London Metropolitan Archives and Guildhall Library Manuscripts
Section are working in partnership with Ancestry™ to digitise
genealogical sources.
Over 11 million parish register entries are already available at
Ancestry.co.uk along with poor law sources
which include workhouse records. Further records to be added in the
coming months include:
- Additional poor law documents - relating to the administration
of poor relief, including more workhouse registers from 1834
onwards
- London school admissions – records from 843 individual London
schools dating from the early Victorian times through to 1911,
providing admission and personal details for millions of London
students
It is anticipated that the full digitisation and indexing
program will include:
- Parish baptisms, marriages and burials
- Bishops transcripts
- Parish poor law records
- Boards of Guardians records
- Diocesan marriage bonds and allegations
- Non-conformist baptisms, marriages and burials
- School admission and discharge registers
- Electoral registers, overseers returns and poll books
- Land tax records
- Wills
- City of London Freedoms
- Middlesex Sessions – Transportation Contracts
We will provide free access to view the indexes and images
through Ancestry.co.uk on the computer terminals in our public
rooms. The program will start shortly and we will release further
information about the project over the coming months.
