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East Kent Sites

Genealogical Sites Especially the Kent ones

Family Trees

Useful Sites

History Sites

Personal Interests

East Kent Sites

Ashford The official Ashford website.

Chilham A site to cover all aspects of the parish of Chilham.

The Dover Web This site has loads of local information on Dover and surrounding area (Strangely one of the website designers is Mark Potts, we have no idea if we are related).

Elham. This is a fantastic site for the community of Elham. It includes loads of photographs of houses, if used in conjunction with the census extracts on the Elmsted site you may find your ancestors house. Be warned I lost an entire afternoon on this site.

Folkestone Families

Folkestone/Hythe areas as well as Gypsies in Kent.

Lyminge The parish to the East of Elmsted.

The Isle of Sheppey A great site for anyone with links to Sheppey, include loads of local history (important Sheppey events), genealogy information, loads on the Dockyard of Sheerness and loads of events from the local newspapers.

Resources for Family & Local History in Thanet

Waltham The Waltham Village website,the parish to the North of Elmsted.

The Village of WyeWye village web site provides information on local history and village events plus shops, services, churches, clubs and leisure activities in Wye. This site features the Wye Farmers Market, Wye Village Design Statement and newly formed Wye Youth Forum.

The local curates have informed me that the benefice of Godmersham and Crundale, and the benefice of Waltham, Petham, Elmsted, Stelling and Upper Hardres, are putting together websites for the churches. I will add the URL's when I get them.

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Genealogical Sites

Bygone Kent A monthly magazine on all aspects of local history, this site has a full index of past issues and how to order back copies

The Kent Lookup Exchange It is worth checking here before you travel miles to look something up.Members have all sorts of information from M.I.s (gravestone inscriptions), some parish record extracts to Newspaper lookups.

Kent Genealogy This site contains indexes and links for genealogy in the County of Kent, England. Bookmark this one, Maureen, the site owner is always adding more data and links to her site NOTE NEW URL

Kent Family History Society If your roots run deep in Kent it is well worth joining the Society. The quartly Journal is worth the price of the membership fee.Membership also includes the "Global Branch" e-mail list with about 700 members

Homepage for Kent-Eng Surnames Surname interests page for the Kent-Eng mailing list, hosted by Rootsweb and owned by Karen Hills.

The Pubs Index If you think you have a publican in your family ask these guys, and if you find details of a pub in your researches PLEASE let them know. The Pubs, Inns and Taverns Index for England, 1801-1900 is being compiled by Stan and Rob

Family Search The famous LDS (Mormon) site. Kent on the whole is not very well covered on this site, most entries relating to Kent are from "submitted" family trees rather than from the registers. I have found a number of errors relating to Pott: Most are just, I assume, somebody getting confused about the "Old New Year", and a few cases of entries that I am sure are totally wrong (wrong place, wrong parents etc.). I don't wish to sound as if I am belittling this massive undertaking. Just please check the information with the originals, many of which the LDS have copies (try "places search" to see what they have on any parish).

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Family Trees

Begent Family Web Pages

The Boulding Boulden Bollyng family of East Kent The Bouldings have been recorded in Crundale since 1308

The Foreman Family Tree

The Honeywoods in Kent The Honeywoods have a very long historical connection to Elmsted

The HEDGECOCKs, of Elmsted, Lyminge, Alkham and Dover

Ancestors of Enoch Daniel NOFFSINGER

Hogben Genealogy Discussion This is not really a family tree but I have included it hare as Hogben was a common name in the area.

Maxted Family The Maxted surname site

The Pilcher Family site Pilcher was a very common name in the area

The Pott and Potts of Kent This site has been seriously neglected for the past month while I have been working on the Elmsted one, but it does have a few photos of churches in the area.

The Shrubsole Family Tree The Shrubsoles from around the Monks Norton area

Wild, Batchelor, and Hewlett Families in Hampshire, England Despite the title this site contaains a large number of local names and events from the Elmsted area.

Ancestors of Wilfred George Young

Maxted Family The Maxted surname site

Young The Youngs of Elmsted site

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Useful Sites

www.192.com You need to register to use this site (no credit card details required), it is however free for up to 20 searches per calendar month. It is far more than an on-line telephone directory (which are not so useful now as many ordinary people are ex-directory to combat "telesales"), it also has details from the Electoral Roll of 2000.

Old-maps This site has Ordnance Survey Maps of England from the later half of the 1800's, a must to help you find places in the 1881 census.

Modern Maps Up to date Ordnance Survey maps. Be careful what you use these maps for, the AA (Automobile Association) has just paid 20 million pounds for copyright breaches regarding these maps..

The companion site for OLD-ENGLISH-L, a RootsWeb mailing list for genealogists, family and local historians and others involved in deciphering and interpreting old British records. OEL is about old handwriting, unfamiliar or obsolete words, abbreviations, Latin terms, old dates, money, measures and more. The records are usually primary sources such as wills, letters, deeds, census and parish records, gravestones, etc., but terms and references from secondary sources -- personal titles, occupations, names and such -- are also discussed.

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History Sites

If you have any good links to add here let me know

Bygone Kent A monthly magazine on all aspects of local history, this site has a full index of past issues and how to order back copies

Kent Archaeological Society The oldest and largest society devoted to the history and archaeology of the ancient county of Kent.