London Metropolitan Archives is working in partnership with
Ancestry™ to digitise genealogical sources.
Over 11 million parish register entries are already available at
Ancestry.co.uk along with Bishops Transcripts and Boards of
Guardians registers which include workhouse records. Registers from
London's Non-Conformist congregations and chapels were added
earlier this year, making these unique marriage and baptism records
available online for the first time.
It is anticipated that the full digitisation and indexing program
will include:
- Fully indexed parish baptisms, marriages and burials
- Parish poor law records
- Further Boards of Guardians records
- Diocesan marriage bonds and allegations
- 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 continue to provide free access to view the indexes and
images through Ancestry.co.uk on the computer terminals in our
public rooms.
Digitising Image Collections
We are currently digitising the London County Council Photograph
Library. This collection of approximately 250,000 images dates from
the 1860's to the 1980's and provides an incredible record of
London life. Once prepared, the images will be added to our
Collage website in small batches. The project
has been developed in partnership with
New Deal
of the Mind, a charity created to boost the UK economy by
developing jobs for young people in the creative industries.
Digital Projects
If you would like to propose a project which includes the
digitisation of archives or re-use digital archives managed by LMA,
please read the notes on our
Proposing a Digital Project page.