Dorset OPC Links

OTHER USEFUL WEB SITES
This is not a comprehensive list of sites that cover family history, local history, general history, maps, photographs and tourist information. The first two sites listed below will provide far more recommendations. As the possible links are boundless I have just included what I consider are the principal sites.
Dorset Ancestors	Excellent site edited by Robert Chisman providing interesting articles and photographs
Dorset Gen Web	Links to lots of sites
Genuki	Information on all Dorset parishes specifically for family historians
FreeCen	The project to get all the UK censuses on-line
FreeBMD	The project to get all parish registers on-line
FreeReg	The project to get the index of births marriages & deaths 1837+ on line. Records available to search.
Dorset Death Certificate Transcriptions	Transcripts of Dorset Death Certificates
Dorset Parish Register Transcriptions	Full and Partial transcripts of Dorset Parish Registers managed by Michael Cheesman
Family Search	The LDS family history site with free access to millions of historic records including the 1881 census.
Batch numbers on the IGI (Britain) Dorset Batch numbers	Archers Software new index of all British Batch numbers on the IGI, with links to the new Family Search site; a major update on the excellent, but old Hugh Wallis site
Dorset Churches	Michael Day's descriptions of Dorset churches, many with photographs
Dorset Churches	Peter Walker's site includes many pictures of Dorset churches
Somerset & Dorset Family History Society	List of services and publications for purchase
Dorset Family History Society	List of services and publications for purchase
Dorset History Centre (formerly the Dorset Record Office)	Introduction to the services they offer
Dorchester Reference Library	Local Studies Collection including books on Dorset, Directories & Old Newspapers now at the Dorset History Centre
Dorset Historic Churches Trust	Dorset Historic Churches Trust assists, by grant or interest free loan, repairs to the fabric of Dorset's Christian churches of all denominations; and gives guidance and help in attracting other grant aid from a wide range of donors'. The site contains a wealth of pictures of Dorset churches
History of Dorset County Hospital (Dorchester)	The site covers the period from the hospital's beginnings in the 1840s to the late 1940s when it became part of the National Health Service.
Old Dorset	Lots of interesting and useful information, including old maps
Roll of Honour, Dorset	Memorials and Rolls of Honour within Dorset
Miscellaneous items of Dorset interest	Site contains interesting information related to Dorset history/genealogy and also some register transcripts/extracts
National Archives	On line archives, brief details of what they are and where they are.
Images of Dorset	Some beautiful photographs of the county.
My Dorset	An excellent blog containing selected images and videos from around the web showing Dorset together with the latest news stories, courtesy of the Dorset Echo, Bournemouth Echo and the Bridport News [Author Brian Tompkins]
Dorset Life Magazine	More beautiful photographs and some interesting articles
Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (Dorset AONB)	A wealth of information about Dorset (non-genealogical), including some excelent photographs. The Dorset FingerPost project is particularly interesting.
South West England Genealogical Indexes	Newspaper indexes with lots of references to Dorset. Also has parish register indexes [Site no longer exists, but link to Internet Archive may still be useful]
South Derbyshire Genealogical Resources	An excellent resource for South Derbyshire [Note: This in not an OPC project]

Dorset Online Parish Clerks