Lancashire Archives and Libraries

Archives
Lancashire Archives Lancashire County Council PO Box 78 County Hall Fishergate Preston, Lancashire PR1 8XJ UK Telephone: 0300 123 6701 Email: enquiries@lancashire.gov.uk Website LANCAT Catalogue Church registers guide Guide to our holdings of Anglican, Roman Catholic and Nonconformist church registers and all copies and transcripts of these.

For Manchester area, once in Lancashire: Manchester Archives and Local Studies 56 Marshall Street New Cross Manchester, Lancashire M4 5FU UK Telephone: 0161 832 5284 Fax: 0161 839 3808 Email: archiveslocalstudies@manchester.gov.uk Website Church registers search engine Church registers, alphabetical list

For Liverpool area, once in Lancashire: Liverpool Record Office 3rd Floor Central Library William Brown Street Liverpool, Lancashire L3 8EW UK Telephone: 0151 233 3069 Email: archives@liverpool.gov.uk@undefined Website Family history
 * Parish registers: Many of the parish registers can only be consulted on microfilm or online at the Ancestry database. For registers that have not been microfilmed or digitized, the original volumes can be viewed by appointment only in our search room.

For the area of Furness (Lancashire North of the Sands) and South West Cumberland, particularly for Barrow, Ulverston and Millom, once in Lancashire, now in Cumbria: Barrow Archive and Local Studies Centre Ramsden Square Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria LA14 1LL UK Telephone: 01229 407 377 Email: barrow.archives@cumbria.gov.uk@undefined Website Cumbria Archive Service Catalogue

Libraries

 * Lancashire library list
 * Lancashire independent community library list
 * Manchester library list
 * Liverpool Find a Library
 * Barrow library links

Museums

 * Museums in Lancashire
 * Museums in Manchester
 * National Museums of Liverpool
 * Museums in Barrow

Civil Registration Offices
The General Register Office holds a central copy of all birth, marriage, and death registrations in England. These certificates can be ordered from their website (a login is required but it is free to register and search). However, in some cases research can be more efficient working with the smaller, more specific records collections of county/district registry offices.

Sometimes research might be required to determine where a town or parish was in a former registration district, or even its current district. For a list of the historic and current registration districts and their parishes, see UKBMD: Registration Districts in Lancashire.

Ordering Copies of Certificates

 * Lancashire: Copy certificates
 * Manchester: Buy a copy certificate
 * Liverpool: Certificates and research
 * Cumbria, including Barrow-in-Furness: Order a copy of a certificate'''

Register Offices

 * Lancashire Find a Registration Office
 * Manchester Register Office
 * Liverpool Register Office
 * Barrow Register Office