Gloucestershire Online
BEST WEBSITES TO AID YOUR RESEARCH
Ancestry has released thousands of Gloucestershire records in partnership with Gloucestershire Archives. These include baptisms, marriages, banns and burials dating back to 1538 (each accompanied by a scan of the original register page) together with Bishops’ Transcripts, wills, inventories, gaol calendars, electoral registers and land tax assessments. You can find out more at search.ancestry.co.uk/places/uk/england/gloucestershire. There’s also baptism, marriage and burial data compiled by Gloucestershire Family History Society on Findmypast ( bit.ly/glos-fhs).
The new Heritage Hub community has an online home in the shape of gloucestershire.gov.uk/heritage-hub, and you can follow developments on social media ( facebook. com/glosheritagehub and twitter.com/ glosheritagehub). You can also read all of the latest news at gloucestershire.gov.uk/ archives/for-the-record and sign up for a quarterly e-mail newsletter.
Many county maps, including the tithe, enclosure and historic editions of the Ordnance Survey, are available via Know Your Place West of England ( kypwest.org.uk).
The Gloucestershire Local History Association website ( gloshistory.org.uk) includes a comprehensive list of links to town and parishbased heritage groups and societies. In addition the Gloucestershire Family History Society site ( gfhs.org.uk) has details of publications, projects and some useful finding aids such as birth, marriage and death indexes ( ww3.gloucestershire.gov.uk/bmd). There is a list of other BMD links at ukbmd.org.uk/county/gloucestershire. Other websites that family historians will find useful include Friends of Gloucestershire Archives ( foga.org.uk), Gloucester Docks ( gloucesterdocks.me.uk), Gloucester Rugby Heritage ( gloucesterrugbyheritage.org.uk), Gloucester Transport History ( glostransporthistory.visit-gloucestershire.co.uk), Gloucestershire Local History Association ( gloshistory.org.uk) and Gloucestershire Pubs ( gloucestershirepubs.co.uk).