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Gloucestershire Genealogy

 
Description

"Gloucestershire, an inland, but partly maritime, county of England; bounded, on the NW, by Herefordshire and Worcestershire; on the N, by Worcestershire and Warwickshire; on the E, by Oxfordshire; on the SE, by Berks and Wilts; on the S, by Wilts and Somerset; on the W, by the Severn's estuary and by Monmoutbshire "
from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
Genuki - Gloucestershire
Genuki is the largest collection of research information
on the net for UK
Neighbouring Counties
 
Berkshire, Herefordshire, Monmouthshire, Oxfordshire, Somerset, Warwickshire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire
Gloucestershire GenWeb
maintained by volunteers in an effort to help researchers
find local resources and reference information
Archives and Libraries
 
Gloucestershire Archives Gloucestershire Libraries
 
Gloucestershire Lookup Exchange
request free lookups of censuses, parish registers
held by individual volunteers
Local Genealogy Societies & Groups
 
Cyndi's List - Gloucestershire
largest private collection
of genealogy links on the web
 
 




Genealogy Record Sources

many of these sites can provide source record information of ancestors:
 
Directories
huge resource by University of Leicester; of local and trade directories from 1750 to 1919
 
Parish and Probate Records
316,300 records including baptisms/christenings,
burials, marriages, tombstone inscriptions, obituaries, tax lists
Surname Lists
Gloucestershire Surname List
provides surnames being researched and email address of researcher
England & Wales BMDs
search over 40 million England & Wales B,M&Ds
 
Message Boards
post and read about Gloucestershire genealogy with other researchers
 
Cemeteries
Interment.net - Gloucestershire

Parish Registers

free internet searches of baptism, marriage, and burial records,
which have been transcribed from parish and non-conformist church registers
 
War Memorials
Roll-of-Honour - Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire war memorials and rolls of honour
 
 
800 Million Name UK Database
search 800 million UK  records in over 60 individual databases
Censuses
1841-1891 Census transcriptions by volunteers
 
 


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