Here are a few useful URLS - if you know of any that are out of date or
broken, please let us know!

THE DORSET MAGAZINE (DORSET LIFE)
http://www.dorsetlife.co.uk/index/index.asp
a commercial magazine on-line that gives photos and facts about the county

Who Were We? has been researched and written by members of the 21st century community of Drimpton in west Dorset supported by national and international enthusiasts with links to our village. It sets out to give our 19th century neighbours a chance to speak to us today, to step out of the shadows and tell us something about themselves. 'Who Were We?' is part of a project managed by Village Voices. Village Voices is a a voluntary, self-help group based in Drimpton which uses the arts as tools for community development. Over the last ten years Village Voices has delivered a range of projects, any proceeds from which have been used to fund community activities.

The Dorset Look Up Exchange
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/5973/dorset.htm
Here people offer look ups in their private materials. If you have some
private material that you could offer look ups in, I am sure the coordinator
would be pleased to hear from you. Consider copyright before offering look
ups from other people's work.
Dorset Genuki
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DOR/
links to just about everything available on line in Dorset at the time of its last update.
Genuki's parish locator
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/parloc/parishlocator.exe
This a handy tool to  download
John Fuller's
http://www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/internet.html
site for links to other rootsweb lists.
Somerset and Dorset Family History Society
http://www.sdfhs.org
Dorset Family History Society
http://www.dfhs.freeserve.co.uk
Dorset surname list
http://www.users.on.net/proformat/dornames.html
check to see anyone is researching the same names as you - and add your own interests to it.
Births, Marriages and Deaths
http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl
Free BMD sites for some GRO References
The Dorset Record Office archives
http://www.dorset-cc.gov.uk/archives e-mail archives@dorset-cc.gov.uk
Dorset list archives
http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list
This is the  if you need to look back for messages you have missed.
UK streetmaps
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/
19th century on-line maps
http://www.old-maps.co.uk/oldSite/index.htm
Public Record Office
www.familyrecords.gov.uk
website for family historians
Follow Birth, Death and Marriage registration
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/
 link to order certificates