Specialised sources

Here are some of the more unusual specialised resources for family history that you can use at the Derbyshire Local Studies Library, County Hall.

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• Manuscripts, on microfilm or republished often contain names and information about people. Some  include family trees. Our manuscripts include Wolley, Shrewsbury, Kerry, Ince, Yeatman, Derbyshire Archaeological Journal and Staffordshire Record Society.    

• Apprentices Indexes list apprentices and their masters.   

• Lists of Emigrants: Coldham, Filby, Australian 1st and 2nd Fleets.  

• Soldiers Died in the Great War. Army Roll of Honour World War II    

• Peerage and Gentry Listings: Burke, De Brett, Kelly, Cockayne.    

• Dictionary of National Biography, Who was Who.   

• Public School Registers. We have a few, not all are Derbyshire schools.   

• Police Gazettes: 1919 to 1953. Give details of released criminals.    

• Criminal Register Indexes UK from 1805. A name index to National Archives registers.