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USEFUL LINKS

Genealogy - High quality, professional reports include: Family Group Sheet, Descendant Report, Ancestor Report, Timeline Report, Pedigree Chart, Lineage Report, Individual Reports, Source Citation Report, Potential Problems Report, Surname Summary, Relationship Report, LDS Ordinance Report, Ages Report, Name List Report. All reports can be customized. See the following genealogy links for further information

On Line Census - Family Search - Family History Society - Ancestry - Gen UK & I - GRO NI - NIFHS - PRONI
Cenus Finder - Cyndi's List - Free BMD - Mormon Church - Irish Family History - Scotish Family History - English Family History

Age Concern - Age UK is the new force combining Age Concern and Help the Aged. - Age needs one voice. Now it has: Age UK is the new force combining Age Concern and Help the Aged - We will be known by our new name from Spring 2010. The Age UK family includes Age Scotland‚ Age Cymru and Age NI.

They Work For You - Find out more about your MP and MLA and what they do on your behalf.

The OpenLearn website gives free access to course materials from The Open University. The LearningSpace is open to learners anywhere in the world.

eLSe – eLearning for Seniors – focuses on increasing social participation, empowerment and inclusion of European seniors in the knowledge and information society with a special focus on reducing isolation of vulnerable seniors.

SenTrain is aimed at promoting the spread of ICT competences of senior citizens through the medium of senior trainers and senior citizens organisations.

NIOA - The Northern Ireland Orienteering Association (NIOA) exists to promote and develop the sport of orienteering in Northern Ireland.

Newspapers - Northern Ireland - National Daily - North of England - South of England - USA & Worldwide

North Down Borough Council - Arts, Building Control, Civic Amenity Sites, Community Relations, Community Services, Environmental Education, Environmental Services, Equality, Finance, Harbours & Marinas, Heritage, Parks And Open Spaces, Public Consultation, Recycling, Refuse Collection, Registration, Sport & Leisure Facilities, Street Cleansing and Waste Management Plan.

Social Security - Benefit information on what can be claimed and how to go about it (bereavement, disability, carers allowance, housing, pensions, etc)

Access to Benefits - Every week, thousands of people over 60 miss out on their share of unclaimed benefits in Northern Ireland. A2B is a not-for-profit organisation working to improve benefit uptake for people of retirement age. Click the ‘New Benefit Calculation’ button to use our free, simple and anonymous benefit calculator to find out what you may be entitled to. See ‘About Us’ for more information on A2B.

WebMD - Provides valuable health information, tools for managing your health, and support to those who seek information. (Note! this is not to be used in lieu of seeing your Doctor)

Social Policy and Aging Research Centre - SPARC was established in 2005 with the view to analysing the social policy ramifications of population ageing in Ireland and in the comparative perspective. Fundamental to the Centre's work is the belief that research has a central role to play in making Ireland a better place to grow old in.

Flight arrival and departure information for the major UK international airports:- BAA - London Heathrow, London Gatwick, London Stansted, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Southampton. And the local Northern Ireland airports Belfast International and Belfast City Airport

US & Canada - Flight arrivals/departures and airport status for flights over the US and Canada.

Travelling by road, rail or sea, use the AA or RAC to plan a route, check traffic problems, find a hotel/b&b, pub or restaurant, sea travel with Stena line, Norfolk Line or bus/rail travel with NI Railways or UK Rail

Travelling by air, check your flight details with these airlines. British Airways - Easyjet - bmi - Aerlingus - Ryanair - Jet2 or are you using a Charter Flight

UK Travel & A1Tourism The UK Travel and Accommodation Guides complete listing of links for anyone interested in a vacation, holiday or just a day out in the UK.

Accomodation - The ultimate hotel accommodation search engine. Search, browse & review over 200,000 accommodation web-pages from all over the world.

Free Hotel Search - Discount Hotels :: Hotel Reservation Discounts. Free hotel search.com offers a secure real-time booking engine to most hotels in North America, Europe, Asia, South America, Africa, and Australia.

Looking for a holiday deal, check out these sites. Holiday Deals - Bargain Holidays - Late Rooms - Holiday Warehouse - Discount Cruises

Check your travel dates with this Calendar the Currency Conversion and Weather in the location you are travelling to.

Multimap - Get a map and travel directions to a Country, Town or Specific Address.

 

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