Local and Family History
at Wootton 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
  A selection of books relating to Bedfordshire and the immediate vicinity, and books on family history, including:
  
  A history of Wootton Bedfordshire, by A Brittain
  
  For further details please see the library catalogue.  

• Census Records
  Free access to census records 1841- 1901 on 'Ancestry Library Edition' web site

• Magazines
  Bedfordshire County Life

• Maps
  Current street maps of Bedfordshire towns and villages.
  Current Ordnance Survey 'Explorer' and 'Landranger' maps of Bedfordshire

• Newspapers
  Bedfordshire on Sunday current edition

• Parish registers
  Transcribed registers in printed volumes cover Wootton and Marston Morteyne to 1812

• Statistics
  Summary census data for Bedfordshire towns and villages from 1841 to date

• Topic files
  Newspaper cuttings on local people and events

• Victoria County History of Bedfordshire
  Volumes I, II & III, plus index

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