Issue 12 Rutland Local Studies & Family History Library Rutland County Museum Catmos Street Oakham Rutland LE15 6HW Tel: 01572 758440 Email:
[email protected] Introduction Rutland County Museum houses numerous reference materials on Rutland and the surrounding area. Begin to discover your Rutland Roots with our resources including: • General Family History instruction titles (small loan collections are also held in Rutland Libraries), • Local census returns (microfilm), • Parish registers: baptisms, marriages, banns, and burials (microfiche), • Local Maps, • Local newspapers (microfilm), • Trade Directories, • Local Author Collection, • Local Music, • Local History Library (loan copies of many titles are available in Rutland Libraries, see our catalogue for details), • Photograph & postcard collections, and more. Also available is FREE access to Ancestry.co.uk Library Edition , and the British Newspaper Archive , enabling you to research your family history. The Local Studies room has a film reader and fiche reader/printer along with free Internet access for public use (Genealogy use only). If you have an enquiry please ask staff who will be happy to help. Rutland Library Service and Rutland County Museum have a joint email address for family and local history enquiries:
[email protected] Want to learn more about Rutland? Try our Guided Heritage Tours of the Museum and Oakham Castle—available to book for groups of 6 or more. Open tours are advertised during the summer season in the local press and on our website. More details