Mini research guides
Our wide range of research mini guides have been compiled by experts to help you find, use and understand key records held by Gloucestershire Archives
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- Alehouse Licensing Records
- Apprenticeship Records
- Asylum Records
- Bankruptcy And Debtors
- Bishop's Transcripts
- Boards Of Guardians And Workhouse Records
- Books And The Local Studies Library
- Census
- Civil Cemeteries and Burial Grounds (PDF, 351.1 KB)
- Civil Certificates
- Coroners Records
- Court Records
- Diocesan Church Court
- District Councils
- Divorce
- Dowty Film And Video Research Guide
- Election Results & Politicians
- Electoral Registers
- Estate Records
- Evacuees During World War 2
- Farms, Farmers And Agriculture
- Floods And Flood Defences
- Freemen Of Gloucester
- Freeminers
- Gaol Records
- Gloucestershire Marriage Indexes After 1837
- Gloucestershire Marriage Indexes & Transcripts Before 1837
- Graves
- Hedgerows
- Hospital Records
- Inclosure Maps
- Land Tax
- Listed Buildings
- Lloyd George 1910 Valuation Maps
- Manorial Records
- Maps (Overview)
- Marriage Licences
- Military Service records (PDF, 221 KB)
- Military Sources
- Newspapers
- Non Conformist Church Records
- Ordnance Survey Maps
- Overseers Of The Poor Records
- Parish Registers
- Petty Sessions
- Photographs
- Police Staff Records
- Probate Inventories
- Property Boundaries
- Public Rights Of Way
- Quarter Sessions
- Railways, Roads And Canals Plans Of Public Schemes (Q Rum)
- School Records
- Shipping And Canal Boat Records
- South Gloucestershire Records
- Theatre And Cinema
- Tithe Maps
- Title Deeds
- Tracing People (PDF, 309.9 KB)
- Trade And Street Directories
- Transportation Of Criminals (Convicts)
- Vehicle Licensing Records
- Wills And Probate Records
- World War 1 Home Front
- World War 1 Soldiers
- World War 2 The Home Front