This includes:

• Census enumerators' books from 1841 to 1901 which give details of all members of a household, their ages, occupations and places of birth.
• Births, marriages and deaths from 1837. The index to these is searchable and certificates can be ordered online.
• Directories. A selection of trade directories can now be searched online.
• Telephone directories and some newspapers are available.
• Parish and Nonconformist records are increasingly being put online.
• Military Records are increasingly being put online. For example, First World War medal cards can now be searched and downloaded..

• Estate maps and records. These are usually found in local record offices.
• Tithe maps and apportionments which were surveyed between 1836 and the 1840s are maps and descriptions detailing land owners and occupiers. Not all parishes were covered but they are a very useful source of information allowing peoples homes to be placed on a map.
• 1910 Valuation Office Survey. This was a complete survey of all land carried out in the years after 1910 and includes details of ownership and value as well as plotting each property on a map. Maps and some information are deposied in local record offices, but much more information is lodged in the National Archive.
• National Farm Survey. This was done in 1941 and 1943 and is a form and map survey of all agricultural holdings above 5 acres, including detail of ploughed-up land.
• Military Records are largely deposited in the National Archives as well as the Imperial War Museum.
• Parish and Nonconformist records where these have not yet been digitised.