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Links to Related Sites
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Links to sites with more information on the Bomford and related families Rick Smith in Tasmania, Australia, maintains a site with information on members of the Bomford family and many others. The Worcestershire Bomfords manufacture Bomford agricultural machinery. Herbert James Powell Bomford established a Bomford Trust to assist in purchase of ancient glass objects. Many genealogy research sites are listed at: http://www.austega.com/familyhistory/courses/favourite-gene-links.htm Access to Archives (A2A) allows you to search a database of catalogues describing archives held throughout England and dating from the 900s to the present day. If you think someone might have deposited some records somewhere in England, this is a place to start looking. It includes, for example, catalogues of historical materials from Bomford and Evershed. http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/ is 'the UK’s largest family tree, genealogy and ancestry site - with over 31 million people listed. It’s easy to use, free to search and free to register', though there is an annual fee for full functionality. A related site is http://www.friendsreunited.co.uk/ . Either site might be useful if you want to contact living people named on www.bomford.net. The International Genealogical Index (IGI), made available on the internet by the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is a major resource for genealogy research. http://freebmd.rootsweb.com gives you access to indexes of births, marriages and deaths in England and Wales. Transcription of the indexes is not complete, so beware of incomplete returns. As at June 2005, indexing was up to 1911. It is a part of the FreeUKGEN family, which also includes FreeCEN (Census data) and FreeREG (Parish Registers). You can help! www.ancestry.com has a fair amount of information on Bomfords. You can get a 2 week free trial, but after that you pay for full functionality. A free starter edition of FamilyTreeMaker (16 MB) for reading GEDCOM (.ged) files is available from ancestry.com. |