What you can find in the archives
Primary sources include:
- ecclesiastical archives and parish records (Church of England), including:
- registers of baptisms
- marriages and burials
- Banns Books
- Overseer of the Poor records
- Bishops' transcripts
- tithe and enclosure
- non-conformist records (for example, Methodist, Quaker etc)
- Poor Law Union, or workhouse, records
- electoral registers
- wills and administrations
- Lincolnshire Estate records
- public records, including manorial and court records
- local authority records, including parish councils and school records
- drainage and court sewer records
- asylum hospital records
Secondary sources and indexes include:
- Foster library, including county directories, historical journals and parish histories
- Census records
- birth, marriage or death records
- Lincolnshire Family History Society indexes