Who Do You Think You Are?

Cambridgeshire

We last paid a visit to the region in April 2020 a few months after the archive service had completed its move to new premises, leaving behind the former headquarters Shire Hall. This time there's the promise of newly digitised county-wide parish registers on the horizon.

The county includes historic Cambridgeshire, the former county of Huntingdonshire and the Isle of Ely - built on a Kimmeridge Clay island that looks out over the Fens. The area has been well-served by family and local historians for decades, and Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Family History Society () has now transcribed all

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