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Family and History research in the United kingdom

Family research is more than a popular pastime. It is a source of research for writers of history and fiction. These sites provide a feast for fiction writers.

Many research sites charge you to download documents.

You will see the benefit of a fast connection when it comes to handling digital images and using the magnifier facility that many archives provide.

Some points of contact

Bank of England Threadneedle Street, London EC2R 8HR 0202 7601 4889 www.archive@bankofengland.co.uk
Black Cultural Archives and Museum 378 Coldharbour Lane, London SW9 8LF 020 7738 4591 www.aambh.org.uk
British Library 96 Euston Road London NW1 2DB 0870 444 1500 www.bl.uk
British Library Newspapers Colindale Avenue, London NW9 5HE 020 7412 7353 www.bl.uk/collections/newspapers.html
Census of 1901 PO Box 1901,Malvern, Worcestershire WR14 3YB 01684 585299 www.1901census.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Civil Registry (Isle of Man) Registries Building, Bucks Road, Douglas, IOM IM1 3AR 01624 687038 www.giv.im
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 185 Penns Lane, Sutton Coldfield B76 8JU   www.familysearch.org
College of Arms Queen Victoria, London Ec4V 4BT 0202 7248 2762 www.college-of-arms.gov.uk
Family Records Centre (FRC) 1 Myddleton Street, London EC 1 R 1UW 0870 243 7788(births, marriages and deaths) 020 8392 5300(census) www.familyrecords.gov.uk/frc
Federation of Family History Societies PO Box 2425 Coventry CV5 6YX   www.ffhs.org.uk
General Register Office, Ireland Joyce House,8-1 I Lombard Street East Dublin 2, Ireland + 353 I 635 40 00 www.groireland.ie
General Register Office, Northern Ireland Oxford House 49-55 Chichester Street Belfast BT1 4HL 028 9025 2000 www.groni.gov.uk
General Register Office for Scotland (GROS) New Register House,3 West Register Street Edinburgh EH1 3YT 0131 314 4433 www.gro-scotland.gov.uk
Institute of Commonwealth Studies University of London,38 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DS   www.sas.ac.uk/commonwealth_studies
Institute of heraldic and Genealogical Studies 79-82 Northgate, Canterbury, Kent CT1 1BA 01227 786664 www.ihgs@ihgs.ac.uk
London Metropolitan Archives 40 Northampton Road London EC1R  0HB 020 7332 3820 www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma
Modern Records Centre University Library, Warwick University, Coventry CV4 7AL 2476524219 www.warwick.ac.uk/go/modernrecordscentre
National Archives (TNA) Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU 2088763444 www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
National Archives of Ireland Bishop Street, Dublin 8, Ireland + 353 I 407 2300 www.nationalarchives.ie
National Archives of Scotland (NAS) HM General Register House,2 Princes Street, Edinburgh EH I 3YY 0 131 535 1334 www.nas.gov.uk
National Library of Scotland George IV Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1EW 0131 226 4531 www.nls.uk
National Library of Wales Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3BU 01970 632800 www.llgc.org.uk
National Maritime Museum Park Row Greenwich, London SE10 9NF 020 8312 6565 www.nmm.ac.uk
Oral History PO Box 464, Berhamstead,  Herts HP4 2UR 01442 879097 www.oralhistory@webscribe.info
People's History Museum 103 Princess Street Manchester M1 6DD 0161 2287212 www.peopleshistorymuseum.org.uk
Principal Registry of the Family Division First Avenue House,42-49 High Holborn London WC1V 6NP 020 7947 6000 www.courtservice.gov.uk
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland 66 Balmoral Avenue, Belfast BT9 6NY 028 9025 5905 www.proni.gov.uk
Society of Genealogists 14 Charterhouse Buildings Goswell Road, London EC1M 7BA 020 725 I 8799 www.sog.org.uk
Superintendent Registrar (Jersey) 10 Royal Square, St Helier,  Jersey, CI 01534 502 335 www.judicialgreffe.je

Access to Archives A2A www.a2a.org.uk
ARCHON directory of archives www.archon.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Census 1891 & 1881 www.ancestry.co.uk
Census 1901 www.census.pro.gov.uk
County records offices in GB www.genuki.org.uk
Cyndi's List of genealogy sites worldwide www.cyndislist.com
BBC family resource centre www.bbc.co.uk/familyhistory
BBC family war history www.bbc.co.uk/ww2
English place name society www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/EPNS/
Family Records www.familyrecords.gov.uk
Family Search for Parish Records www.familysearch.org
Finding relatives www.genesreunited.com
Insurance policies of 19th Century www.history.ac.uk/gh/sun.htm
International Genealogical Index (IGI) database with 600 million names www.familysearch.org
Place in the Sun indexing project http://www.history.ac.uk/gh/sun.htm
Prerogative Court of Canterbury www.documnetsonline.pro.gov.uk
UK & Ireland Genealogy www.genuki.org.uk
UK Probate register www.courtservice.gov.uk/wills_probate

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