If you would like to be included in the lists please email alyson.jackson@knaresborough.co.uk and include the names which you are researching (with a date range if applicable), locations (within the area around Knaresborough to Ripon in the north, Harrogate in the west, Leeds in the south and York to the east), plus an email address where enquirers may contact you. You may include a short message to be posted with your listing.

Research has also been carried out on individual families important in the town's history:

• The Knaresborough Family
• The Stuteville Family

Conrad Plowman has very kindly offered to look up details of certain family names in "The History and Topography of Harrogate and the Forest of Knaresborough" by William Grainge, first published in 1871. Families for which there is a significant amount of genealogical information are:

See also Knaresborough Wills for local wills which also contain many other local names in the area - from sixteenth century.

See also 19th Century Directories for information on names, addresses and occupations in Knaresborough at intervals through the century.

The local family history group has a page on Knaresborough Online Ripon, Harrogate and District Family History Group with a link to its own Web site.

The Knaresborough parish records are held at the North Yorkshire County Record Office, Malpas Road, Northallerton; contact number to book an appointment is 01609 777585.

Harrogate Library holds census records for Harrogate District 1841 - 1891, the International Genealogical Index (IGI) with baptism and marriage details, and some printed parish register transcripts. Telephone number(01423) 502744. Victoria Avenue, Harrogate.

You might also find some useful information on the War Memorial and other articles in the Knaresborough History section.

Information on area registration offices: www.northyorks.gov.uk/weddings/offices.asp

Information for local Archives: N Yorks at www.northyorks.gov.uk or west yorks www.archives.wyjs.org.uk/

Other useful Links

• ancestor-search.info - guidance on WHERE to find information on your English and Welsh ancestors
• ancestry.co.uk - find census, birth, marriage, death records and more.
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints - Family Search - the largest collection of free family history, family tree and genealogy records in the world.
• Federation of Family History Societies
• Genuki: UK and Ireland Genealogical Forum
• Guild of One Name Studies
• The National Archives - Family History
• Scottish Genealogy Society
• Society of Genealogists
• Ulster Historical Foundation