CORNWALL FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY
5 Victoria Square, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 2RS  UK      
Telephone  01872 264044   overseas +44 1872 264044

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The Society endeavours to promote and encourage research into family history by providing facilities for such research and to coordinate the work our members are carrying out and to make the results available to all in our Truro Library and online. Our Research Library is manned by volunteers, who give freely of their time and are very willing to help members, beginners and old hands alike, in their research.
Unfortunately, at the moment we are not able to take enquiries from non-members.

Please note - much information in the following pages is in Adobe Acrobat format (PDF),  
click on the Acrobat logo to download the Reader (free)        

Information available - over 4 million items of information - some figures

To see how frequently the name you are researching occurs in our indexes, click below -  ( all in Adobe PDF format)

Please note - the page numbers that occur in these documents refer to the original (much larger) file which has been split for ease of use.    If the name you are researching is so unusual that it occurs only once in our database, it will not be in this index.

Census Information                                   
1841 Census - Full census for Cornwall on microfiche
1841 Census - Nearly all the parishes have been indexed
Click here to see a listing of 1841 parishes covered (in Adobe PDF format)   

1851 Census - Full census for Cornwall on microfiche
1851 Census - Almost half of the parishes indexed
Click here to see a listing of 1851 parishes covered ( in Adobe PDF format)

1861 Census - Full census for Cornwall on microfiche
1861 Census - Nearly all the parishes have been indexed
Click here to see a listing of parishes 1861 covered ( in Adobe PDF format)

1871 Census - Full census for Cornwall on microfiche
1871 Census - All parishes have been indexed
Click here to see a listing of 1871 parishes covered ( in Adobe PDF format)

1881 Census - Index to Cornwall and all other counties in England and Wales on microfiche
1881 Census - Full LDS index
Click here to see a listing of 1881 parishes covered ( in Adobe PDF format)

1891 Census - Full census for Cornwall on microfiche
1891 Census - Over 50% of parishes indexed
Click here to see a listing of 1891 parishes covered ( in Adobe PDF format)

1901 Census - Full census for Cornwall on microfiche
1901 Census - Over 50% of parishes indexed
Click here to see a listing of 1901 parishes covered ( in Adobe PDF format)  

Baptisms
Almost half the parishes have been indexed. The index is based on the IGI, (see below), but has been restructured to allow more detailed searches, i.e. wildcard searches and searches by father's name. 
Click here to see the parishes and dates covered, and the number of records in each ( in Adobe PDF format)

International Genealogical Index (IGI)
1988 Edition - Most of the world on microfiche
1992 Edition - Cornwall and Devon on microfiche

Marriages   
CFHS Marriage Index 1813-1837 -  almost complete
Click here to see a listing of parishes covered ( in Adobe PDF format)

Monumental Inscriptions (MI's  i.e. gravestones)
Many burial grounds have been indexed, work in progress    
Click here to see a listing of parishes covered ( in Adobe PDF format)

Burials 1813-1837
All parishes have been indexed
Click here to see a listing ( in Adobe PDF format)      

Various
Parish register transcripts (does not cover all parishes in Cornwall), Some Quaker burials, Ships Passenger Lists, Overseas records,
Parish Histories, Family Pedigrees, deposited by our members, Apprenticeship records (does not cover all parishes in Cornwall),
many Cornish Strays found elsewhere and other Family History Society Journals, Cornubian entries.

Cornubian
Lists of Cornish travellers appeared in The Cornubian newspaper. The 1911 - 1916 period has been transcribed & published resulting in a list in surname order of over 2000 names of Cornish people who travelled to or from America & stayed on route at Sid Blake's hotel in New York. Surname, forename, date of travel, where travelling from and to are given. 
The Cornish Studies Library in Redruth have microfilm of the newspapers.

Our Quarterly Journal
One of the most popular services our society provides for members is the free publication of members' 'Helping Hands' requests. These can be sent directly to the Editor and will appear in our quarterly Journal, which is published in March, June, September and December. Such entries are limited to 150 words.   The Journal contains articles of general and specific interest on many aspects of family history.  Articles of general interest from members are always very welcome.  Please ask the Editor about graphic files.
The CFHS Journal Index is currently searchable on our database for the first 30 journals. Surnames, occupations, ships names, article titles and place names are searchable for members.