Research your family history
Learn more about the story of your family in Southwark using original records and online resources.
Online resources
These websites offer access to a wide range of original records. You can access them on the public computers at Southwark Archives and from any library computer.
Ancestry library edition allows you to search parish and census records.
Find my past contains over 10 billion records, including migration and military collections. It includes nonconformist church registers of:
The British Newspaper Archive is a searchable archive of British and Irish newspapers from the British Library.
FamilySearch includes international birth, marriage, death, census and church records. It's free to browse, but further research may require a subscription fee.
Genes Reunited is useful for contacting other families. The full version requires a subscription fee.
The National Archives holds information on plantations, slave records, aliens registration cards, naturalisation records, and passenger lists.