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Yorkshire Genealogy

 
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"Yorkshire, maritime county of England; bounded N. by Durham and the Tees, NE. and E. by the North Sea, S. by the Humber and Lincolnshire, Notts, and Derbyshire, SW. by Cheshire, W. by Lancashire, and N.W. by Westmorland; length, E. and W., 96 miles; breadth, 80 miles; area, 3,882,851 acres, population 2,886,564. Yorkshire is the first county of England in point of size, and the third in point of population. "
from Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles, 1887


Genuki - Yorkshire
Genuki is the largest collection of research information
on the net for UK
Neighbouring Counties
 
Cheshire, Durham, Derbyshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Westmorland
Yorkshire GenWeb
maintained by volunteers in an effort to help researchers
find local resources and reference information
Archives and Libraries
 
East Riding of Yorkshire Archives Service North Yorkshire CC - Libraries and information services
West Yorkshire Archive Service  
North Riding of Yorkshire Lookup Exchange

request free lookups of censuses, parish registers
held by individual volunteers
Local Genealogy Societies & Groups
Cyndi's List - Yorkshire
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
range in date from the early 1500s to the mid- to late-1800s
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 Yorkshire 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 - Yorkshire
Yorkshire 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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