Yorkshire Research Resources

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This page is managed by the Yorkshire Team which is part of the England Project. On it, you will find resources and information specific to Yorkshire which you may find useful.

Yorkshire Information

The Yorkshire County Category

Yorkshire Genealogical Resources

• Genuki: Yorkshire
  free family history & genealogy resource which lists links and resources for the English county of Yorkshire.

• Page, W. (1974). A History of the County of York: Vol. 3. BHO. London: Victoria County History, London.

• Yorkshire BMD
  YKS births, wedding, and deaths (goal to give free access to YKS BMDs from 1837)

• Early Yorkshire Charters

• The Publications of the Surtees Society

• Visitation(s) of England and Wales County Index entries for persons whose pedigree first entry in the Visitation(s) commences in Yorkshire, or who appears listed in a pedigree, addendum or correction to the Visitation(s) as born in Yorkshire.

• The Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series

• The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal

• The Publications of the Yorkshire Parish Record Society

• The Parliamentary Representation of the Six Northern Counties of England

• The Visitation of Yorkshire in the years 1563 and 1564 made by William Flower

• Yorkshire Notes and Queries

• Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire

• Borthwick Institute for Archives

• Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society

• Pedigrees of the County Families

• Explore York Libraries and Archives This is a charity owned one third owned by staff and two thirds by Community Members. They manage City of York Council’s library and archive services. The family history room has microfilm readers, public network PCs and a range of family history books and magazines.

• Yorkshire Film Archive and North East Film Archive. They have an astonishing and moving visual record of life in Yorkshire and the North East of England over the past 120 years. Some can be access online.

• Northowram of Coley Register The nonconformist register, of baptisms, marriages, and deaths : 1644-1702, 1702-1752, generally known as the Northowram of Coley register, but comprehending numerous notices of Puritans and Anti-Puritans in Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cheshire, London, &c., with lists of Popish recusants, Quakers, &c. (1881). This parish register is not in copyright.

• Criminals and Executions in York

• Quakers in Yorkshire

• Hidden People of Yorkshire: Inventors, Scientists & Architects

• Archbishops Registers of York free access to over 20,000 images of Registers produced by the Archbishops of York, 1225-1650, in addition to a growing searchable index of names, subjects, places and organisations

• The Yorkshire Historical Dictionary This is a collection of over 4,000 words, tracking the development of regional language in Yorkshire.

• Yorkshire Burials

East Riding of Yorkshire Genealogical Resources

• Treasurers House, Beverley. The East Riding Treasure House is a multi-disciplinary centre for heritage and information services. It contains the East Riding Archives and Local Studies, Beverley Library, a Museum and Beverley Art Gallery. There is also a coffee lounge and gift shop.

• Early Yorkshire Charters

• The History and Antiquities of the Seigniory of Holderness

• :Transactions of the East Riding Antiquarian Society

North Riding of Yorkshire Genealogical Resources

• North Yorkshire County Record Office]. They collect, preserve and makes accessible historic and current records of significance for the study of North Yorkshire and its people and hold them in trust for the use of present and future generations. Some of the records date from 12th century and they continue to the present day. Many of them are online.

• Nidderdale, from Nun Monkton to Whernside

• The Visitor's Hand-Book to Redcar, Coatham, and Saltburn-By-The-Sea

• The History of Skelton in Cleveland A great site indexed by years and topics. A lot of Family history and local information.

West Riding of Yorkshire Genealogical Resources

• West Yorkshire Archive Services There are five District Offices, Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds and Wakefield.

• Experience Barnsley - Barnsley Archives and Discovery Centre

• Doncaster Archives

• Rotherham Rotherham Archives and Local History

• Sheffield City Archives & Local Studies Library

• South Yorkshire Newspaper Archives

• Yorkshire Marriage Registers, West Riding

• The registers of Monk Fryston, in the West riding of Yorkshire: 1538-1678.

• Huddersfield Exposed website with a wealth of material relating to Huddersfield and the surrounding area, including some digitised books and images made available under Creative Commons licences. The site also includes a section of genealogical resources like transcripts of some baptism registers - https://huddersfield.exposed/wiki/Category:Genealogical_resources

• Malcolm Bulls Calderdale Companion Website all about everything in the Calderdale area. Families, Industry, Places, Things. Just click on a letter and follow your nose.

• Free-Space page for "The Wakefield Manor Court Rolls", which was published by the Yorkshire Archaeological Society.

• Database index of land transactions from the Wakefield Manor Court Rolls, the “docket book”, from 1559 onwards. Also downloadable as a PDF. This is in addition to the published rolls on Internet Archive. https://www.yas.org.uk/Collections/Wakefield-Manor-Court