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Researching the history of your local Sheffield Archives
community or your family is a very Barnsley Doncaster Rotherham Sheffield 52 Shoreham Street, Sheffield S1 4SP
Tel: 0114 203 9395
popular pastime. This leaflet will help you Barnsley Archives and Local Studies Department Doncaster Local Studies Library Rotherham Archives and Local Studies Service Sheffield Libraries Local Studies Service Fax. 0114 203 9398
to find the sources of local and family Central Library, Shambles Street, Barnsley S70 2JF Central Library, Waterdale, Doncaster DN1 3JE Central Library & Arts Centre, Walker Place, Central Library, Surrey Street, Sheffield S1 1XZ Email: archives@sheffield.gov.uk
Tel: 01226 773950 Tel: 01302 734307 Rotherham S65 1JH Tel: 0114 273 4753 (please include your postal address)
history in South Yorkshire.
Fax: 01226 773955 Fax: 01302 369749 Tel: 01709 823616 Fax. 0114 273 5009 www.sheffield.gov.uk /archives
These libraries and archives are Email: Archives@barnsley.gov.uk Email: central.localhistory@doncaster.gov.uk Fax: 01709 823650 Email: localstudies.library@sheffield.gov.uk
your starting point for this fascinating www.barnsley.gov.uk/service/libraries/archives.asp www.doncaster.gov.uk Email: archives@rotherham.gov.uk www.sheffield.gov.uk/local studies Monday 10am-5.30pm
hobby. If you are planning to visit for and follow links under Leisure in Doncaster. www.rotherham.gov.uk Tuesday to Thursday: 9.30am-5.30pm
Monday and Wednesday 9.30am - 6pm and follow links under Learning. Monday 10am-8pm Friday Closed
the first time you are advised to contact Tuesday and Friday 9.30am - 5.30pm Monday 9am-6pm Tuesday to Saturday: 9.30am-5.30pm Saturday 9am-1pm and 2pm-5pm
them in advance to check on Thursday Closed Tuesday and Friday 8.30am-6pm Monday Closed Closed for 2 weeks annual stocktaking in Feb/March
opening times and for details of Saturday 9.30am - 1pm Wednesday and Thursday 8.30am-8pm Tuesday 10am - 1pm and 2pm - 5pm A special reference collection of printed material relating
Saturday 9am-5pm Wednesday 10am - 1pm and 2pm - 5pm to Sheffield and the surrounding area including books We hold archives relating to Sheffield, South Yorkshire and
any identification you may A wealth of records and information covering Barnsley Thursday 1pm - 7pm and pamphlets, journals, newspapers and indexed north Derbyshire dating from the 12th to 21st centuries.
be asked to provide. Metropolitan Borough such as parish records, old title deeds, Historical and contemporary information relating to Friday 10am - 1pm and 2pm - 5pm newspaper cuttings, trade directories, voters’ lists, census These can be used for family and local history research
wills, local photographs, maps and newspapers. the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, together Saturday 9.30am - 1pm and 2pm - 4pm returns, photographs, maps, videos and sound recordings. including the history of people and society, buildings and
with supporting material on South Yorkshire and the Information and reports on present day Sheffield including the natural environment, education, business and industry,
neighbouring counties of Nottingham and Lincolnshire. Material on all aspects of life within the Metropolitan census and other local statistics and development plans. religion, health, politics etc. You will need to register as a
This material covers many different aspects, such as history, Borough from the earliest times to the present day. We have reader on your first visit - please see our website for further
geography, industry, transport, health, social life, education, been collecting archives and local studies material since Sheffield Libraries Arts, Social Sciences and details.
sport and leisure, population, natural history, religion and 1880. Sports Library.
economics. Sources for family history are also available. Central Library, Surrey Street, Sheffield S1 1XZ Brief details of most of our holdings and full lists of some
More detailed information on our holdings can be found on There are extensive sources for the study of local and Tel: 0114 273 4747/4748 collections are available on the Access to Archives website
our website. community history, family history, geography and sociology. Fax: 0114 273 5009 (see over).
