Sources of information
- Your family
- Family records/documents/photographs/gravestones
- Civil registration records
- Census returns
- Parish records
- Wills
- Army records
- Mormon sources/international genealogical index (IGI)
- Newspapers - birth, death and marriage notices
Useful Contacts
Family Records Centre
1 Myddleton Street
London
EC1R 1UW
0208 3925300
For Birth, Adoption, Marriage, Civil Partnership & Death please visit the Direct Gov site
For Historical census returns, Wills & Military Records please visit The National Archives
For an archived version of FamilyRecords.gov.uk please visit UK Government Web Archive
General Register Office
Smedley Hydro
Trafalgar Road
Southport
PR8 2HH
Tel: 0151 471 4800
Principal Divorce Register
Family Proceedings Department
DA Searches Section Room 2.03
First Avenue House
42 - 49 High Holborn
London
WC1V 6NP
Information Hotline Tel: 0171 936 6966
Rotherham Family Histry Society
Mr. B. Allott
36 Warren Hill
Rotherham
S61 3SX
Rotherham MBC Archive and Local Studies Service
Sheffield Archives
52 Shoreham Street
Sheffield
Tel: 0114 203 9395
Email : archives@sheffield.gov.uk
York Probate
The Court Service
York Probate Sub-Registry
Duncombe Place
York YO1 2EA
Postal Applications wills/probate
Tel: 01904 624210
The following centres provide free public access to a complete set of the GRO indexes in microfiche format. As well as the Birth, Marriage and Death indexes for the whole of England and Wales, indexes are available for recent events, the Adopted Children Register, Civil Partnerships and events which have been registered overseas.
A full set of the indexes can be found at:
- Birmingham Central Library
- Bridgend Reference and Information Library
- City of Westminster Archives Centre
- Manchester City Library
- Plymouth Central Library
- The British Library
- The London Metropolitan Archives
Last Updated 05/01/2012