Links
This page provides links to the personal Family History websites of individual members of the Webb One Name Register and other sites relevant to the WEBB surname. Members who maintain such sites are welcome to submit details to the webmaster, who will be happy to consider adding links to them. In return, members are asked to add to their own site a return link to the WONR Homepage (https://www.wonr.org.uk).
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Webb Surname DNA Project Established in September 2002, the project makes use of DNA analysis to validate existing lineages and establish new connections. http://www.webbdnaproject.org/ |
This site is back-to-back with Family Tree DNA, which offers Y-chromosome testing. The FTDNA offering is expensive. However, the more of us who test, the better the chances everybody has of finding a connection.
FTDNA has recently improved its download capability, and discussions with other members who speak positively of some of its visualisation tools will see me revisiting the site this year. One caveat is that you should not expect
to find connections with recent generations (as, say, a missing father or great-grandfather) unless you are testing alongside a cohort of people who you expect or believe you are related to, possibly because of paper or oral research. The most
interesting discoveries are likely to be in the distant past, and may perhaps suggest interesting migration patterns. |
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British Surnames Project A potted summary of the 1881 census (you can choose other names). Visit the site |
It would certainly be possible to provide a better tool for summarising the data but as at September 2025, I can't find a working one online. However, the next row offers
access to a well-regarded offline tool. |
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British Surnames Atlas "The British 19th Century Surname Atlas is a fully interactive CD-Rom product that allows you to plot floodfill-style distribution maps for all of the surnames and forenames found in the 1881 census of England, Scotland and Wales" Visit the site |
This was recommended to me by members of two of the genealogical societies I belong to.
It provides detailed data down to the parish level. I bought it and can wholeheartedly add my endorsement. You can see it being used in the more recent blog entries on surname distribution. |
| Guild of One Name Studies There are some interesting documents here; 5000+ wedding references, numerous inscriptions and a very large newspaper index. Well worth a look, as indeed is the whole site. Membership offers a access to more data (and images) as well as a contact system for other GOONS researchers you may want to share resources with. Visit the site | |
| Find your cousins This interesting project primarily (but not exclusively) uses the 1881 UK Census data to connect people; you enter your 1881 ancestors and you will be put in contact with anyone else who has entered the same names. It potentially alleviates the tedious business of searching forward for current day relatives. It's free, and the bulletin is a wealth of information on a range of genealogical matters. Visit the site | Sadly, the founder and dynamo behind Lost Cousins, Peter Calvert, died in late 2025. The website continues , but I mean no disrespect to whoever continues to run it (it was up as of March 2026) when I say that it will not be the same without Peter driving it. A great loss to the genealogical community. |
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Vanessa Lopez (member 543) Vanessa's site includes the life story of her grandmother, Bessie Webb (1902 - 2001), plus her antecedants going back to her grandfather, James Webb (m. Phoebe Moss). http://www.familygoingback.co.uk | |
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Rosemary Fisher (member 518) Rosemary's site offers a fascinating and well-written account of her family, the Webbs of Redditch, tracing their origins and business activities over a period of more than 200 years. http://www.webbsredditch.co.uk | |
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Box People and Places David Rawlings' article traces the early history of the Webb family in the village of Box, Wiltshire. David is a former member of the Webb One Name Register. http://www.boxpeopleandplaces.co.uk/webb-family-at-coles-farm.html | |
| Webbs in Scotland Jay Webb has mapped Webbs in Scotland - a very interesting presentation. Link to Google Maps | |
| Webbs in Australia "This site is designed to act as a clearing house for all people researching the family history of the many branches of the Webb Family in Australia and back to England or other countries. The pages have two purposes; the first to provide information regarding ancestors already researched and now made available to others in these pages and secondly to provide encouragement for others to research their Webb name." https://tww.id.au/webb/index.html | |
| Anglo-American Legal Tradition Documents from Medieval and Early Modern England from the National Archives in London digitized and displayed through The O'Quinn Law Library of the University of Houston Law Center by license of the National Archives, sponsored by the University of Houston Law Center and by the University of Houston Department of History http://aalt.law.uh.edu | Searchable database for AALT CP40 here Simple search tool (by surname) for this medieval archive which provides simple pre-packaged reports by county on professions, and optionally on pleas. The data is downloadable in CSV format via buttons at the bottom of the page. It can be a bit slow to get started, but once you get the menu screen up it will be pretty responsive. Play around with it...there's no manual :-) You can also access a different view of the same data, using a more interactive - but even less attractive - tool at the address below https://data.03164000.xyz |
| The National Archives The United Kingdom National Archives. A lot of educational articles to be found on data sources, as well as (in some cases) the sources themselves. Many sources are not stored in the national archives, but the NA will be able to tell you where they are. https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ | |
| Family Search Church of the Latter Day Saints. They say it's free. Caveat emptor https://www.familysearch.org/en/united-states/ | |
| Google Books They say it's free. Caveat emptor https://books.google.com/advanced_book_search | |
| National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections The mission of the NUCMC program is to provide and promote bibliographic access to the documentary heritage of the United States and its dominions https://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/ |