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| − | | "The white rose county" - England's largest county and formerly divided into 3 Ridings, North, East and West, from the word "thriding", meaning "third".
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| − | It stretches from the coastal area of the North Sea to the Pennines and from the river Humber to the Tees.
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| − | Fishing and farming are the traditional trades of the east, with iron mining in the north, and coal mining and the textile industries to the west of the county.
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| − | |Home of the Yorkshire pudding, traditionally served separately at the start of the meal, and Black Sheep beer.
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| − | The artist David Hockney was raised in Bradford. Captain Cook sailed from Whitby to discover the east coast of Australia.
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| − | Yorkshire has seen many boundary changes over the years and there are several county, city and local metropolitan borough council organisations throughout the region.
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| − | '''County town: ''' York
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| − | '''Other major towns:''' Bradford, Sheffield, Leeds
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| − | '''[[Places_of_Worship:Yorkshire| Yorkshire Places of Worship]]'''
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| − | '''[http://www.familytreeforum.com/regional-projects/ Regional Projects Forum]'''
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| − | | [[Image:EnglandYorkshire.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Source: Wikipedia]]
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| − | ==Resources==
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| − | '''Primary Reference'''
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| − | *[http://www.eastriding.gov.uk/libraries/archives/archives.html '''East Riding Record Office''']
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| − | *[http://www.archives.wyjs.org.uk/ '''West Yorkshire Archive Service''']
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| − | *[http://www.northyorks.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=3134 '''North Yorkshire Archives''']
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| − | *[http://www.york.gov.uk/leisure/Libraries/York_city_archive/ '''York Archives''']
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| − | *[http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/bihr/ '''Borthwick Institute''']
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| − | *[http://www.middlesbrough.gov.uk/ccm/navigation/leisure-and-culture/archives/ '''Teesside Archives''']
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| − | *[http://www.redmire.net/lookup/nry.html North Riding of Yorkshire Look-up Exchange]
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| − | *[http://nettedup.co.uk/lookups/westriding/ Yorkshire-West Riding Look-up Exchange]
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| − | *[http://www.parishregisteruklook-upexchange.co.uk/parishregisterstz.htm Parish Register UK Look-up Exchange]
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| − | '''Countywide Interest'''
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| − | *[http://www.yorkshirecensus.co.uk/census_search.htm Yorkshire Census]
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| − | *[http://www.census-online.com/links/England/Yorkshire/ Online Census Records for Yorkshire]
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| − | *[http://www.dalesgenealogy.com/ Dales Genealogy]
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| − | *[http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jeffery.knaggs/YD.html Death Notices in Yorkshire Newspapers]
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| − | *[http://www.yorkshirehistory.com/wagon Wolds Wagoners, East Yorks Ag Labs Who Used Their Skills as Drivers for The Army]
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| − | *[http://www.yorkgen.com/index.htm Yorkgen]
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| − | *[http://www.rootsweb.com/~engyks/ Yorkshire GenWeb Project]
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| − | *[http://www.yorkshirehistory.com/index.htm Yorkshire History]
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| − | *[http://www.yorkshireindexers.co.uk/forums/ Yorkshire Indexers]
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| − | *[http://www.ironstonemuseum.co.uk/ironstoneindustryc.htm North Yorkshire Ironstone Mining]
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| − | *[http://www.york.ac.uk/borthwick Borthwick Institute, York, Parish Records for parts of East & North Yorks and also many pre 1857 wills for Northern Province]
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| − | *[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~uknortheast/index.html UK North East Website and Genealogical Mailing List]
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| − | *[http://www.yorkshireparishregisters.com/ Yorkshire Archaeological Society Parish Register Section, Books, Microfiche & CD Roms]
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| − | *[http://www.yorkshirebmd.org.uk/ Yorkshire BMD]
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| − | *[http://www.hull.ac.uk/oldlib/archives/quaker/index.htm Yorkshire Quaker Heritage Project]
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| − | *[http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/YKSlist/yks.htm Yorkshire Surname List]
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| − | *[http://www.yorkshireroots.org.uk/ Yorkshire Roots]
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| − | *[http://www.wakefieldfhs.org.uk/Altofts%20school%201875-1876.htm The West Riding Colliery School]
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| − | *[http://www.herstoryuntold.org.uk/ Yorkshire Women's Lives 1100 to the Present]
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| − | *[http://www.wilgilsland.co.uk/Kilnsea.htm Lost Villages of the Holderness Coast]
