Major online providers

Key sites providing family history and local history content, like Ancestry, Find My Past and the British Library

Biography

Biographies, peerage, gentry, clergy, criminals, mayors and freemen

Birth, marriage, death

Parish registers, baptisms, births, marriages, deaths, burials, cemeteries. monumental inscriptions

Catalogues

Catalogues of Oxfordshire History Centre and other libraries and archives

Census

Census records for UK and overseas

Directories and electoral registers

Street and trade directories, electoral registers

LGBTQ+ history

Sources for exploring the history of sexuality and gender identity

Local history - Oxford

History and archaeology of Oxford city and university

Local history - Oxfordshire

History and archaeology of Oxfordshire

Local history - UK

History and archaeology – national sources

Maps - Oxfordshire

Historic and modern mapping of Oxfordshire

Maps - UK

Historic and modern mapping and gazetteers – national sources

Military - Oxfordshire

Images and records for Oxfordshire armed force

Military - UK and world

Records for armed forces – UK and world

Newspapers, periodicals and ephemera

British Newspaper Archive and other sources

Oral history and film

Oxfordshire sound recordings, and catalogues and guides to oral history

Personal names

Surname origins, research interests, migration and mapping

Photographs - Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire images, catalogues and guides to photographic collections

Photographs - UK

Catalogues and guides to national collections of images

Transport history

Sources for the history of road, rail, waterway, maritime and air transport

Wills and probate

Oxfordshire, Berkshire, UK and Ireland wills and probate records