Local and Family History Sites: National and Cheshire Sources

We think you will find the following links useful, but please note that Cheshire East Council accepts no responsibility for external sites or their contents.

S = Subscription service brought to you free of charge by Cheshire Libraries.

National Sources

• 1841 - 1901 census returns for Scotland
• 1881 census for England & Wales & IGI
• 1901 census for England & Wales
• 1901/1911 census for Ireland Household returns and ancillary records for the censuses of Ireland of 1901 and 1911 (all 32 counties)
• 1911 census for England & Wales
• Ancestry Library Edition S Available only in libraries The largest online collection of family history records in the UK
• BBC family history
• BMD Registers Gives access to various unpublished registers from 1534-1865; usually providing the only record of a particular event
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• Directory of archives
• Database of catalogues of archives held across England and dating from the 900s to the present day
• Family Records Centre
• Family Search.org  A service provided by the Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints, including the International Genealogical Index (IGI)
• Federation of Family History Societies
• Free BMD Transcriptions of the civil registration indexes of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales from 1837-1983
• General Register Offices for England and Wales
• General Register Office, Ireland
• General Register Office, Northern Ireland
• General Register Office, Scotland
• Genuki UK & Ireland Genealogy sites
• Historical Directories Digital library of local and trade directories for England and Wales, from 1750 to 1919. It contains high quality reproductions of comparatively rare books.
• Image resource for England's history
• International Genealogical Index (IGI) The website of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints
• Isle of Man Genealogy
• National Archives, Kew
• National Archives of Ireland
• National Archives of Scotland
• National Library of Wales
• Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
• Scotland's People Provides access to statutory birth, marriage and death registers as well as old parish registers. Also provides a free search of wills and testaments, as well as coats of arms
• UK BMD Online transcriptions of UK births, marriages, deaths and censuses. Information given about other online resources
• UK Fairground Ancestors Covers travelling showmen, circus and other fairground travellers
• Vision of Britain Maps, statistics and historical descriptions of locations in Britain

Cheshire Sources

• Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
• Cheshire & Warrington Trade Directories Six Cheshire and two Warrington trade directories available, including Cowdroy's (1789), Kelly's (1902,1906,1910), Morris and Co's (1864), Pigot's (1822-3) and Slater's (1883, 1895)
• Cheshire births, marriages and deaths online from 1837. Site incomplete
• Cheshire Parish Registers Transcripts from Cheshire parish registers provided by the Family Search.org website
• Cheshire's Tithe Maps Online
• Cheshire Wills
• Chester Image Bank Digital images of Chester
• Family History Society of Cheshire
• North Cheshire Family History Society
• Picture Cheshire Digital images of Cheshire
• Revealing Cheshire's Past Access to the County Sites and Monuments Record (SMR), the database of all the known archaeological sites and finds in Cheshire, Halton and Warrington.
• South Cheshire Family History Society.