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| − | |In the South West of England, Gloucestershire include part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean.
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| − | Places of interest are Berkeley Castle, an example of a feudal stronghold. Sudeley Castle, Tewkesbury Abbey and the Wildfowl and Wetland Trust, Slimbridge.
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| − | There are several royal residences in Gloucestershire, including Highgrove House and Gatcombe Park.
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| − | The book 'Cider with Rosie' By Laurie Lee is a tale of growing up in Gloucestershire.
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| − | '''County town:''' Gloucester
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| − | '''Other major towns:''' Cheltenham, Stroud, Cirencester, and Tewkesbury.
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| − | '''[[Places_of_Worship:Gloucestershire | Gloucestershire Places of Worship]]'''
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| − | '''[http://www.familytreeforum.com/regional-projects/ Regional Projects Forum]'''
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| − | | [[Image: EnglandGloucestershire.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Source: Wikipedia]]
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| − | ==Resources==
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| − | '''Primary Reference'''
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| − | *[http://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=1348 '''Gloucestershire Archives/Record Office''']
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| − | *[http://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleID=163 Gloucestershire Library]
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| − | *[http://www.gfhs.org.uk/ Gloucestershire Family History Society]
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| − | *[http://aztecrose.tripod.com/gloucestershire/index.html Gloucestershire Look-up Exchange]
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| − | *[http://www.parishregisteruklook-upexchange.co.uk/parishregistersdg.htm Parish Register Look-up Exchange]
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| − | '''Countywide Interest'''
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| − | *[http://www.cheltenhammuseum.org.uk/ Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum]
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| − | *[http://members.shaw.ca/panthers1/tayfam.html The Cotswolds and Surrounds]
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| − | *[http://www.forest-of-dean.net/ Forest of Dean Family History]
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| − | *[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cbennett/index.htm Forest of Dean Trade Directories]
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| − | *[http://www.gloucesterdocks.me.uk/ Gloucester Docks and the Sharpness Canal Past, Present and Future]
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| − | *[http://www.gsia.org.uk/gia.htm Gloucestershire Society for Industrial Archaeology]
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| − | *[http://www.gloshistory.org.uk/lhcorg.htm Gloucestershire Local History]
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| − | *[http://www.halefamily.net/misc2.html Gloucestershire Miscellany]
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| − | *[http://www.visit-gloucestershire.co.uk/index.html Gloucestershire Portal - Gloucestershire Past and Present]
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| − | *[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wrag44/index.htm North Gloucestershire & Worcestershire Parish Register Transcripts]
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| − | *[http://www.glosgen.co.uk/parish.htm Parish Records and Memorial Inscriptions]
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| − | *[http://www.easywell.co.uk/pubs/ Gloucestershire Pubs]
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| − | *[http://www.parishmouse.com/gloucestershire Parishmouse - Gloucestershire]
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| − | *[http://www.glosters.org.uk/ The Soldiers of Gloucestershire]
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| − | *[http://glostransporthistory.visit-gloucestershire.co.uk/ Gloucestershire Transport History]
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| − | *[http://www.grahamthomas.com/cotsx.html The South Cotswolds Genealogical and Local History Guide]
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| − | '''Specific Town and Village Interest'''
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| − | *[http://www.glosgen.co.uk/arlingham.htm Arlingham Baptism, Marriage & Burial Registers]
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| − | *[http://www.bathbmd.org.uk/ Bath BMDs]
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| − | *[http://www.bittonfamilies.com/index.html Bitton Families]
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| − | *[http://www.bgas.org.uk/cheltgaz/ Historical Gazeteer of Cheltenham]
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| − | *[http://www.chippingcampden.org/index.php? Chipping Campden]
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| − | *[http://www.chalfordhill.org.uk/index.html Chalford Hill]
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| − | *[http://www.dursleyglos.org.uk/html/dursley/industry/mills/mills.htm The Woollen Cloth Industry in the Dursley Area]
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| − | *[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wrag44/ Deerhurst, Forthampton & Eldersfield]
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| − | *[http://www.kindredkonnections.com/cgi-bin/extracted?-1+0+000000+English+0-0+ch000525+uk Parish Records from St Mary's Church, Dymock 1538-1796]
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| − | *[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cbennett/index.htm Trade Directory - The Forest of Dean area]
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| − | *[http://www.geocities.com/fedgeg/index.html?200916 Forest Edge Churches]
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| − | *[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=42319 Old Gloucester Street Names]
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| − | *[http://thor.prohosting.com/~hughw/gloster.txt Gloucester Pigot's Directory 1830]
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| − | *[http://ww3.gloucestershire.gov.uk/genealogy/Search.aspx Gloucestershire Council Genealogical Database]
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| − | :''Index of all wills proved at Gloucester between 1541 and 1858'' <br>
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| − | :''Nonconformist Baptisms''<br>
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| − | :''Overseers of the poor records''<br>
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| − | :''Gaol Registers - details of prisoners held in the county gaol from 1815 to 1879''<br>
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| − | *[http://www.hawkesburyhistory.com/ Hawkesbury History]
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| − | *[http://www.longhopevillage.co.uk/ Longhope Village]
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| − | *[http://www.glosgen.co.uk/minchin/index.htm Marriage entries at Minchinhampton to 1812]
