Family history resources
| Resource type |
About the resource |
Availability |
| Ancestry website |
This website has a wealth of information for family historians including all Census records form 1841-1901
and birth, marriage and burial indexes from 1837-2004. It is a subscription website, but all Kirklees Library and Information Centres now have
free access to it. |
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| Births, marriages and deaths |
The GRO (General Register Office) Index (also known as St. Catherine's Index) is the national index of births, marriages
and deaths. Huddersfield Local Studies Library holds records from 1837, when civil registration came into being, up to 1999.
The FreeBMD website gives free access to records from 1837 to the 1930s and is being constantly updated. |
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| Census |
Census returns for the Kirklees area are available from 1841 to 1901. Huddersfield Local Studies Library
also holds the 1881 Census Index for Yorkshire.
The 1881 Census for the British Isles is on the Family Search website.
The 1911 Census website is free to search, but not to view records. Huddersfield Local Studies Library sells vouchers to use on the site. |
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| General family history |
Huddersfield Local Studies Library has a large collection of guides to family history.
BBC Family History website has general information about researching family history.
The Genuki website has a huge amount of family history information covering every county in the UK, with thousands of links. |
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| IGI (International Genealogical Index) |
Huddersfield Local Studies Library holds the IGI for Yorkshire.
To search other regions you can use the Family Search web site. |
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| Local organisations |
Informationabout local family history groups and resources held in our local organisations database.
Includes Huddersfield and District Family History Society and the Family History Centre at Birchencliffe. |
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| Migration |
The Moving Here website includes digitised photographs, documents and other material recording experiences
of migration to England over the last 200 years. |
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| The National Archives |
Website includes useful research guides and the National Archives catalogue as well as pay-per-download access to
some National Archives documents. |
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| Parish records |
West Yorkshire parish and chapel records are available at Huddersfield Local Studies Library, together
with the cemetery records for Kirklees. |
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| Workhouses and poverty |
The Workhouse website explores the history of the Poor Law in the UK, with information on life in the
workhouse and details of the workhouses in the various countries, with the locations of surviving records. |
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| World War 1 and World War 2 deaths |
Debt of Honour is a searchable database listing the members of Commonwealth forces who died during the two
world wars and the cemeteries and memorials where they are buried or cremated, and Commonwealth citizens who died as a result of enemy action during
the Second World War. |
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