Useful sites for Leicestershire family
historians
http://www.le.ac.uk/archaeology/lahs/lahs.html
Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical
Society’s site could be of limited use. There is a draft index to the Society’s
Transactions and some potentially useful links.
http://www.le.ac.uk/emoha/index.html
East Midlands Oral History Archive is a ‘joint
project to conserve and develop oral history resources in the East Midlands’.
Largely covering Leicestershire and Rutland at present, there is lots of useful
general information. This includes printable information sheets on such
subjects as interviewing, transcribing information and the use of recording
equipment. Invaluable for anyone planning to interview relatives as part of
their family history research.
http://www.lrmf.org.uk/index.html
An attractive guide to museums in Leicestershire
and Rutland, with excellent pages on individual museums. If the ‘Family
History’ logo appears on its page, the museum will help with genealogy-related
enquiries. There is an online newsletter and other useful features such as an
events calendar.
The site for Leicestershire and Rutland Family
History Society. Although rather daunting at first sight, with a distracting
background, this site contains much of value, such as surname interests of
members, links to local groups and a genealogy mailing list. Update dates are
clearly displayed and recent. With a bit of hard work all sorts of goodies can
be unearthed.
http://www.leicestershirelink.co.uk
Worth exploring, this guide to all things
Leicestershire is a bit of a ‘bran tub’, but you could strike lucky.
http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/leicestershire
This ‘ online publishing community of writers,
readers and educators’ is of limited use, but it has some useful links. The
History and Politics community includes family history.
http://www.wartimeleicestershire.com/index.html
This fascinating, attractive site includes
airfields, maps, civilian roll of honour and other interesting pages for those
researching their families or home areas in wartime Leicestershire.
Contact
site for family and local history. Latest entries updated daily. Searchable by
place (town/village) and people. You must be a member to search People. Paid
members can state their interests and be e-mailed about new entries.
British
Association for Local History site is of most interest to members, but has some
links of interest.
http://www.local-history.co.uk/Groups/index.html
“Local
History Magazine’s” directory of groups, giving contacts and details of regular
periodicals.
Webrings
link similar sites in ‘rings’, forming a concentration of sites on a particular
subject. Each Ring is created and maintained by an
individual web site owner called the RingMaster. RingMasters determine the look
and feel of the Ring, approve and manage member sites, and encourage other
sites to join.
Follow
the links to the appropriate pages. This is a good way to trace small personal
and local sites.
LEICESTERSHIRE REGIMENT
WAR MEMORIALS
not all inclusive eg the
excellent site for the
which includes its war
memorial is not listed.
PAST HISTORY
Leicestershire overseas Not a genealogy site but could be useful
East Midlands Oral History Archive
has a catalogue of holdings
but not searchable by name etc
HERITAGE SOCIETIES
Some of the societies being
set up in Leicestershire are developing their own websites which may be useful
for contacts at least.