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Isle-Of-Wight Genealogy

 
Description

"Wight, Isle of, an island off Hants, bounded on the N by the Solent, on the other sides by the English Channel. Its outline is irregularly rhomboidal, and has been compared to that of a turbot and to that of a bird with expanded wings. Its length from E to W, from Bembridge Point to the Needles, is nearly 23 miles; its greatest breadth from N to S, from West Cowes to St Catherine's Point, is 13 3/4 miles; "
from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
Genuki - Isle-Of-Wight
Genuki is the largest collection of research information
on the net for UK
Neighbouring Counties
 
Hampshire
Isle-Of-Wight GenWeb
maintained by volunteers in an effort to help researchers
find local resources and reference information
Archives and Libraries
 
  Isle of Wight Library Service
 
Hampshire Lookup Exchange
request free lookups of censuses, parish registers
held by individual volunteers
 
Local Genealogy Societies & Groups
Cyndi's List - Hampshire
largest private collection
of genealogy links on the web
 
 




Genealogy Record Sources

many of these sites can provide source record information of ancestors:
 
Directories
huge resource by University of Leicester; of local and trade directories from 1750 to 1919
 
Surname Lists
provides surnames being researched and email address of researcher
England & Wales BMDs
search over 40 million England & Wales free B,M&Ds
 
Message Boards
post and read about Isle-Of-Wight genealogy with other researchers
 
Cemeteries
Interment.net - Isle-Of-Wight
Saving Graves - Isle-Of-Wight

Parish Registers

free internet searches of baptism, marriage, and burial records,
which have been transcribed from parish and non-conformist church registers
 
War Memorials
Memorials & Monuments on the Isle of Wight
Isle-Of-Wight war memorials and rolls of honour
 
 
800 Million Name UK Database
search 800 million UK  records in over 60 individual databases
Censuses
1841-1891 Census transcriptions by volunteers
 
 


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