starting your family history ~ how lancashire can help
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A quick guide to some of the services Lancashire County Council Cultural Services offer at Archives, Libraries and Museums to help you start you family history.TRANSCRIPT
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Starting your
Family History
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with help from
• Archives• Libraries • Museums
in Lancashire
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Before you start your research
Gather information Find out what’s available Find out where to go Plan your research
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Gather information
Facts, Recollections, Reminiscences and Anecdotes
Names, Dates, Locations and Occupations
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Note all the dates and events you are certain of concerning your immediate family.
Ask as many people in your family as possible for their recollections and make a separate note of what each person says, so that you can make comparisons.
Beg and search for as many family records and memorabilia as possible.
Show anything you find to your elderly relatives – particularly old family photographs. You may jog a whole stream of fresh memories
Don’t despair if you can’t find out much. The minimum information you actually need to get started is your own place and date of birth.
Gather information
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Find out what’s available and where
Books Online Guides Ask a LibrarianJoin a Group
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Many records are now available online...BUT They may not be complete You may have to pay to view them You may need to double-check with Offline records It is unlikely that you will be able to complete your
research just using online records
Many records are still not available online... You may need to travel to view all the records you
need You may need get used to using archives and
libraries and their equipment It is unlikely that you will be able to complete your
research just from records in your home town
Where to Go ~ Online or Offline?
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Plan your research
Stick to the planDon’t get
sidetrackedBe systematicMake a note of
absolutely everything
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Offline sources
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Lancashire Archives
• Church Registers
• Wills and Probate
• Marriage Bonds
• Tithes
• Workhouses
• Advice
• 900 years of documents relating to people and places in Lancashire
• Search the Archives
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Lancashire Libraries
• Electoral Registers
• Newspapers
• Photographs
• Directories
• Old Maps
• Advice
• There are Community History libraries located in each of Lancashire’s twelve districts
• Lancashire Libraries
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Lancashire Museums
• Working life
• Military history
• Photographs
• Artefacts
• Old Maps
• Advice
• We have eleven museums, from a castle to a cottage to a country house that illuminate the history of Lancashire’s people
• Lancashire Museums
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Online sources
Our Digital Library
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Subscription websites Access for free In Archives and Libraries On People’s Network PCs And WiFi some can also be used at
home
We’ve paid so you don’t have to
Free Access
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Free Access*in libraries
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Free Accessanywhere
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Free Accessanywhere
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Free Accessanywhere
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Free Accessanywhere
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Free Accessanywhere
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Lancashire online
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http://bit.ly/lancsdigital
All the Online sources featured
here are available via our Digital Library
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Don’t own a computer?
In our Libraries you
can• Reserve a People’s
Network PC• Any Library• Up to 2hrs a day• Internet Access• Free of charge
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Not comfortable with technology? In our
Libraries you’ll find
Ask at your
local library
• Bite-size courses• From absolute
beginners• Helpful staff• Tutored events• Free of charge
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GetInvolved
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There are opportunities for volunteering in
Archives
Libraries
Museums
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Help us to catalogue, index, digitize and preserve
Old Photographs Newspapers Documents
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