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Discover your ancestors from Devon with these top resources for family historians
- Blundell's Register, 1770-1882
- Kelly's Directory of Devonshire, 1897
- Black's Guide to Devonshire, 1878
- Devon Family History Society samples
- Devon Heritage Centre highlights
- Plymouth & West Devon Record Office images
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Discover your ancestors from Norfolk with these top resources for family historians
- Marsham Parish Registers
- Kelly's Directory of Norfolk, 1892
- White's Directory of Norfolk & Norwich, 1854
- Highlights from Norfolk Record Office
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Discover your ancestors from Derbyshire with these top resources for family historians
- Repton School Registers
- Bagshaw's Derbyshire Directory, 1846
- Little History Guide to Derbyshire, 1903
- Highlights from Derbyshire Record Office
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Discover your ancestors from Kent with these top resources for family historians
- Registers of Rochester Cathedral
- Picturesque Kent, 1901
- Maidstone & its Environs, 1834
- Kent History and Library Centre image set
- Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre image set
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Discover your ancestors from Berkshire with these top resources for family historians
- Berkshire Probate Index
- Berkshire Maps
- Historical Atlas of Berkshire
- Berkshire Overseers' Papers
- Berkshire Directories
- Berkshire Record Office image set
- Maidenhead and Reading Local Studies image sets
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Discover your ancestors from the Highland and Western Isles with the Durness Parish Registers (1764-1814) and resources from these leading archive centres
- Caithness Archive Centre
- Hebridean Archives
- Highland Archive Centre
- Lochabre Archive Centre
- Skye and Lochalsh Archive Centre
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Discover your Northumberland ancestors with these top records and resources
- Bulmer's Directory, 1887
- Kelly's Directory, 1938
- Northumberland Biographies
- Alnwick Burials, 1798-1808
- Tynemouth 1891 Census Index
- Highlights from Woodhorn Museum and Northumberland Archives
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Discover your Wiltshire ancestors with these top records and resources
- Wiltshire Friendly Society Enrolments
- Kelly's Directory, 1898
- Wiltshire Directories, 1830-1927
- Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre images and documents
- Highlights from the Swindon Collection, held by Swindon Central Library
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Discover your Northern Irish ancestors with these top records and resources
- Ulster Historical Foundation datasets
- North of Ireland Family History Society transcriptions
- Public Record Office of Northern Ireland images and documents
- Belfast Central Library highlights
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Trace your Warwickshire forebears with these top records and resources
- Nonconformist Registers
- Bedworth 1821 census
- Pigot's 1835 Directory
- Kelly's 1928 Directory
- Warwickshire County Record Office
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Trace your Cheshire kin with these top records and resources.
- Parish Register of The Holy Trinity Chester 1532-1837
- Stockport St Mary burials 1696-1762
- Cheshire Directory, 1928
- Picturesque Cheshire
- Crewe and District, 1913
- Highlights from Cheshire Archives and Wirral Archives
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Trace your Worcestershire kin with these top records and resources.
- Pigot's Directory, 1835
- Kelly's Directory, 1912
- Army Lists
- Worcestershire memorial inscriptions
- The Hive highlights
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Trace your Glasgow kin with these top records and resources.
- Annals of Glasgow, 1816
- Post Office directories
- Slater's Glasgow, 1863
- Glasgow Police Museum highlights
- Selections from City and University Archives
- Scottish Jewish Archives Centre samples
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Track down your Buckinghamshire forebears with these top records and resources
- Royal Bucks Muster and Pay Lists
- Buckinghamshire Police List
- Kelly's Directory, 1911
- Pigot's Directory, 1830
- WW1 Army Lists
- Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies images
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Track down your Lincolnshire kin with these top records and resources.
- White's Directory, 1892
- 1835 Pigot's Directory
- Lincolnshire Regiment Army Lists
- Workhouse records
- Lincolnshire inquests
- Beltisloe Index
- Archive highlights
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Track down your Hertfordshire kin with these top records and resources.
- Army Lists for Hertfordshire regiments
- 1823 Pigot's Directory
- 1828-9 Directory
- Hertfordshire Archives & Local Studies highlights
- Hertford Museum and Watford Museum samples
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Track down your Lancashire forebears with these top resources.
- Army Lists for Lancashire regiments
- Database of transcribed Monumental Inscriptions
- Oldham burials and Absent Voters list
- 1866 Preston Directory
- In-depth 1852 History of Liverpool
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