Family and Local History Links
Oxfordshire & Berkshire Links
- Oxfordshire Family History Society - resources for everyone with Oxfordshire ancestry.
- Oxfordshire Record Office - holds historical documents for all types of local and family research
- Oxfordshire Studies Library - a major family history centre with important collections of maps, newspapers, photographs and oral history tapes
- Oxfordshire Archdeacon's Marriage Bond Index - Marriages without Banns,a fee paying Marriage Bond. Mostly used by those who could or had to afford it.
- Oxfordshire Buildings Record - to advance education and promote research on the buildings of Oxfordshire
- The Parish Chest - Oxfordshire - the premier family history store
- John Ward's Oxfordshire Churches - images of churches of Church of England denomination.
- Faces of Oxfordshire - Family Faces - a great opportunity to celebrate Oxfordshire ancestors and share their stories, regardless of whether they were rich or poor, born in the county or moved to it.
- Victoria County History ~ Oxfordshire ~ Oxfordshire VCH
- England's Past for Everyone in Oxfordshire
- Heritage Search - online collections of Oxfordshire History
- OLIS - Oxford University's online union library catalogue
- Berkshire Family History Society - a great deal of information for those with Berkshire ancestry
- Berkshire Record Office - a major family history centre with important collections of maps, newspapers, photographs and oral history tapes.
- Surname Database of Berkshire Gentry families - the ultimate genealogical database of noble, manorial, landed and heraldic families associated with the Royal County of Berkshire in the UK
- Genuki Berkshire - a comprehensive "virtual reference library" of genealogical information
- Workhouses website - lack of work and the inability to fend for yourself and your family at one time, possibly would have landed you in the workhouse. Compare today's life with those unfortunates from our villages who found themselves here in the Abingdon or Faringdon Workhouses.
- The Board of Guardians who administered the workhouse. This website tells more about how a workhouse was run.
- Each Poor Law Union was to provide a Workhouse which was built to resemble a Prison. Workhouse Life
Other History Links
- Longworth & District History Society - to promote the understanding and study of the parish and villages of Longworth, Kingston Bagpuize with Southmoor, and the surrounding area
- Cumnor Parish Record- an excellent local and family history society website
- Stanford in the Vale History - a very interesting history website. Many of the surnames are known in this area too.
- Victoria County History ~ The greatest publishing project in English Local History
- Historical Directories ~ a digital library of local and trade directories for England and Wales
- A Vision of Britain - detailed historical information on places in Britain: a vision of Britain between 1801-2001
- BBC Online History website - experience fresh and fascinating insights into history. Making sense of the past.
- Channel 4 History - Lost Generation - 90 years ago a whole generation had their lives, loves, hopes and dreams annihilated on the battlefields of the First World War - see entries for Kingston Bagpuize Churchyard.
- British Agricultural History Society - founded to promote the study of agricultural history and the history of the rural economy and society
- The Best of History Websites an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1000 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more.
- British History online - digital library of British History
- Value of the British Pound - a calculator measuring worth from 1264-2007
Community websites
- Longworth Community website - Longworth village on the web - sponsored by the Longworth Parish Council as a service to the local community
Houses and Museums
- Kingston Bagpuize House -Kingston Bagpuize House is open to the public on selected days and for group visits, by appointment, throughout the year. The house and grounds are also available for wedding receptions private functions, corporate events and filming.
- The National Virtual Museum - The 24 Hour Museum is the UK’s National Virtual Museum, updated daily with at least two new stories including arts and museum news as well as exhibition notices, reviews, features and trails.
- Access to Archives - database contains catalogues describing archives held locally in England and Wales and dating from the eighth century to the present day.
- National Monument Record - The NMR provides specialist advice and guidance to a range of users, which include other national heritage organisations, Local Authority Historic Environment Records (HERs) local and national thematic projects, researchers, students etc. – It is based in Swindon, so very near at hand for a visit.
- Science Museum, Swindon - After several years of intensive work, the project to reconfigure the Science Museum Library & Archives across the two sites has been successful. The collections are now housed in better conditions than previously, and the newly-created and refurbished facilities are now open to researchers. The significant science and technology collections are based at Wroughton near Swindon
- Etymology explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago.
- Palaeography Reading old writing a tutorial - National Archives.
- Latin Names A useful list of the Latin Names & Abbreviations found in old registers, wills and on monuments.
Accomodation
- Want to stay in the area? - A warm welcome awaits you at Manor Farm, Fyfield, a comfortable stone built family farmhouse.
If you know of a link I should add or information you would like to know, please don't hesitate to email me.