Bedfordshire Family History Resources
| SOCIETIES | Click on the link in the left hand column
to visit the site |
| Bedfordshire Family History Society | Bedfordshire Family History Society (BFHS) was founded in 1977 to bring together those interested in family history, genealogy and heraldry, primarily in Bedfordshire, and to help co-ordinate research and to make county records more freely accessible. |
| Bedfordshire Historical Record Society | The Bedfordshire Historical Record Society has been publishing material
on the history of Bedfordshire since 1912. It publishes a new volume each
year, and these include both well researched articles and monographs on
the history of Bedfordshire, and also a wide variety of original records
relating to the county, each with a helpful introduction and detailed
notes to assist the reader. This web-site enables you to browse the list of books in print to identify any that might be of interest to you, and, by clicking on the title, call up a page devoted to that title, providing more information, such as a summary of the contents, together with some images and extracts. Should you wish to order the volume, you can do so from the same page. |
| Riseley Historical Society | Local history information about the village of Riseley. |
| DATA RESOURCES | |
| Bedfordshire War Memorials and Rolls of Honour | This site is dedicated to those men and women who fell fighting for their country. Recorded here are various war memorials within a variety of counties. The war memorials and rolls of honour cover a variety of regiments, airfields and air bases as well as the memorials and cemeteries in the countries overseas where the men fell. |
| Bedfordshire Records Office | Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Record Service - The Bedfordshire Record Office, as it was formerly known, was established in 1913 by Dr.G.Herbert Fowler and was the first county record office in England.and lists and indexes County Council archives; providing a source for areas such as education, social conditions, house histories, local history through the planning process and the Fire Service. |
| Pollbook of Bedfordshire 1784 | This is a transcript of the Pollbook (record of voting) taken on 7-19 April 1784 in Bedford, for elections in Bedfordshire. Also pollbook for 1722 - click here. |
| Bedfordshire Look-up Exchange | A list of reference works on Bedfordshire which volunteers are willing to search for specific entries. |
| Free Census for Bedfordshire | A project to transcribe the UK Census Returns and make them availabale without charge is underway (1891) |
| PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY | |
| Bedfordshire Town & Village Photos | A selection of photos around Bedfordshire - mainly recent. |
| Francis Frith Collection of Photographs | Photographs for Bedfordshire. Copies can be ordered for a fee. |
| HISTORY | |
| History of Bedfordshire | History of Bedfordshire from extracts. |
| Bedfordshire Workhouses | Information about Workhouses and Institutions in Bedfordshire. |