Local and Family History
at Barton Library

• Ancestry Library Edition
  Free access in the library, to 'Ancestry Library Edition', a web site that has a huge range of resources for family historians. For details, see the top of Local and family history A-Z page
   
• Books
  Books about Barton and Bedfordshire. For further details please see the library catalogue
     
• Census records
  Free access to census records 1841-1901 on 'Ancestry Library Edition' web site
   
• International Genealogical Index (I.G.I.)
  The 1992 edition of the I.G.I., on microfiche. for England, Scotland and Wales
   
• Maps
  Street maps of Bedfordshire towns and villages
  Ordnance Survey map of Bedfordshire
   
• Newspapers
  Bedfordshire Times, current edition
   
• Parish registers
  Transcribed registers in printed volumes up to 1812:
   
  Barton-le-Clay 1558 – 1812
  Bedford (St. Mary) 1539 – 1812
  Clophill 1567 – 1812
  Flitwick 1602 – 1812
  Lower Gravenhurst 1602 – 1812
  Upper Gravenhurst 1567 – 1812
  Higham Gobion 1602 – 1812
  Pulloxhill 1553 – 1812
  Northill 1562 – 1812
  Shillington 1543 – 1812
   
• Photographs
  
  Folders of local photographs
   
• Victoria County History
  Bedfordshire volumes
   

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