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== Archives==
The '''Cornwall Record Office''' is situated in Truro. It holds a wide range of materials dating from the 12th to the 20th centuries.
'''Kresen Kernow (‘Cornwall Centre’)'''<br>
{{main|Cornwall Record Office}}
Little Vauxhall<br>
Redruth TR15 1AS UK<br><br>
Email: kresenkernow@cornwall.gov.uk<br>
Telephone number: 01209 614430<br>
*[https://kresenkernow.org/ Website]
*[https://kresenkernow.org/learning/learning-from-home/discover-your-family-history/ Research family history]
*[https://kresenkernow.org/our-collections/collections-guides/religious-records/ Religious records]
*[https://kresenkernow.org/our-collections/copies-and-research-service/ Copies and research services]<br>
::These archives used to be housed at Cornwall Record Office in Truro and the Cornish Studies Library in Redruth.
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'''Cornish Archives Network (CAN)'''<br>
Email: kresenkernow@cornwall.gov.uk<br>
[https://kresenkernow.org/about-us/can/ Website]<br>
[https://kresenkernow.org/about-us/can/can-members-map/ CAN Members Map] (Clickable for contact information.)
:CAN is a free thriving network of over 80 archive and heritage organizations across Cornwall. The group includes everyone from well-established community and professional archives to new small digital archives, archives within other institutions and local heritage and history groups.


== Libraries ==
Cornwall Record Office,</br>
[https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/libraries-museums-and-archives/libraries/your-local-library/ '''Cornwall Libraries and contact information''']<br>
Old County Hall,</br>
<br>
Truro,</br>
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Cornwall,</br>
'''Institute of Cornish Studies'''<br>
TR1 3AY,</br>
University of Exeter (Cornwall Campus)<br>
United Kingdom
Environment and Sustainability Institute<br>
Treliever Road<br>
Penryn, Cornwall<br>
TR10 9FE England<br>
<br>
[https://history.exeter.ac.uk/research/centres/ics/contact/ Contact information]<br>
[https://history.exeter.ac.uk/research/centres/ics/ Website]
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'''University of Leicester Special Collections Online'''<br>
Email: specialcollections@leicester.ac.uk<br>
[https://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/ Website]<br>
[https://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/search/advanced Search Engine]
::University of Leicester Special Collections Online provides free access to digital resources from the David Wilson Library, including "My Leicestershire History", [https://cdm16445.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16445coll2 "Manufacturing Pasts"], [https://cdm16445.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16445coll4 "Historical Directories"] and other material from its collections of rare books, images and archives.


== Museums ==
Telephone: +44 (0)1872 323127</br>
*[http://www.museumsincornwall.org.uk/ '''Museums in Cornwall Website''']
Email: {{email|cro@cornwall.gov.uk}}</br>
<br>
Website: {{URL|http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/cro}}</br></br>
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'''Royal Cornwall Museum'''<br>
River Street<br>
Truro, Cornwall TR1 2SJ UK<br>Telephone: 01872 272 205<br>Email: [mailto:enquiries@royalcornwallmuseum.org.uk enquiries@royalcornwallmuseum.org.uk]<br>
[http://www.royalcornwallmuseum.org.uk/ Website]
:Extensive collections range from Stone Age Cornwall to Contemporary Art, telling stories across cultures and also across the last ten thousand years.
==Civil Records Offices==
The [https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/ '''General Register Office'''] holds a central copy of all birth, marriage, and death registrations in England. These certificates can be ordered from their [https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/ website] (a login is required but it is free to register and search). However, in some cases research can be more efficient working with the smaller, more specific records collections of county/district registry offices.
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Sometimes research might be required to determine where a town or parish was in a former registration district, or even its current district. For a list of the '''historic and current registration districts and their parishes''', see [https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/cnw.html UKBMD: Registration Districts in Cornwall].
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[https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/births-marriages-deaths/cornwall-registration-service/ '''Cornwall Registration Service''']<br>
[https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/births-marriages-deaths/cornwall-registration-offices/ '''Registration Offices Contact Information''']<br>
Telephone: 0300 1234 181<br>
Email: registration@cornwall.gov.uk<br>
[https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/births-marriages-deaths/cornwall-registration-service/family-history/ '''Family History''']
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The Isles of Scilly has its own council government and it not listed in the Contact Information of the Cornwall Council.<br>
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'''Isles of Scilly Register Office'''<br>
Council of the Isles of Scilly<br>
Town Hall<br>
St Mary’s<br>
Isles of Scilly<br>
TR21 0LW England<br>
<br>
Telephone: 0300 1234 105​<br>
Email: enquiries@scilly.gov.uk<br>
[https://scilly.gov.uk/ceremonies-registration Website]<br>
[https://scilly.gov.uk/ceremonies-registration '''Family History''']
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The '''Cornwall Family History Society''' also has a wide range of indexes, census records and other material as well as a comprehensive store of local and background information.
<br>
'''Cornwall Family History Society'''<br>
18 Lemon Street<br>
Truro<br>
Cornwall<br>
TR1 2LS, UK<br>
<br>
Email: secretary@cornwallfhs.com<br>
Telephone: 01872 264044<br>
[https://www.cornwallfhs.com/ Website]
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[[Category:Cornwall, England]]
[http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpregion/europe/uk/cornwallcoll/cornwall.html The '''British Library'''] has a range of resources relating to Cornwall with particular strengths in printed books, periodicals, newspapers, and maps (and the photographs and other visual images contained within them). Manuscripts, sound and archived websites of Cornish interest are also held and Cornish themes can also be researched using our extensive Electronic Resources.</br></br>
[[Category:Counties of England]]
British Lubrary</br>
96 Euston Road</br>
London</br>
NW1 2DB</br>
United Kingdom</br></br>Telephone:  0843 208 1144</br>
Internet sites and databases: </br>
*Internet site [http://www.bl.uk/ http://www.bl.uk/]</br>
*[http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/listings.htm Online catalogues]</br>
*Bibliography of [http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/microform/britirishbio/biog.html British and Irish biographies 1840-1940]</br>
 
*[http://www.royalcornwallmuseum.org.uk/ '''Royal Cornwall Museum''']
 
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The Cornwall Record Office is situated in Truro. It holds a wide range of materials dating from the 12th to the 20th centuries.

Main article: Cornwall Record Office


Cornwall Record Office,
Old County Hall,
Truro,
Cornwall,
TR1 3AY,
United Kingdom

Telephone: +44 (0)1872 323127
Email: cro@cornwall.gov.uk
Website: www.cornwall.gov.uk/cro

The British Library has a range of resources relating to Cornwall with particular strengths in printed books, periodicals, newspapers, and maps (and the photographs and other visual images contained within them). Manuscripts, sound and archived websites of Cornish interest are also held and Cornish themes can also be researched using our extensive Electronic Resources.

British Lubrary
96 Euston Road
London
NW1 2DB
United Kingdom

Telephone: 0843 208 1144
Internet sites and databases: