Where in England?

It is best to start your English genealogy search with an understanding of the English county structure.

These are the county names which you might come across in your researches. Some have had boundary changes over the years and others may have changed their names.

• Bedfordshire
• Berkshire
• Buckinghamshire
• Cambridgeshire
• Cheshire
• Cornwall
• Cumberland
• Derbyshire
• Devon
• Dorset
• Durham
• Essex
• Gloucestershire
• Hampshire
• Herefordshire
• Hertfordshire
• Huntingdonshire
• Kent
• Lancashire
• Leicestershire
• Lincolnshire
• Middlesex
• Norfolk
• Northamptonshire
• Northumberland
• Nottinghamshire
• Oxfordshire
• Shropshire
• Somerset
• Staffordshire
• Suffolk
• Surrey
• Sussex
• Warwickshire
• Westmoreland
• Wiltshire
• Worcestershire
• Yorkshire