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'''A Guide To Information Available In Your Local Records Office'''
 
'''A Guide To Information Available In Your Local Records Office'''
  
==County Records Offices==
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==Index to Counties==
  
 
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.
 
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.
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[http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/Britain.html COUNTIES OF ENGLAND SCOTLAND AND WALES PRE 1974]
 
[http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/Britain.html COUNTIES OF ENGLAND SCOTLAND AND WALES PRE 1974]
  
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====Index to Counties====
 
  
 
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|[[Channel Islands and Crown Dependencies]] including the Isle of Man
 
|[[Channel Islands and Crown Dependencies]] including the Isle of Man
 
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====Births Marriages and Deaths====
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==Births Marriages and Deaths==
 
*Text from the [http://www.familytreeforum.com/workstations/15877-record-office-guide-revamp-thread-loading-drafts.html record-office-guide-revamp] which has been tidied up/edited.
 
*Text from the [http://www.familytreeforum.com/workstations/15877-record-office-guide-revamp-thread-loading-drafts.html record-office-guide-revamp] which has been tidied up/edited.
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*Link to Online research pages in the wiki
  
*Link to Online research pages in the wiki
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==Burial Records==
=====Burial Records=====
 
 
*Text from the [http://www.familytreeforum.com/workstations/15877-record-office-guide-revamp-thread-loading-drafts.html record-office-guide-revamp] which has been tidied up/edited.
 
*Text from the [http://www.familytreeforum.com/workstations/15877-record-office-guide-revamp-thread-loading-drafts.html record-office-guide-revamp] which has been tidied up/edited.
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=====Parish Records=====
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==Parish Records==
 
*Text from the [http://www.familytreeforum.com/workstations/15877-record-office-guide-revamp-thread-loading-drafts.html record-office-guide-revamp] which has been tidied up/edited.
 
*Text from the [http://www.familytreeforum.com/workstations/15877-record-office-guide-revamp-thread-loading-drafts.html record-office-guide-revamp] which has been tidied up/edited.
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=====Census Returns=====
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==Census Returns==
 
*Text from the [http://www.familytreeforum.com/workstations/15877-record-office-guide-revamp-thread-loading-drafts.html record-office-guide-revamp] which has been tidied up/edited.
 
*Text from the [http://www.familytreeforum.com/workstations/15877-record-office-guide-revamp-thread-loading-drafts.html record-office-guide-revamp] which has been tidied up/edited.
  
 
*Link to Online research pages in the wiki
 
*Link to Online research pages in the wiki
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''This page will be VERY long - should the next bits be on a page on their own???''
 
  
====Other Types of Records====
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=====Archive Collections=====
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==Other Types of Records==
=====Architectural drawings and building plans=====
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*[[Archive Collections]]
=====Coroner’s Records=====
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*[[Architectural drawings and building plans]]
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*[[Coroner’s Records]]
=====Court Sessions and Victualler's Licences =====
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*[[Court Sessions and Victualler's Licences ]]
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*[[Directories: Trade, Street and City]]
=====Directories: Trade, Street and City=====
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*[[Electoral Registers and Poll Books]]
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*[[Emigration and Immigration]]
=====Electoral Registers and Poll Books=====
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*[[Hospital Records]]
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*[[Manorial, Land and Estate Deeds]]
=====Emigration and Immigration=====
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*[[Maps: Tithe and Ordnance Survey]]
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*[[Military Records]]
=====Hospital Records=====
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*[[Newspapers and Journals]]
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*[[Photographs]]
=====Manorial, Land and Estate Deeds=====
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*[[Poor Law and Workhouse Records]]
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*[[Records of Merchant Seamen]]
=====Maps: Tithe and Ordnance Survey=====
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*[[School Records]]
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*[[Taxation Records]]
=====Military Records=====
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*[[Wills and Probate ]]
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=====Newspapers and Journals=====
 
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=====Photographs=====
 
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=====Poor Law and Workhouse Records=====
 
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=====Records of Merchant Seamen=====
 
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=====School Records=====
 
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=====Taxation Records=====
 
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=====Wills and Probate =====
 

Revision as of 15:11, 16 March 2007

A Guide To Information Available In Your Local Records Office

Index to Counties

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


Bedfordshire Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire
Cheshire Cornwall Cumberland Derbyshire
Devon Dorset Durham Essex
Gloucestershire Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire
Huntingdonshire Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire
Leicestershire Lincolnshire LONDON (Middlesex) Norfolk
Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire
Rutland Shropshire Somerset Staffordshire
Suffolk Surrey Sussex Warwickshire
Westmoreland Wiltshire Worcestershire Yorkshire
Channel Islands and Crown Dependencies including the Isle of Man


Births Marriages and Deaths


Burial Records


Parish Records


Census Returns

  • Link to Online research pages in the wiki



Other Types of Records