Family
History Resources at Wellingborough Library |
Family History Websites - Premium Collection Resources |
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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 |
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Newspaper | Format | Years available | Alternative ???? |
Wellingborough News | Microfilm | 1935-1977 | |
Wellingborough Herald & Post | Microfilm | 1983-1987 | |
Evening Telegraph | Microfilm | 2000- |
Parish Registers |
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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 |