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Cumbrian Genealogy

Some years ago I published several alphabetical indexes of Directories of Cumberland and Westmorland and some Parish Registers of the two counties, which since 1974, are now collectively known as Cumbria.

They were well received by family history researchers throughout the UK, North America and the Antipodes.

Since retiring, I no longer undertake the publishing of the books as a commercial undertaking, but, rather than let the information I have collected over the years lie uselessly in a computer database, I decided that I would rehash my original publications into smaller parts and republish them as full listings on my web site.

The under mentioned list shows the areas of information available. Go to it!

Please Note:- These 4 areas of search will be shown at the bottom of every page you visit. You should be able to move around the whole web site fairly easily

Please also note that I apologize, in advance, for the mistakes I will undoubtedly have made in my indexing. Please let me know if you find any.

If you would like to own any of the original publications upon which this web site is based, the Cumbria Family History Society are the only source who have the publications available. To see how to obtain them go to the site immediately underneath this message.

Publications available from Cumbria FHS

Good luck in your searches.

Roland Grigg

Email rolandgrigg(-at-)btopenworld.com Showing my address this way will hopefully prevent spammers from recognising my web site. Please replace the (-at-) with @ if you email me)..
If this is the first page on Cumbrian Genealogy that you have visited, may I suggest that you also visit GENUKI where you will find a great deal of useful information and links to other web pages, ie:-the Cumbria Family History Society (http://64.177.198.178/genuki/cfhspub.html) list of publications.

Carol Bennett has three web sites covering the area :-

Cumberland - http://www.rootsweb.com/~engcul/
Westmorland - http://www.rootsweb.com/~engwes/
Cumbria - http://www.rootsweb.com/~engcma/

Les Strong has an excellent site at http://www.edenlinks.co.uk/

If you wish to find out more about the places mentioned in my lists of names you should see Steve Bulman's site.

Other Sites that may help are:-

http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?surname=CUMBERLAND - for searching mailing lists
http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?surname=ENG-CUMBRIA - for searching mailing lists
http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?surname=ENG-WESTMORLAND - for searching mailing lists
http://www.cyndislist.com A very good site giving 41,700 links to other geneaogy sites, all categorised and cross referenced
www.genealogylinks.net This gives links to 1000 genealogy sites
http://www.ngsgenealogy.org The home page of the National Genealogy Society. Good for beginners offering general help in researching family history
http://www.genuki.org.uk The UK and Ireland Genealogical Information Service
http://www.pro.gov.uk Public Record Office homepage. Useful information on what's available at Kew (no idrect access to birth, marriage and death records). Enables you to plan your visit to the PRO and therefore maximise time spent on research
http://www.rootsweb.com Very comprehensive; includes access to mailing lists to locate other genealogists researching surnames
http://www.cwgc.org The Commonwealth War Graves Commission site holds information on burial places and circumstances of death 9where known) of those service personnel (and some civilians) killed in both world wars. Available only during the day Mondays to Fridays.

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