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Revision as of 09:33, 14 March 2007

A Guide To Information Available In Your Local Records Office

County Records Offices

The biggest headache in locating record offices is boundary changes. Records that relate to your area often end up archived in their original shire county despite the introduction of unitary authorities and metropolitan boroughs and counties.

To view the set up of Counties Prior to the changes implemented in 1974, click here:

COUNTIES OF ENGLAND SCOTLAND AND WALES PRE 1974

Useful information for each county has been collected together. [Counties page]



Births Marriages and Deaths

Burial Records
Parish Records
Census Returns

Other Types of Records

Archive Collections
Architectural drawings and building plans
Coroner’s Records
Court Sessions and Victualler's Licences
Directories: Trade, Street and City
Electoral Registers and Poll Books
Emigration and Immigration
Hospital Records
Manorial, Land and Estate Deeds
Maps: Tithe and Ordnance Survey
Military Records
Newspapers and Journals
Photographs
Poor Law and Workhouse Records
Records of Merchant Seamen
School Records
Taxation Records
Wills and Probate