About wholivedthere.com

This website is building a worldwide database of where everyone lives or once lived.

By adding what you know and sharing the information with other users of the site, hopefully you will be able to trace all the homes of your ancestors as well as finding out the full history of the houses you have lived in. Whether you are a keen genealogist, a hobby family historian or simply intrigued to know who lived in your house before you did or who else used to live in your street, this is the website for you. Maybe you want to know when your house was built or if there was an earlier house on the same site, wholivedthere.com will be able to help you thanks to the contributions of the knowledge of users from all over the world.

You start by simply adding the addresses of where you have lived before and who lived with you. Then add the addresses of other people you know (family, relations, friends, ancestors). If you wish, you can opt to keep your current address private.

And it is not only houses we are talking about. If any of your family or ancestors once lived aboard ship, in hospitals or nurses homes, care homes, schools, universities, castles or stately homes, or perhaps even in prisons, these are valid addresses too.

The purpose of the website

This website collects data from its users, members and subscribers relating to properties they, their ancestors, their families, friends and neighbours, live in or have lived in. The purpose is to enable users around the world to create a complete picture of the movement of their ancestors over several centuries and to identify when properties were built, converted or demolished, or when streets were re-numbered, re-named or re-routed. The website is intended primarily to be of value to genealogists and family historians but it will undoubtedly appeal to other interest groups as well.