Information Leaflets

The Record Office publishes a number of leaflets and guides to help you get the most from our holdings. You can access the leaflets from these web page to download and print out.

The leaflets are available in two formats, 'PDF' and 'Text Only'. Please select your preferred format from the left hand navigator before clicking on the leaflet links below.

Please note that Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) files require Adobe Acrobat Reader to view them. If you do not have the Adobe Acrobat software installed on your computer, you can download it from the Adobe website.

PDF Format Leaflets are listed below:


General Guides
A Guide for Visitors
Archives in Durham City
Copying and Publication of Documents
Durham Record Office - A General Introduction
Records held in the Durham Record Office
Sources for the study of local history
Archive Awareness Month


Research Service
Application Form
Information Leaflet


Guides to Records, Transcripts and Indexes
Boyd's Marriage Index, Parishes indexed on the I.G.I. and

Cemetery and crematorium registers, monumental inscriptions and will indexes
Census and parish register microfilms
Census Indexes
Church of England parish registers, Modern transcripts and indexes (Durham parishes)
Civil Registration, A Brief Guide to
Colliery Personnel Records

Enclosure, Records relating to

First and Second World Wars, Lists of Service Personnel in

International Genealogical Index and Boyd's Marriage Index, Parishes indexed on the

Lists of Service Personnel in First and Second World Wars
Local Authority Records

Modern transcripts and indexes (Church of England)
Modern transcripts and indexes (Non-conformist and Miscellaneous)
Modern transcripts and indexes (Northumberland and North Yorkshire, Church of England)
Monumental inscriptions, cemetery and crematorium registers and will indexes

Non-conformist church registers
Non-conformist church registers, Modern transcripts and indexes
Northumberland and North Yorkshire, Modern transcripts and indexes (Church of England)

Parish register and census microfilms
Parish registers
Parishes indexed on the I.G.I. and on Boyd's Marriage Index

Quarter Sessions records

Records of genealogical interest on microfilm
Records relating to Enclosure
Registers of Electors

Solicitors' records

Tithe Plans and Apportionments
Turnpike Road records

Wills indexes, monumental inscriptions, and cemetery and crematorium registers
World Wars, Lists of Service Personnel in


Publications
Publications


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