While you should see what ancestry.co.uk and findmypast.co.uk have to offer, myheritage.com is particularly strong for European connections, and each territory may also have specialist websites.
Sweden, for example, has the long-running ArkivDigital (arkivdigital.net), which boasts millions of colour images of historical records, while the top-notch blog French Genealogy (french-genealogy.typepad.com) includes a directory of departmental archives and a glossary of French terms.
Europeana (europeana.eu) is a wonderful place to find out more about historic artefacts, books, documents, newspapers, artworks, videos and oral histories from collections across Europe, and millions more that have been submitted by users.
Genealogy Indexer (genealogyindexer.org) is a useful tool for anyone searching for ancestors in Central or Eastern Europe, although much of the data was produced using optical character recognition (OCR) software, so remember to try…
