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London - a difficult place to research

====If you need London join the LONDON Mailing List === 
you can subscribe here http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/ENG/LONDON.html  
The list Web Pages are at http://www.londonlist.org.uk/.
The London area covers parts of Middlesex, Essex, Kent and Surrey. These boundaries changed over the years. Because they said born London - they may not mean the small area known as the City of London. 

John Brown started a special help for London in 2005 http://londongenhelp.blogspot.com/ - we duplicate many links but his are all on one page

FHS - Family History Societies & Other Local History Centres
Genuki http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/genuki/LND/
http://www.victorianlondon.org/

LMA and Guildhall - the resources in London for Parish Registers etc
London Metropolitan Archives
- http://www.corpoflondon.gov.uk/archives/lma/access.htm
Where is LMA - 40 Northampton Road, London EC1
Guildhall and Family History  or  http://tinyurl.com/3afek
How to get to Guildball -( PDF download) Aldermanbury (yes- name of Street) EC2

Discussion on Guild hall  - see http://www.steeljam.dircon.co.uk/
General Guide to Guildhall http://www.history.ac.uk/gh/ghguide.htm
City of Westminster archives - http://www.westminster.gov.uk/libraries/gateway/familyhist.cfm

Also the Family Records Centre a valuable resource to visit in London for census and BMD 
http://www.familyrecords.gov.uk/frc/default.htm
June 2006 National Archives announce re moving from RFC by 2008 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/21jun06b.pdf

Tower Hamlets' Local History http://www.mernick.co.uk/thhol/main.html

London Districts http://www.british-history.ac.uk/image.aspx?compid=38869&filename=fig01.gif

London Merchants of 1677- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~frpayments/LM1677/

http://www.ideal-homes.org.uk/ Great stuff on Suburbs

http://www.trolleybus.net - my "own" route 607 is shown

London General Links

http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~bpefisk/fh/LUE/london.htm
Greenwood's Map of London 1827
London Ancestor, Ancestors - Genealogy, Local, Family History
London and Middlesex Surnames List http://www.rootsweb.com/~engmdx/
Registration Districts in London

Tower Bridge Community
Whitechapel, Bethnal Green & Shoreditch
http://www.londonancestor.com/

http://www.eastlondon.org.uk/heritage.html' gives other heritage sites

 

My other link pages for London

Cemeteries

Pubs and Publicans and Licensed Victuallers

Parishes

 

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