| Family Tree Resources |
| People who have contributed: Thank you to all the people who have contributed to this site. The following people, mainly distant cousins, merit particular mention: Dr Margaret Henderson, Neil Wilson, Liz Woolven, Ann Lindley. |
| The Family Records Centre 1 Myddleton St, London EC1R 1UW nearest tube station: Angel Quarterley indexes of births, marriages and deaths can be searched free of charge, but the full connecting information (dates, ages, addresses and occupations) is only available as certificates which can be obtained for a fee. Ambiguous entries can be checked against a known fact and some money returned if the entry does not agree with the fact. |
| Wirksworth Genelogy research website The complete website about Wirksworth in Derbyshire with some overlap into Matlock. A mine of information including census returns, parish registers and memorial inscriptions. Amazing! |
| Matlock and Matlock Bath, Derbyshire, England The complete website about Matlock and Matlock Bath for those interested in local history and genealogy, including What to see and do in Matlock in 1840 and transcripts of the 1841 census including Charles and Elizabeth Woodhouse and their family. |
| Derbyshire Family History Society Magazines including research interests are published quarterly. The society has a large bookshop and will also undertake postal research and order certificates. |
| Nottinghamshire Family History Society The Notts FHS exists to bring together all who are interested in family history research, to help in the preservation and indexing of local genealogical records, and in the copying and publishing of such records. |
| www.familysearch.org A web site with a searchable database of worldwide records compiled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. |
| FWK is not a rude word A history of framework knitting in England (an occupation of several members of the Woodhouse branch of the family), tracing the trade from the invention of the knitting frame to the introduction of steam and electric power. |
| Web Site Resources |
| Family Tree Maker Designed specifically for recording family tree information. As well as storing the data, you can display diagrams of the tree and produce reports showing relationships between individuals. Also provides the facility to export the data in GEDCOM format. |
| GedMill Pro Designed for creating web sites from GEDCOM files. Used to generate the index of names, tree diagrams, and individual pages. |
| FreeUK ISP Internet Service Provider used to host the web site and email account. FreeUK accounts are free to setup, but you must use them for dial-up access to the internet at least once every 30 days to keep them active. Call charges depend on which telephone company you use. All web sites and email addresses end in .freeuk.com. |
| Xat.com Image Optimzer Used to reduce the size of scanned images to speed up loading them over the web. |
| Coffee Cup FTP File transfer protocol software used to upload the web pages from my PC to the FreeUK servers. The interface is very much like Microsoft Windows Explorer. |
| Tucows Downloads Used to compare and download software utilities such as Coffee Cup FTP. |
| BK ReplaceEm Freeware used to find and replace text strings across multiple files. |
| PDF ReDirect Freeware used to create pdf versions of Word documents. |