Oxfordshire, England genealogy resources

 

Welcome To Oxfordshire Genealogy

Welcome to anyone researching their ancestors in Oxfordshire.

This site aims to be a collection of links to the main resources for such research.

Oxfordshire Family History Society
Oxfordshire Record Office (** 1901 census fiche available to view)
Mailing List for Oxfordshire
Surname interest list for Oxfordshire
Maps of Oxfordshire
Oxford University Alumni
Centre for Oxfordshire Studies (COS) (** 1901 census fiche available to view - detailed listing)
Victoria County History (VCH) for Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire Health Archives
Programs giving parishes nearby to one another
Register office addresses
Oxfordshire GenWeb Query board

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Resources available for genealogical research in Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire Family History Society

The Oxfordshire FHS has available for purchase microfiche of transcribed parish registers of all parishes, and also censuses for the county. Computer search services are also available for the censuses and pre-1837 marriages.

Oxfordshire Record Office

The Oxfordshire Record Office holds the original historic documents relating to the county.

They will answer enquiries relating to holdings such as pre-1857 wills, from which you may buy photocopies - contact them at

archives@oxfordshire.gov.uk

** ORO has available for consultation the 1901 census microfiche for present-day Oxfordshire

Their holdings of school log books on microfiche are listed here.

Mailing List for Oxfordshire

OXFORDSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com is a mailing list for family and local history related to Oxfordshire, England.

There are about 600 members at the moment, many from the OFHS and Oxfordshire local history groups and there are also experts in different fields from adjacent counties. It's a lively group, where queries are posted, and frequently answered, & information is given about subjects such as web sites, forthcoming meetings of interest, books, and sources available for research.

To subscribe to this mailing list, please click on its name & type the word SUBSCRIBE in the message body of your email. You will receive a welcome message from the listowner with list instructions.

You may search & browse its archives from

http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/ENG/OXFORDSHIRE.html

Surname interest list for Oxfordshire (OXSIL)

OXSIL is a list of over 5,000 surnames under research in Oxfordshire, cross-referenced to place & date, allowing you to check for researchers with similar interests to yourself, and add your own interests.

The website was created and maintained on Rootsweb for many years by Leah Savage, who has since moved on in life; it has now moved to a new site, where it is maintained by Paul Brazell in cooperation with the Oxfordshire Family History Society.

Maps of Oxfordshire and beyond

A map showing the parishes of Oxfordshire, and those bordering Oxfordshire, is at
http://www.ofhs.org.uk/web/parmapCounty/index.html

There's a good general map of present-day Oxfordshire at
http://www.oxlink.co.uk/county.html
which includes links to pages on some of the main towns, where there are descriptions and photographs.

Maps of most of the UK relating to the late 1800s can be found at
http://www.old-maps.co.uk/

For locating any place, even a small village, use http://uk.multimap.com/ .
This gives a detailed zoomable map, including a scale.  It even has contour colouring!

On the national level, a very pretty map of the counties of Britain is at http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/Britain.html

Oxford University Alumni

It may be that in your research you find someone about whom you'd like to know more who was at the University in Oxford. The Oxford University archivist, at enquiries@oua.ox.ac.uk, will be able to look in records of the Alumni of the University for you. These records usually contain biographical and genealogical information as well as collegiate records.

Centre for Oxfordshire Studies (COS)

The holdings of the Centre for Oxfordshire Studies in central Oxford include transcribed parish records, transcribed census returns, and the GRO indexes on microfiche.

** COS has available for consultation the 1901 census microfiche for Oxfordshire and the six surrounding counties, i.e. Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Warwickshire.

Full details of their holdings are listed in enumeration place order and also in PRO piece number order.

Victoria County History Volumes

The VCH series of volumes for Oxfordshire aims to provide an encyclopaedic history of the constituent parishes of Oxfordshire.
The volumes are available in many large libraries, and are available for purchase from Pulker Books.

Oxfordshire Health Archives (ORA)

Details are available about the holdings of the OHA for Oxfordshire hospitals, and the information which may be obtained relating to patients & staff, at the Oxon. Health Archives link from http://www.oxfordshire-health-archives.org.uk/

Programs giving parishes nearby to one another

Programs listed here enable one to find parishes within a certain radius of a given parish, and to calculate the distance between parishes.

Register office addresses

Register office addresses are listed here.
If you cannot find the office that you are looking for in the index, you may find the web pages Registration Districts in England and Wales a useful aid, or the alphabetical index of place-names, showing the counties and districts in which they were situated for the period 1837-1930

Oxfordshire GenWeb Query board

Please feel free to post your query to the Oxfordshire GenWeb Query board.

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