Here’s a list of websites you might find useful in your research. You can browse them at your leisure or on our research-only computers at York Explore.
Genealogical websites
History, Archives, Architecture and Geography
Newspapers, directories, books and journals
Military and Police records
Foreign and Commonwealth
York and Yorkshire
Film Archives
Genealogical websites
Ancestry Library edition (on site only)
British surnames
City of York and District Family History Society
DNA Ancestry tests review article
Family Search.org (IGI)
Family History Federation
Find a grave
Find My Past (on site only)
Free BMD (Births, Marriages and Deaths)
The Genealogist
General Register Office
Genuki
Guild of One Name Studies
Irish ancestry
Irish genealogy
Jewish genealogy
Parish Registers – free
Poll Books
Scotland’s People
Society of Genealogists
Surname origins
UK BMD (Births, Marriages and Deaths)
UK Census online project
Useful genealogical websites – Cyndi’s List
History, Archives, Architecture and Geography
Archives Hub research portal
British History Online
Grace’s guide to British Industrial History
Maritime History Archive
National Archives (UK)
National Heritage List for England (Historic England)
Ordnance Survey maps
Historic England Research Records (previously known as PastScape)
Vision of Britain
Workhouses website
Newspapers, directories, books and journals
Australian Newspaper Archive (Trove)
British Newspaper Archive (on site only)
European Newspaper Archive
The Gazette
Historical Directories
Historic American Newspapers (Chronicling America)
Internet Archive
JSTOR (Books, journals and other sources)
Newspapers.com
Open Library
Military and Police records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
First World War Service records – guide
Imperial War Museum War Memorial Index (UK)
Old Bailey Online
Police records – guide
Police research – guide
Royal Dragoon Guards
Yorkshire Regiment WW1 Remembrance
Foreign and Commonwealth
Convicts to Australia
Ellis Island – Free Port of New York Passenger Lists
National Archives of Ireland
New York City and the History of Ellis Island
York and Yorkshire
Diocese of York – Church Court papers
Bishopthorpe Community Archive
Borthwick Institute
Bradford Tithe Maps
City of York Council
East Riding Archives, Family & Local History
History of York
Hull History Centre
National Railway Museum Library
North Yorkshire Archives
Sheffield Archives
West Yorkshire Archives
York Archaeological Trust
York Castle Prison records
York Cemetery
York Images
York Local View (maps)
York Mansion House History
York Minster Collections, Archive and Library
York Mystery Plays
York Register Office (CYC)
York Timeline Plus
York 1852 OS map
Yorkshire Air Museum
Film Archives
British Film Institute’s Britain on Film
British Pathe
Yorkshire Film Archive