Some of the websites I use (most of them are free)
Registrars online BMD indexes &
Transcription websites are now on separate pages
Recommended reading for beginners to family history
http://www.dixons.clara.co.uk/Certificates/births.htm
http://www.tyneandweararchives.org.uk
Tyne & Wear Archives (TWAS)
http://sites.google.com/site/waggonways/nz/30/nz3065
Map showing the location of old pits
overlaid with modern roads to help with the locations.
My favourite map
http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/index.html?year=1894&country=9
Create a calendar for any year
What day of the week was your ancestor born
Pay to view website including the 1911 census
FREE access in Tyne & Wear Archives & Newcastle Libraries
Pay to view site - FREE access at libraries & Tyne & Wear Archives
http://www.durhamrecordsonline.com/
Durham Records online
FREE INDEX pay to view full entry
NO EXPIRY DATE FOR CREDITS
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/Genealogy.html
GENUKI - Very big FREE website covering all of the counties of England
& useful information for people new to family history
http://www.dmm.org.uk/mindex.htm
Durham Mining Museum - Pit names & names of people killed in the mines
http://www.ndfhs.org.uk
N.D.F.H.S.
Northumberland & Durham Family History Society
http://www.parishregister.co.uk/history.htm
Church of England - brief history & timeline of church events
http://www.methodist.org.uk/index.cfmfuseaction=opentogod.content&cmid=1619
Methodist church website
http://christianity.about.com/od/presbyteriandenomination/a/presbyhistory.htm
Presbyterian church website
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/subdivisions/baptist_1.shtml
Baptist Church website
http://gis.durham.gov.uk/website/interMAP/viewer.htm
Maps - old to modern day
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Gateshead/Gateshead.shtml
Workhouses in Gateshead & beyond - A great read
Work your way down the index on the left side
http://www.monkchester.co.uk/index.htm
Photographs of the North East
http://www.dcsv.co.uk/genealogy.htm
Link to lots of useful websites
http://www.experiencewoodhorn.com/archive.htm
http://www.experiencewoodhorn.com/user-guides-and-forms/
Northumberland Record Office - check out the whole site or download the parish record user guide you require
UK County Surnames list
Check to see if anyone else is researching your name interests - or list your own
http://www.churches-uk-ireland.org/index.htm
Photographs of churches - send your own church photographs in.
http://www.rogerco.freeserve.co.uk/
Old Photographs - If you have an old photograph this site might help you date it
http://www.communigate.co.uk/ne/harton/index.phtml
Memorial Inscriptions for Harton Cemetery South Shields
http://www.ancestorsonboard.com/
Ancestors on board - Ships Passenger Lists (pay to view)
Also available from Ancestry
http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/ENG/
All Mailing Lists
http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/ENG/DUR-NBL.html
Durham/Northumberland Mailing List
http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/ENG/NORTHUMBRIA.html
Northumbria Mailing List
http://measuringworth.com/calculators/ppoweruk/
The value of money now & then
http://www.veterans-uk.info/service_records/service_records.html
How to apply for soldiers army personnel records
http://www.seaham.i12.com/myers/newcastle.html
An interesting history of Newcastle upon Tyne
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DUR/GatesheadHistory/index.html
A short History of Gateshead