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There are a number of sources in St Albans and District where
records of various types are held.
Hertfordshire County Council
If you are interested in researching your family history,
Hertfordshire County Council's Family History Centre offers
e-mail and research services for tracing your roots from the
comfort of your own home.
The Family History Centre is based at County Hall in Hertford
but also offers research services that can be booked and paid
for by e-mail. There is a comprehensive collection of data
including indexes to births, deaths and marriages from 1837
and copies of several thousand Hertfordshire wills.
Prices for the service start at £1 per hour or £3.00
for a half-day visit to the County Hall site. Research services
cost £24.00 per hour and payment can be made by e-mail
using a credit card. For further details about charges, information
available and
opening times please check
http://www.hertsdirect.org/libsleisure/heritage1/
District Libraries
St Albans Central Library
The St Albans library has holdings that include directories,
files of newspapers, census records, the IGI, and many reference
guides. They also have a lot of unique material, and in addition,
hold the Lewis Evans Collection of Hertfordshire local history.
Contact:
St Albans Central Library
The Maltings
St Albans
Herts
Tel: 01438
737333
Hertfordshire County Council Library
The HCC Library website is on www.hertsdirect.org/libraries and gives access to the main catalogue and InfoCentre database,
but is not yet available 24 hours a day.
- Herts Archives and Local Studies, Register
Block, County Hall, Pegs Lane, Hertford SG13 8DE Tel: (01992)
555105
http://www.hertsdirect.org/libsleisure/heritage1/.
Their holdings include: - GRO indexes, census returns,
newspapers, special collections of Hertfordshire Film
Archive, the John
Dickinson Co photographic archive, and the Frith photographs
for Hertfordshire.
- Sandridge Village - a large range of specialist indexed
returns and research documents compiled by Mr. R G Auckland
who is willing to give further advice about his ongoing
list of publications, and also give details from his many
indexes etc.
He has so far published: - Manor of Sandridge; pre-history,
Celtic, Roman, Saxon and Norman Sandridge; Sandridge - Its
Farms and Farmers 796 - 1900 AD; Monastic references to Sandridge;
Wars of the Roses (1st Battle of Sandridge); Bunyan's Cottage;
Overseers of the Poor Accounts - 17th century; Protestation
Returns 1641; Hearth Tax Returns 1663; Desmartz Survey 1726;
Militia Lists 1758-1786; Sandridge Rate Book 1833-1835; Sandridge
Census 1841 - 1891 inc.; Tithe Award Schedule (1843); Parish
Magazine extracts of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials 1907
- 1919; WW1 Memorial - names etc; Food, Trades & Professions;
Documents (Wills, Leases etc); Sandridge School, Post Office
and Telephone; Public Houses; Charities; Baptists; Paul Family;
Land Survey 1911 with notes. Contact Mr Auckland direct on
Reg@zilpah.demon.co.uk
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