Cyndi's List. A veritable encyclopedia and a good site to find genealogical links. Very useful for US and European links. Over 170,000 categorised links at last count.

www.cyndislist.com

LDS Church site (Family Search). Fully searchable IGI online, various censuses (including 1881 UK, 1880 US) and many other handy genealogical aids.

www.familysearch.org

GENUKI. Fabulous UK site, broken down into counties. Most useful site for beginners researching their British ancestors.

www.genuki.org.uk

Rootsweb. Use this site to check their data-bases for your surname interest.

www.rootsweb.com

WAGS. Good information about the WA Genealogical Society, and a wealth of links to other Australian sites.

www.wags.org.au

Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Find details about people from the British Commonwealth who died during the Wars.

www.cwgc.org

Public Record Office, UK. Includes links to the 1901 census on-line (fees payable).

www.pro.gov.uk

Scottish Record Office. 1891 and 1901 census on line, searchable indexes to BDMs, even before Civil Registration. (fees payable).

www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk

Google. The very best of the search engines.

www.google.com

1837online. The UK birth, marriage and death indexes (St Cath's) on line at last. You pay a small fee for every page you look at, but wonderful if you can't easily get to a record repository.

www.1837online.com