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Alphabetical A-Z listing of the Dorset History Centre pages.

A

About us

Address - our postal address and other contact details

Adoption records

Alehouse licences

Ancestry (website)

Archives - overview of what we hold

Archive Education Outreach Officer

Archivists

Authors - Dorset Authors Collection

B

Baptisms - parish registers

Barnes, William

Bastardy records

Beaminster, sources for the history of

Bishops transcripts

Books (local studies library)

Boundary disputes

Bournemouth, sources for the history of

Bridport, sources for the history of

Building control records

Burials - parish registers

Business records

C

CARN cards

Catalogue (archives)

Catalogue (library)

Car parking

Census

Certificates (birth, marriage and death)

Certified copies of documents

Charges

Child criminals session and learning pack

Christenings - parish registers

Churchwardens accounts

Collections

Collections Manager

Community projects

Contact us

Conservators

Copying services

Cosens of Weymouth collection (D/COS)

County Archivist

County Lunatic Asylum

Court records

D

Data Protection Act and research at the History Centre

Deeds

Depositing records

Directories (local, trade, commercial)

Disabled access

Document of the Month

Dorchester, sources for the history of

Dorset Authors Collection

Dorset History Centre home page

Dorset Pictures Online

E

Education service

Electoral registers

Email - our email and other contact details

Enclosure records (maps and awards)

Enquiry service

Estate records

F

Family history

Fees and charges

Finding us

Fowles, John

Freedom of Information

G

Genealogy

General Register Office (GRO) Indexes

Group visits to the History Centre

Guides to records

H

Hardy, Thomas

Herbert photographic collection

Herrison Hospital

House history

I

Identification required for using the History Centre

Internet access and resources

J

Jury lists

L

Latest news

Learning Officer

Local government records

Local studies library

Lunatic asylum (Herrison Hospital)

Lyme Regis, sources for the history of

M

Manorial learning session and pack

Maps

Marriages - parish registers

Marriage licences

Microfilm sources and facilities

Militia lists

Motor taxation records

N

News (about the History Centre)

Newsletter - the Dorset History Centre newsletter online

Newspapers

O

Online catalogue (archives)

Opening hours

Ordnance Survey maps

Outreach and Communities Officer

P

Parish registers (baptisms, marriages and burials)

Photographs

Planning your visit

Planning records

Police records

Poole, sources for the history of

Powys brothers

Preservation

Principal Archivist

Principal Conservator

Prison registers

Probate records

Publications

Public holidays - opening times

Public transport - getting to the History Centre

Q

Quarter Sessions

Questions (frequently asked questions)

R

Rate books

Records - guides to different types of records

Refreshment facilities

Registers of baptisms/christenings, marriages and burials

Reprographics

Research service - for people unable to visit the History Centre

Rights of way

S

Sales particulars

School records

Search our online catalogue

Services

Settlement papers

Shaftesbury, sources for the history of

Staff: Staff job titles and contacts

Staff: What we do

Stewart's Garden Centre collection (D/STW)

T

Talks and group visits

Telephone - our telephone number and other contact details

Tithe maps

Town guides

Transportation records (penal transportation to Australia)

Treves, Frederick

V

Vehicle licensing and registration records

Visiting the Dorset History Centre

Volunteers

W

Wareham, sources for the history of

Warner, Sylvia Townsend

Where to find us

Wills

Wimborne Minster, sources for the history of

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