Family History Resources
Here are links and information to help in Family History.
Historically Kingston Bagpuize with Southmoor was in Berkshire, but in 1974 as a result of Local Government re-organisation the Northern part of Berkshire within the Vale of White Horse was moved into Oxfordshire.
I hope these genealogical resources will prove useful. Both Berkshire and Oxfordshire resources are shown.
Starting Family History
Family History Societies covering the area
Oxfordshire FHS offers:
Census Enumerators' Books (with indexes and other finding aids); Census
Indexes; Marriage Indexes; The Oxfordshire Family Historian; Parish Registers;
Monumental Inscriptions; Oxford City Guardians of the Poor Reports
Berkshire FHS - provides the 'research' services: via Family History Online the society provides a search and inspect Berkshire data on the Federation of Family History Societies (FFHS) on a Pay-per-View basis. Offers fiche and CD publications of Parish Registers and Monumental Inscriptions.
A branch of the Berkshire FHS is the Vale of White Horse Branch and meetings are held in Abingdon.
Further Berkshire FHS - Resources
Registrar's Office for Kingston Bagpuize with Southmoor and area is at Abingdon
Abingdon Registration District
Registration County : Berkshire.
Created : 1.7.1837.
Sub-districts : Abingdon; Cumnor; Fyfield; Nuneham Courtenay; Sutton
Courtenay.
GRO volumes : VI (1837-51); 2c (1852-1946); 6A (1946-74).
Berkshire FHS - Registration of Birth Marriages and Deaths - English and Welsh Register Offices
IGI Batch Numbers - British Isles and North America - Hugh Wallis's website on IGI Batch Numbers. If followed you are able to find partial transcripts of Parish Registers for places within the UK
Welcome to
Names, Faces and Dates
Oxfordshire Surname List - Surname Interest List
Genealogical Mailing Lists hosted by Rootsweb
Berkshire FHS Members Interests - Surnames under research by members
Berkshire FHS Birth Briefs - ancestral or pedigree charts drawn up by members
County surnames for the UK - A general surname search index
South Derbyshire Genealogy Pages - out of area but we have Derbyshire interests.
Oxfordshire Heritage search - About Oxfordshire
The Centre for Oxfordshire Studies on the English Heritage website, has some wonderful photographs and stories. Do a search.
Oxfordshire Faces - Faces of Oxfordshire - Family Faces - Add your photos. Superb site which is growing - add your Oxfordshire photographs here.
Derbyshire Photos - Photographers & Photographic Studios in Derbyshire. Many Derbyshire Faces to be seen here, which will give ideas of dress and hair styles at different dates. An excellent site.
Date old Photographs - What decade is this photograph from?
What year was this Photograph taken? - Dating Old Photographs and see how our ancestors looked.
What day was this on? The day you were born. Try this online date calculator
St Giles, Noke, Oxfordshire - for research in Noke
Oxford Archdeacon's Marriage Bond - includes 1662 Hearth Tax
Mourning Attire
John Johnson Collection Exhibition - notes on cartes de vsite etc., and Mourning Warehouses.
The Leeds Mourning Warehouse - a Museum housing a display of Frederic Forster's Mourning Warehouse. This out of area museum displays what would presumably have appeared in major cities at one time, whether they were outfitters or areas within department stores
Workhouses for this area
Faringdon; Faringdon inmates 1881 Census; Abingdon
The whole of the Workhouses web, which is a wonderful site is here.
History web sites
Wikipedia defines History as 'the study of past human events and activities'The Victoria County Histories - The Greatest Publishing Project in English Local History
This Day in History - What happened today in History?
BBC History - various links on this history site
Online Hyper History - HyperHistory is an expanding scientific project presenting 3,000 years of world history
The Best of History Websites - Best of History Web Sites is an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1000 history web sites
Maps of county and area
Oxfordshire Maps - Maps of Oxfordshire and previously North Berkshire parishes - an interactive map
British History Online - Maps of the County and area
Multi Map showing Kingston Bagpuize area
Modern map of Kingston Bagpuize - taken from Kingston Bagpuize-a sense of place, available from Longworth and area History Society
Old-Maps for Abingdon area - search for Abingdon
Counties of England, Wales and Scotland prior to Boundary Changes
Community Archives - a group of the National Council on Archives.