Official Sites

Records Offices and Register Offices (Bristol Register Office has its own category heading)
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  Link   Bristol Record Office
The Bristol Record Office is at Smeaton Road, Hotwells, Bristol. The telephone number for enquiries is 0117 922 4224. 		287
  Link   Gloucestershire Record Office
The Record Office is in Clarence Row, Gloucester. The website features a very useful on-line wills index. A list of locations of parish records for the whole of Gloucestershire (including places such as Clifton and Fishponds which are now within Bristol) can be found on the GENUKI site. 		219
  Link   The Somerset Archive and Record Service
The Somerset Record Office is in Obridge Road, Taunton*. A list of locations of parish records for the whole of Somerset (including locations such as Brislington and Bedminster which are now within Bristol) can be found at the above website. The new Somerset Heritage Centre is now open on the edge of Taunton at Langford Mead, Norton Fitzwarren. 		275
  Link   Bristol Central Library
The Bristol Central Library holds 1841 - 1891 census records on microform for the whole of our area, and the 1901 census on a less wide coverage. It also holds microfiche copies of the GRO records of births, marriages and deaths from 1837, and many other resources of use to the family historians. 		265
  Link   Bristol Register Office
Here are details of location, opening hours, etc, and also a list of the registers destroyed by bomb damage in the Second World War. 		271
  Link   General Register Office
This is the government body which keeps the records of births, marriages and deaths. It has details on how to order certificates by post or online. 		211
  Link   Bath Record Office
The Bath Record Office holds microfiche copies of pre 1900 parish registers for whole of North East Somerset. Also Bath voters lists, street directories, wills, apprenticeships, and non-conformist church records. 		205
  Link   Know Your Place
Bristol City Council launched this site in 2011 with maps of Bristol from 1750 to the present day. Designed primarily to identify the location of places of historic interest and sites illustrated in the Braikenridge Collection, the site has nine maps and one aerial photograph, all of which can be enlarged and shown at the same scale. It offers hours of pleasure to anyone wanting to know how places have changed over the years. Although the modern maps cover the whole city, the older ones are only of the central area.

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