Description
"Worcestershire or Worcester, an inland county bounded on the NW
by Salop, on the N by Staffordshire, on the E by Warwickshire, on the S
by Gloucestershire, and on the W by Herefordshire. Its outline is very irregularly
quadrangular. Its boundaries are mostly artificial. Its greatest length
from N to S is about 34 miles; its greatest breadth is about 30 miles, its
circuit is about 220 miles; and its area is 480,560 acres."
from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
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Genuki
- Worcestershire
Genuki is the largest collection of research information
on the net for UK |
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Neighbouring
Counties
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Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire,
Staffordshire, Warwickshire
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 Worcestershire
GenWeb
maintained by volunteers in an
effort to help researchers
find local resources and reference information |
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Worcestershire
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 - Worcestershire
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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range in date from the early 1500s
to the mid- to late-1800s
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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 Worcestershire
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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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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