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start A GUIDE TO LOCAL BOOKS AND OTHER SOURCES start
(This is a Revision of Doing a Parish History compiled by Dennis Mills and published on the Lincolnshire County Council website in 2001.) start This guide is aimed at those who wish to research the history of an individual village, or small town.
Although the history of each parish is different from that of its neighbours, they will all have gone through many common experiences, for example the Norman Conquest, the Reformation, and the influence of railway construction. It is, therefore, sensible and useful to look at some general sources at an early stage of the research.
This guide contains sources of background information and the general history of Lincolnshire, as well as the titles of standard reference works giving information on many different individual parishes. All titles are available in Lincoln Central Library (LCL), at least in the form of one reference copy. Many of them can be borrowed and/or are to be found in the larger branch libraries, as well as the major libraries in Scunthorpe and Grimsby. Some are also to be found in the Lincolnshire Archives (LAO).
The titles have been divided into two groups, one listing three kinds of very general suggestions for reading and activities, the second and much longer group focusing on periods and topics. With each set of titles will be found some remarks indicating what help to expect from them, and in many cases examples of the type of information have been included.
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