Avotaynu
A handsome new companion site, Avotaynu Online <www.avotaynuonline.com> offers instructive posts and collaboration, while the original site’s Consolidated Jewish Surname Index continues to search 42 different databases totaling more than 7.3 million records.
Danish Demographic Database
This free, English-friendly site serves up Danish censuses from 1787 on, plus selected probate records.
FamilyRelatives.com $
Find your far-flung English-speaking ancestors among parish, military and civil-registration data—plus more obscure sources such as occupational directories—from England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Pay per view or subscribe for about $40 a year.
Genealogyindexer.org
Specializing in records from Central and Eastern Europe, this site offers more than 544,000 pages of historical directories, 71,000 pages of memorials to Jewish communities destroyed during the Holocaust, 32,000 pages of Polish and Russian military documents, 41,000 pages of community and personal histories, and 24,000 pages of Polish secondary school annual reports and other school sources.
JewishGen
Search millions of entries right from the home page, or delve into specific databases including surnames, towns, burials and Holocaust victims.
National Archives of Ireland
You don’t need the luck of the Irish when you have this site. Search 1901 and 1911 censuses and other enumerations, Tithe Applotment Books, wills and, coming soon, Valuation Office House and Field Books (1848-1860).
ScotlandsPeople
Start your search for the Scots in your family tree among nearly 90 million records, including censuses, birth and death certificates and free databases of wills and heraldry. Other results are pay per view.
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