User guides

Religion  

Parish registers on microfilm [64KB PDF]  

Roman Catholic registers [26KB PDF]  

Methodist registers [93KB PDF] 

Registers of other denominations [37KB PDF]  

Records of the Jewish community [26KB PDF] 

School records  

Gateshead [54KB PDF]  

City of Newcastle upon Tyne [84KB PDF]  

North Tyneside [29KB PDF]  

South Tyneside [53KB PDF]  

Sunderland [65KB PDF] 

Other local authority records  

Building control [16KB PDF]  

Cemeteries and crematoria [23KB PDF]  

Rate books [32KB PDF] 

Voting records [27KB PDF] 

Trades, crafts, professions etc.  

Coal industry - part 1 [27KB PDF]  

Coal industry - part 2: individual collieries [68KB PDF]  

Guild records [24KB PDF]  

Maritime trade and navigation [38KB PDF]  

Shipbuilding, outfitting, registration and repair [43KB PDF]  

Trade unions, employers' and professional associations [210KB PDF] 

Other Topics  

Census records [38KB PDF] 

Ethnicity and migration [40KB PDF] 

Law and order [42KB PDF]  

Maps and plans [33KB PDF]  

Medicine [49KB PDF]  

Paupers' records [51KB PDF]  

Political papers [32KB PDF]  

Transcripts and indexes [63KB PDF]  

World War I records [44KB PDF]  

World War II records [60KB PDF] 

Sound Recordings [540KB]