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
Focus on Family History gives information on books, websites, organisations and activities to help you find out how to research your family history
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
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
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IGI
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International Genealogical Index of births/baptisms and marriages worldwide dating from 1538 to 1875
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Leicestershire Villages
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Local village information and available Church and Burial Records
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CALM
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The Record Office Catalogue
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For more detailed research into local history contact the
Record Office.
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