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  Derby and Derbyshire and the Peak District

Chellaston Info
http://www.chellaston.info/
This web-site has been created to keep a centralised and available list of the main amenities, clubs and associations that exist within Chellaston. This will, hopefully, encourage more people to join in with the existing social activities. The site also provides a comprehensive list of businesses in and around Chellaston. It also gives an opportunity for people to advertise, whether it be events, sales, services, wanted or lost & found.

Chellaston Residents’ Association
http://www.chellaston.org.uk/
Chellaston Residents’ Association is a non-profit organisation dedicated to ensuring that the interests of residents are represented at all levels. We are in daily contact with local authorities, MPs, police and decision makers.

Derby Photos
http://www.derbyphotos.co.uk/
A great photographic guide to Derby and Derbyshire by Andy Savage.

Derbyshire Heritage
http://www.derbyshireheritage.co.uk/
Derbyshire heritage is an ongoing project to collate information about many of the places of special interest in Derbyshire and the Peak District.

Derbyshire Historic Buildings Trust
http://www.derbyshirehistoricbuildings.org.uk/
The aim of the Derbyshire Historic Buildings Trust is to identify neglected or abandoned historic buildings in or around the county in danger of decay or demolition, and to work for their preservation and modernisation without damage to their essential character.

Picture the Past
http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/
Picture the Past aims to conserve and make publicly accessible the photographic heritage of the North East Midlands, thus enabling people to see the richness and diversity of the area's photographic collections. Downloadable images for personal use, also quality prints can be ordered online.

Bygone Derbyshire
http://bygonederbyshire.co.uk/
The Derby Telegraph’s online nostalgia site. Updated daily, a site packed full of fascinating articles about our county’s heritage and the people who have made it so great.


Local and Family History and Archaeology
http://www.guidetoonlineschools.com/library/humanities

Family Search
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp
Free Family History, Family Tree, and Genealogy records and resources from around the World.

FreeBMD
http://www.freebmd.org.uk/
FreeBMD is an ongoing project, the aim of which is to transcribe the Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales, and to provide free Internet access to the transcribed records.

GENUKI
http://www.genuki.org.uk/
The aim of GENUKI (Genealogy of the UK and Ireland) is to serve as a "virtual reference library" of genealogical information that is of particular relevance to the UK & Ireland. It is a free service, provided by an ever-growing group of volunteers in co-operation with the Federation of Family History Societies and a number of its member societies.

Historical Directories
http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/
Historical Directories is a digital library of local and trade directories for England and Wales, from 1750 to 1919. It contains high quality reproductions of comparatively rare books, essential tools for research into local and genealogical history.

Institute of Name-Studies
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~aezins//index.php
The Institute for Name-Studies is the home of research into place-names and personal names at the University of Nottingham.

Ancestry
http://www.ancestry.co.uk/
For those of you interested in Family History, this site is a must. Provides information, for a fee, on the census, Military records, BMD (Birth, Marriage, Deaths), migration records and much more.

Find My Past
http://www.findmypast.co.uk/home.jsp
This site is the only one with the 1911 census online. It also has the rest of the census information (1841-1901) again, like ancestry, for a fee. Also has BMD and migration records.

National Archives
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
The National Archives is the UK government's official archive, containing over 1,000 years of history. We give detailed guidance to government departments and the public sector on information management and advise others about the care of historical archives.

Old Maps
http://www.old-maps.co.uk/
A free 1:10560 scale Historical Mapping for the whole of the UK. Navigate directly to your chosen area using comprehensive County and Town gazetteers. You can also purchase personalised map gifts from this site.

Archaeology Data Services
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/
The Archaeological Data Service (ADS) provides access to a variety of information regarding archaeology.

Pastscape
http://www.pastscape.org/
The information on PastScape is derived from the National Monuments Record (NMR) database which holds records on the architectural and archaeological heritage of England. The National Monuments Record is the public archive of English Heritage

Portable Antiquities Scheme
http://www.finds.org.uk/
The Portable Antiquities Scheme is a voluntary scheme to record archaeological objects found by members of the public in England and Wales. Every year many thousands of objects are discovered, many of these by metal-detector users, but also by people whilst out walking, gardening or going about their daily work. Such discoveries offer an important source for understanding our past.