Yorkshire

"The white rose county" - England's largest county and formerly divided into 3 Ridings, North, East and West, from the word "thriding", meaning "third". It stretches from the coastal area of the North Sea to the Pennines and from the river Humber to the Tees. 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.

Home of the Yorkshire pudding, traditionally served separately at the start of the meal, and Black Sheep beer. The artist David Hockney was raised in Bradford. Captain Cook sailed from Whitby to discover the east coast of Australia. Yorkshire has seen many boundary changes over the years and there are several county, city and local metropolitan borough council organisations throughout the region. County town: York Other major towns: Bradford, Sheffield, Leeds Yorkshire Places of Worship Regional Projects Forum

Source: Wikipedia

Resources

Primary Reference

• East Riding Record Office

• West Yorkshire Archive Service

• North Yorkshire Archives

• York Archives

• Borthwick Institute

• Teesside Archives

• North Riding of Yorkshire Look-up Exchange

• Yorkshire-West Riding Look-up Exchange

• Parish Register UK Look-up Exchange

Countywide Interest

• Yorkshire Census

• Online Census Records for Yorkshire

• Dales Genealogy

• Death Notices in Yorkshire Newspapers

• Wolds Wagoners, East Yorks Ag Labs Who Used Their Skills as Drivers for The Army

• Yorkshire GenWeb Project

• Yorkshire Indexers

• North Yorkshire Ironstone Mining

• Borthwick Institute, York, Parish Records for parts of East & North Yorks and also many pre 1857 wills for Northern Province

• UK North East Website and Genealogical Mailing List

• Yorkshire Archaeological Society Parish Register Section, Books, Microfiche & CD Roms

• Yorkshire BMD

• Yorkshire Quaker Heritage Project

• Yorkshire Surname List

• Yorkshire Roots

• The West Riding Colliery School

• Yorkshire Women's Lives 1100 to the Present

• Lost Villages of the Holderness Coast Feb 2009

Specific Town and Village Interest

• Barnsley FHS

• Bradford FHS

• Calderdale FHS

• Doncaster FHS Site currently down

• East Yorkshire FHS

• Huddersfield & District FHS

• Morley FHS

• Pontefract FHS

• Rotherham FHS

• Sheffield FHS

• Wakefield FHS

• Ackworth St Cuthbert Parish Register Transcriptions

• Aldbrough St John

• Old Barnsley

• Barwick-in-Elmet Historical Society Mar 09

• Bishop Wilton

• Bolsterstone Genealogy Project

• Barford Community Website's Genealogy Pages

• Brotherton

• Bubwith Feb 2009

• From Weaver To Web - Calderdale

• Calverley - Parish Records

• Cononley Local History

• Cowling Moonrakers

• Cowlingweb Cowling Local History

• Crakehall

• Craven's Part in the Great War

• Dalton

• Dewsbury Now and Then

• Driffield

• Driffield and Wolds Genealogy

• Earby and District Local History Society

• Easingwold Monuments - Monumetal Inscriptions Easingwold Church 1911

• Eastrington Village

• Eston

• Fitzwilliam Archive Project

• Gargrave in Past Times

• Gawber Parish Records

• History of Gilling Feb 2009

• Golcar, Some Parish Records and Burials

• Goole on the Web

• Grinton Parish Church - some Parish Records

• Gunnerside

• Halifax -Mount Zion Chapel

• Hampsthwaite

• Harrogate People and Places

• Harrogate and Knaresborough Monumental Inscriptions

• Haworth Village

• Honley Cemetery Burial Book 1857-1935

• Brief history of Hull, Its Museums and Docks

• Hullwebs History of Hull Feb 2009

• Hull Boundries, Churches and Parishes and a History of Sculcoates Feb 2009

• Hunmanby Feb 2009

• Haxby - History Section

• Kellington

• All Saint's Church Parish Records, Kilnwick in the Wolds

• Kirkby Malham

• Kirkby Misperton History

• Kirkheaton Online Parish Clerk

• Knottingley and Ferrybridge

• Langcliffe in Craven

• Leeds Parish Registers 1612-1639

• The 1868 Leeds Poll Book

• Malhamdale Local History Pages

• St Marys Church, Little Driffield

• Marsden History Group

• Mirfield in Pictures

• Morley Community Archives

• Newton-le-Willows and surrounding Villages

• St Andrew's Church, Normanby, Parish Registers

• Life and Death in Elizabethan Norton

• Three Villages - Old Byland, Rievaulx and Scawton

• Pannal Village History

• Pocklington History

• Ravenfield Village

• Rotherham Web

• Peace Please! Rotherham

• Rudston Village Website

• Transcript of St John's Church, Salton and Brawby

• Sheffield Genealogy

• Sheffield General Cemetery

• Sheffield History Forum

• Sheffield History Material

• Sheffield Indexers

• Sheffield in Pictures

• Silverwood Colliery

• Skidby Feb 2009

• Skipton Local History

• Thrybergh

• Thrybergh and Dalton Heritage Group

• Thurcroft

• Treeton

• Ulley Web

• Wakefield

• Court Rolls of the Manor of Wakefield 1274-1294

• Wakefield Area Burials and Cremations

• Wakefield - 'Twixt Aire and Calder

• Wentworth Village History

• West Scrafton in Coverdale

• Wharfedale and Craven Genealogical Study

• Whashton, Kirby Hill and Ravendale Census Data and Photographs

• Whitby Archives Heritage Centre

• Whiston Web

• Wickersley Web

• Wigglesworth Village

• York Assizes 1785-1851

• York Bridgemasters' Accounts

• York Cemetery

• History of York

• Churchwardens’ accounts for St Michael Spurriergate in York for the year 1546 .PDF

Maps and Photographs

• Old photographs of Hull

• Leodis A Photographic Archive of Leeds

• Gallery of Old Settle

• Pictures of Sheffield

• Historic Photographs of Skipton

• Imagine York

Places of Interest

Captain Cook and Staithes Heritage Centre High St Staithes TS13 5BQ

Tel: 01947 841454

Although primarily a museum dedicated to Captain Cook, they also hold a large number of local family history information, including individual family research.

Register Office Contact Details

A full list of register offices, searchable bmd database and links to the major Yorkshire Genealogy Sites can be accessed through: Yorkshire Births Marriages & Deaths

Record Office & Archive Lookup Requests

Please read the Terms and Conditions before requesting a lookup.

By requesting a lookup you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions as above.

Record Office & Archive Lookup Contacts

• Borthwick Institute, York Penelope

Cemetery Lookup Requests

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Cemetery Lookup Contacts

• Aldborough autumnfall
• Boroughbridge autumnfall
• Driffield area Janet in Yorkshire (Spring and Summer only)
• East Yorkshire Jeanette in Yorkshire
• Harthill Vicky the Viking
• Hull area Jeannette in Yorkshire
• Knaresborough autumnfall
• Middlesborough BoroBabs
• North Anston, South Yorkshire Lynn The Forest Fan
• Pocklington area Janet in Yorkshire (Spring and Summer only)
• South Anston, South Yorkshire Lynn The Forest Fan
• Wales Vicky the Viking
• Between Hull and Goole Astro Lady

Photo Offers

Members that have offered to take photographs in particular areas. Please send a private message to the member with your queries.

• East Yorkshire Astro Lady Or SBPF Wendy
• Bradford Tom Tom
• Eston BoroBabs
• Guisborough BoroBabs
• Leeds Tom Tom
• Middlesbrough BoroBabs or ElaineM
• Normanby BoroBabs
• Redcar BoroBabs
• Stokesley BoroBabs
• York & Vale of York Penelope

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