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Useful Genealogy web sites:
Elmsted & Waltham Records web site
IGI - International Genealogical Index - coverage of many Kent parishes is poor, but it can be useful and it is free to use.
IGI list of records available for Kent
Ancestry.co.uk - subscription web site offering huge resources and excellent value for money in terms of research.
Canterbury Cathedral Archives - repository for many of the original documents relating to Hastingleigh Church Records
National Archives - free searching for records but charges for online downloading copies of documents
What is old money worth today? - a free web site which converts old money rates to current values.
Old Bailey court cases - free to search accounts of trials and punishments
Gen Forum - a free place to look up surnames and find other people that may connect with your tree (you will need to sign in to postmessages.)
Where does a surname originate? - The National Trust have a great free web site which has studied most surnames in Britain for clusters.
Ordering English & Welsh Certificates Births, Marriages & Deaths 1834 - present day (you will need the unique reference number of the
certificate, and you can check for this on various web sites like findmypast.com and ancestry.co.uk for a subscription fee - or post a message
in this web site's guest book and you may find a kindly soul that will look it up for you for free, or similarly visit the
BBC web site to request free help.)
GenesReunited.co.uk subscription web site where you can build your family tree. They have some records on a pay per view
basis but ancestry.co.uk is far better value offering unlimted searches for a monthly fee.
Kent Archaeology free web site offering a huge range of information, from churchyard inscriptions, to wills, and dialects etc.
OldMaps.com sells 1872, 1876 and 1898 maps of Hastingleigh, but with the bonus that you can view them for free online first.
Mid Kent Marriages - an excellent and free database of marriages between 1754 and 1911 for the weald of Kent (including Hastingleigh but not Elmsted)
Clergy of the Church of England Database a free and ongoing project to list all the clergy records for C of E Parishes. Worth keeping an eye on.
List of Occupations mentioned in the Census returns - a very interesting read.
Price & Associates - professional genealogists in the USA - this linked page has a list of very useful UK family history websites.
1911 census - very expensive to use privately. I have heard that Libraries will soon have free access, so worth checking out in the near future.
The National Archive at Kew, is already offering free access.
