• Kresen Kernow, a home for Cornwall's archives. Address: Kresen Kernow, Little Vauxhall, Redruth TR15 1AS
  kresenkernow@cornwall.gov.uk
  Telephone number: 01209 614430
• The Cornwall Record Office online catalogue contains descriptions of documents held at Cornwall Record Office. Please note that the catalogue is still under development, so not all records are included at present. The majority of the catalogues can be found on the Access to Archives website - see below.
   
• Access to UK National Archives (A2A) is available on-line. The holdings of records relating to Cornwall, and which are kept in the Cornwall Record Office are gradually being added to the A2A catalogues; these can be found on-line and can be searched by surname.
   
• The (UK) National Archives online catalogue of the archives of central government, courts of law and other national bodies, is available.
   
• The Cornwall Library Service.
  Cornwall has a network of 30 branch, 3 specialist and 9 mobile libraries. There are specialist centres for Cornish Studies, Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Maritime Studies, and a Reference and Information Library which acts as a European Information Relay site. There are also dedicated services for young people and the visually impaired.
   
• The Cornwall Record Office,

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  County Hall, Truro TR1 3AY
  Tel 01872 323127 - Overseas +44 1872 323127
  Fax 01872 270340 - Overseas +44 1872 270340
  Opening Hours - See WWW site above
  e-mail cro@cornwall.gov.uk.
  An index of records held in the Cornwall Record Office is also available on-line. Documents in the CRO can be copied by arrangement for both visitors and mail order.
   
• Local studies information is held at The Cornwall Centre Library
  Alma Place, Redruth TR15 2AT
  Tel 01209 216760 - Overseas +44 1209 216760
  Fax 01209 210283 - Overseas + 441209 210283
  Videophone 01209 210510 - Overseas + 441209 210510
  Opening Hours Mon-Fri 1000-1800, Sat 1000-1600
  e-mail cornishstudies.library@cornwall.gov.uk.
   
• The Devon & Cornwall Record Society
  Westcountry Studies Library, Castle Street, Exeter EX4 3PQ
  Tel 01392 273422 - Overseas +44 1392 273422.
   
• The Morrab Library, Morrab Gardens, Penzance, Cornwall, TR18 4DA
  Tel./Fax. 01736 364474.
   
• Penzance Library
  Morrab Road, Penzance TR18 4DQ
  Tel. 01736 64474 - Overseas +44 1736 64474
  e-mail penzance.library@cornwall.gov.uk.
   
• The Royal Cornwall Museum & Courtney Library
  Royal Institution of Cornwall, River Street, Truro TR1 2SJ
  Tel 01872 272205 - Overseas +44 1872 272205
  RIC: e-mail RIC@royalcornwallmuseum.org.uk.
  Museum: email enquiries@royalcornwallmuseum.org.uk.
  Courtney Library: e-mail courtney.rcmric@btinternet.com.
   
• The National Maritime Museum, Cornwall
  Discovery Quay
  Falmouth
  Cornwall
  TR11 3QY
  Email:enquiries@nmmc.co.uk.
  Honorary Curator: Captain George Hogg
  Tel 01326 313388 - Overseas +44(0)1326 313388.
   
• Charlestown Shipwreck & Heritage Centre
  Charlestown
  St Austell
  PL25 3NJ
  Tel. 01726 69897 - Overseas +44 1726 69897
  Open 1st March - 31st October, 10am - 5pm (later in high season).
   
• The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry Museum is located at:
  The Keep
  Bodmin
  PL31 1EG
  Tel. 01208 72810
   
• The Cornwall Global Migration Programme (CGMP) is located at:
  Murdoch House
  Cross Street
  Redruth
  TR15 3BU
  Tel. 01209 215736
  Email: m.jenkin@exeter.ac.uk.
   
• Family History Centres. There are Church of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) Family History Centres in Cornwall. These are located at:
  • Family History Centre, LDS Chapel, Clodgey Lane, Helston, Plymouth Stake [Family History Centre], Helston, TR13 8PJ. Telephone: 01326 564503.
  • LDS Chapel, Mannamead Road, Hartley, Plymouth, Devon, PL3 4SR. Tel. 01752 668666.
  • LDS Chapel, Kingfisher Drive, St. Austell, Cornwall, PL25 3AZ. (limited facilities contact: Mr. A. Burchell, St Austell Tel. 01726 73349)
  Opening times vary.
   
• Additional information on library services for Cornwall can be found on the Cornwall County Council pages.
   
• The Cornwall Family History Society's Library and Research Centre is located at 5 Victoria Square, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 2RS, United Kingdom. (Telephone: 01872 264044; overseas +44 1872 264044).

• Formed by a merger of the Public Record Office and the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, The National Archives (TNA) is the principal repository for English and Welsh records. You might like to start by browsing the titles of their 193 guides classified under 'family history'. TNA offer many, many useful Research Guides.

• The National Archives (TNA)'s Discovery system is now the key to finding their holdings - see also: TNA Discovery Help.

• TNA's Access to Archives (A2A) programme has been absorbed into Discovery (above).

• The National Register of Archives has now been absorbed into Discovery (above). It is/was an extensive searchable database (formerly run by the Royal Commision on Historical Manuscripts, now part of TNA) which contains information on the nature and location of manuscripts and historical records that relate to British history.

