Lancashire Genealogical Resources
Image Right - Lancashire Record Office
See also British and Irish Genealogical Reference Centre
The purpose of this project is to outline the regional resources available for research in Lancashire, both geographical/physical and online.
Please add links to any resources you find in the appropriate sections below.
Go to People Connected to Lancashire
GENUKI Lancashire
Cyndi's List - Lancashire
Resource Centres - Repositories
Local Family and Local History Societies
- Manchester and Lancashire Family History Society
- Liverpool and Southwest Lancashire Family History Society
Online
- Lancashire Births, Marriages and Deaths
- OnLine Parish Clerks for the County of Lancashire The site aims to extract and preserve the records from the various parishes and to provide online access to that data, FREE of charge, along with other data of value to family and local historians conducting research in the County of Lancashire. An OnLine Parish Clerk should not be confused with Parish Clerks, who work for parish or town councils.
Research Guides
Historical documents
- Lancashire BMD
- Ancestry.co.uk - Lancashire Resources - £ - membership required
History of Lancashire Communities
Places
Historical Resources
...online publications
- The Domesday Book Online - Lancashire
- The visitation of the county palatine of Lancaster, made in the year 1613
- The Visitation of Lancashire and a Part of Cheshire
- Transactions of historic Lancashire and Cheshire
- Sufferings of the people called Quaker 1600'ds, many recorded Quakers
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