Research Guides

Somerset Archives and Local Studies provide a number of Research Guides covering the collections. These guides will help you to pursue your research and cover a wide range of subjects. They will also help you to plan your visit.

Research Guides

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Research Guides

Indexes

Indexes, compiled by a dedicated team of volunters, are now available via our online catalogue. Over 10,000 entries are now browseable, and linked with catalogue entries

Indexes

Online Resources and Indexes

Ancestry

Over seven million historical records containing centuries of details of Somerset residents published online

Explore Ancestry

Know Your Place

Explore Somerset through old maps, archive images and linked information

Visit Know Your Place

Manorial Documents Register

Access this comprehensive list of all the manors in Somerset

View the Register

Exmoor Oral History Archive

Oral history giving a unique insight into life on the moor during the 20th century

Explore the Archive

Somerset Voices Oral History Archive

Explore this unique collection of over 500 recordings of twentieth century Somerset life

Explore the Archive

Heritage of the Ile

Explore this unique collection of over 4,000 images of life in and around Ilminster

Explore the Collection