This is a list of websites used in a talk at the Who Do You Think You Are LIVE! show in February 2010. If you have further suggestions for sites to be included here please let me know. Some 1500 websites are described in my Military History Online book published by Pen & Sword in 2008.

Basics 

Google

Wikipedia

Commercial sites

Ancestry

Findmypast

(hint, if you do not already subscribe - look out for the 14-day free membership offers)

Documents Online

Archives, museums and libraries

The National Archives

(for links to the catalogue, research signposts and other databases click on the records tab)

Imperial War Museum collections

Army Museums Ogilby Trust

The Wardrobe 

(Berkshire and Wiltshire regimental museum and archives - and well worth a visit if you ever in Salisbury)

RAF Museum

Other sites

Kevin Asplin 

(for the Late-Victorian Army)

Naval History Net

(The Royal Navy in two world wars)

Audience suggestions

The Long, Long Trail 

(Excellent guide to the British Army of WW1)

The War Grave Photographic Project 

(Photos of individual war graves)