1837 online ~ Trace your family tree by searching our entire copy of Birth, Marriage and Deaths indexes for England and Wales from 1837 to 2002, as well as British nationals overseas from 1761 to 1994. Use the indexes to order the Birth, Marriage and Death certificates you need to piece together your family tree. This is a chargeable website.
1881 census ~ a searchable index for the 1881 census
1901 census returns ~ a fully searchable data base.
Apsley Grammar, Class of 1958~1965 - This is part of Tony Woodhouses'website ( see below) specifically concerned with Apsley Grammar where he was a student.
Arcitext - access to the entire page archive of the Daily Mirror, from 1903 to this morning, all text-searchable. Actual pages: view the newspaper page – not just the text.
Ashridge Management College - includes a history of the estate.
Ashridge Rectors ~ List of Rectors of Ashridge
Berkhamsted Local History Society - details of the Society & its programme of events.
Berkhamsted Castle - a dedicated site about the Castle, set up by the Berkhamsted Local History Society.
Boxmoor Trust - The Trust is a registered charity which was founded in 1594 to administer the land and properties of the Boxmoor Estate for the benefit of the inhabitants of Hemel Hempstead and Bovingdon. The Trust offers a wide variety of information and education services whilst providing a range of events and activities for the whole community.
Bovingdon History & Census Data: - This site is run by local historian Sarah Brown.
Cheshunt Roman finds - a visit from Chanel 4's Time Team
Dacorum Heritage Trust: ~ This is the NEW site for DHT and the Museum Store at Berkhamsted - visit regulalry to help keep their visitor numbers up. Now includes some interesting articles on local history including the excavations at Gadebridge Park.
Dacorum Borough Council:~ DBC has an excellent section on individual towns and villages within the Borough, each with its own mini history. Click on ABOUT DACORUM
Family Records Centre, run by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) & The National Archives. e-mail frc@nationalarchives.gov.uk
FreeBMD is an ongoing project, the aim of which is to transcribe the Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales, and to provide free Internet access to the transcribed records.
General Register Office ~ On line ordering service for crertificates
Hemel Hempstead Gazette - The Gazette has a large local history section, covering many topics and allowing Q&A.
Hemel Hempstead Local History & Museum Society - The NEW official website of this important local history society. It is much larger, more comprehensive and very much more user-friendly with plenty of information about the Society, its meetings, library, competitions and projects.
Hertfordshire Genealogy: ~ site run by Chris Reynolds of Tring is excellent for some local history as well as family history and is interactive. This should be one of the first ports of call for Family Historians in Hertfordshire.
Hertfordshire Archive & Local Studies (HALS): ~ HALS was previously known as the Hertfordshire Record Office.
An excelent "virtual museum" site for Kings Langley.
Leverstock Green war graves: ~ Stephen Stratford's site on local war graves.
POPULATION, ECONOMY AND FAMILY STRUCTURE IN HERTFORDSHIRE IN 1851 - This is the overall title of the books by Prof. Nigel Goose of the University of Hertfordshire, details of which can be found by navigating from the UH research site through research in Humanities. A direct URL does not seem to work!
Snooks Grave ~ Local Highwayman Snooks
Snooks ~ The Last Highwayman to Hang. Article in Herts Observer.
Tony Woodhouse's website. ~ Now living in Birmingham, Tony grew up in Hemel and his excellent website contains many references to Hemel in the 1950s & 60's and is host to numerous photographs of the town at the time.
Time Team - Website for Chanel 4's major archaeological programme.
