Family History Resources
at Wellingborough Library

 

Family History Websites - Premium Collection Resources

Website Link Description Notes
Ancestry Library www.AncestryLibrary.com Worldwide family history resource including one billion searchable British records. Due to licensing restrictions Ancestry can only be accessed in the library through Northamptonshire Libraries computer, internet and wi-fi access.
Find My Past www.FindMyPast.co.uk Search over 1.5 billion family history records. Find My Past can only be accessed in the library on Northamptonshire Libraries People's Network computers due to licensing restrictions.
British Newspaper Archive www.BritishNewspaperArchive.co.uk Millions of pages from local and national newspapers dating back from the 18th Century onwards, with a searchable database. The British Newspaper Archive can only be accessed from within the library due to licensing restrictions. You will need to register when you first use the archive, which will give access to the archive and a personal my research area.
John Johnson Collection http://JohnJohnson.Chadwyck.co.uk/home.do Housed in the Bodleian Library in Oxford, the John Johnson Collection is generally regarded as the most significant single collection of ephemera in the UK.  
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography www.OxfordDNB.com/index.jsp Tells the stories of 50,000 men and women who shaped Britain's past. You can discover over 2,000 years of history through the lives of famous Britons.  

 

Newspapers

Newspaper Format Years available Alternative ????
Wellingborough News Microfilm 1935-1977  
Wellingborough Herald & Post Microfilm 1983-1987  
Evening Telegraph Microfilm 2000-  

 

Parish Registers

Parish Format Years available Alternative ????
Addington, Great   1694-1851 Later years on ancestry.co.uk
Addington, Little   1588-1887  
Bozeat   1729-1933  
Castle Ashby   1564-1842 Later years on ancestry.co.uk and FreeREG
Chelveston (cum Caldecott)   1573-1950  
Doddington, Great   1560-1886  
Earls Barton   1695-1904  
Easton Maudit   1539-1989  
Grendon   1559-1969  
Hardwick   1563-1847  
Hargrave   1572-1978  
Harrowden, Great   1672-1965  
Harrowden, Little   1653-1944  
Higham Ferrers   1580-1968  
Irchester   1622-1993  
Irthlingborough   1562-1985  
Mears Ashby   1670-1930  
Orlingbury   1564-1920  
Raunds   1581-1963  
Stanwick   1558-1965  
Strixton   1730-1920  
Sywell   1572-1951  
Wellingborough (All Hallows)   1586-1909 Later marriages on FreeREG
Wellingborough (All Saints)   1868-1956  
Wellingborough (St. Barnabas)   1873-1963  
Wilby   1562-1983  
Wollaston   1663-1965  
Yardley Hastings   1562-1983