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Bedfordshire Genealogy
 
Description

"BEDFORDSHIRE, or BEDS, an inland county; bounded on the NW by Northampton, on the NE by Huntingdon, on the E by Cambridge, on the SE and the S by Herts, and on the SW and W by Bucks. Its length southward is 35 miles; its greatest breadth, 22½ miles; its circuit, about 145 miles; and its area 295,582 acres. The general aspect is diversified and pleasing." from Imperial Gazatteer of England & Wales, 1866-9

 Genuki - Bedfordshire
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Neighbouring Counties
 
Northamptonshire, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, and Buckinghamshire
Bedfordshire GenWeb
maintained by volunteers in an effort to help researchers
find local resources and reference information
Archives and Libraries
 
Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Record Service Bedfordshire Libraries Virtual Library Service
Bedfordshire Lookup Exchange
 request free lookups of censuses, parish registers
held by individual volunteers
Local Genealogy Societies & Groups
Cyndi's List - Bedfordshire
largest private collection
of genealogy links on the web
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Bedfordshire Genealogy Record Sources

many of these sites can provide source records of ancestors:
 
Directories
huge resource by University of Leicester; of local and trade directories from 1750 to 1919
Probate
over 44,700 genealogy records from the early 1500s to the mid- to late-1800s
Surname Lists
provides surnames being researched and email address of researcher
Births, Deaths, Marriages
search over 100 million UK births, deaths and marriages
Message Boards
post and read about Bedfordshire genealogy with other researchers
Cemeteries

Parish Registers

free internet searches of baptism, marriage, and burial records,
which have been transcribed from parish and non-conformist church registers
War Memorials
Roll-of-Honour - Bedfordshire
Bedfordshire war memorials and rolls of honour
 
UK Electoral Rolls
search over 100 million people in UK electoral rolls
Censuses
 
1841-1891 Census transcriptions by volunteers
 
 
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