• Your Archives — NB this is now closed but remains available as a read-only resource — "The National Archives' online community of records users", a wiki that archive users can contribute to: "These pages are for you to contribute your knowledge of archival sources held by The National Archives and by other archives throughout the UK."

• The National Archives (TNA, Kew) have a worldwide list of archives. This links into the UK section.

• The L.D.S. (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) have now provided online search facilities for the I.G.I. (International Genealogical Index). As well as the general search facility, there is also a Custom Search page allowing more refined searches. Hugh Wallis has provided a search facility which greatly simplifies searching by batch number. See also Finding L.D.S. Batch Numbers.

• The FamilySearch site has a list of Family History Centres in England. These are provided by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

• In particular, the London Family History Centre has a useful web site.

• The Guildhall Library, London.

https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/The_Parliamentary_Archives_(U.K.)National Collections

Bevan, Amanda, (Ed.). Tracing Your Ancestors in the Public Record Office (6th ed.), The National Archives. [ISBN 1903365341] 
["This is a new, revised edition of the best-selling guide. Now in its sixth edition, Tracing Your Ancestors in the Public Record Office continues to provide comprehensive guidance to all researchers, new or experienced, wishing to trace their forebears among the records of government or courts held at The National Archives. It leads the reader through the census and military service records, wills and lawsuits, court rolls and hearth taxes and all other records where our ancestors may have left their tracks. . . this new revised edition provides information on this and many other releases of records at the National Archives, including army, navy, merchant navy and immigration records. New information about how to access the records via the catalogue is also provided."]

• The National Archives (TNA) in Kew brings together the Public Records Office (PRO) and the Historical Manuscripts Commission, and is the principal repository for English and Welsh records. ( Note: most Scottish records are held in the National Archives of Scotland in Edinburgh, and Northern Ireland Records are held by The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) .)
• Now that the Access to Archives (A2A) project is no more, TNA's  Discovery catalogue covers holdings in many regional archives as well as the National Archives themselves - see their  Find an Archive page. (To search all these other archives use the "Held By" option in the catalogue's Advanced Searchfacility.)
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  • Copies of the National Archives' Research Guidesare now available online, as is their very useful catalogue.
  • Research Guides to Online Collectionsat the National Archives.
  • The National Archives' Looking for a Person?resource listing - "Each guide tells you where you can find, access and understand the relevant records".
  • Their Manorial Documents Registeridentifies the location of manorial documents.
  • Your Archives- "The National Archives' online community of records users", a wiki that archive users could contribute to - now closed.
  • The National Archives publishes a useful free enewslettergiving a "monthly round-up of news, blogs, offers and events ".
  • They also have a YouTube channel of videos providing tips on using the Discovery catalogue, visiting, etc.
• Quick animated guidesto using the National Archives.
• The British Library'scollections may be regarded as the world's finest; the range and effectiveness of the services it provides on the basis of these collections are without rival. Their web pages give access to their comprehensive online cataloguesincluding the British Library Public Catalogue, as well as providing full details of the library's services and facilities.
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints offers a wide range of genealogical resources at its Family History Centers around the world.  For contact details,  click here and search for the centre nearest you.

Listings and Guides

• The National Archives' "gateway to archival resources, projects and initiatives in the UK and abroad" has been transferred to the UNESCO Archives Portal (archived copy).
• JISC's  Library Hub Discover provides a means of  searching resources in UK and Irish academic, national & specialist libraries - as of Jan 2020, it held  "42,377,775 records created from 106,728,673 records contributed by 144 institutions".
• The Archives Hubis a service run by MIMAS at Manchester Computing which provides free access to descriptions of archives held in the UK's universities and colleges. The descriptions can be searched in a number of ways and will form one part of the emerging UK National Archives Network.
• LDS Family History Centres.
• Culture 24, "Latest news, exhibition reviews, links, listings and education resources from thousands of UK museums, galleries, archives and libraries, all in one place".
• Details of 1600 Museums, Galleries and Historic Housesprovided by Britains Finest.
• UK250's listing of  UK museum websites (archived copy)
• Details of Maritime and Naval Museumsin Britain and Ireland provided by Dr Martin H. Evans and Dr Janet West. A Location Mapis also available.
• The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography- "The biab online database contains datasets covering publications from AD 1695 to the present day on archaeology and the historic environment, historic buildings, maritime and industrial archaeology, environmental history, and the conservation of material culture" - nearly 200,000 references, as of June 2007.
• Community Archives- set up on behalf of the National Council on Archives "to show the variety and quantity of community archives in the UK."
• UK Parliamentary Archives - FamilySearch guide.section.

Specialist Collections

• Society of Genealogists
• Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies,
• The Methodist Archives and Research Centreis part of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester.
• The Huguenot Libraryis located at University College, London
• The Royal Archives - subscription access via Find My Past.
• The The British Postal Musem and Archive(formerly Post Office Archives and Records Services) holds the records of the British Post Office from the 17th century to the present day.
• Institute for Historical Research
• India Office(archived copy): Family History Research.
• The British Empire and Commonwealth Museum.
• The Women's Library- "housing the most extensive collection of women's history in the UK".
• The National Gas Archive- "The NGA holds up to two kilometres of records covering the history and development of the UK gas industry. The records date from about 1812 to the present day and include many of the administrative, financial, legal, technical, property and personnel records of the industry."
• The National Army Museum.

Miscellaneous

• Association of Independent Libraries- details of member institutions and publications.