We hold over 550 collections of archives, including official E-mail: artsandsportlibrary@sheffield.gov.uk
Doncaster Archives bodies such as local government, Quarter Sessions and www.sheffield.gov.uk/artssocialscienceandsportslibrary Mormon Family History Centre
King Edward Road, Balby, Doncaster DN4 0NA the Magistrates’ Court, hospitals and schools; businesses Wheel Lane, Grenoside, Sheffield
Tel: 01302 859811 and industries; families and estates; and nonconformist Monday 10 am - 8 pm Tel: 0114 245 3124
Email: doncaster.archives@doncaster.gov.uk churches. Among our local studies collections are over 6,500 Tuesday 9.30 am - 5.30 pm Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 10am - 2pm and 7pm - 9pm
www.doncaster.gov.uk/doncasterarchives books and pamphlets, including trade and street directories; Wednesday 9.30 am - 8 pm Please note the centre can only be contacted by phone
journals and newspapers; maps and plans including the Thursday to Saturday 9.30 am - 5.30 pm during opening hours.
Monday to Friday: 9am-12.45pm and 2pm-4.45pm digital mapping system; and over 20,000 photographs which
have been scanned and are available through the ViewFinder Introductory material on tracing your family tree including
Doncaster Archives collects and preserves the Doncaster system. selected parish registers for Yorkshire and surrounding
district’s heritage of historical documents and makes it counties. Society publications including Surtees, Yorkshire
available to members of the public in its reading room. There are also microfilm Archaeological and the Harleian. Dictionaries of names. The
Records, ranging in date over eight hundred years from copies of the census returns International Genealogical Index on microfiche. Books on
the 1190s to the 1990s, cover businesses, charities, courts, and parish registers, family crests, coats of arms, the peerage and landed gentry
churches, hospitals, schools, local authorities, political parties, many with extensive as well as the magazines Family History News and Digest and
trade unions, local societies and smaller collections of records indexes. Genealogists Magazine.
of all descriptions. Holdings are fully described in Brian
Barber, A guide to Doncaster Archives (Doncaster, 2001).
You will need to register as a
reader on your first visit -
please see our website for
further details.
Looking for Local
Commonwealth War Graves Commission £ Genfair This leaflet has been produced by SINTO -
Special services Useful websites www.cwgc.org www.genfair.com the information partnership for South
Details and final resting places of the military casualties of Publications and other resources for family and local Yorkshire and north Derbyshire as part of
Picture Sheffield is a computerised system containing over
30,000 digitised photographs and other images of the city.
You can view the whole collection at Sheffield Local Studies
These websites have been chosen by local libraries as
the best starting point for finding information on local
and family history. A £ symbol indicates that payment is
both World Wars.
Every Generation
historians.
GENUKI
the South Yorkshire Access to Libraries for
Learning agreement (SYALL) with funding
from the Frontline Fund for Archives and
and Family History
Library during normal opening hours, where prints can be
ordered for almost immediate delivery.
required for the whole or part of the service.
£ 1837 online .com
www.everygeneration.co.uk
Empowering and influencing the black community through
history, family genealogy and heritage.
www.genuki.org.uk .
Variety of useful pages on family history (Genealogy UK and
Ireland = GENUKI)
Libraries awarded by the Yorkshire Museums,
Libraries & Archives Council (YMLAC). in South Yorkshire
In addition, around 10,000 of these images are available on
the Picture Sheffield website at www.picturesheffield.com
- making our collections available worldwide.
www.1837online.com
Indexes to births, marriages and deaths for England and
Wales from 1837-2001. Payment by credit/debit card,
Familia
www.familia.org.uk
Historical Directories
www.historicaldirectories.org
A large print version of this leaflet
is available from the SINTO office
0114 225 5739/40
A guide to sources
ViewFinder includes 20,000 photographs of places, people
and events in the Rotherham area - it is the digital version
minimum £5.00. See also Free BMD below.
£ 1901 Census
Directory of family history resources held in public libraries in
the UK and Ireland.
