Research service
We offer a search service if you are unable to visit us in person.
Our fully-trained staff can undertake research on your behalf at a cost of £10.50 per half hour, or part thereof. For this you receive a search report written by a professional archivist and copies of relevant entries, where found. We can undertake a maximum of three hours research at any one time.
We can undertake specific searches in parish registers or more general searches in other types of records. To request a search, please download the relevant form from this page, then complete and return with payment to us using our contact details.
If you are doing family history, and would like to order copies of entries from the parish registers where the date is already known, please use our copying service.
We will answer any enquiries about the content and extent of our collections without charge. A fee is payable under the research service where we need to consult the original records.
If you prefer to employ an independent researcher, a list of record agents is available to download on this page.
Related documents
The following documents are in Portable Document Format (PDF). You can download the PDF software for free from the Adobe website (opens in a new window)
- Church Register Search 2012 (163KB)
- Church Register Search Form - front large print 2012 (184KB)
- Data Subject Access Request Form (55KB)
- Data Subject Access Request Form- Large Print (57KB)
- Derbyshire Record Office Charges 2012-13 (193KB)
- General search order 2012 (162KB)
- General Search Form - font large print 2012 (183KB)
- Record Agents 2012 (36KB)