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Useful Websites for Specific Topics
Help with aspects of family history
You can download pedigree charts from the Brigham Young University (a LDS University) site in the USA
www.byubroadcasting.org/ancestors/charts
Free genealogy form templates for your personal genealogical use at:
www.io.com/~jhaller/forms/forms.html
Ancestral Chart which allows you to record the ancestors from whom you directly descend; also census extraction form and family group sheet, are at:
www.ancestry.com/save/charts/ancchart.htm
You can calculate cousin relationships with the help of:
www.cyndislist.com/cousins.htm
Parishes and towns
A freeware program called Parish Locator, which can be downloaded and gives information about the location of parishes, can be accessed through:
www.parloc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ParLoc.htm
Genuki’s On-line Devon Gazetteer
www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/genuki/DEV/Gazetteer
Arthur French's useful article explaining what a parish is:
www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/genuki/DEV/DevonMisc/ParishNotes.html
A listing of Devon's ancient and modern parishes, chapelries and extra-parochial places:
www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/genuki/DEV/DevonParishes.html
Maps on-line
To locate a town in the U.K.
Devon Family History Society site has a link to parish maps
Society of Genealogists’ web-page on Origins of Surnames