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2. Principal Libraries with Family History resources
Local History Library
Central Library
Waterdale
Doncaster
DN1 3JE
Tel: 01302 734307
Fax: 01302 369749
Email: -
Contact: Carol Hill:
Opening hours:
Monday: 0930-1900
Tuesday: 0900-1900
Wednesday: 0900-1800
Thursday: 0900-1800
Friday: 0900-1800
Saturday: 0900-1600
Other Libraries:
3. Research Service
Service available?
Yes
Fee-based?
A fee of �10 is charged for limited searches. Research taking longer than 30 minutes is referred to a professional researcher, Mrs Linda Peabody, retained by the Library and Information Service
Provided by local Record Office?
Doncaster Archives and Local Studies Department
4. Births, Deaths and Marriages
Registrar General's Indexes from 1837 (microform), or Registrar General for Scotland's Computerised Index from 1855.
Locations
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5. Census returns
1841-1891: Doncaster, together with all villages and hamlets within the Doncaster Metropolitan District. Doncaster Local History Library (DLHL)
1841: adjacent areas within the local authorities of Barnsley, Rotherham, Selby, Sheffield and Wakefield. DLHL
1851: adjacent areas within Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire. DLHL
1861-1871: adjacent areas within Nottinghamshire. DLHL
1881: adjacent areas within the local authorities of Barnsley, Rotherham, Selby, Sheffield and Wakefield, and Nottingham, Lincolnshire. DLHL
1891: adjacent areas within Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire. DLHL
6. Directories
6(a) County and Regional Directories
Yorkshire: West Riding 1822-1936; East Riding 1840-1937; North Riding 1840-1937
Lincolnshire 1828-1926
Nottinghamshire 1835-1864
Sheffield Region 1833-1973
All at DLHL
6(b) City and Town Directories
Doncaster: Street 1891-1966; trade and local information only: 1981 to date
Sheffield 1787
Leeds 1853
All at DLHL
6(c) Telephone Directories
Doncaster & district 1962-1976
Barnsley and Doncaster 1978-1983
Doncaster 1984 to date
Sheffield Yellow Pages 1976 to date
All at DLHL
7. Electoral registers and polls books
7(a) Electoral Registers
Doncaster County Borough 1945-1973
Doncaster Metropolitan County Borough 1974 to date
Don Valley 1955-1973
All at DLHL
7(b) Poll Books
West Riding of the County of York 1807-1859. DLHL
8. International Genealogical Index (IGI)
1988. Microfiche. DLHL
9. Unpublished Indexes
1841-1891 censuses: street index, in preparation, to the Doncaster censuses. DLHL
10. Parish Registers
Yorkshire Archaeological Society: Parish Register section. Published transcripts in 160 volumes of parishes throughout Yorkshire. DLHL
11. Periodicals (excl. newspapers)
The Doncaster Ancestor: the Journal of the Doncaster and District Family History Society. 1980 to date
Doncaster Review 1894-1898.
Yesterday Today: Doncaster Local History Review 1991 to date
The Islonian: Journal of the Isle of St Axholme Family History Society 1987 to date
Lincolnshire Family History Society 1990-1994
Yorkshire Family History Society 1985 to date
All at DLHL
12. Published Transcripts of Archival Material
Index to the 1851 census; 50 vols. Name index transcribed and produced by the Doncaster and District Family History Society covering the towns, villages and hamlets in the Archdeaconry of Doncaster
Monumental inscriptions; 67 vols. M.I.s for the churchyards in the Archdeaconry of Doncaster produced and transcribed by Doncaster and District Family History Society.
All at DLHL
13. Other material
Name index to monumental inscriptions in churchyards of the Archdeaconry of Doncaster
Indexes to the 1881 Census for Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire. Produced on microfiche
Transcript of Poll Tax Returns 1379
Burgess Rolls for the Borough of Doncaster 1870-1897
All at DLHL
14. Guides to Collections
15. Local Record Offices
Doncaster Archives
King Edward Road
Doncaster
DN4 0NA
Tel: 01302 859811
Mrs Linda Peabody
Central Library
Doncaster
DN1 3JE
Tel: 01302 734307
Other information
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