Flitwick Library

Local and Family History A - Z > By Library

• Ancestry Library Edition
  Free access in the library, to 'Ancestry Library Edition', a web site that has a huge range of resources for family historians. For details, see the top of Local and Family History A-Z page
   
• Books
  Flitwick: a short history, by the Ampthill & District Archaeological Society
  Flitwick: the story of an old Bedfordshire village, by J L Ward Petley
  Boyhood memories of Flitwick Bedfordshire, by H Jellis
  
  For further details please see the library catalogue
   
• Census Records
  Free access to census records 1841- 1911 on 'Ancestry Library Edition' web site
   
• County guides and directories
  Bedfordshire Directory 1785, 1830-31, 1839, 1850 (microfiche)
  Craven and Co's Commercial Directory of Bedfordshire 1854 (microfiche)
  Kelly's Directory of Bedfordshire 1885, 1894, 1920, 1924 (microfiche)
  Post Office Directory of Bedfordshire 1869 (microfiche)
   
• Highway Board Minutes
  Woburn District Highway Board Minutes 1863-1895
   
• Magazines and Journals
  Bedfordshire County Life Magazine 2001 onwards
  Bedfordshire Historical Record Society publications, incomplete back-file
  Bedfordshire Magazine, volumes 1-24 plus index
   
• Maps
  Current street maps of Bedfordshire towns and villages
  Current Ordnance Survey Landranger and Explorer maps of Bedfordshire
   
• Newspapers
  Current local newspapers
  British Newspaper Archive
  Times Digital Archive
   
• Parish registers
  Selected transcribed parish registers from 1500s to 1812, in book format
  Selected parish registers on microfiche
   
• Poor Law Minutes
  Ampthill Poor Law Minutes 1835-1847 on microfiche
   
• Statistics
  Summary census data for Bedfordshire towns and villages from 1851 to date
   
• Telephone Directories
  Telephone directories between 1880 and 1984 are also available on Ancestry which is accessible via the public computers in all libraries.
   
• Topic files
  Newspaper cuttings on local people and events
   
• Victoria County History of Bedfordshire
  Volumes I, II & III, plus index
   

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