Research guides
Our wide range of research mini guides have been compiled by experts to help you find, use and understand key records held by Gloucestershire Archives
Find further information about your area of interest by clicking on the links to each subject below.
N.B. If you can't find a guide to match your interest, you can have a look at further Research guides from The National Archives
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- Adoption
- Civil cemeteries and burial grounds
- Non-Conformist church records
- Parish Registers
- Police staff records
- Electoral Registers
- Maps
- Ordnance survey maps
- Wills and probate records
- Bishop's transcripts
- Gaol Records
- Newspapers
- Boards of guardians and workhouse records
- Hospital Records
- Listed Buildings
- Marriage Licences
- Tracing people
- Transportation of criminals
- Alehouses Licensing Records
- Tithe Maps
- Evacuees during World War 2
- Probate Inventories
- Civil Certificates
- Divorce
- Freemen of Gloucester
- Graves
- Marriage Indexes
- 1910 Valuation (Lloyd George) maps
- Estate Records
- Inclosure Maps
- Land Tax
- Petty Sessions
- Quarter Sessions
- South Gloucestershire Records
- Title Deeds
- Trade and Street Directories
- Apprenticeship Records
- Diocesan Church Court
- Freeminers
- Overseers of the poor records
- Shipping and canal boat records
- World War 2- the home front
- Census
- Books and local studies library
- Vehicle Licensing Records
- District Councils
- Hedgerows
- Property Boundaries
- Floods and Flood Defences
- Railways, Roads and Canals Plans of Public Scheme
- Public Rights of way
- Court Records
- Military Service Records
- Farms and agriculture
- Manorial Records
- Asylum Records
- Coroners Records
- Photographs
- Bankruptcy and Debtors
- World War 1 Soldiers
- Election Results and Politicians
- World War 1 Home Front
- Military Sources
- GFHS resources
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