| "The white rose county" - England's largest county and formerly divided into 3 Ridings, North, East and West, from the word "thriding," meaning "third." It stretches from the coastal area of the North Sea to the Pennines and from the river Humber to the Tees. Fishing and farming are the traditional trades of the east, with iron mining in the north, and coal mining and the textile industries to the west of the county. Home of the Yorkshire pudding, traditionally served separately at the start of the meal, and Black Sheep beer. The artist David Hockney was raised in Bradford. Captain Cook sailed from Whitby to discover the east coast of Australia. Yorkshire has seen many boundary changes over the years and there are several county, city and local metropolitan borough council organisations throughout the region. County towns: Beverley (East Riding), Northallerton (North Riding), Barnsley (South Yorkshire), Wakefield (West Yorkshire) Other major towns: Bradford, Sheffield, Leeds Yorkshire Places of Worship Regional Projects Forum |
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Resources
Primary reference
- East Riding Record Office
- West Yorkshire Archive Service
- North Yorkshire Archives
- York Archives
- Borthwick Institute
- Teesside Archives
- North Riding of Yorkshire Look-up Exchange
- Yorkshire-West Riding Look-up Exchange
- Parish Register UK Look-up Exchange
- Yorkshire Census
- Online Census Records for Yorkshire
- Cause Papers Database: Church Courts of the diocese of York
- Dales Genealogy
- Dalesman's Family Quest
- Death Notices in Yorkshire newspapers
- Wolds Wagoners, East Yorks Ag Labs who used their skills as drivers for the Army
- Yorkgen
- Yorkshire GenWeb Project
- Yorkshire History
- Yorkshire indexers
- North Yorkshire Ironstone Mining
- UK North East website and Genealogical mailing list
- Yorkshire Archaeological society parish register section, books, microfiche & CD roms
- Yorkshire BMD
- Yorkshire Quaker Heritage Project
- Yorkshire surname list
- Yorkshire Roots
- The West Riding colliery school
- Yorkshire women's lives 1100 to the present
- Lost villages of the Holderness coast
- Yorkshire Film Archive Online
- Barnsley FHS
- Bradford FHS
- Calderdale FHS
- Doncaster FHS
- East Yorkshire FHS
- Huddersfield & District FHS
- Morley FHS
- Pontefract FHS
- Rotherham FHS
- Sheffield FHS
- Wakefield FHS
- Ackworth St Cuthbert Parish Register Transcriptions
- Aldbrough St John
- Old Barnsley
- Barwick-in-Elmet Historical Society
- Bishop Wilton
- Bolsterstone Genealogy Project
- Barford Community Website's Genealogy Pages
- Brotherton
- Bubwith
- Burghwallis and Bentley
- From Weaver To Web - Calderdale
- Calverley - Parish Records
- Cononley Local History
- Cowling Moonrakers
- Cowling web
- Crakehall
- Craven's Part in the Great War
- Dalton
- Dewsbury Now and Then
- Driffield
- Driffield and Wolds Genealogy
- Earby and District Local History Society
- Easingwold Monuments - Monumetal Inscriptions Easingwold Church 1911
- Eastrington Village
- Enderby Village - Births, Baptisms and Marriages
- Eston
- Fitzwilliam Archive Project
- Gargrave in Past Times
- History of Gilling
- Gisburn Village and St Mary the Virgin burial records
- Golcar, Some Parish Records and Burials
- Goole on the Web
- Grinton Parish Church - some Parish Records
- Gunnerside
- Halifax -Mount Zion Chapel
- Hampsthwaite
- Harrogate People and Places
- Harrogate and Knaresborough Monumental Inscriptions
- Haworth Village
- Honley Cemetery Burial Book 1857-1935
- Brief history of Hull, Its Museums and Docks
- Hullwebs History of Hull
- Hull Boundries, Churches and Parishes and a History of Sculcoates
- Hull - The History of Anlaby Road
- Hunmanby
- Haxby - History Section
- Kellington
- All Saint's Church Parish Records, Kilnwick in the Wolds
- Kirkby Malham
- Kirkby Misperton History
- Kirkheaton Online Parish Clerk
- Knaresborough Online
- Knottingley and Ferrybridge
- Langcliffe in Craven
- Leeds Parish Registers 1612-1639
- The 1868 Leeds Poll Book
- Malhamdale Local History Pages
- St Marys Church, Little Driffield
- Marsden History Group
- Mirfield in Pictures
- Morley Community Archives
- Newton-le-Willows and surrounding Villages
- St Andrew's Church, Normanby, Parish Registers
- Life and Death in Elizabethan Norton
- Three Villages - Old Byland, Rievaulx and Scawton
- Pannal Village History
- Pocklington History
- Pocklington Parish Records
- Ravenfield Village
- Rotherham Web
- Peace Please! Rotherham
- Rudston Village Website
- Transcript of St John's Church, Salton and Brawby
- Sheffield General Cemetery
- Sheffield History Forum
- Sheffield History Material
- Sheffield Indexers
- Sheffield Records Online
- Silverwood Colliery
- Skidby
- Skipton Local History
- Stillington Community Archive
- Thrybergh
- Thrybergh and Dalton Heritage Group
- Thurcroft
- Todmorden and Walsden
- Treeton
- Ulley Web
- Wakefield
- Court Rolls of the Manor of Wakefield 1274-1294
- Wakefield Area Burials and Cremations
- Wakefield Family History Sharing
- Wakefield - 'Twixt Aire and Calder
- Wentworth Village History
- West Scrafton in Coverdale
- Wharfedale and Craven Genealogical Study
- Whashton, Kirby Hill and Ravendale Census Data and Photographs
- Whitby Archives Heritage Centre
- Whiston Web
- Wickersley Web
- Wigglesworth Village
- York Assizes 1785-1851
- York Bridgemasters' Accounts
- York Cemetery
- History of York
- Churchwardens’ accounts for St Michael Spurriergate in York for the year 1546 .PDF
- Old Photographs of Hull
- Leodis A Photographic Archive of Leeds
- Gallery of Old Settle
- Pictures of Sheffield
- Historic Photographs of Skipton
- Imagine York
- 19th & 20th Century Photos of North Yorkshire
Places of interest
Captain Cook and Staithes Heritage Centre
High St
Staithes
TS13 5BQ
Tel: 01947 841454
Although primarily a museum dedicated to Captain Cook, they also hold a large number of local family history information, including individual family research.
Requests for Research and Photographs in this area
Please read Research Offers & Requests: Guidelines before requesting a lookup.
A list of members who have volunteered to do Research lookups or take photographs can be found in the Research Offers section of Site Projects, accessed via the links on the home page.
If any member wishes to offer to do lookups or take photographs in a particular location, please leave a message in the comments box at the bottom of the relevant Research Offer page. The details will be added to the county listing.
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