London, England Genealogy

Guide to London ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records.

County Information
''This page is about the City of London proper (one square mile). For Greater London see Essex, Kent, Middlesex and Surrey.''

London is the United Kingdom's capital. 'The Square Mile' included 109 parishes. Today, Greater London has expanded into Middlesex, Surrey, Kent, and Essex.

Civil Districts
List of London Civil Registration Districts

Websites

 * RootsChat London &amp; Middlesex Resources and help pages. (Free).
 * Stuck in London: resources at the Society of Genealogists and elsewhere. Free online Power Point slides by Else Churchill.
 * Tracing London and Other Large City Immigrants From Abroad
 * More than one hundred higher education institutions, learned societies, livery companies and cultural groups have made descriptions of their collections and of which are searchable at AIM25. AIM25 includes London repositories mostly within and surrounding the M25 area.