My work from Familytree magazine's Passport to europe
1901 Census Online < www.census.pro.gov.uk > (free to search but about 75 cents to view details, or about $1.15 for the actual census page, minimum charge about $7.75 per session);
Ancestor Super-Search ~ www.ancestorsupersearch.com > of 1.46 million English birth and census events from 1755 to 1891;
Free BMD < freebmd.rootsweb.com > search of births, marriages and deaths from 1837 to 1902;
ScotlandsPeople < www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk >, covering 37 million names beginning in 1553 (about $9 for 30 page credits);
and the Scomsh Archive Network < www.scan.org.uk >, especially its 1500 to 1875 wills database at ewww.scottishdocuments.com >.
Two other commercial sites are worth noting for British Isles research: 0rigins.net < www.origins.net >, with a variety of free and pay databases covering England, Ireland and Scotland; and the all-Irish subscription site 0therdays.com < www.otherdays.com no longer available>,
which includes Griffith's Valuation, the next-best thing to a mid- 1800s census of the Emerald Isle, from 1847 to 1864 ($8 for 72 hours, $44 a year).
But researchers on the continent can find plenty of databases to jump-start their research, too. FamilySearch has a variety of free Scandinavian vital records databases, for example, and
Swedish researchers can tap Arkion's Swedish Census Database < www.arkion.se >, a subscription site ($95 a year, $4.50 for three hours) with the 1880,1890 and 1900 enumerations.
Next door, Norway's Digital Archive < digitalarkivet.uib.no > is a trove of census transcriptions (1660, 1801, 1865,1875,1900), probate indexes (1677 to 1856) and more, all free.
And you can start finding your French roots in Geneactes' < www.geneactes.org/index-en.html >
Web databases of French civil records, including marriage records that are searchable by keyword, name or place Emigrant information
sometimes unlocks clues to your ancestors' lives before they headed for America, and these lists-sort of the flip side of the
Ellis Island databas-e increasingly coming online. At Hamburg Link to Your Roots cwww.hamburg.de/fhh/behoerden/staatsarchiv/Iink~toyour~roots. english no longer available>, you can do free searches of emigrants via Hamburg-a key departure port not only for Germans, but also for those from neighboring countries. In-depth results cost $20 for one to three names or $30 for four to 10. Only the years 1890 and 1891 have been digitized to date, but ultimately the Hamburg database aims to encompass 5 million passengers from 1850 to 1934. Got Italian roots? You can search a database of 200,000 Italian emigrants to the United States at <213.212.128.168/radici/ie/defaultie~e.htm >. Norwegian emigrant records are online at edigitalarkivet.uib.no>. Other useful sites cover a whole range of nationalities. If you have Jewish roots in Europe, for example, try Avotaynu <www.avotaynu.com >, whose site includes the Consolidated Jewish Surname Index of 370,000 names in 30-plus different databases, and JewishGen <www.jewishgen.org>, which
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