Ancestors lost in the crowd?
New to family history research?
Perhaps these articles on our website may help:
Census 1841 - 1911
Birth, Death and Marriage Registration
The London Gazette
Newspaper archives
Trade Directories
Links on the History of Essex.
Essex Council's Seax Archeological Database
Colchester Archaeological Trust newspaper with archaeological news in the Colchester area and across Essex.
The Finest Prospect in All England - The Archaeology of South Essex
Essex Society for Family History
Website on the history of the 57 parishes in the Uttlesford Council Area.
Workhouses: www.workhouses.co.uk
Workhouses: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse
Footsteps: Quality reproductions of old phtographs of Essex now on Ebay.
Another site with Essex Church Photographs: essexchurches.com
A useful resource for finding out contiguous parishes (those parishes that immediately surround a parish or location) is England Jurisdictions 1851 on familysearch.org.
The East of London Family History Society's website, for those places formerly in Essex, but are now part of Greater London
Information on windmills still surviving in Essex www.windmillworld.com
English Heritage Archives
Online database of the archives of English Heritage. Most are catalogue entries, however, there over 82,000 images available to view online. Many of them are Essex locations.
Map showing Essex milestones and Mileposts past and present. Essex Milestone Map