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Family History

For those who are interested in finding out about the past, discovering how people lived or tracing their family history, your library can provide resource materials on:
  • Your local community
  • Local newspapers and magazines - dating back to the 19th century
  • Maps including Ordnance Survey maps, railway and canal plans, street plans and shopping centre layouts, both current and historical
  • Family history research by using our online resource to Ancestry Library Edition available from any public computers in Leicestershire’s libraries.
  • Tracing your family history including trade directories, parish registers, electoral registers and old telephone directories
  • Census returns.

Tracing your Family History

How to trace your family history (Word doc) -  A guide created by the Record Office which contains links to useful websites.
Online access to Ancestry Library Edition gives you an opportunity to trace your ancestors in the UK, US and other international territories by accessing Census, BMD indexes, Passenger Lists, Military Records and many other records
LeicestershireVillages.com has local village information and available Church and Burial Records
Larger libraries have early town and trade directories, census returns, parish registers, and old telephone directories which will all help you trace your family history.
The International Genealogical Index can be used in person, or by the staff at the Leicestershire Record Office to trace your family name, or visit the Reference and Information Library in Leicester to trace your ancestors at the touch of a button on the Family search database.

Family history resources on the web

Familia Family history resources in public libraries in Britain and Ireland
IGI International Genealogical Index of births/baptisms and marriages worldwide dating from 1538 to 1875
Leicestershire Villages Local village information and available Church and Burial Records
For more detailed research into local history contact the Record Office.  
 

further information

Last Updated:
6 December 2007
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