If any Oxford historians would like free access to Ancestry.com, then you might like to know that the Oxford Central Library, nr Westgate Centre, provides access to Ancestry Library Edition – as does the British Library.
The Family and Local History section on the top level of the Central Library has 4-5 PCs where you can access Ancestry Library Edition. Please note that you can’t open an Ancestry personal account for the purposes of creating family trees. You can print from a PC or save to memory stick.
Ancestry.com is particularly useful for family and genealogical research, esp. British, North American and Australian. You can trace a family tree using the largest site online including the UK Census from 1841; birth, marriage and death records; parish and probate records. Here is a listing topics and sources:
Birth, Marriage & Death
Birth, Baptism & Christening
Marriage & Divorce
Death, Burial, Cemetery & Obituaries
Census & Voter Lists
UK Census Collection
U.S. Federal Census Collection
Canadian Census Collection
Immigration & Travel
Passenger Lists
Citizenship & Naturalization Records
Border Crossings & Passports
Military
Draft, Enlistment and Service
Casualties
Soldier, Veteran & Prisoner Rolls & Lists
Schools, Directories & Church Histories
City & Area Directories
Professional & Organizational Directories
Church Histories & Records
Tax, Criminal, Land & Wills
Land Records
Tax Lists
Court, Governmental & Criminal Records
Other useful resources
FamilySearch
Top 100 Most Popular Genealogy Websites
Medieval English Genealogy
Familiennamenbuch der Schweiz
Genealogische Datenbank Familie Beuss
and more from HFL Delicious: census websites, genealogy websites. If you want to make suggestions of other genealogy or census websites for bookmarking, please email Isabel Holowaty.