A-Z of Services

Catalogues and Indexes

Following is a basic list of what historical sources are available in the A.N.Palmer Centre. For more detailed information, please contact the Centre in person. Staff are available during opening hours to answer research enquiries.

Newspapers

Holdings of Local Newspapers at Wrexham Library

The list of holdings is available to download in the following formats:

Holdings of Local Newspapers at Wrexham Library - MS Word format 41Kb

Holdings of Local Newspapers at Wrexham Library - PDF format 73Kb

Holdings of Local Newspapers at Wrexham Library - Plain Text format 331Kb

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Adobe Acrobat documents can be converted back to plain text using Accessible Adobe® Reader.

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Original Parish Registers on Microfilm

Original Parish Registers

The list of original parish registers on Microfilm is available to download in the following formats:

Original Parish Registers - MS Word format 72kb

Original Parish Registers - PDF format 56kb

Original Parish Registers - Plain Text format 1Mb

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Adobe Acrobat documents can be converted back to plain text using Accessible Adobe® Reader.

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Parish Register Transcriptions

The list of parish register transcriptions is available to download in the following formats:

Parish Register Transcriptions - MS Word format 69kb

Parish Register Transcriptions - PDF format 53kb

Parish Register Transcriptions - Plain Text format 1Mb

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Link on the Adobe logo to download the software.

Adobe Acrobat documents can be converted back to plain text using Accessible Adobe® Reader.

To view and print Microsoft Word files, you must either have Microsoft Word installed on your computer, or you can download free Microsoft Word Viewer software.

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Sources Available for Local and Family History Research

MICROFILM/FICHE

Census returns 1841-1901 for Wrexham County Borough
Census returns 1891-1901 for Denbighshire and Flintshire
Census indexes 1881 for Wales, Cheshire, Lancashire and Shropshire
National Probate Indexes for England and Wales 1858-1943
Newspapers from 1850
Parish registers for parishes in Wrexham County Borough

PRINTED SOURCES

Burgess rolls and Electoral Lists from 1857 (incomplete)
Monumental Inscriptions
Parish Register transcriptions
Trade directories 1818-1974
Books on the history of Wrexham County Borough

COMPUTER SOURCES

1881 British Census and National Index for England, Wales and Scotland
Cemetery Databases for Wrexham Cemetery 1876-2000 and Gresford Cemetery 1917-2000
Internet access to genealogical sites and historical sites