We have resources to help you trace your family tree
locally and world wide.
Your local
library has:
-
Ancestry - free online access to UK census 1841-1901 data
and United States resources
- 19th Century
Newspapers - free online access to 70 national and
regional papers from 1800-1900
- access to other family history resources recommended
on
cyberLibrary
- books on genealogy - see our
catalogue
Our local history collections at
Clevedon,
Nailsea, Portishead
and Weston's
North Somerset Studies library include local parish records on
microfiche and local census returns on fiche. Some
libraries have a regular
archivist visit from the
Somerset Heritage
Centre.
Weston
Library has a large family history collection to
help you in your research, including:
- births marriages and deaths
(BMD) index on microfiche for 1837-1901.
Libraries
in Somerset and Bristol have
microfiche from 1901 onwards. There is also an online
version on FreeBMD
- International Genealogical Index (IGI) of parish registers
(Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints) on microfiche.
There is also an online version
on Familysearch
- war records including CD-ROMs listing soldiers who died in the
two World Wars.
If your family is local then
the
North Somerset Studies library has:
- indexes to censuses, Weston cemetery, quarter sessions
1607-1667, Parish registers
- family trees and other indexes by local historian Brian
Austin
- Chew Magna information bequeathed by Frederick A Wood
- electoral rolls for Weston
- land tax records on microfiche
- newspapers on
microfilm and cuttings
- street directories 1887-1974 for Weston, 1840-1939 for
Somerset
- telephone directories.
For help with using our resources to research your family
history come to Weston
library when the local
family history society visits.
For more information contact
Weston
information library.
