Research Websites
These external website links have been kindly provided Marie Riley and Richard Marshall. If you have knowledge of other useful sites then please contact us via the contact page
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Currently 6,509,292 records of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials all transcribed by volunteers – the backbone of family history research. New records are being added all the time so it’s worth going back and re-checking on a regular basis. If you are researching another county just do a web search for online parish clerk with that county name, although you will most likely be disappointed. Lancashire is by far the best! Parish records only, not civil registration.
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Again a free site that is the work of volunteers. Transcriptions from the indexes of births, marriages and deaths across Lancashire. Civil registration only, no parish records.
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This is the Lancashire County Council page for the Lancashire Record Office and their archive. It’s a nice place to visit, a short walk from the train station with a tea room to eat your sandwiches. They still have some trade directories on the shelf which are much more satisfying to read than looking at them on microfiche. They have an online service if you can’t get there. Staff are helpful and will put themselves out for you – and they reply to emails.
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These are the Church of the Latter Day Saints (Mormon) Records. The site contains millions of parish records from all around the world and free access to the 1881 UK census. It will show findings from other censuses but the links will take you to subscription sites.
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This has the most extensive collection of online records. You can find census records, some parish records, probate and many other resources. You may also find that somebody had already constructed a family tree for the person you are looking for. This is expensive to subscribe to but you can access it free from Lancashire libraries.
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Another UK subscription site that provides an alternative to Ancestry.com. Not as extensive as Ancestry.com but it does have some different sets of records so these two sites complement each other well. Again free from within Lancashire Libraries.
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There is an online search facility but frustratingly it will sometimes just give brief details and a reference to a printed source at the archive.
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Good for famous people but lots of ordinary people here too. Set the county to one in the UK or you will get lots of American hits if you just put a surname in. The level of adverts is slightly annoying and it’s not a visually pleasing site but well worth it if you find someone you’re looking for.
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Comprehensive site covering all aspects of the antiques trade with a section on hallmarks and historical periods as well as latest news on valuations.
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All you need to know about writing labels for exhibitions from the V&A museum.
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