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Leicestershire Genealogy
 
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"Leicestershire, inland county of England, bounded N. by Notts, E. by Lincolnshire and Rutland, SE. by Northamptonshire, SW by Warwickshire, and NW. by Derbyshire; greatest length, about 44 miles; greatest breadth, about 40 miles; area, 511,907 acres, population, 321,258."
from Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles, 1887

 Genuki - Leicestershire
Genuki is the largest collection of research information
on the net for UK
Neighbouring Counties
 
Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland, Warwickshire
Leicestershire GenWeb
maintained by volunteers in an effort to help researchers
find local resources and reference information
Archives and Libraries
 
The Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland Leicestershire Libraries
Leicestershire Lookup Exchange
 request free lookups of censuses, parish registers
held by individual volunteers
Local Genealogy Societies & Groups
Cyndi's List - Leicestershire
largest private collection
of genealogy links on the web
 


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Genealogy Record Sources

many of these sites can provide source record information of ancestors:
 
Directories
huge resource by University of Leicester; of local and trade directories from 1750 to 1919
Probate
132,800 records including baptisms/christenings, burials,
marriages, tombstone inscriptions, obituaries, tax lists and wills.
Surname Lists
provides surnames being researched and email address of researcher
England & Wales Births
search over 40 million England & Wales births
Message Boards
post and read about Leicestershire 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 - Leicestershire
Leicestershire war memorials and rolls of honour
 
800 Million Name UK Database
search 800 million UK (including Scotland) records in over 60 individual databases
Censuses
 
1841-1891 Census transcriptions by volunteers
 
 
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