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Sources of information
The Guide to the Lancashire Local Studies and Family History Collections
Lancashire Lantern - The Lancashire Life And Times E-Resource Network allows you to search Community Information and in any or all of the following databases which are provided and maintained by the Reference Departments within Lancashire County Library:
- armed forces index
- obituaries index
- transactions index
- newspaper index
- census index
- parish registers index
- The Lancashire Pioneers
- The Lancashire Poetry index
- The Lancashire Image Archive
The scope of each index is described on the Lancashire Lantern home page.
For Local Studies books, go the library catalogue and select Local Studies from the Collections menu.
How to contact the Local Studies Department
To contact those libraries with local studies collections, use the guide to the collections
Schools’ Publications:
Samuel’s Chorley – A Compendium of Resources for Schools (9mb file)
Leah's Leyland - A Compendium of Resources for Schools (5mb file)
Explore all aspects of these Lancashire towns in Victorian Times including the worlds of education, work, transport and housing. The compendiums contain numerous illustrations, photographs and copies from maps and census records.
Leaflets/booklets:
The following give a description of the source and its use in Local Studies.
- Census
- Council Minutes
- Directories
- Photographs
- Maps
- Newspapers
- Parish Records
- Births, Marriages and Deaths
- Web sites for family history and local studies
- Serials, Periodicals
- Transactions, Proceedings of Learned Societies
- Electoral Registers and Poll Books
- Documentary Material, including Rate Books
- Sound and Video Recordings
- Special Collections