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| − | *[http://www.randwicksources.org.uk/index.html Randwick Village]
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| − | *[http://www.taynton.btinternet.co.uk/ The History of Taynton]
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| − | *[http://www.geocities.com/tetbury1737/index.html?200916 Tetbury Religious Affiliations Census taken about 1735]
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| − | *[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wrag44/leigh/leigh.htm Parish Register Transcripts The Leigh]
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| − | *[http://www.scribes-alcove.co.uk Parish Records For Thornbury, Berkeley, Hill, Oldbury On Severn, Rockhampton & Stone]
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| − | *[http://www.frenchaymuseumarchives.co.uk/ Parish of Winterbourne]
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| − | *[http://www.grahamthomas.com/history1.html Woodchester and Selsey]
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| − | *[http://wotton-under-edge.com/guide Wooton-under-Edge]
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| − | ==Bristol==
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| − | *[http://www.bafhs.org.uk/ Bristol and Avon Family History Society]
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| − | *[http://www.members.lycos.co.uk/acwuk/ Bristol Family History Research Guide]
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| − | *[http://www.brigstowe.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ Bristol History]
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| − | *[http://www.bristolinformation.co.uk/ Aspects of Bristol History and Genealogy]
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| − | *[http://www.churchcrawler.co.uk/ Bristol's Cathedrals and Churches]
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| − | *[http://www.bristolslostpubs.com/ Bristol’s Lost Pubs mid-16th - mid-20th Century]
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| − | *[http://www.bristol.gov.uk/ccm/content/Leisure-Culture/records-and-archives/bristol-wills-indices-1781-1858.en;jsessionid=2DC36FB9A75DF09751B6A7AD501B98DC.tcwwwaplaws1 Bristol Wills Index 1793-1858]
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| − | '''Maps and Photographs'''
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| − | *[http://www.cheltenhammuseum.org.uk/Collections/search.asp?Search=2 Old Cheltenham Photographs]
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| − | *[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~genmaps/genfiles/COU_Pages/ENG_pages/gls.htm Old Gloucestershire Maps]
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| − | *[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~brett/photo2/artists.html Some Early Gloucestershire Photographers]
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| − | *[http://oldgloucester.visit-gloucestershire.co.uk/ Gloucester City photos 1900-1980]
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| − | *[http://www.sungreen.co.uk/Default.htm Old Photos of the Forest of Dean]
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| − | ==Register Office==
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| − | '''Cheltenham'''
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| − | St George's Road <br>
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| − | Cheltenham<br>
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| − | Glos<br>
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| − | GL50 3EW<br>
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| − | Tel 01242 532455<br>
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| − | Email: cheltenham.ro@gloucestershire.gov.uk<br>
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| − | '''Cinderford (Forest of Dean)'''
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| − | The Oaks <br>
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| − | Belle Vue Centre<br>
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| − | 6, Belle Vue Road<br>
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| − | Cinderford<br>
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| − | Glos.<br>
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| − | GL14 2AB<br>
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| − | Tel 01594 822113<br>
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| − | Email: forestofdean.ro@gloucestershire.gov.uk
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| − | '''Cirencester'''
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| − | The Corinium<br>
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| − | Old Memorial Hospital<br>
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| − | Sheep Street<br>
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| − | Cirencester<br>
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| − | Glos.<br>
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| − | GL7 1QW<br>
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| − | Tel 01285 650455/652893<br>
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| − | Email: cirencester.ro@gloucestershire.gov.uk <br>
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| − | '''Gloucester'''
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| − | The Maitland Suite <br>
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| − | Maitland House<br>
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| − | Spa Road<br>
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| − | Gloucester<br>
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| − | GL1 1UY<br>
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| − | Tel 01452 425275<br>
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| − | Email: gloucester.ro@gloucestershire.gov.uk <br>
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| − | '''Moreton in the Marsh'''
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| − | North Cotswold Registration District<br>
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| − | The Redesdale Room <br>
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| − | The Council Offices<br>
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| − | High Street<br>
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| − | Moreton-in-Marsh<br>
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| − | Glos.<br>
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| − | GL56 0AZ<br>
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| − | Tel 01608 651199<br>
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| − | Email: northcotswold.ro@gloucestershire.gov.uk <br>
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| − | '''Stroud'''
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| − | The Old Victorian School <br>
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| − | Parliament Street<br>
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| − | Stroud<br>
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| − | Glos.<br>
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| − | GL5 1DY <br>
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| − | Tel 01453 766049<br>
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| − | Email: stroud.ro@gloucestershire.gov.uk<br>
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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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