Medieval

Where past and present blend

Here you'll find helpful links as you discover your medieval ancestry.

GENUKI (Genealogical Information Service for the United Kingdom and Ireland)
A large amount of reference material, classified by county and subject, but the website can be rather confusing to navigate, does have a search facility.
EnglandGenWeb Project (projects in progress)
Association for the Promotion of Scholarship in Genealogy (formerly at http://www.apsg.org/; not available, 2 November 2003]
Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
Charitable foundation for research into pre-1500 genealogy; annual fee is charged for access to its website, where the projects include Foundations, a twice-yearly online journal, and the Medieval Genealogical Registry, a referenced database of medieval genealogy (see below under databases).
Medieval English Genealogy (Debbie Kennett, Genealogy Wise)
Group for the discussion of medieval English genealogy, on a website describing itself as the "genealogy social network".

ANCIENT LINEAGE

The Henry Project (Stewart Baldwin)
An experimental cooperative online database with the aim of documenting the ancestors of King Henry II as far as the tenth generation - unusual among Internet databases in that the emphasis is on providing and discussing evidence from primary sources

Medieval Lands (Charles Cawley; Foundation for Medieval Genealogy)
An ambitious project, whose aim is to provide narrative biographical accounts of the royal and noble families of Europe in the medieval period. The aim is eventually to document the accounts from primary source material, but a number of them - including those for England after 1066 - are currently outlines based on secondary sources.

Community Trees (FamilySearch.org)
A number of genealogical databases compiled from various sources. They include British Isles: Peerage, Gentry and Colonial American Connections, Europe: Royal and Noble Houses (predominantly England and France), Residents of London, Norfolk Visitations, 1563 and Wales: Medieval Records Primarily of Nobility and Gentry.

Medieval Genealogical Registry
(Foundation for Medieval Genealogy)
A referenced database of medieval genealogy, in progress. The data are being compiled from high-quality sources, and are searchable by surname, place and date. Note that data for only a few persons have been included so far, for illustration purposes, but a significant number of sources - such as articles in periodicals - have been indexed

Graphical Index to the Ancestry of Charles II (Foundation for Medieval Genealogy) A hyperlinked set of chart pedigrees indexing the ongoing series of papers in The Genealogist entitled "A Medieval Heritage: The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England", by Neil D. Thompson and Charles M. Hansen

Leo's Genealogics Website (Leo van de Pas)
An extensive genealogical database containing more than 400,000 persons. Much of the emphasis is on medieval ancestry, as well as on modern royalty and nobility. The data are mostly taken from good-quality secondary sources, which are specified for each entry

Plantagenet Country: Ancestors of Elizabeth of York 1465-1503: Genealogies, portraits and brief biographies (Leo van de Pas/Brigitte Gastel Lloyd)
Listing of the ancestors of Elizabeth of York, with biographies and portraits for some individuals

Data base of the higher nobility in Europe (Herbert Stoyan)

Stevens/Southworth/Medieval Database (Jim Stevens)

The Exciting Danvers Home Page (Philip Richards) Database covering just over a thousand individuals, many of them medieval

Ford's Landed Gentry of Berkshire (David Nash Ford's Royal Berkshire History)
Database compiled from various sources, including nearly 10,000 individuals associated with Berkshire

RoyaList Online: A Royal Genealogy Database (Pelican Systems)
Database of British royal genealogy, based on secondary sources, originally sold as a PC program. Unfortunately the sources are not specified, but the information given is detailed and extensive

Medieval and Ancient lines (Bill Marshall)