Hastings & Rother Family History Society has no pecuniary interest in any of the websites included here and does not necessarily recommend anything offered or suggested by them. Similarly, any opinions or promotions presented at these sites are not necessarily endorsed by HRFHS.
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Holders of East Sussex County Council Library Accounts can access Ancestry.com for free! Log in to your Library account, go to the Magazines section of the site and click on Ancestry Library Version.
All sites are offered in the interests of possible assistance to family history research. Most of these are accessible free of charge but those more commercial in nature are described as such
www.1066online.com The Hastings Guide – full of past and present
www.ohps.org.uk/hastings-history-house Hastings History House – Old Hastings Preservation society
www.dustydocs.com Dusty Docs – access to parish archives across the UK, providing free links to providers giving free information
www,nls.uk/news/press/2014/03/historic-maps-england-and-wales FREE online access to a wealth of historic OS maps covering ALL of the UK. It’s a National Library of Scotland project but it covers all of us!
www.eastbournefhs.org.uk – Eastbourne, East Sussex Family History Society
www.kfhs.org.uk – Kent Family History Society
www.sdfhs.org.uk – Somerset & Dorset FHS
www.sfhg.uk – Sussex Family History Group
www.ffhs.org.uk – Federation of Family History Societies
www.thekeep.info – Sussex Records Office, based in Brighton
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk – The UK National Archives, Kew, London (Access-to-Archives, A2A)
www.cwgc.org.uk – Commonwealth War Graves Commission
www.forces-war-records.co.uk War records
http://www.ww1rollofhonour.co.uk photographs of Hastings & Rother fallen in WWI – comprehensive gallery
www.freebmd.org.uk – free search of all UK birth, marriage and death records since 1837 and further access to “freecen” parish records and Genuki
www.discoverbexhill.com Useful information on Bexhill past and present
www.bexhillhanoveriankgl.co.uk Study Group of the King’s German Legion based Bexhill 1804-15
www.hastingspubhistory.com comprehensive overview of Hastings’ ancestral drinking houses
www.hmag.org.uk Hastings Museum & Art Gallery
www.ryemuseum.co.uk Rye Castle Museum (Ypres Tower)
www.battlelocalhistory.com/battle-museum.html Battle Museum, High Street, Battle
www.bexhillmuseum.co.uk Bexhill Museum, Egerton Road, Bexhill
www.hastingsfish.co.uk Hastings Fishermen’s Protection Society / Institute / Museum
www.eastsussex.org/villages List of East Sussex villages
www.eastsussex.gov.uk East Sussex services
www.hastingschronicle.net Timeline of Hastings history
http://www.heritagefamilyhistory.co.uk access to Celia Heritage and useful handouts on a number research aspects
http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk access to a huge resource of news reports BUT they charge – HOWEVER – it is available within Find My Past (if you are a subscriber to that site) or FREE at the local library