Lancashire Research Tips
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These two maps are useful for establishing the location of civil parishes and larger divisions prior to all the changes that occurred with the break-up of Lancashire into Merseyside, Great Manchester, the northern section which went to Cumbria, and the central part which remains as Lancashire.
- Lancashire Online Parish Clerks provide free online information from the various parishes, along with other data of value to family and local historians conducting research in the County of Lancashire.
- FS Lancashire Research Wiki
- GENUKI references for Lancashire
- A description of Lancashire from British History Online (Victoria County Histories), published 1911. The online Victoria County Histories for Lancashire appear to be complete with 7 volumes (starting at #2). The early volumes of this series (including Volume 1: Natural History to Feudal Baronage) are also online courtesy of the Open Library
- The Lancashire Rootsweb page includes a list of webpages produced by family historians with connections in the county. Some of these pages may no longer exist.
- Rootsweb mailing lists still have entries for the county, for Merseyside, and for individual towns and cities.
- Deceased Online has nearly 5 million records for 60+ cemeteries and crematoria in Lancashire and Greater Manchester available on the website. Wyre Council's four cemeteries, located in Fleetwood, Poulton-le-Fylde and Preesall were added Aug 2015. They provide information going back to 1840, digital scans (or computerised versions) of original burial registers, details of all grave occupants in each cemetery, and maps indicating the section in each cemetery for all graves.
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