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| − | *[http://www.yfaonline.com/yfapublic/ Yorkshire Film Archive Online]
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| − | '''Specific Town and Village Interest'''
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| − | *[http://www.barnsleyfhs.co.uk/ Barnsley FHS]
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| − | *[http://www.bradfordfhs.org.uk/ Bradford FHS]
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| − | *[http://www.cfhsweb.co.uk/ Calderdale FHS]
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| − | *[http://www.doncasterfhs.co.uk/ Doncaster FHS]
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| − | *[http://www.eyfhs.org.uk/ East Yorkshire FHS]
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| − | *[http://www.hdfhs.org.uk/ Huddersfield & District FHS]
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| − | *[http://wakefieldfhs.org.uk/morleyfhg/ Morley FHS]
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| − | *[http://www.pontefractfhs.org.uk/ Pontefract FHS]
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| − | *[http://www.rotherhamfhs.co.uk/ Rotherham FHS]
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| − | *[http://www.sheffieldfhs.org.uk/ Sheffield FHS]
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| − | *[http://www.wdfhs.co.uk/ Wakefield FHS]
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| − | *[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~petyt/ackprt.htm Ackworth St Cuthbert Parish Register Transcriptions]
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| − | *[http://aldbrough-st-john.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19&Itemid=63 Aldbrough St John]
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| − | *[http://www.oldbarnsley.co.uk/ Old Barnsley]
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| − | *[http://www.barwickinelmethistoricalsociety.com/bhs.html Barwick-in-Elmet Historical Society]
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| − | *[http://www.bishopwilton.info/ Bishop Wilton ]
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| − | *[http://www.bolsterstone.de/ Bolsterstone Genealogy Project]
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| − | *[http://www.barfordheritage.org/wordpress/ Barford Community Website's Genealogy Pages]
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| − | *[http://www.brotherton.org.uk/ Brotherton]
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| − | *[http://bubwith.net/ Bubwith]
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| − | *[http://burghwallis.com/pdf/Burghwallis%20%20&%20Bentley%20Full%20&%20Maps.pdf Burghwallis and Bentley]
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| − | *[http://www.calderdale.gov.uk/wtw/ From Weaver To Web - Calderdale]
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| − | *[http://www.calverley.info/cal_home.htm Calverley - Parish Records]
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| − | *[http://www.cononley.com/ Cononley Local History]
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| − | *[http://www.moon-rakers.co.uk/index.html Cowling Moonrakers]
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| − | *[http://www.cowlingweb.co.uk/ Cowling web]
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| − | *[http://www.glenlodge.me.uk/crakehallindex.html Crakehall]
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| − | *[http://www.cpgw.org.uk/index.cfm Craven's Part in the Great War]
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| − | *[http://johndoxey.100freemb.com/Dalton/ Dalton]
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| − | *[http://www.nowthen.org/mainpages/search.php Dewsbury Now and Then]
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| − | *[http://www.driffield.co.uk/index.htm Driffield]
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| − | *[http://www.driffield.org.uk/index-2.html Driffield and Wolds Genealogy]
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| − | *[http://www.earbylocalhistorysociety.co.uk/ Earby and District Local History Society]
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| − | *[http://www.yorkfamilyhistory.org.uk/easingwoldmis.htm Easingwold Monuments - Monumetal Inscriptions Easingwold Church 1911]
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| − | *[http://www.btinternet.com/~susanebutler/east_main.html Eastrington Village]
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| − | *[http://www.theyorks.org.uk/enderbyvillage%201.htm Enderby Village - Births, Baptisms and Marriages]
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| − | *[http://www.pancrack.tv/subject.html Eston]
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| − | *[http://www.one2one-development.com/fitzwilliamarchive/ Fitzwilliam Archive Project]
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| − | *[http://www.systemf.demon.co.uk/gargrave/timespast.htm Gargrave in Past Times]
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| − | *[http://www.gawberchurch.com/frame_parts/records_main_centre_frame.html Gawber Parish Records]
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| − | *[http://www.apl385.com/gilling/history/gilling.htm History of Gilling]
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| − | *[http://www.gisburn.org.uk/ Gisburn Village and St Mary the Virgin burial records]
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| − | *[http://www.johnpall.co.uk/indexfiles/golcar.htm Golcar, Some Parish Records and Burials]
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| − | *[http://www.goole-on-the-web.org.uk/main.php?key=1 Goole on the Web]
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| − | *[http://www.maurich.co.uk/familyhistory/grinton.htm Grinton Parish Church - some Parish Records]
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| − | *[http://www.gunnerside.info/ Gunnerside]
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| − | *[http://www.mountzionhalifax.org.uk/ Halifax -Mount Zion Chapel]
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| − | *[http://www.calverley.info/hampsthwaite.htm Hampsthwaite]
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| − | *[http://harrogatepeopleandplaces.info/ Harrogate People and Places]
