Records Office Guide
From the Family Tree Forum Reference Library
A Guide To Information Available In Your Local Records Office
Contents
- 1 County Records Offices
- 2 Births Marriages and Deaths
- 3 Other Types of Records
- 3.1 Archive Collections
- 3.2 Architectural drawings and building plans
- 3.3 Coroner’s Records
- 3.4 Court Sessions and Victualler's Licences
- 3.5 Directories: Trade, Street and City
- 3.6 Electoral Registers and Poll Books
- 3.7 Emigration and Immigration
- 3.8 Hospital Records
- 3.9 Manorial, Land and Estate Deeds
- 3.10 Maps: Tithe and Ordnance Survey
- 3.11 Military Records
- 3.12 Newspapers and Journals
- 3.13 Photographs
- 3.14 Poor Law and Workhouse Records
- 3.15 Records of Merchant Seamen
- 3.16 School Records
- 3.17 Taxation Records
- 3.18 Wills and Probate
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]
