Surrey records on Ancestry in 2013

From now until January 2013 Ancestry (www.ancestry.co.uk) will be digitising various record sets from Surrey History Centre in Woking. This will mean that some collections may not be available for consultation if you plan to visit, so best to check in advance.

The records being digitised are:

• Church of England parish registers from 1538: baptisms to 1912, marriages to 1937 and burials to 1987 (digitisation of microfilms to be completed 7 AUG 2012; imaging of original records to commence 21 AUG)
• Land tax records 1780-1832  (digitisation should be completed 7 AUG 2012)
• Electoral registers 1832-1945 (digitisation of records to 1875 should be completed 7 AUG 2012)
• Brookwood Hospital Woking, Registers of Admissions 1867-1906
• Holloway Sanatorium, General Registers 1885-1904
• Calendar of prisoners: Surrey Sessions and Assizes 1848-1902
• Freeholders Lists 1696-1824
• Licensed victuallers 1785-1903
• Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment enlistment registers 1920-1946
• Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment transfers in registers 1939-1947
• Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment World War II Honours Indexes [1939]-1946
• East Surrey Regiment enlistment registers 1920-1946
• East Surrey Regiment transfers in registers 1924-1946
• East Surrey Regiment 21st - 24th Battalions the London Regiment Nominal Rolls of Officers 1914-1919

(With thanks to Kathryn Hughes @WYorkshireLives on Twitter)

Chris

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