Description
"A county of England, lying on the Irish Sea, and bounded by Cumberland,
Westmoreland, Yorkshire, and Cheshire. It is 75 miles in length, and 30
in breadth. It is divided into 6 hundreds, which contain 27 market towns,
62 parishes, and 894 villages. "
from Barclay's Complete and Universal Dictionary of 1842
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Genuki
- Lancashire
Genuki is the largest collection of research information
on the net for UK |
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Neighbouring
Counties
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Cheshire, Cumberland, Westmorland, Yorkshire
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Lancashire
GenWeb
maintained by volunteers in an
effort to help researchers
find local resources and reference information |
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Lancashire
Lookup Exchange
request free lookups of censuses, parish registers
held by individual volunteers |
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Local Genealogy Societies &
Groups
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Cyndi's
List - Lancashire
largest private collection
of genealogy links on the web |
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Directories
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huge resource by University of
Leicester; of local and trade directories from 1750 to 1919
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Parish and Probate Records
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1,244,200 records including baptisms/christenings,
burials,
marriages, tombstone inscriptions, obituaries, tax lists and wills.
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Surname Lists
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provides surnames being researched
and email address of researcher
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England & Wales BMDs
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search over 40 million England
& Wales free B,M&Ds |
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Message Boards
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post and read about Lancashire
genealogy with other researchers
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Parish Registers
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free internet searches of baptism,
marriage, and burial records,
which have been transcribed from parish and non-conformist church
registers
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800 Million Name UK Database
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search 800 million UK records in over 60 individual databases
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Censuses
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1841-1891 Census transcriptions
by volunteers
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