Our basic enquiries service is free for information about what
records we hold and what services we supply. All enquiries will be
answered in order of receipt, whether they are email, fax,
telephone or letter enquiries. We receive more than 2,500 written
and telephone enquiries every month, which accounts for the strict
queuing of our enquiries. We aim to answer 80% of enquiries within
14 days of receipt, and 100% within 28 days.
There is a great deal of information about LMA available on this
website. If you require information about
opening hours , a general overview of the kinds of records we
hold, or the services we offer, it is all available here - the
buttons on the left are designed to help you navigate around
easily.
Please note, we cannot search through documents as part of this
free service. For genealogical research the London Generations
database is available online or you can use the family history
research service.
What records are held at LMA?
The major genealogical sources we hold, including Anglican
parish registers, are listed in the
London
Generations database. More and more of LMA's lists are now also
available online. For more details please contact the enquiry
team.
A growing number of our holdings are listed on the
Access to
Archives (A2A) website. These collections include hospitals,
papers of families and individuals and London government (including
County Councils and other London-wide elected bodies).
Family history sources which are not held at LMA
LMA does not hold any census data, (either on microfiche or
online) or civil registration records of births, marriages and
deaths.
For information on the census and civil registration, visit the
Family
Records website. This is your first step when tracing your UK
family tree.
Contact LMA
London Metropolitan Archives
40 Northampton Road
London EC1R 0HB
Tel 020 7332 3820
Fax 020 7833 9136
Email
ask.lma@cityoflondon.gov.uk