If you have an interest in Genealogy, but are new to the WWW, here are some sites which may be of help:

UK+Ireland Genealogy provides lots of data, assistance and links to other sites.

The Public Records Office  and the UK Family History Online site provide excellent links to sourcing UK historical documents. The Family Records Centre in London houses the records of births, marriages and deaths (previously at St Catherine's House) that have occurred since 1837. It also contains records of censuses and wills and is well worth a visit. Copies of these documents can be ordered from the centre. From 1538 to 1837, the Church of England kept records of baptisms, marriages and deaths in Parish registers. These registers are now kept at County Records Offices and other local archives. Information about locally held records can be found at the Familia site. A free searchable database of births, marriages and deaths is being compiled by a group of volunteers and can be accessed at FreeBMD. The 1901 Census website is running in test form at the moment, but appears to be working well.

The GENNAM-L mailing list (gennam-l@mail.eworld.com) is a place for people to submit queries about certain names in order to locate others doing similar research, etc.

Family Tree Maker, the popular home genealogy software, has its own website. The publishers, Broderbund, invite users to submit their databases for inclusion on CD Roms that subsequently become available for purchase. A list of people on this database and also on other CD Roms they produce (mainly from US public records) can be interrogated online at their Family Finder Index site.

A Chalklin-specific portion of my family tree can be found by following the Internetree link on my Chalklin Home Page at the Family Tree Maker Web site.

See also The KENT Surname Register:

For ship manifests for emigrants to the US, try:

Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild