{"id":738,"date":"2010-11-10T11:54:01","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T11:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/?p=738"},"modified":"2025-07-02T12:58:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T11:58:50","slug":"family-history-reference-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/family-history-reference-websites","title":{"rendered":"Family History Reference Websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"body\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"blogpic alignright wp-image-2025 size-full\" title=\"Family History Reference Websites (AI Generated Logo)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/reference-websites.jpg\" alt=\"Family History Reference Websites (AI Generated Logo)\" width=\"200\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/reference-websites.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/reference-websites-114x150.jpg 114w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Here are some useful family history reference websites with digital databases. Some are free to search and others might require a subscription or may be available to access remotely for free via your library membership&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Gazettes Online<\/strong> &#8211; The London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazette. Freely available access.<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegazette.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.thegazette.co.uk\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Oxford Dictionary of National Biography<\/strong> &#8211; some people can obtain free remote access through their library membership.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxforddnb.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>https:\/\/www.oxforddnb.com\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Historical Directories<\/strong> &#8211; digital library of local and trade directories for England and Wales, from the 1760s to the 1910s. Freely available access.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/specialcollections.le.ac.uk\/digital\/collection\/p16445coll4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>https:\/\/specialcollections.le.ac.uk\/digital\/collection\/p16445coll4<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Google News Archive<\/strong> &#8211; freely available access.<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/news.google.com\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Google Books<\/strong> &#8211; a search can sometimes bring up details of an ancestor. Freely available access to some books.<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Trove<\/strong>&#8211; collections from Australian libraries, universities, museums, galleries and archives. Freely available access.<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some useful family history reference websites with digital databases. Some are free to search and others might require a subscription or may be available to access remotely for free via your library membership&#8230; Gazettes Online &#8211; The London, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/family-history-reference-websites\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family-history-links"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2450,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions\/2450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}