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BBC Legacies Website |
Local History Stories |
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Friends of Cumbria Archives |
Supports the creation, maintenance and use of Cumbrian archives |
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Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society |
Cumbria wide, founded 1866 |
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Cumbria Family History Society |
All aspects of family history |
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Cumbria County Council Archive Service |
Record offices at Carlisle, Whitehaven, Kendal and Barrow, plus local studies libraries |
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Images of Cumbria |
Private site. Parish/township based information based on C19th directories. Images mostly churches. |
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Vision of Britain Website |
Mapping and statistics (census) current and C19th |
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Lancaster University guide to online family and local history sources |
A good listing of sources for acedemic work |
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Cumbrian Industries |
History of industrial sites and industrial archaeology, with index |
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UK Genealogy |
Links to many resources |
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Local History Magazine |
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British Association for Local History |
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Lancashire Local History Federation |
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Cumbria
Railways |
The Cumbria Railways website is dedicated to the lost railways of Northern Cumbria which have all closed during the last century. |
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Archive |
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The National Archive |
The front door of the national archive for England and Wales. The next three elements are part of TNA |
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National Register of Archives |
Search the Register by name or place |
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Search the National Archives catalogue |
Search facility by person or place. A million wills proved at Canterbury |
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Census access via the National Archives |
Searchable Census, 1881, 1891 and 1901. Charges for some usages |
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On line index to the Manorial Documents Register. |
Gives lists, content description and location. Cumberland and Westmorland in 2005/6 |
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Cumbrian manorial records at Lancaster University |
Excellent guide to Cumbrian manorial records and their use, as part of the project on the Manorial Documents Register for Cumbria (late 2006) |
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Search the archives in county record offices |
Use this facility to locate subjects in Cumbria archive service |
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National Archives of Scotland |
Equivalent to the England and Wales organisation, which does not cover Scotland |
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Registers of Births Marriages and Deaths |
Search the civil registers of England and Wales from 1837. Charges apply. |
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UK data archive |
Historical statistical data, university based site. |
