Dorset Genealogy Resources

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The Dorsetshire Labourer (Thomas Hardy)
Books
- Dorset County Library Service
- The Archive CD Books Project - Dorset
- Fire from Heaven - Index of People
- Ambra Books - Dorset Antiquarian & Secondhand Books
- Society of Genealogists Bookshop Online
- Index to The Book of Cerne Abbas
- Index to The Book of Pimperne
Cemeteries
- Dorset Civil Cemeteries
- Portland Cemeteries
Churches
- Dorset Churches
- Dorset Church Album
Discussion Groups
- Rootsweb Dorset Message Board
- Dorset Genealogy Forum
- Gould Family Forum
Dorset Genealogy Pages
- Dorset Pages at GEN UK&I
- Dorset GenWeb Project
- Quaker Records in Dorset
- Dorset Parish Registers at the Society of Genealogists
- John Symonds Somerset & Dorset Page
Dorset CD Resources
- British Vital Records Index
- The Archive CD Books Project - Dorset
- Society of Genealogists Bookshop Online
- Global Genealogy.com
Family History Societies
- Somerset & Dorset Family History Society
- Dorset Family History Society
General History
- The Dorset Page History Section
- A Dorset Time Line
- Portland's Historic Dates
- The Dorchester Company
- History of Wyke Regis
Local Authority Resources
- Dorset Archives Service (Records Office)
- Dorset Registration Service
- Dorset Libraries & Arts Service
Local History Societies
- Langton Matravers Local History and Preservation Society
- South Dorset History Society
- The Upwey History Group
- Verwood Historical Society
- The Local History Directory - Dorset
Mailing Lists
- Dorset List Server
- Eng-Dorset-Life Mailing List
- Wessex-Plus Mailing List
Maps & Gazeteers
- Dorset old maps
- Topographical Dictionary of England - Dorsetshire (Lewis 1831)
- Victorian Maps of Dorset
- The Hundreds of Dorset
- Dorset's Boundary Changes
- Ordnance Survey
- Multimap
- Streetmap.co.uk
Military
- The Devonshire & Dorset Regiment
- The Dorsetshire Regiment in 1914-1918
- Regiments at the Verne Citadel, Portland, Dorset
- Royal Signals Museum
- The Keep - Military Museum
Miscellaneous Links
- The Thomas Coles Collection
Museums
- The Keep - Military Museum
- Dorset County Museum
- Gillingham Museum
- Lyme Regis Philpot Museum
- Royal Signals Museum
- Other Dorset Museums
Newspapers Resources
- 19th Century Dorset Newspapers
- Dorset Notices from the South Australia Register
- The Western Gazette
- Daily & Dorset Echo's
- Westcountry Newspaper Indexes
- The British Library Newspaper Library
One Name Studies with Dorset Roots
- The Arnold Family
- The Chaldecotts of Dorset
- Combens - Where in the world are they all?
- Combs &c. Families of Dorsetshire, England
- English Hatcher Pages
- Hutchings in and around Sturminster Newton
- Loveless Family of Tolpuddle
- Riggs Surname Study
- South Genealogy
- Stickland Genealogical Events Database
- The Stoodley's of Hawkchurch
On-Line Databases
- Dorset List Archives
- Dorset County Library Service
- Free BMD - (Birth, Death & Marriage Registrations from 1837)
- International Genealogical Index
- IGI Batch Numbers for Dorset
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission
- Electoral Roll & Phone Search
On-Line Transcripts
- Bradford Abbas Registers 1572-1576 and 1579-1581
- Bradford Peverell Registers 1572-1582
- Branksome Parish Magazine Announcements 1895/7
- Buckland Newton 1891 Census
- Charmouth 1891 Census
- Dorset Poll Book 1807
- Dorset Parish Registers
- Kelly's Directory 1903 - Portesham & Portland
- Longfleet Connections
- Lyme Regis 1891 Census District 1
- Lyme Regis 1891 Census District 2
- Oborne 1801 Census
- Pigot's 1830 Dorset Directory - Index
- Pointington & Goathill, 1851 Census
- Poole - Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
- Portland Cemeteries
- Portland Quarrymen 1735
- Pulham Marriages - 1731 to 1844
- Sandford Orcas 1851 Census
- Stalbridge Marriages - 1738 to 1847
- Sturminster Newton Marriages - 1731 to 1805
- Tarrant Crawford, Dorset 1841 Census
- Tarrant Crawford, Dorset 1851 Census
- Trent 1851 Census
- Wessex Strays in Jersey (1851, 1871, 1891 Census)
- West Dorset miscellaneous extracts
- Weymouth to New England 1636
Social History
- The Dorsetshire Labourer (Thomas Hardy)
- Letters from Home
- Dorset Almshouses
- Dorset Asylums
- Dorset Hospitals
- Dorset Orphanages
- Dorset Prisons
- Dorset Workhouses
- St Aldhelm's, Branksome - parish magazine article, 1896-7
- Recollections of Stoke Abbott in 1895
- A Southwell Maid's Diary - Portland
- The Peasantry of Dorsetshire
- Dorset Peasantry Illustrations
Surname Interest Lists
- Family History @ Poole
- Dorset Surname Interest List
- Somerset & Dorset Surnames Index (1)
- Somerset & Dorset Surnames Index (2)
- Dorset Personal Interests Page
- On-line Dorset Names Research Directory
- Somerset & Dorset FHS - Contacts Sought