Cornwall Archives and Libraries

Archives
Kresen Kernow (‘Cornwall Centre’) Little Vauxhall Redruth TR15 1AS UK E-mail: kresenkernow@cornwall.gov.uk Telephone number: 01209 614430
 * Website
 * Copies and research services
 * Research family history
 * These archives used to be housed at Cornwall Record Office in Truro and the Cornish Studies Library in Redruth.

Cornish Archives Network (CAN) E-mail: kresenkernow@cornwall.gov.uk Website CAN Members Map (Clickable for contact information.)
 * CAN is a free thriving network of over 80 archive and heritage organizations across Cornwall. The group includes everyone from well-established community and professional archives to new small digital archives, archives within other institutions and local heritage and history groups.

Libraries
Cornwall Libraries and contact information

Institute of Cornish Studies University of Exeter (Cornwall Campus) Environment and Sustainability Institute Treliever Road Penryn, Cornwall TR10 9FE England Contact information Website

University of Leicester Special Collections Online E-mail: specialcollections@leicester.ac.uk Website Search Engine
 * University of Leicester Special Collections Online provides free access to digital resources from the David Wilson Library, including "My Leicestershire History", "Manufacturing Pasts", "Historical Directories" and other material from its collections of rare books, images and archives.

Museums

 * Museums in Cornwall Website

Royal Cornwall Museum River Street Truro, Cornwall TR1 2SJ UK Telephone: 01872 272 205 Email: [mailto:enquiries@royalcornwallmuseum.org.uk enquiries@royalcornwallmuseum.org.uk] Website
 * Extensive collections range from Stone Age Cornwall to Contemporary Art, telling stories across cultures and also across the last ten thousand years.

Civil Records 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 more narrowed-down records of county 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 Cornwall.

Cornwall Registration Service Registration Offices Contact Information Telephone: 0300 1234 181 E-mail: registration@cornwall.gov.uk Family History

Isles of Scilly Register Office Council of the Isles of Scilly Town Hall St Mary’s Isles of Scilly TR21 0LW England Telephone: 0300 1234 105​ E-mail: enquiries@scilly.gov.uk Website Family History

Cornwall Family History Society also has a wide range of indexes, census records and other material as well as a comprehensive store of local and background information.