London Metropolitan Archives is working in partnership with Ancestry™ to digitise and provide access to genealogical sources. Over 20 million parish records are available along with poor law sources including workhouse records, and electoral registers. Registers from London's Non-Conformist congregations and chapels have also been added, making these unique marriage and baptism records available online for the first time.
Collections available include:
Fully indexed parish baptisms, marriages and burials
Parish poor law records
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 provide free access to view the indexes and images through Ancestry.co.uk on the computer terminals in our public rooms. Many archives and local libraries also provide free access to Ancestry™.
