Cambridgeshire Archives and Libraries

Archives
Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies Shire Hall Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB3 0AP UK Telephone: 01223 699399 Email: [mailto:county.records.cambridge@cambridgeshire.gov.uk county.records.cambridge@cambridgeshire.gov.uk]
 * Website
 * Tracing your Family History: sources at Cambridgeshire Archives
 * Original Parish Registers at Cambridgeshire Archives
 * Original Parish Registers at Huntingdonshire Archives


 * CCAN - Cambridgeshire Community Archive Network
 * List of groups
 * Founded in 2006, CCAN is made up of over 30 groups from towns and villages across Cambridgeshire. Together we are recording the local history of our county. CCAN records the memories, with over 50,000 photos, written text, audio and video recordings of everyday life.

Libraries
Cambridge Libraries Directory

Cambridge Collection Cambridge Central Library 7 Lion Yard Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 3QD UK Telephone: 0345 045 5225 Email: [mailto:cambridgeshire.collection@cambridgeshire.gov.uk cambridgeshire.collection@cambridgeshire.gov.uk] Website
 * The Cambridgeshire Collection, founded in 1855, is the county's principal Local Studies Library and continues to collect, organise and make available to the public a wide range of material relating to the past, present and future of Cambridgeshire. This material includes books, journals, newspapers, maps, ephemera and over four and a half million images and negatives of places and people. The paintings form a very small part of that collection.

Cambridge University Library Department of Manuscripts and University Archives Cambridge University Library West Road Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB3 9DR UK Telephone: 01223 333143 Email: [mailto:mss@lib.cam.ac.uk mss@lib.cam.ac.uk] Website


 * The Department of Manuscripts and University Archives is home to a wide range of material, from important medieval manuscripts to collections of personal papers dating from the twentieth century. It includes scientific collections, business archives, the records of the University and political papers.

Museum of Cambridge

 * For a list of Cambridgeshire museums, go to List of museums in Cambridgeshire in Wikipedia.
 * Google list of museums in Cambridgeshire

Museum of Cambridge 2/3 Castle Street Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB3 0AQ UK Telephone: 1223 355159 Email: [mailto:capturingcambridge@museumofcambridge.org.uk capturingcambridge@museumofcambridge.org.uk] Website


 * The Museum of Cambridge is one of the oldest social history museums in the UK. Occupying a 17th century timber framed former coaching inn, we house a unique collection. From household objects, paintings and toys to Fenland folklore cures and customs, we tell the fascinating stories of Cambridgeshire people.

Civil Register Offices
The General Register Office (GRO) 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.

Family Research Website Using the General Register Office to research family history.pdf Search and order birth, marriage, or death certificates

Cambridgeshire Register Office Ely Registration Office Huntingdon Registration Office March Registration Office Wisbech Registration Office

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, ' in Cambridgeshire, see UKBMD: Registration Districts in Cambridgeshire.