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Tracker: Goal 1: Learn about Derbyshire research and records.
Choices
AGet started with research for your Derbyshire ancestors.
- Learn about finding your ancestors in Derbyshire.
FS Wiki: Derbyshire England Genealogy - Get an overview of Derbyshire research.
Derbyshire Family History - Explore the
Dusty Docs site for Derbyshire research. - Explore a variety of records on the UK BMD site.
- Learn about tracing your family's roots in Derbyshire.
Tracing Your Family's Roots in Derbyshire - Explore lists of towns and parishes on the GenUKI site.
- Explore Derbyshire resources on the Family History Directory site.
- Find additional resources for Derbyshire research on the Sheffield Indexers site.
BLearn about the history of Derbyshire.
- Learn about Derbyshire history on Wikipedia.
History of Derbyshire - Go into more depth with Derbyshire history on the British History Online site.
Victoria County History series - Explore the Local Histories website for Derbyshire.
- Explore historical place names for Derbyshire.
- Explore the Vision of Britain website.
Exercises
- * Good: Using the articles and videos in this Choice, write down key learnings for research resources. Then use the learnings for searches for an ancestor.
- * Proficient: Same as above, for two or more ancestors.