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GLOUCESTERSHIRE - ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES, Gloucestershire

If you're looking for assistance by post or email in Gloucestershire, the Gloucestershire Record Office provides a Research Service. Note: the Record Office also provides access to resources for Local Studies, eg Census, Directories, Newspapers.

If nothing less than a personal visit will suffice, more detailed information, and some useful comments based on our own experiences, are offered below.

• RECORD OFFICES

  Please see the pages for individual Towns & Parishes, under the Archives and Libraries section for an overview of some of their holdings, parish by parish.
  • The Gloucestershire Record Office (GRO) is the major repository for original source material of interest to family historians.

  • The Bristol Record Office holds original records for parishes in the south of Gloucestershire (roughly speaking, those in the former county of Avon).

  See also the ARCHON (Archives On-Line) Information service for locations of other Record Offices throughout the country.

  Specific contents of both Gloucestershire Record Office and Bristol Record Office Catalogues are searchable independently using the Access to Archives Database. This is a valuable resource - whilst the original records are not available online, some of the catalogue entries may be a revelation in their own right - for example there are lists of Parish Chest papers (Settlement, Removal, &c.) available at Bristol sufficiently informative to obviate the need to consult the original archives.

• LIBRARIES

  • Note: The Gloucestershire County Council website experiences periodic reorganisation, so it may be that from time to time some of the links below might not work. If that is the case, I suggest you visit Gloucestershire County Council's Home Page and use their search mechanism to locate your area of interest directly.

  • The Gloucester Reference Library has a small selection of reference material of interest to family historians, including copies of newspapers, and a selection of Crockford's Clerical Directories. However please note the Gloucestershire Collection of Local Studies reference material, formerly in the Reference Library has now moved (as of January 2006) to the Gloucestershire Record Office.

  • Local Studies Centres exist also in Cheltenham, Cinderford, Cirencester, Stow on the Wold, Stroud and Tewkesbury. See also Libraries in South Gloucestershire for information about libraries elsewhere in the county.

    Some of them may have copies of Census on microfilm but you are strongly advised to check availability in advance of your visit. Be sure to ask to book a reader-printer if you wish to obtain photocopies.

  • Information about research sources at Bristol Public Library is accessible via the FAMILIA site, which also lists Family History Resources in Public Libraries for the whole UK.

  See also FAMILIA - Gloucestershire and FAMILIA - South Gloucestershire.

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