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A collection of newspaper cuttings collected by Constance Louisa Porter, a spinster, who lived at Highfield House in Hillrow who was the duaghter of Roberts Knights Porter and Emily Usan Cockle. She died in 1938. which have been reproduced here page by page.

The years are not sequential, if they appear at all. If you have relatives mentioned you may need to calculate the year.

* ROLLS OF HONOUR *
and
WAR MEMORIALS

Have you a roll or memorial to add.

Welcome To Cambridgeshire Genealogy

Welcome to the Cambridgeshire EnglandGenWeb Project. This website is part of the BritishIslesGenWeb Project and is provided as a resource for individuals researching their English ancestors who originated in this county. Questions or Comments about the Cambridgeshire website should be directed to Martin Edwards.

Genuki-England for Cambridgeshire

If you are a new researcher to Cambridgeshire, please take a few minutes and visit the Genuki-Cambridge pages. These pages contain a wealth of information pertinent to all facets of English research in this county to be found on the Internet.

Index of Pages Available

The Cambridgeshire pages are built from general information about Cambridgeshire and links to pages related to the area. The Ancient County of Cambridgeshire covers both Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely.

Some Cambridgeshire Societies are described here with their respective links.

To see a
Cambridgeshire
Pre-1974 map
click here.

The Cambridgeshire Lookup Exchange offers look ups based on various documents to be found on their webpage.

There was a Cambridgeshire Research Interests Surname List maintained by Robin Drayton that was replaced on August 1st 2001 by a new Searchable Cambridgeshire Surnames Interests Database provided by Graham Januay.

Tip: Always use the CHAPMAN codes when referring to English counties.

Information about people, places, events, topics, etc., relevant to Cambridgeshire Genealogy and History can be found on these pages simply and easily alernatively use the site map.

Available Links. These pages contain a wealth of information pertinent to all facets of English research in this county.

In addition there were several thousand emigrants from Cambridgeshire and a page of links to sites which may help with Cambridgeshire Emigrants has also been provided.

Cambridgeshire Strays .
For a limited time only listings of Cambridgeshire Strays are being made available for various types of person by kind permission of the Cambridgeshire Family History Society.

Query and Surname Sources

Please feel free to post your query or surname to our Cambridgeshire Query BBS system. NOTE: Your query must reference Cambridgeshire or else it will be removed.

Cambridgeshire Query BBS Board
Cambridge, England Surnames - Surname Helper Database

Mail Lists of Interest

Click here to see a listing of all England Mail Lists hosted by RootsWeb.

For This County

To subscribe to the following mail list, please send a new email to the address listed below. Type the word SUBSCRIBE in the message body - no other text. You will receive a welcome message from the listowner with list instructions. To post to this list, address your mail to the list name without the -REQUEST part! Enjoy!

ENGLISH-FENS-L-REQUEST@rootsweb.com is a mailing list for anyone with a genealogical interest in the area of the Fenlands which overlaps the counties of Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, South Lincolnshire, North-west Norfolk, West Suffolk and North-west Essex.
ENG-CAMBRIDGESHIRE-L-REQUEST@rootsweb.com is a mailing list for anyone with a genealogical interest in the county of Cambridgeshire.
ENG-WISBECH-AREA-L -REQUEST@rootsweb.com is a mailing list for anyone with a genealogical interest in Wisbech or it surrounds.

Professional Researchers

Many queries have been generated about professional help. Within the Cambridgeshire area there are various researchers who can help.

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External Cambridgeshire Search Facilities

Search Cambridgeshire using UK Superweb On-line, a recommended search resource...

Cambridgeshire UK Superweb Online
linking every City, Town and Village in the County of Cambs.

Cambridgeshire Genealogy Calendar
If you have a genealogical event related to Cambridgeshire that you wish to announce or you want to know about genealogical events pertinent to Cambridgeshire then consult the Cambridgeshire Genealogy Calendar