Description
"Shropshire or Salop, an inland county of the W of England, is bounded
on the NW by Denbighshire, on the N by Flintshire and Cheshire, on the E
by Staffordshire, on the S by Worcestershire, Herefordshire, and Radnorshire,
and on the W by Montgomeryshire and Denbighshire. Its outline has numerous
irregularities, but is not far from being oblong. Its boundaries are chiefly
artificial. Its greatest length from N to S is 48 miles; its greatest breadth
is 41 miles; its circuit is about 220 miles, and its area is 859,516 acres."
from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
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Genuki
- Shropshire
Genuki is the largest collection of research information
on the net for UK |
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Neighbouring
Counties
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Cheshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Herefordshire,
Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire, Staffordshire, Worcestershire
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 Shropshire
GenWeb
maintained by volunteers in an
effort to help researchers
find local resources and reference information |
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Shropshire
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 - Shropshire
largest private collection
of genealogy links on the web |
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huge resource by University of
Leicester; of local and trade directories from 1750 to 1919
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Probate
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1,450,900 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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Births, Deaths, Marriages
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search over 100 million UK births,
deaths and marriages
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post and read about Shropshire
genealogy with other researchers
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Cemeteries
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Interment.net - Shropshire
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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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UK Electoral Rolls
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search over 100 million people
in UK electoral rolls
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Censuses
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1841-1891 Census transcriptions
by volunteers
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