Useful Links

Guernsey Museums, Libraries, Archives and Societies

Guille-Allès Library

Guernsey Museum

La Société Guernesiaise

A very useful list of the contents of the Societe's Transactions since 1882

The Channel Islands Occupation Society

Guernsey College of Further Education

Guernsey Grid for Learning

Channel Islands Great War Study Group

The Guernsey Society

Other Channel Island Institutions

Jersey Library

Jersey Heritage Trust (inc. Jersey Archives and Jersey Museum)

La Société Jersiaise

Alderney Library

Sark Library

Heritage Guernsey

Channel Islands Interest

The Guernsey Society

Channel Islands in the Great War

Guernsey Butchers by Stephen Foote

St Matthew's Church, Cobo

Carey Family of Guernsey

http://guernseycattle.com/artman/publish/index.php

De Havillands: http://havilands.org/HavilandsCom/Sources/DocumentaryEvidence.html

De Havillands: http://havilands.org/

Prince Edward Island genealogy:  http://www.islandregister.com/index.html

A Rough Guide to the Le Mesurier Family, 2010

Anglo-Norman dictionary project

Guernsey law texts

Sir Isaac Brock: http://www.uppercanadahistory.ca/brock/brocktoc.html 

Outside the Islands

Calculate the value of money in the past (measuringworth.com)

British Library

National Archives

Huguenot Library Resource centre based at University College, London

BBC History

1911 census (other options are available)

http://www.1911census.co.uk/

Boer War memorial

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/seamenswills.asp

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/MilitaryRecords.html

British Army Records Centre (help for sources of records of service personnel)

Ministry of Defence (paid-for service, providing records of British service personnel)

http://www.ukgdl.org.uk/index.php (an index of many useful genealogical sites)

French resources

If any help is required with these, locals are welcome to call in at the Library.

Noms de famille French language family name finder.

Mémoire des hommes French nationals serving in the First War. Government-funded site, in French.

Archives of the Côtes d'Armor Magnifique! Fantastic resource, in French. Click Généarmor for the genealogical database. Includes censuses.

Archives of Calvados Access to maps, historic photographs and postcards of the region, and municipal decisions free; genealogical information (registers from 1526 onwards) requires payment. In French.

Archives of Rennes Excellent site. Free access to registers; in French.

Archives de la Manche Regional archives, online 1st July.

Huguenots de France et d'ailleurs. French hub for resources concerning the Huguenots in France and elsewhere.

Society for History of French Protestantism French academic society with dedicated library. Subscription to its genealogical magazine is available.

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