United Kingdom: England Family History Societies and County Sites

United Kingdom - England: Family History Societies and County Sites

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General
Use the following sites to locate record and archive offices, and the details of societies that are not listed here or who do not have a web site.

Federation of Family History Societies List of Members includes societies and contacts. These include the Anglo-German, Anglo-Italian, Quaker and Romany & Traveller family history societies.

GENUKI's List of Family History and Genealogy Societies. Includes regional societies.

Society of Genealogists, London. Information about the Society and its activities. Information Leaflets are available online.

The EnglandGenWeb Project has individual county sites which offer access to a wide range of local information, resources and links.

Bedfordshire
Bedfordshire Family History Society

National Archive of Memorial Inscriptions (NAOMI). This site aims to provide an accessible archive of UK memorial inscriptions. It currently lists 150,000+ inscriptions from Norfolk and Bedfordshire burial grounds.

Photographs of Bedfordshire by Kevin Quick. This series of photos includes churches which are indexed alphabetically by parish plus a collection of pictures of towns and villages.

Richard Heaton's Family History Homepage includes an index (link at top of page) to 13,000+ names in the Windsor and Eton Express (1826-1842) plus indexes to soldiers, police and pubs, inns & beer houses. 2,800+ names from the 1539 North Wiltshire Musters have also been indexed.

Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire Family History Society

Buckinghamshire Genealogical Society

Photographs of Buckinghamshire by Kevin Quick. This series of photos includes churches which are indexed alphabetically by parish plus a collection of pictures of towns and villages.

Buckinghamshire County Council, Aylesbury Gaol in the 19th Century. This database details Prisoners Entering the County Gaol in Aylesbury in the 1870s. It includes name, age, birth place, residence, crime and if a photo is available. Other details such as occupation and sentence are also available.

Cambridgeshire
See also Online Birth, Death and Marriage Indexes

Cambridgeshire Family History Society. Searchable databases include baptism index 1801-1837, burial index 1801-1837, poor law papers index plus others.

The Cambridge University Heraldic & Genealogical Society

Fenland Family History Society.

The Family History Society of Cheshire

Family History Society of Cheshire - Crewe Group

North Cheshire Family History Society

FamilySearch, Record Search, Pilot site includes Cheshire Church of England burial, christening and marriage records 1538-1907 and the Register of Electors 1842-1900 which lists those eligible to vote in county and local elections. Digital copies of the original records are available for free. New

Cornwall
Cornwall Family History Society

Cornwall Online's Genealogy Pages online Cornish Mining Index to 16,000+ names. Several other databases (surnames, convicts, executions and RN ships) are available for downloading.

Cornish Cemeteries Index by Christine Uphill. This site aims to provide online access to the cemeteries, in the West Penwith area of Cornwall, transcribed by Suezan James. The project has since been expanded and other cemeteries have been included. Currently there are over 20,000 names indexed.

Cumberland
Cumbria Family History Society

Furness Family History Society

FamilySearch, Record Search, Pilot site includes the Diocese of Durham Bishops' Transcripts c1700-1900. The unindexed images of the transcripts are available for viewing online and include parishes in counties Durham, Northumberland, Yorkshire and Cumberland. New

Derbyshire
See also Online Birth, Death and Marriage Indexes

Derbyshire Family History Society

Yesterday's Journey. This site features transcriptions from a wide range of Derbyshire historic documents including apprenticeship records, bastardy papers, cemetery records, law and order, removal orders, settlement certificates and examinations, wills and administrations plus others. The documents are arranged by parish and township. A site search engine is available.

Devon
Devon Family History Society

Dorset
See also Somerset
Dorset Family History Society

Durham
See Northumberland, Yorkshire. See also Online Birth, Death and Marriage Indexes

Durham Records Online. This commercial site offers a free name search which returns names, age, record type and district. This site currently has 2,406,100+ records available for searching.

Tomorrow's History local studies site for the North East of England covers Northumberland, Durham, North & South Tyneside, Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland, Hartlepool, Darlington, Stockton on Tees, Middlesbrough and Redcar & Cleveland. Resources for each community in the region includes maps, directories and photographs. 30,000+ digital images are available online.

Essex
Essex Society for Family History

Unlocking Essex's Past. This site has a variety of online data available.

Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire Family History Society

Bristol & Avon Family History Society There is access to the South Gloucestershire Burials Index and Shirehampton cemetery inscriptions.

Forest of Dean Family History.

Isle of Wight Family History Society

Herefordshire
Herefordshire Family History Society

Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire Family History Society

Royston and District Family History Society

Genealogy in Hertfordshire by Chris Reynolds. An interactive guide for people researching local and family history in Hertfordshire.

Huntingdonshire
Huntingdonshire Family History Society

Kent
See also Online Birth, Death and Marriage Indexes

Kent Family History Society

North West Kent Family History Society

Folkestone & District Family History Society

Tunbridge Wells Family History Society.

Kent Genealogy contains searchable indexes to over 80,000+ names and over 350 useful links. Indexes include the West Kent Quarter Sessions Index.(1788-1804), Kent wills at the PCC (1721-1734), Dover Telegraph Newspaper Index (1839 and 1850) plus much more.

Medway Council's Online Archives Service, CityArk, offers text based finding aids to 1500 years of Medway's historic archives collections. The Imagebase offers free access to scanned images of parish registers, licensing records, shipping registers plus much more.

Mid-Kent Marriages Index 1754-1911 New by David Hills offers access to transciptions of marriage records the mid Kent registration districts of East Ashford, West Ashford, Cranbrook, Elham, Hollingbourne, Romney Marsh and Tenterden.

Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Society

Lancaster Family History Group.

Liverpool & South West Lancashire Family History Society

Furness Family History Society.

