Family History Links in Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies is the principal place of deposit for all public records in Hertfordshire.  Hertfordshire Parish Registers are currently available online to search on FindMyPast.

Hertfordshire Archives provides a range of services of interest to researchers, further details of which can be found on their website.  One of the most useful quick finding aids is the Hertfordshire Names Online search function which indexes a range of documents from the archives which are available to researchers as a digital or paper copy on payment of the relevant charge.  This index is constantly refreshed, making it useful to interrogate on a regular basis for new records of interest.

Hertfordshire Record Society 

Herts Memories 

Stevenage Family History Society 

Letchworth and District Family History Group 
 

Local History Links in Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire Association for Local History 

Abbots Langley Local History Society 
 
Apsley Paper Trail (Frogmore Paper Mill) 
 
Ashwell Museum 
 
Ayot St Peter parish history 
 
Baldock Museum & Local History Society 
 
Barkway Local History Group 
 
Barnet Battlefield Survey project  
 
Barnet Museum & Local History Society 
 
Berkhamsted & District Archaeological Society 
 
Berkhamsted Local History & Museum Society 
 
Bishop's Stortford & Thorley History 
 
Bishop's Stortford Museum 

Braughing Local History Society 
 
Bricket Wood Society 
 
British Schools Museum (Hitchin)  
 
Brookmans Park History (North Mymms) 
 
Buntingford Railway & Local History Society 
 
Buntingford Civic Society 
 
Bushey Museum & Art Gallery 
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Codicote Local History Society 
 
Colney Heath & District History Society 
 
Croxley Green History Project 
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Dacorum Heritage Trust 
 
de Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre / Mosquito Aircraft Museum 
 
East Herts Archaeological Society 
 
Elstree & Borehamwood Museum 
 
Elstree Screen Heritage 
 
Frogmore Paper Mill 
 
Furneux Pelham History 
 
The Hadhams' History Society 
 
Harpenden & District Local History Society 
 
Hatfield Local History Society 
 
Hatfield: Mill Green Museum & Mill 
 
Hemel Hempstead History & Museum Society 
 
Hertford Museum & oral history group 
 
Hertford & Ware Local History Society 
 
High Wych History blog  
 
Hitchin, British Schools Museum 
 
Hitchin Historical Society 
 
Hitchin: North Hertfordshire Museum 
 
Hoddesdon: Lowewood Museum 
 
The Hunsdon Local History & Preservation Society 
 
Kimpton History Group 
 
Kings Langley Local History & Museum Society 
 
Knebworth House 
 
Lemsford Local History Group 
 
Letchworth Garden City Society​ 
 
Letchworth Local History Group 
 
Letchworth: Heritage Foundation 
 
Leverstock Green Chronicle 
 
London Colney Local History Society 
 
Markyate Village History  
 
Much Hadham Forge Museum 
 
North Herts Archaeological Society 
 
North Mymms History Projec
 
Norton Community Archaeology Group 
 
Park Street & Frogmore Society 
 
Pirton Local History Group  
 
Potters Bar and District Historical Society 
 
Potters Bar Museum 
 
Redbourn Village Museum 
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Redbournbury Water Mill & Bakery 
 
Rickmansworth Historical Society 
 
Rickmansworth Waterways Trust 
 
Royston Cave 
 
Royston & District Local History Society 
 
Royston & District Museum & Art Gallery 
 
Sawbridgeworth Local History Society 
 
Sarratt Local History Society 
 
Smallford Station & Alban Way Heritage Society  
 
South West Herts Archaeological & Historical Society 
 
Stanstead Abbotts Local History Society 
 
St. Albans Architectural and Archaeological Society community website 
 
St. Albans Cathedral
 
St. Albans: Museum of St Albans & UH Galleries 
 
St. Albans South Signal Box 
 
St Albans Tour Guides 
 
Stevenage Museum 
 
Tewin village history 
 
Three Rivers Museum of local history 
 
Thorley (Bishop's Stortford & Thorley History)  
 
Tring & District Local History & Museum Society 
 
Tring Rural History 
 
Tring: The Natural History Museum at Tring 
 
Verulamium Museum 
 
Walkern Local History Society 
 
Ware Museum 
 
Watford & District Industrial History Society 
 
Watford Museum 
 
Welham Green (North Mymms) 
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Welwyn Archaeological Society 
 
Welwyn & District Local History Society 
 
Welwyn Roman Baths 
 
Wheathampstead History Society 
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Wheathampstead: History of Wheathampstead 
 
Wheathampstead & District Preservation Society 
 
Wigginton History
 

National Societies and Resources

Society of Genealogists 

The National Archives 

The Heraldry Society 

The College of Arms 

Family History Federation The Family History Federation is the umbrella body for family history societies in the UK
 

Neighbouring Societies and Archives

Bedfordshire Archives 

Bedfordshire Family History Society 

The Royal Berkshire Archives

Berkshire Family History Society

Buckinghamshire Archives

Buckinghamshire Family History Society

Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Archives

Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Family History Society

Essex Record Office

Essex Society for Family History

The London Archives

The Guildhall Library

Westminster Archives

London, Westminster and Middlesex Family History Society 
 

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