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| − | *[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ljuk/index.html Harrogate and Knaresborough Monumental Inscriptions]
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| − | *[http://www.haworth-village.org.uk/history/history.asp Haworth Village]
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| − | *[http://www.honley.ukf.net/burialbook.htm Honley Cemetery Burial Book 1857-1935]
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| − | *[http://www.riverhumber.com/ Brief history of Hull, Its Museums and Docks]
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| − | *[http://www.hullwebs.co.uk/index.htm Hullwebs History of Hull]
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| − | *[http://www.dixon115.freeserve.co.uk/eastriding.htm Hull Boundries, Churches and Parishes and a History of Sculcoates]
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| − | *[http://www.anlabyroad.com/menupage.html Hull - The History of Anlaby Road]
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| − | *[http://www.hunmanby.com/ Hunmanby]
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| − | *[http://www.haxby-york.co.uk/index.html?http://www.haxby-york.co.uk/web/historysection.html Haxby - History Section]
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| − | *[http://www.kellington.net/page%202.htm Kellington]
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| − | *[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pbtyc/Den/Kilnwick/Index.html All Saint's Church Parish Records, Kilnwick in the Wolds]
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| − | *[http://www.kirkbymalham.info/index.html Kirkby Malham]
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| − | *[http://www.kirbymisperton.org.uk/ Kirkby Misperton History]
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| − | *[http://www.19141918.info Kirkheaton Online Parish Clerk]
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| − | *[http://www.knaresborough.co.uk/history/default.asp Knaresborough Online]
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| − | *[http://www.knottingley.org/history/local_history.htm Knottingley and Ferrybridge]
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| − | *[http://www.langcliffe.net/ Langcliffe in Craven]
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| − | *[http://www.bigenealogy.com/leeds/index.htm Leeds Parish Registers 1612-1639]
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| − | *[http://www.btinternet.com/~jansfamily/1868.htm The 1868 Leeds Poll Book]
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| − | *[http://www.kirkbymalham.info/index.html Malhamdale Local History Pages]
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| − | *[http://www.blaven.eclipse.co.uk/church/history.html St Marys Church, Little Driffield]
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| − | *[http://www.marsdenhistory.co.uk/ Marsden History Group]
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| − | *[http://www.mirfieldinpictures.net/ Mirfield in Pictures]
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| − | *[http://www.morleyarchives.ik.com/p_homepage2.ikml Morley Community Archives]
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| − | *[http://www.newton-le-willows.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage Newton-le-Willows and surrounding Villages]
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| − | *[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pbtyc/Den/Normanby/Index.html St Andrew's Church, Normanby, Parish Registers]
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| − | *[http://www.joskingston.org/LDEN/LDENCONTENTS.html Life and Death in Elizabethan Norton]
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| − | *[http://threevillages.co.uk/ Three Villages - Old Byland, Rievaulx and Scawton]
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| − | *[http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~bentleygt/pannal/ Pannal Village History]
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| − | *[http://www.pocklingtonhistory.com/index.php Pocklington History]
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| − | *[http://johndoxey.100freemb.com/Ravenfield/ Ravenfield Village]
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| − | *[http://www.rotherhamweb.co.uk/genealogy/index.htm Rotherham Web]
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| − | *[http://www.judandk.force9.co.uk/ Peace Please! Rotherham ]
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| − | *[http://www.driffield.co.uk/wolds_village_rudston.htm Rudston Village Website]
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| − | *[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pbtyc/Den/Salton_and_Brawby/Index.html Transcript of St John's Church, Salton and Brawby]
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| − | *[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~engsheffield/#sg Sheffield Genealogy]
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| − | *[http://www.gencem.org/ Sheffield General Cemetery]
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| − | *[http://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/index.php Sheffield History Forum]
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| − | *[http://history.youle.info/ Sheffield History Material]
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| − | *[http://www.sheffieldindexers.com/ Sheffield Indexers]
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| − | *[http://www.picturesheffield.com/ Sheffield in Pictures]
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| − | *[http://johndoxey.100freemb.com/Silverwood/ Silverwood Colliery]
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| − | *[http://www.eccles2000.karoo.net/skidby/index.htm Skidby]
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| − | *[http://www.skiptonweb.co.uk/history/index.asp Skipton Local History]
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| − | *[http://www.stillingtoncommunityarchive.org/ Stillington Community Archive]
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| − | *[http://johndoxey.100freemb.com/ Thrybergh]
