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Lincolnshire Family History Society

We are pleased to be working in partnership with the Lincolnshire Family History Society which covers family history interests in the ancient county of Lincolnshire on the east coast of England.

Lincolnshire Family History Society was formed in 1990 to cover family history interests in the ancient county of Lincolnshire on the east coast of England, and has grown to a membership of approximately 3,000.

The society holds regular meetings at Lincoln, Boston, Bourne, Grantham, Grimsby, Horncastle, London and Louth, where members can hear a variety of speakers, seek advice, and meet like-minded people. The Society runs introductory workshops plus other topics relevant to family history. The Research Centre in Lincoln has many books, mainly relevant to Lincolnshire, microfiche and readers, computer CDs and broadband internet to help researchers wherever their ancestors lived.

Vital records

Thanks to our partnership with the Lincolnshire Family History Society, there is now a vast collection of vital records available for Lincolnshire, including records of baptisms, marriages and banns and burials. If you have ancestry in the Lincolnshire area, then these record sets are the perfect place for you to get started on your family history journey:

Gravestones in a churchyard

Lincolnshire Monumental Inscriptions

This collection of over 169,000 records of monumental inscriptions in Lincolnshire covers 295 parish churchyards and burial grounds and were transcribed by volunteers of the Lincolnshire Family History Society.

If you have ancestry in the Lincolnshire area, then these records allow you to discover the gravesites of your ancestors from the early 1400s through to 2012.

Search Lincolnshire Monumental Inscriptions

Workhouse records

Thanks to our partnership with the Lincolnshire Family History Society you can also now discover more about your ancestors who spent time in the workhouse. Our collection of Guardians' Minutes allows you to uncover whether your ancestor resided in a workhouse or applied for poor relief in Lincolnshire in the 19th century. If your ancestor died a workhouse in Lincolnshire between 1866 and 1944, then you may also find them in our collection of Lincolnshire Workhouse Deaths:

Poor Law records

If you have family roots in Lincolnshire then you may find your ancestor among these poor law records. You can search the Poor Law Removal records to discover whether your ancestor was refused Poor Law Relief in Lincolnshire and sent back to their own home parish.

Settlement Certificate records allow you to delve into records of more than 8,500 people who were granted a settlement certificate for a parish in Lincolnshire under the old Poor Law between 1665 and 1865. The Settlement Examination records contain the details of those individuals who examined before it was determined whether or not they would be granted settlement in Lincolnshire.

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Lincolnshire Apprentice Index

These records include names of people from Lincolnshire who were apprenticed to a master between 1618 and 1925. Many of these individuals would have been apprenticed by the parish in order to remove the charge from the parish poor-rate.

If you find your apprentice ancestor in this collection then you can expect to discover their trade, residence and details of their 'master'.

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Mother and baby

Lincolnshire Parish Bastardy Cases

Thanks to our partnership with the Lincolnshire Family History Society, you can now discover if your ancestor was named in a parish bastardy case in Lincolnshire. This collection covers more than 2,900 bastardy cases in Lincolnshire over centuries. You can expect to find transcripts of three types of documents; warrants, maintenance orders and bonds.

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Lincolnshire, Kesteven Militia Ballot List, 1824

You can now discover your English ancestor on the Kesteven militia ballot list of 1824, which may reveal your ancestor’s birth year and occupation and whether he was exempt from militia service.

The area of Kesteven is a little more than 100 miles north of London. In the 19th century, the militia was organised at the county level and members of the militia were selected by a ballot system. These records allow you to discover the names of all the men eligible for service.

These transcripts were created by the Lincolnshire Family History Society from original records held at the Lincolnshire Archives.

Search Lincolnshire, Kesteven Militia Ballot List, 1824

Additional information about the society

The quarterly journal “Journal of the Lincolnshire Family History Society”, enables members at home and further afield to enjoy general articles on family and local history, general genealogical information, events and activities of the Society, and an opportunity to publish personal family history interests. Similar information is also found on the website including details of its own publications of local records, which can be bought online, projects, and how to join the society.

Lincolnshire FHS is a registered charity (no 1000724) and is a member of the Federation of Family History Societies.

The Lincolnshire Family History Society have also made contributions to: