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Searchroom finding aids Important News Warwickshire County Record Office closes to the public for the first complete week in every calendar month. Searchroom services will NOT be available at these times. Please check before visiting 2011-2012 Calendar showing opening times
Catalogues
Many of our collections have been catalogued, and the full catalogues are available on open access shelves in the searchroom. Each collection has a unique reference, and you can locate this reference in two ways, either by: visiting Warwickshire's Past Unlocked and making a note of either the accession number (in the 'AccNo' field) or the document reference in the 'DocRefNo' field when viewing a collection or item or using our card indexes when you visit. Once you have identified the reference for the collection, you can use this to find the catalogue you require. The catalogues are kept on open-acess shelves in numerical order, by collection reference.
Searchroom card indexes		Other indexes and lists
General index - the most comprehensive and up to date, arranged mainly by place. Property - deeds, sale catalogues, valuations etc., arranged by place. Subject - covering about half of our catalogues. Name - covering less than five per cent of our catalogues. Maps, manuscript and printed - fairly comprehensive. Warwick Borough Records Non-conformist churches and ministers School records Wills in private collections, Peculiars etc. NB This does not cover the vast majority of pre 1858 Warwickshire wills which are at Worcester and Lichfield Record Offices. Poor law and apprenticeship - mainly pre-1835 for Warwick and Nuneaton. Warwickshire parish register transcripts and indexes		Rate Books - the record office has produced lists of rate books to be found within our collections. Please click on the links below to read the introduction and then to view each of the lists: Introduction to Rate Books General District Rate Books General District Valuation List Parish Rate Books Warwickshire records in other Record Offices Family Search - This includes the IGI (International Genealogical Index) of baptisms and marriages in parish registers for the British Isles up to c. 1880. Warwickshire has better coverage than many counties. National Burial Index National Probate index General Register Office Indexes A number of important estate and family collections have separate name and place indexes eg. Warwick Castle, Feilding of Newnham Paddox, Pennant of Downing, Seymour of Ragley, Throckmorton of Coughton, Lucy of Charlecote
On-line catalogues and databases		User guides
Your can access online finding aids for our records by using the public PCs in our searchroom. Online finding aids		The record office has produced a list of parish registers, non conformist registers and census returns in Warwickshire County Record Office. In the office the booklet costs £1.50 and £2.00 by post (£2.50 overseas). You can also find a the same information on our website by visiting the Services webpage, and from this page you can link to research guides on family history, house history and transportation records. We've also produced a series of User Guides, to help get the most out of our resources. You can view these by clicking the links below.
Record Office Library
Before undertaking any research it is advisable to consult printed sources. A main strength of the County Record Office’s library is its collections on works relating to Warwickshire local history. It is reference only. Each book in our library has a unique reference, and is arranged in order of reference. To find a reference for a book in our library, you can use the library card index by subject, author and place to the collection, which is available in the searchroom. All new library acquisitions, from summer 2004 onwards, are included in the Warwickshire Libraries catalogue. Why not also have a look at Warwickshire Library and Information Service's Warwickshire Reads, the Local Studies and Family History book review?		Indexes and catalogues Ordering documents Microfilm and microfiche The Record Office Library Ordnance Survey and printed maps Manuscript maps Photographs, prints and drawings How to use the GRO indexes of births, marriages and deaths at Warwickshire County Record Office The computers Download Adobe Acrobat Reader
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