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Useful Links
Connected Histories. A single portal to diverse web-based resources. This was my lead in to Daniel Annett's encounter with the Parliamentary Commissioners of 1789.
DeceasedOnline. U.K. Burials and Cremations, free to search, but individual records must be purchased.
Family Search. The improved family history website of the Church of Latter Day Saints.
FIBIS. The Families in British India Society. Not just more records to search, but a wealth of background information and explanations of terms & phrases unique to Anglo-Indian research. Their transcriptions of records are often more thorough than those of the British Library.
FreeBMD.org. The Index of Civil Birth, Marriage and Death Registration for England and Wales, transcribed and freely searchable, from 1837 to 1983.
FreeReg.org. A free, searchable database of Parish Register transcriptions. A work in progress, so incomplete, but I've found ancestors here who were absent from subscription sites like Ancestry and FindMyPast.
GENUKI. Explore the town or county your ancestor lived in—directories, wills, monumental inscriptions and more.
India Office. The online search facility of the India Office, British Library.
Measuring Worth. Find out how far a pound would stretch in any given year right back to 1264.
The National Archives. I found an abstract of the younger Daniel Annett's will administration here, which told me his occupation and address.
Weather in History at booty.org. Our national conversation opener, from 11,000 BC onwards.
Wishful Thinking. An encyclopaedic trove of information about Stoney Middleton and much more, heroically compiled and transcribed by Rosemary Lockie.
Translation Resources:
Google Translate. A useful first pass.
Nouveau Dictionnaire Francçois-Anglois & Anglois-Francois (1805).
For Eleonore's letters and the Labouisse texts I have found this
contemporary dictionary the most useful, bearing in mind that words can
change their meaning over time.
Word Reference. Gives examples of each word or phrase in context. The Verb Conjugator is great for checking tenses.
Linguee. Many example sentences with translations, gleaned by the site's own search engine.
References
Harvest Fluctuations and English Economic History, 1620-1759 by W G Hoskins
Calendar Reform in England, 1752 by Andrew Benham
