Lancashire Links

Links from around the Lancashire region.

Link	Description
	North West Group of Family History Societies. A non-profit making concern established in 1980 to provide education services to the furtherance of research into genealogy and family history and to support the work of the regions societies, libraries and record offices.
	The Register Offices in the county of Lancashire, England, hold the original records of births, marriages and deaths back to the start of civil registration in 1837.
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	Lancashire County Library: Thompson Gale. Access to Gales 19^th Centuary newspapers - NOTE: You must have a valid Lancashire Libraries subscription.
	Knowsley Local History: This exciting and innovative local history project is one of 30 in Britain sharing a £3 million award from the Public Libraries Challenge Fund designed to enhance access to reference material. The Department of Culture Media and Sport established the Fund in July 1997 with additional funding from the Wolfson Foundation.
	Rainhill Hospital: Welcome to The Colonnade. This site is dedicated to what was once the worlds largest Psychiatric Hospital.
	The Lancashire Parish Register Society: The Society was formed in 1898 and has published, at the time of writing, 197 volumes either in hardback on microfiche, or on CD. The publications contain substantial parts of the registers of over 100 parishes, printed fairly steadily since 1898. These include editions of more than 50 of the earliest Lancashire registers, in fact all but one of the registers commencing in the 16th century have now been printed in part.
	This site aims to extract and preserve the records from the various parishes and to provide online access to that data, FREE of charge, along with other data of value to family and local historians conducting research in the County of Lancashire. An OnLine Parish Clerk should not be confused with Parish Clerks, who work for parish or town councils.
	The groups in our genealogy network provide worldwide genealogy resources, weblinks & discussions to make tracing your family history online easier. We provide active, caring genealogy chat room in which all with an interest in genealogy feel at home for sharing knowledge, ideas, resources & making of friendships.
	Our own Webmaster's site. This site was created as a way to allow interested parties the oprotunity to see postcards collected by the webmasters granfather showing sights and famous people from St Helens. The images are of a quite different (yet strangely familiar) St Helens from around 1890 - 1940. The site also includes a searchable database of the soldiers listed on the War Memorial in the town hall square, and also the Pilkington's Roll Of Honour for WW1.