Useful contacts and links
Addresses
Use these links for full address, telephone and opening times:
- Buckingham Library
- Chesham Study Centre
- High Wycombe Study Centre
- Buckinghamshire libraries and on-line catalogue
Buckinghamshire Family History Society, Secretary: Bucks FHS, P.O. Box 403, Aylesbury, HP21 7GU.
Buckinghamshire Genealogical Society, Secretary: Mrs E McLaughlin, Varneys, Rudds Lane, Haddenham, Bucks HP17 8JP. Tel: 01844 291631
Our registrar have records of births, marriages and deaths in the county since 1837. You can buy copies of certificates. Location of Register offices in Aylesbury and High Wycombe.
Milton Keynes Register Office, Bracknell House, Aylesbury Street, Bletchley, Milton Keynes, MK2 2BE. Tel: 01908 372101
The internet
This is available in the Centre through People's Network machines. The archives area also has internet access for public use. The People's Network machines cost £1.00 per half hour.
Listed below are some useful sites on Family History resources and Archive sites on the Internet. Click on the links to visit them.
Family history resources:
Family Records Centre
The site gives details of how to obtain copy certificates of births, marriages and deaths in England and Wales since 1837 and lists the other family history resources held at the Centre (such as Census returns) and gives advice on starting in genealogy.
1901 Census Online
The 1901 Census for England and Wales is now available online, hosted by Genes Reunited on behalf of The National Archives. Please note that there is a charge involved to view transcript or manuscript entries.
Society of Genealogists
Useful information for all genealogists. Also hosts English Origins, which charges for providing online information through specific databases.
Family Search
The online version of the International Genealogical Index, compiled by the Church of Latter Day Saints.
Genuki
UK and Ireland Genealogical Information Service, including a page on Registration Districts in England and Wales, 1837-1930.
Free BMD
A searchable index of the data from the General Register Office index of Births, Marriages and Deaths from 1837 onwards [also available in the Centre on microfiche]. This site is not complete and is constantly added to.
Cyndi's List
Cyndi's List of Genealogy sites on the internet.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
This site contains a Debt of Honour Register listing personnel, service details and places of commemoration for Commonwealth service personnel who died in the two World Wars.
Roll of Honour
This site contains information from the roll of honour from World War 1, including information about many war memorials in Buckinghamshire and neighbouring counties.
College of Arms
The site of the official repository of the coats of arms and pedigrees of English, Welsh, Northern Irish and Commonwealth families and their descendants. The site includes a picture from the Heralds' Visitation of Bucks showing the arms of Montague of Boveney.
Moving Here
This site explores, records and illustrates why people came to England over the last 200 years, and what their experiences were and continue to be. The site mainly looks at the Caribbean, Irish, Jewish and South Asian communities but is growing all the time. It offers free access, for personal and educational use, to online versions of original material related to migration, including photographs, personal papers, government documents, maps and art objects, as well as a collection of sound recordings and video clips.
Archive Repositories and sites of archival interest:
The National Archives
Combines the former Public Record Office and Historic Manuscripts Commission including:
Parts that used to be included on the Public Record Office website where you can access the on-line catalogue of National Archives holdings or view their digitised collections with Documents Online (available for a fee), or the Learning Curve site - containing themed galleries of digitised documents. [For 1901 Census and Access to Archives, see above]
The site also includes areas that were formerly part of the Historic Manuscripts Commission website including the National Register of Archives, Archon: the list of archival repositories in the UK, and the Manorial Documents Register (which at the moment only covers Wales, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Norfolk, Surrey, Middlesex and the three Ridings of Yorkshire).
The British Library
The main copyright library for the whole of Britain, with manuscripts collections as well. Including online catalogue, and digitised copies of important texts.
General Register Office
Useful information relating to obtaining Birth, Marriage and Death certificates.
National Library of Wales
Another of Britain's copyright libraries, also holds manuscript collections for the whole of Wales including many parish registers and nonconformist collections.
Parliamentary Archives: House of Lords Record Office
Berkshire Record Office
A site with information that may be of relevance for those with interests based in South Bucks or parts of Berkshire which were previously in Buckinghamshire.
Northamptonshire Record Office
Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies Service
Please note that we do not accept any responsibility for the content of the sites linked to above.
For more information call 01296 382587 or email archives@buckscc.gov.uk
