Links
Other Council services and websites provide useful information to assist your research into local and family history.

Wandsworth Register Office
For local civil registration of births, marriages and deaths.

Wandsworth Libraries
Search for local history library stock in Wandsworth Libraries online catalogue

Wandsworth Planning Service
These web pages include an index of listed buildings in Wandsworth, conservation area descriptions, database of Planning and Building Control Applications, and recent press releases.

Wandsworth Cemetery
For information on access to burial and cremation registers.

Wandsworth Council Minutes
For an online archive of agenda and minutes for Council, Committee and Sub-Committee meetings since January 2001.

Electoral Registration
For information on how to access the current register.

Other record offices and libraries
Detailed information on the location of resources relating to Wandsworth are included 'Local and family history resources for the borough of Wandsworth', 2nd Edition, 2004, by Dorian Gerhold, published by Wandsworth Historical Society and available below as a pdf file.

 Local and family history resources (96 kb)

London Metropolitan Archives
cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma
Holds archives for the greater London area including Church of England parish records, which includes registers for Wandsworth, Battersea (microfilm copies for St Mary's Church, Battersea, originals with the incumbent), Putney, Tooting, Clapham; records of non-conformist churches, schools, hospitals, courts, businesses, Wandsworth prison and Wandsworth and Clapham poor law union. The LMA has a large collection of maps, prints (indexed) and printed sources. The Online London Generations database lists holdings and information leaflets on topics such as adoption, schools, and evacuation. 

National Archives
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
The National Archives of England, Wales and the United Kingdom. The website includes catalogues, online records including census returns and PCC wills, education resources and information leaflets. You can also search the National Register of Archives to locate archives relating to British history and 'Archon' a directory of record repositories and links to archival projects and resources.

Surrey History Centre
shs.surreycc.gov.uk
Records relating to Wandsworth, when it was part of the County of Surrey, include Surrey Quarter Sessions records, deeds and property papers, and electoral registers 1832-1885, land tax records 1780-1831.

Lambeth Archives
www.lambeth.gov.uk
Archives and Local History Library for the London Borough of Lambeth, with a large collection of material on the former County of Surrey.  Archives include cemetery records for the South Metropolitan Cemetery at Norwood and Streatham Cemetery in Garratt Lane, Wandsworth.

Guildhall Library
collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk/
Manuscripts, maps and illustrations and printed books (including local street directories for the Wandsworth area and Kelly's London directories).

British Library Newspaper Library
www.bl.uk/collections/newspapers.html
Collection includes local newspapers for the Wandsworth area.

Family history

Genealogy for the UK and Ireland
www.genuki.org.uk
Numerous links and family history advice topics including 'Getting started' and 'researching from abroad.'

Family Records
www.familyrecords.gov.uk
Links to government records for family history including the Family Records Centre, for births, marriages and deaths in England and Wales since 1837 and census returns 1841-1901.

Family Search
www.familysearch.org
The genealogy site of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints with a searchable index - International Genealogical Index and the 1881 census.

Federation of Family History Societies
www.ffhs.org.uk
Contact details of member societies, details of publications and help leaflets including 'first steps in family history' and 'adoption'. 

East Surrey Family History Society www.eastsurreyfhs.org.uk
The East Surrey Family History Society covers our area.  Their site includes details of the indexes they have produced and family history links.

Society of Genealogists
www.sog.org.uk
Site includes information about the Society's Library and a calendar of events.

Links for photographs
Selected images of items from the collections of Wandsworth Museum and Local History Service have contributed to two partnership projects funded by the New Opportunities Fund (NOF).  These are Moving Here and Thamespilot:

Moving Here
An online database of original sources recording the story of migration to England since 1800.
www.movinghere.org.uk

Thamespilot
Images and documents exploring the history of the River Thames from source to sea.
www.thamespilot.org.uk 

Collage
collage.nhil.com
An image database of works from the Guildhall Library and Guildhall Art Gallery London including views of Wandsworth.

Images of England
www.imagesofengland.org.uk
Photographic record of listed buildings developed by the National Monuments Record, the public archive of English Heritage.

European Visual Archive
www.eva-eu.org
Photographs from the London Metropolitan Archives contribute to this project, including some photographs of the Wandsworth area.

PhotoLondon
www.photolondon.org.uk
This site promotes photograph collections held by London's Libraries, museums and archives, with contact details, selected images and a bibliography of London photography.