Digitised copies of local directories for England and Wales for
selected years. SINTO, Nov 2006
www.sinto.org.uk
of information
of Rotherham Archives & Local Studies Service collection www.1901census.nationalarchives.gov.uk Family History Societies The Mormon Church/Genealogical Society of Utah (GSU)
of illustrations. ViewFinder is available to the public on Search the 1901 census by name or address (free), view and Barnsley www.barnsleyfhs.co.uk www.familysearch.org
workstations within the Archives & Local Studies Service in print transcripts or facsimilies of the census pages, charge of Doncaster www.doncasterfhs.co.uk Vast database of surnames with search facility.
the Central Library, and also at Clifton Park Museum, and the 50p/75p. Minimum charge £5.00 - voucher. Rotherham www.rotherhamfhs.co.uk
Community Libraries at Dinnington, Kiveton Park, Maltby, Sheffield www.sheffieldfhs.org.uk Moving Here
Swinton, Thurcroft and Wath. £ Ancestry.com www.movinghere.org.uk
www.rotherham.gov.uk/graphics/Learning/ www.ancestry.co.uk Family Records Centre Digitised items to illustrate the migration of Jewish, South
Archives+and+Museums/ViewFinder/ Search the complete England & Wales censuses 1841-1901 www.familyrecords.gov.uk. Asian, Irish and Caribbean communities to England.
and the 1841 Scotland Census. Minimum charge £4.95. Plus Helps you find national records and other sources you need
Access to Archives is a national website providing on-line birth, marriage & death indexes 1837-2004 free of charge. for your family history research. £ National Archives
lists of archives in record offices all over England. You can find www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Archives Hub Federation of Family History Societies Details of national records with links to other sites.
information about sources in South Yorkshire which were
www.archiveshub.ac.uk www.ffhs.org.uk Basic searches are free, there are charges if you wish to
included in the following projects: -
A national gateway to descriptions of archives in UK Information about the Federation and its member societies. download copies of original documents.
■ Yorkshire Signpost - Summary information on the archive
universities and colleges. Contains a ‘help with research’ section.
collections available to the public in Barnsley, Doncaster,
Rotherham and Sheffield. Sheffield Genealogy
BBC Family History Free BMD http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~engsheffield/
■ Broad Acres - Family and estate archives.
www.bbc.co.uk/history/familyhistory/ www.freebmd.org.uk Links for family and social history and mailing list.
■ Shafts of Light - Records relating to coal mining in South
Includes a link to a step-by-step guide to the resources and Free access to births, marriages and deaths indexes for
Yorkshire.
techniques of family history research. England and Wales from 1837-1983 (incomplete) Sheffield Indexers
■ Yorkshire Made - Records of business and industry.
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a http://sheffield-indexers.thewholeshebang.org
British-Genealogy.com
Friends of Barnsley Archives and Local Studies Indexes to census returns and transcripts of Sheffield trade
www.british-genealogy.com
Go to www.barnsley.gov.uk and search under Friends of directories.
Dedicated to assisting people with their British family history
Barnsley Archives.
research. Society of Genealogists
Catholic History Friends of Rotherham Archives www.sog.org.uk
www.catholic-history.org.uk www.fora.me.uk Research material, guidance and support for those
Information and many useful links about tracing Catholic interested in family history and the lives of earlier
General Register Office generations.
ancestors.
www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/
Coal Mining History Resource Centre Information on how to obtain a birth, marriage or death Yorkshire Births, Marriages and Deaths Published by SINTO - the information
www.cmhrc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk certificate and how to use the services at the Family Records www.yorkshirebmd.org.uk partnership for South Yorkshire with financial
Includes the national database of mining deaths and injuries Centre Index to records of local births, marriages and deaths back to support from the Yorkshire Museums, Libraries
Acknowledgements for illustrations: Sheffield Museums, Libraries and Archives,
in Great Britain 1850 - 1972. the start of civil registration in 1837. Barnsley Libraries, Rotherham Archives and Local Studies, Derek Littlewood. & Archives Council Nov 2006.
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