Tana's
West Riding of Yorkshire Pages

Established 16 March 1997 Compiled and maintained by Tana Willis Johnson visitors since April 1997

WHAT'S NEW?? PLEASE READ..... The West Riding of Yorkshire Surname List pages have been moved to the GENUKI website and are now under the tender care of Magdalena Gorrell Guimaraens who can be contacted at wrysurnames@yahoo.com I will continue to maintain a link to the surname list but please make a note of the new URL: /www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY2/surnames/wry.htm Please note that due to technical difficulties the form for changing addresses is not yet online but changes can be emailed to Magdalena at the above address.		WRY SURNAME INTERESTS A Ba-Bl Bo-By Ca-Cl Co-Cy D E F G Ha-He Hi-Hy I J K L Ma-Mi Mo-My N O P Q R Sa-Sl Sm-Sy T U V Wa-Wh Wi-Wy Y Z
WHAT'S HERE? Have a look at the On-line Indexes, Look-ups and Useful Sites below. Scroll down this page and visit each page, you'll find a wealth of information just a mouse click away!	More Yorkshire Websites	LOTS of info here! On-line Indexes no frames Indexes
Photographs:  Churches & Chapels  Hotels, Pubs & Inns Schools Houses, Halls, Farms & Views
East and North Riding Surname Interests Maintained by Denise Oyston	West Riding Coat of Arms Ridings Map	Useful Sites for Yorkshire researchers YORKSGEN mailing list
Look-ups	CD ROMs	Census Dates 1801-1931
The divisions and sub-divisions of counties a guide for the confused!
The mysteries of wapentakes and Ridings - another guide for the confused!
If you are NEW to research in England and need guidance Roy Stockdill's excellent "Newbies" guide can be downloaded at /www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html
What is it? Where is it? How do I? For every question there's an answer and most of them can be found on the GENUKI website at /www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/index.html Yorkshire pages: /www.blunham.demon.co.uk/genuki/YKS/index.html
Colin Hinson has published the following books on CD-ROM, Whitaker's "History of Craven", 3rd edition, 1878. Baines' "History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of York", Vol. I - West Riding, 1822. Baines' "History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of York", Vol. II - East and North Ridings, 1823 Bulmer's "History and Directory of North Yorkshire", 1890 Bulmer's "History and Directory of East Yorkshire", 1892 for details see /www.blunham.demon.co.uk/CDroms/
Suggestions for these pages are always welcome. If you you have any please mail me at the address below. I hope you have found these pages interesting and useful and that we all find some new kinfolk! Thank you for visiting! fishmerlin@aol.com
PS: Why not have a look at my family pages: Tana Willis Johnson Home Pages which contain the following West Riding interests: WILLIS, ROTHERA, WHITE, NOBLE, OATES, TURNER, FARNELL, WEBSTER, STOCKS, AMBLER, KERSHAW, BOOTH, WALKER, ROBINSON, HORSFIELD, SHEPHERD, BROOK, JAGGER, BATEMAN, BEAUMONT, HARDISTY, HEMINGWAY, PILLING, HORSFIELD
Census Dates Please note that the 1901, 1911, 1921 and 1931 returns will not be available until 2002, 2012, 2022, and 2032 respectively! 1801 - 10 Mar  1871 - 02 Apr  1811 - 27 May  1881 - 03 Apr  1821 - 28 May  1891 - 05 Apr  1831 - 30 May  1901 - 31 Mar  1841 - 06 Jun  1911 - 02 Apr  1851 - 30 Mar  1921 - 19 Jun  1861 - 07 Apr  1931 - 26 Apr
YORKSGEN Newsgroup YORKSGEN is an unmoderated but closed list administrated by Brian Richerby, dedicated to the genealogy, and history of the whole of Yorkshire. The scope of this list covers the pre-1974 county boundaries. Whatever your Yorkshire interests you will find the list lively, informative, helpful and entertaining! To receive digests (lots of messages in one email) send message: subscribe and nothing else to YORKSGEN-D-request@rootsweb.com To receive every message as a separate email:send message: subscribe and nothing else to YORKSGEN-L-request@rootsweb.com

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