Archives & resources for Sheffield

Sheffield Archives 52 Shoreham Street, Sheffield S1 4SP 0114 2039395 archives@ sheffield.gov.uk www.sheffield.gov.uk/ archives Holds business, ecclesiastical, estate and local government records, trade directories (1774-1974), workhouse registers (1838-1930), census returns (1841-1911) and more. The website has an A-to-Z set of research, local history and collections guides. These include guides to researching heavy industry, First World War ancestors, plus parish material, adoption and police records. The archives also has material from over 100 iron and steel businesses and collieries, CDs of local sources, and material from Sheffield and District FHS library. Sheffield Local Studies Library Central Library, Surrey Street, Sheffield S1 1XZ 0114 2734753 localstudies.library@ sheffield .gov.uk www.sheffield.gov.uk/ archives The local studies collections are in the city’s central library. It has study areas, free access to Findmypast collections, microform reader printers and various indexes. The website’s ‘Local area history’ page has research guides to places across the city. Barnsley Archives & Discovery Centre Experience Barnsley Museum, Town Hall, Church Street, Barnsley S70 2TA 01226 773950 archives@ barnsley.gov.uk experience-barnsley.com/ archives-and- discovery- centre Has records of business, hospitals, estates, poll books and electoral registers, schools and more. Local studies resources include books, maps, directories, church records, BMD indexes and census returns. The online catalogue is at capita discovery.co.uk/barnsleymbc. Doncaster Archives King Edward Road, Doncaster DN4 0NA 01302 859811 doncaster.archives@ doncaster .gov.uk library.doncaster.gov.uk/ web/ arena/ archives Has registers from parishes of the archdeaconry of Doncaster, plus records of hospitals, schools, trade unions, alongside cemetery records, census indexes and electoral registers. There’s a ‘Family & Local History Alphabet’ of links, describing sources from acts of parliament to wills. The catalogue is at www.calmview.eu/

doncaster/calmview. There’s also the local studies collections at Doncaster Central Library ( 01302 734307, central.localhistory@ doncaster.gov.uk). Rotherham Archives and Local Studies Service Clifton Park Museum, Clifton Lane, Rotherham S65 2AA 01709 336632 archives@ rotherham.gov.uk

rotherham.gov.uk/ info/200062/ libraries/718/ archives_ and_ local_ history Looks after documents dating back to 1328. Collections include local government material, plus records of schools, workhouses and churches. There are title deeds, maps, plans, plus records relating to families and estates and the York and Lancaster regiments. The online catalogue is at archives. rotherham.gov.uk/calmview. Derbyshire Record Office c/o County Hall, Matlock DE4 3AG 01629 538347 record.office@ derbyshire.gov.uk derbyshire.gov.uk/ leisure/ record_ office West Yorkshire Archive Service West Yorkshire Joint Services, Nepshaw Lane South, Morley, Leeds LS27 7JQ archives@ wyjs.org.uk www.wyjs.org.uk/ archives Individual offices can be contacted as follows: Bradford (bradford@ wyjs. org.uk, 0113 3939785); Calderdale (calderdale@ wyjs.org.uk, 01422 392636); Kirklees (kirklees@ wyjs .org.uk, 01484 221966); Leeds (leeds@ wyjs.org.uk, 0113 3939788), West Yorkshire History Centre, Wakefield (wakefield@ wyjs.org.uk, 01924 782030). Sheffield & District FHS secretary@ sheffieldfhs.org.uk sheffieldfhs.org.uk The society website has details of membership to the members' journal, products and upcoming meetings. Over the years volunteers have compiled many transcripts, indexes and finding aids, including baptism, marriage and burial records. Recently members finished transcribing thousands of baptism and marriage entries from the registers of Methodist chapels in the area. You can purchase material via GENfair ( genfair.co.uk). More specialist records transcribed by volunteers are available to view in the resources section of the members area. South Yorkshire family history groups Other groups in the area include Barnsley FHS ( barnsleyfhs.co.uk), Rotherham FHS ( rotherhamfhs.

co.uk), Doncaster and District FHS ( doncasterfhs.co.uk). For a full list of societies covering Yorkshire try ffhs.org.uk/members2/england/ eng-yorks.php. Museums Sheffield museums-sheffield.org.uk Find out about the city’s heritage attractions, including Weston Park Museum ( Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TP). Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust www.simt.co.uk The trust looks after Kelham Island Museum, located on a man-made island in one of the city's oldest industrial districts, Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet and Shepherd Wheel Workshop.