RESEARCH Useful Websites

Sites specific to Cumbria

• • • Cumbria Archives

      • CASCAT - The online catalogue
        What is in CASCAT | Quick Search | Advanced Search | How to Browse

      • List of professional  researchers

• Cumbria County History Trust.

This excellent site contains a page for all 348 parishes and townships within Cumbria, produced for the Victoria County History project.

• Archers Software Cumberland | Westmorland | Lancashire

    Guide to the Family Search Batch numbers for Cumbria

• Lancashire Online Parish Clerks

      includes Furness

• Edenlinks
  transcripts for many important records for all Westmorland
  
  

• Westmorland Hearth Tax Records

     Includes Bottom of Westmorland and Kendal Barony 1670,  Kendal and Kirkland 1674, Westmorland 1674

• Cumbrian Railways - Genealogy.

     The county's railway history group. Has a database of railway employees.

• Cumbria Mailing List
  Mailing lists hosted by  Cumbria Family History Society.

• Genealogy Cumbria
  Google Group (also a version on this site)

Neighbouring Family History Society websites

• Furness FHS
  
  

• Lancashire Family History & Heraldry Society

• Dumfries & Galloway FHS

• Northumberland & Durham FHS

• Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society

• FHF List of Family History Societies

Other Cumbrian genealogical weblinks compilations

• GENUKI Cumberland | Westmorland | Lancashire

     Categorised genealogical weblinks

• Cyndi’s List: Cumberland | Westmorland | Lancashire

     Other websites with information on Cumbrian family history.