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Wiltshire Resources & Offers / Link: Swindon Local Studies and Fantastic Photograph Gallery of Swindon
« on: Monday 23 December 13 18:27 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,

Local Studies & Family History at Swindon Central Library: www.swindon.gov.uk/swindoncollection
Swindon Libraries' history gallery (fully searchable by name/date/street/keyword): www.flickr.com/swindonlocal

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Wiltshire Resources & Offers / Info: Swindon Local Studies & Family History Collection (Central Library)
« on: Monday 27 July 09 11:38 BST (UK)  »
Dear all on Rootschat.com

Here in our Swindon Collection we have many resources which may be of interest to some of you with ancestors from Wiltshire.

These include the following:-

  • Complete GRO fiche (Births, Marriages & Deaths) 1837-1999 England and Wales
  • Complete Overseas GRO (around 50 sets of info)
  • Complete UK IGI
  • parish registers and bishop's transcripts on fiche for all parishes in Swindon Borough.
  • WFHS fiche for all available parishes, and all WFHS publications.
  • All local Kellys directories, street, trade and phone directories.
  • Electoral rolls (voters lists) from 1945 to date.
  • All available transcriptions of parish registers.
  • Poll books back to the 18th century.
  • Census records for Swindon & Wiltshire 1841-1901.
  • Full free access to Ancestry Library edition.
  • Complete runs of all local newspapers on microfilm (includes Swindon Evening Advertiser, Gazette & Herald and North Wilts Herald).
  • And of course we collect all available books, leaflets, posters, maps, ephemera and photographs for the Borough.

The parishes we collect include:

Blunsdon St. Andrew, Broad Blunsdon, Chiseldon, Coate, Hannington, Hinton Parva, Highworth, Inglesham, Liddington, Lydiard Tregoze (Or Tregoz!), Rodbourne Cheney, Sevenhampton, South Marston, Stanton Fitzwarren, Stratton St. Margaret (includes Lower Stratton, Upper Stratton, and Kingsdown), Wanborough, Wroughton.

Our contact details:

Swindon Collection
Local Studies & Family History
Central Library
Regent Circus
Swindon
SN1 1QG

Tel: 01793 463238
Email: localstudies[at]swindon.gov.uk
Our main web site

New! Please take a look at our web 2.0 links:-
Follow us on Twitter
Subscribe to our online gallery of local historical images, photographs and pictures on Flickr


All comments, compliments and complaints gratefully received.
Very best wishes, and good luck in your research!

Swindon Central Library

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