval Writing
• [211] Medieval Writing: Abbreviations
• [211] OLD-ENGLISH mailing list
• [211] OLD-ENGLISH mailing list: Contents
• [211] FreeBMD: Reading the Writing
• [211] 1901 Census of Ottawa and Carleton Project: Reading Handwriting

Dates and calendars

• [211] Regnal Year Calculator
• [211] Table of dates given in the old terms of year of monarch's reign
• [212] On-line Calendar of Saints' Days
• [212] Catholic Encyclopedia: Dates And Dating
• [212] Mike Spathaky, Old Style And New Style Dates And The Change To The Gregorian Calendar
• [212] Calendar Act of 1751
• [212] Roman Numeral And Date Conversion
• [212] Calendopaedia
• [212] Calendopaedia: The Gregorian Calendar
• [212] Genuki: Perpetual Calendar
• [212] Medieval English Genealogy: Chronology and dating
• [212] Ultimate Calendar Webpage

Latin

• [212] ItalianGenealogy: Reading Latin Documents
• [212] Latin Word List
• [212] Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid
• [212] Latin Word List
• [213] An On-line Latin-English/English-Latin Dictionary Client (Java)
• [213] Hard Little Words: Prepositions, Adverbs, Conjunctions (With Some Definitions of Medieval Usage)
• [213] Latin Primer
• [213] Latin terms found in genealogical and historical records
• [213] Translating Latin Documents
• [213] soc.genealogy.medieval FAQ
• [213] Genealogy Resources on the Internet: LATIN-WORDS mailing list
• [213] LATIN-WORDS mailing list archive
• [213] Oxford English Dictionary

Technical terms

• [213] OLD-ENGLISH mailing list
• [213] OLD-WORDS mailing list
• [213] OLD-ENGLISH mailing list archives
• [213] OLD-WORDS mailing list archives
• [214] OLD-ENGLISH web site
• [214] OLD-ENGLISH: Links...
• [214] Dictionary of the Scots Language
• [214] A Glossary of Scots Terms
• [214] Leicestershire Agricultural Terms
• [214] Legal Terms in Land Records
• [214] HM Revenue & Customs: Scottish land law terms

• [214] Scottish Archive Network: Glossary
• [214] Manorial Society of Great Britain: Glossary of Manorial Terms
• [214] MedTerms
• [214] On-line Medical Dictionary
• [215] Archaic Medical Terms
• [215] Antiquus Morbus
• [215] Cyndi's List: Medical & Medicine

• [215] Medieval Palaeography
• [215] Roman Numeral And Date Conversion
• [215] Historical Metrology: Old English Units
• [215] Old Imperial Lengths & Areas, etc
• [215] Dictionary of Measures
• [215] Dictionary of Measures: English Customary Measures
• [215] Cyndi's List: Weights and Measures

• [215] Hypertext Medieval Glossary
• [215] Glossary Of Medieval Terms ? - archived version

Value of Money

• [216] House of Commons: Inflation: the Value of the Pound 1750–1998
• [216] Historical value of money in UK
• [216] Relative Value of Sums of Money
• [216] Economic History Services: The Purchasing power of the pound
• [216] Economic History Services: How much is that?
• [216] What's A Guinea?
• [217] Scottish Archive Network: Scots Currency Converter
• [217] National Statistics: Retail Price Index
• [217] National Statistics: Retail Price Index Table
• [217] Current value of Old Money
• [217] Wages and the cost of living in Southern England 1450-1700