Information Leaflets

The Record Office publishes a number of leaflets and guides to help you get the most from our holdings. Text Only Format Leaflets are listed below. You can access these leaflets to download and print out.

Please note the leaflets are available also available in PDF format if you would prefer to see them as originally published.

General Guides

A Guide for Visitors
Copying and Publication of Documents
Durham Record Office - A General Introduction
Records held in the Durham Record Office
Useful Websites
Sources for the study of Local History
Archives in Durham City

Research Service

Information Leaflet
Application Form

Guides to Records, Transcripts and Indexes

Census and parish register microfilms
Census Indexes
Civil Registration, A Brief Guide to
Colliery Personnel Records
Lists of Service Personnel in First and Second World Wars
Local Authority Records
Modern transcripts and indexes (Durham, Church of England)
Modern transcripts and indexes (Non-conformist and Miscellaneous)
Modern transcripts and indexes (Northumberland and North Yorkshire, Church of England)
Monumental inscriptions, cemetery and crematorium registers and will indexes
Non-conformist church registers
Parish registers
Parishes indexed on the I.G.I. and on Boyd's Marriage Index
Quarter Sessions records
Records of genealogical interest on microfilm
Records relating to Enclosure
Registers of Electors
Solicitors' records
Tithe Plans and Apportionments
Turnpike Road records

Publications

Publications