Lancashire births, marriages and deaths index: http://www.lancashirebmd.org.uk/
Link to substantial information on other Lancashire dialect writers, including Tim Bobbin, William Billington, Sam Laycock, John Critchley Prince and Edwin Waugh: http://www.gerald-massey.org.uk/index.htm. This is an immensely useful site and its creator kindly agreed to me providing access to Tim Bobbin's glossary of Lancashire dialect. It also provides much information on Samuel Bamford.
The Lancashire Dialect Society, mainly inspired by Edwin Waugh: http://www.edwinwaughdialectsociety.com/index.htm
I'm pleased to discover that a link to my article on 'The Regent Cotton Mill, Failsworth' has been added to what looks like an excellent site on textile mills: http://www.google.com/Top/Business/Textiles_and_Nonwovens/Resources/History/Industry/Mills/
Links to Y-chromosome DNA databases:
http://dna.ancestry.com/welcome.aspx http://www.ysearch.org/?uid=4TMBV http://www.ybase.org/default.asp