Archives and Libraries

England

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• Formed by a merger of the Public Record Office and the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, The National Archives (TNA) is the principal repository for English and Welsh records. A good starting point is their article Family History - Guide to Resources. TNA also provide some useful Research Guides.
  The National Archives Catalogue is now online - see also: TNA Catalogue Help.

• TNA Access to Archives (A2A) Programme aims to create a virtual national archives catalogue covering all repositories in the country.

• DocumentsOnline (formerly PRO-Online) "allows you online access to TNA's collection of digitised public records, including both academic and genealogical sources".

• National Register of Archives is an extensive searchable database (formerly run by the Royal Commision on Historical Manuscripts, now part of TNA) which contains information on the nature and location of manuscripts and historical records that relate to British history.

• Your Archives - "The National Archives' online community of records users", a wiki that archive users can contribute to: "These pages are for you to contribute your knowledge of archival sources held by The National Archives and by other archives throughout the UK." - Your Archives

• Mark Howells has provided a listing of English Record Offices and Archives on the Web.

• The L.D.S. (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) have now provided online search facilities for the I.G.I. (International Genealogical Index). As well as the general search facility, there is also a Custom Search page allowing more refined searches. Hugh Wallis has provided a search facility which greatly simplifies searching by batch number. See also Finding L.D.S. Batch Numbers.

• The FamilySearch site has a list of Family History Centres in England. These are provided by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

• In particular, the Hyde Park (London) Family History Centre has a useful web site.

• The Guildhall Library, London.

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