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Lancaster Family History Group
Strong local organisation founded in 1990. Aims to promote family history research, compile indexes of local monumental inscriptions in gratitude for all the other splendid indexes that we use and to develop resources, so members can benefit by using them at the regular Group meetings.

Lancashire GenWeb
Includes links to GenConnect, an automated query management and document archiving system. There are boards for posting Queries, Bible Records, Biographies, Deeds, Obituaries, Pensions, and Wills. The boards are designed to allow researchers to freely share information with others and post questions about their own "dead end" or "brick wall" ancestors.

Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Society
Membership Enquiries by post only to: Mr R Hull , 7 Bank Terrace , Simonstone Lane , Burnley , Lancs BB12 7NW

Whether you live in Lancashire, Leicestershire or Lithuania, the Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Society can help you to research your Lancashire ancestry. The Society was formed in 1973 as the Rossendale Society for Genealogy & Heraldry (Lancashire).

Today there are now 14 branches meeting regularly ( 13 in Lancashire meeting monthly and one in London meeting quarterly ). The Society will try to help you with advice on how to research your own family tree.

Lancashire Family Trees
Pursuing information on the family names Ainsworth, Beddows, Bell, Blackburn, Bracegirdle, Brown, Davies, Jones, Kerfoot, Oxton, Stanton, Walker, Williams, Wolstenholme and Wrigley? These folks have set up a family tree home page in an effort to find our family members.
It is not a general surname tracing site. They are hoping that as distant relatives view these pages they will recognise their family ancestors and contact them to have their names put into their family trees and to add further names and information to their own. The site is arranged so that family names connect to others with active links, however not every link has been entered.

• Blackburn Diocesan Web Site
Information on local churches and clergy

County Record Office
If you are looking for old documents relating to the area, start here. Lancaster records are also held here.
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Additional information welcome!