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| − | *[http://www.rotherhamunofficial.co.uk/villages/thrybergh.html Thrybergh and Dalton Heritage Group]
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| − | *[http://www.thurcroftweb.co.uk/index.htm Thurcroft]
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| − | *[http://www.todmordenandwalsden.co.uk/ Todmorden and Walsden Genealogy]
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| − | *[http://www.treetonweb.co.uk/index.htm Treeton]
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| − | *[http://www.ulleyweb.co.uk/genealogy.htm Ulley Web]
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| − | *[http://welcometowakefield.org.uk/ Wakefield]
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| − | *[http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1274wakefield-courtrolls.html Court Rolls of the Manor of Wakefield 1274-1294]
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| − | *[http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/CommunityAndLiving/CemeteriesAndCrematoria/GenealogySearches/OnlineSearch/default.htm Wakefield Area Burials and Cremations]
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| − | *[http://www.wakefieldfhs.org.uk/ Wakefield Family History Sharing]
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| − | *[http://www.twixtaireandcalder.org.uk/default.htm Wakefield - 'Twixt Aire and Calder]
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| − | *[http://www.wentworthvillage.net/history.shtml Wentworth Village History]
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| − | *[http://west_scrafton.idnet.com// West Scrafton in Coverdale]
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| − | *[http://wharfegen.org.uk/ Wharfedale and Craven Genealogical Study]
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| − | *[http://www.whashton.net/ Whashton, Kirby Hill and Ravendale Census Data and Photographs]
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| − | *[http://www.whitbyarchives.org.uk/index.asp Whitby Archives Heritage Centre]
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| − | *[http://www.whistonweb.co.uk/gen/index.htm Whiston Web]
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| − | *[http://www.wickersleyweb.co.uk/hist/index.htm Wickersley Web]
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| − | *[http://www.wigglesworthvillage.co.uk/index.htm Wigglesworth Village]
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| − | *[http://www.yorkfamilyhistory.org.uk/assizes.htm York Assizes 1785-1851]
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| − | *[http://www.yorkarchaeology.co.uk/bridgemasters/ York Bridgemasters' Accounts]
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| − | *[http://www.yorkcemeterygenealogy.co.uk/ York Cemetery]
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| − | *[http://www.historyofyork.co.uk/home History of York]
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| − | *[http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/res_rec/research/researchcentres/parishnetwork/sources/webb_1546.doc Churchwardens’ accounts for St Michael Spurriergate in York for the year 1546 .PDF]
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| − | '''Maps and Photographs'''
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| − | *[http://www.oldukphotos.com/yorkshire-hull.htm Old Photographs of Hull]
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| − | *[http://www.leodis.net/ Leodis A Photographic Archive of Leeds]
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| − | *[http://www.daelnet.co.uk/local/history/oldsettle/index.htm Gallery of Old Settle]
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| − | *[http://www.picturesheffield.com/ Pictures of Sheffield]
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| − | *[http://www.rowleycollection.co.uk/index.asp Historic Photographs of Skipton]
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| − | *[http://www.imagineyork.co.uk/ Imagine York]
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| − | *[http://www2.northyorks.gov.uk/unnetie/ 19th & 20th Century Photos of North Yorkshire]
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| − | ==Places of Interest==
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| − | Captain Cook and Staithes Heritage Centre <br>
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| − | High St <br>
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| − | Staithes <br>
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| − | Tel: 01947 841454 <br><br>
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| − | *[http://www.captaincookatstaithes.co.uk/ Captain Cook and Staithes Heritage Centre] <br>
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| − | Although primarily a museum dedicated to Captain Cook, they also hold a large number of local family history information, including individual family research.
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| − | ==Requests for Research and Photographs in this area==
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| − | Please read the [http://www.familytreeforum.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Research_Offers Terms and Conditions] before requesting a lookup.<br>
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| − | A list of members who have volunteered to do Research lookups or take photographs can be found in the [http://www.familytreeforum.com/research-offers/ Research Offers forum] or on the following pages in the Wiki:<br>
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| − | *[[Research Offers: Cemetery]]
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| − | *[[Research Offers: Photograph]]
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| − | *[[Research Offers: Probate]]
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| − | *[[Research Offers: Record Office/Archive]]
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| − | If any member wishes to offer to do lookups or take photographs in a particular location, please leave a message on our [http://www.familytreeforum.com/research-offers/73000-volunteers-needed-records-office-cemetery-lookups-photos.html Volunteers Needed thread].
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