North Meols (Southport) Family History Society

Ormskirk & District Family History Society

Manchester & Lancashire Family History Society

Leicestershire
Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society

Lincolnshire
See also Online Birth, Death and Marriage Indexes

Lincolnshire Family History Society. Includes online extracts from Lincolnshire newspapers.

Isle of Axholme Family History Society

London
See also Middlesex

The East of London Family History Society

London Westminister and Middlesex Family History Society

London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) Family Research online access to London Generations database of genealogical sources held by LMA. The London Signatures database offers online searches and digital copies (fee) of marriage bonds and wills held by LMA.

ParishRegister.com by Docklands Ancestors Ltd is a site for those tracing Docklands, Thames, watermen and lightermen ancestors. There is extensive information available plus free online name searching of London parish registers. Full details from the registers are available for a small fee.

London's Past Online. A keyword searchable bibliography of London history created by the Centre for Metropolitan History in association with the Royal Historical Society.

The Charles Booth Online Archive Charles Booth's inquiry into the life and labour of London people (1886-1903) documented the poverty and human suffering. He interviewed people from all walks of life and created detailed poverty maps (1892-1897) of the city which can be browsed online and compared with London maps (2000). Surname searches of those interviewed are available and it is possible to check a street address to see the poverty or wealth level assigned to that street.

London Burial Grounds aims to provide a record of London's burial grounds. Maps, historical notes, photographs and images are provided if available.

Middlesex
See also London

West Middlesex Family History Society

Hillingdon Family History Society

Norfolk
Norfolk Family History Society

Mid Norfolk Family History Society

Norfolk Online Access to Heritage (NOAH) offers access to archive, library and museum collections. It includes museum objects, photographs, maps, newspaper articles, probate records, trade directories and books. Digital copies of some records available.

Norfolk Public Houses. This site has over 5000 establishments arranged by place name. Choose a place and a list of public houses for that place will appear, choose one and a list of licensees and dates will appear plus a photograph of the premises and historical information.

offers access to contributed parish register indexes, records of subsidy (tax) and census record indexes. It is searchable by surname and place and has 475,209+ records.

Tinstaafl Transcripts 1813 to 1880 Baptism Project. This ongoing project is placing free transcripts of Co Norfolk Parish Registers online. Check to see if parishes of interest are online. New

1813 to 1880 Baptism Project - Longham St Andrew & St Peter. These transcripts are arranged chronologically and include full details from the original registers. New

Northamptonshire
Northamptonshire Family History Society

Peterborough & District Family History Society.

Northumberland
See also Durham and Online Birth, Death and Marriage Indexes

Northumberland & Durham Family History Society

Northumberland Communities site offers access to detailed, digitised local history information for 76 Northumberland communities and includes photographs, maps, estate, court, church and school records. Information is arranged and searchable by place name.

Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire Family History Society

The National Archives, DocumentsOnline, Southwell Union Workhouse, Nottinghamshire. Documents from the best-preserved workhouse in England (1834-1871) can be searched and images downloaded free of charge.

Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire Family History Society

Rutlandshire
See Leicestershire

Shropshire
Shropshire Family History Society

Somerset
See also Online Birth, Death and Marriage Indexes

Somerset& Dorset Family History Society

Weston super Mare Family History Society.

BathBMD. This site also offers access to the Bath Post Office Directories for 1852, 1872, 1895 and 1912. These can be downloaded online as PDF files or purchased on CD-ROM for a small fee.

Staffordshire
See also Online Birth, Death and Marriage Indexes

The Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry covers the counties of Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire.

Suffolk
Suffolk Family History Society

Felixstowe Family History Society

The Suffolk Surnames List. This site also includes details of other Suffolk resources.

Cosford Database. This site contains details of over 120,000 people and over 30,000 families mainly from the Lavenham and Cosford Registration District of Suffolk, England.

Surrey
East Surrey Family History Society

West Surrey Family History Society

The Epsom Family History Group

Sussex
Sussex Family History Group

Family History Society for Eastbourne and District.

Hastings and Rother Family History Society.

The Photos of Edwin Isaac Baker professional photographer Sussex County, England. This site contains photographs from two albums of Baker's work covering the period 1860s-1897. There are photos of Sussex people and places including castles, homes, country scenes and street scenes.

Warwickshire
See also Staffordshire
See also Online Birth, Death and Marriage Indexes

Warwickshire Family History Society

Coventry Family History Society

Nuneaton & North Warwickshire Family History Society.

Warwickshire County Council. Select the letter R, then Record Office, then Online Catalogue and Databases for access to Warwickshire's Past Unlocked online catalogue to the archives at Warwickshire County Record Office; the Tithe Apportionments database and the Calendars of Prisoners database (see Convicts).

Westmoreland http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tinstaafl/Church_Pages/longham.htm
1813 to 1880 Baptism Project - Longham St Andrew & St Peter. These transcripts are arranged chronologically and include full details from the original registers.

See Cumberland - Cumbria FHS.

Wiltshire
See also Online Birth, Death and Marriage Indexes

Wiltshire Family History Society

Worcestershire
See Staffordshire
See also Online Birth, Death and Marriage Indexes

Yorkshire
See also Durham and Online Birth, Death and Marriage Indexes

The City of York & District Family History Society. This site contains an index to records, held in York Reference Library, of prisoners brought to trial at York Assizes 1785-1851.

East Yorkshire Family History Society

Cleveland Family History Society

Barnsley Family History Society

Calderdale Family History Society

Doncaster & District Family History Society

Sheffield and District Family History Society

Sheffield Indexers. This site aims to provide free access to accurate indexed transcriptions of genealogical records. Currently selected census records for Sheffield and Derbyshire are available plus parish records, burial records and directories for Sheffield.

Counties

United Kingdom - England: Family History Societies and County Sites