This is an on-going project. Please PM me with any other links you think should be added.
Lincolnshire FHS
has links to surnames in publications, as well as which parishes are listed in specific publications.
https://www.lincolnshirefhs.org.uk/
Survey of Lincoln
a group to record, study & raise awareness of the archaeology & history of The City of Lincoln
https://www.thesurveyoflincoln.co.uk/home-1
Society for Lincolnshire History & Archaeology
https://www.slha.org.uk/
Census -
free transcriptions at https://www.freecen.org.uk/
As at 10 March 2017, Lincolnshire is complete for 1861, 1871 and 1891.
Just over 21% for 1841; nothing for 1851 or 1881.
See 'details' for which pieces have been completed for 1841
https://www.freecen.org.uk/statistics.html
Parish registers-
free transcriptions at https://www.freereg.org.uk/
Note: This is not a complete list of all extant parish registers.
Images for some of the PRs are available on Findmypast.
Genuki
https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LIN/
Towns and parishes
https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LIN/parishes.html
Towns and parishes - administrative areas such as urban/district rural councils, registration districts, deaneries
https://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/resi...nshire-places/
Registration districts, including details of re-namings and abolition dates
https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/reg/lin.html
Parish records deposited at Lincolnshire Archives - types of parish records available at the archives.
https://www.calmview.eu/lincolnshire...Catalog&id=PAR
Parish registers deposited at Lincolnshire Archives[/B]
https://www.calmview.eu/lincolnshire...lmView.Catalog
In the Title box enter the name of the place followed by the words 'parish registers'. (minus the speech marks.) e.g. Billinghay parish registers
Then just keep clicking links until you get a list of the registers held. e.g. burials 1813-1901; marriages 1837-1863.
Lincolnshire 1837+ Marriage Index - not yet complete but lists (mainly) CoE marriages 1837-1911 for parishes whose registers have been deposited at Lincolnshire Archives.
https://mi.lincolnshiremarriages.org.uk/
The following are (hopefully) as near to alphabetical order as can be.
Anglo-Saxon Lincolnshire - an archeological resource assessment
https://www.le.ac.uk/ulas/publicatio...lincas_000.pdf
Books - free online
The history of the county of Lincoln
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=LlAGAAAAQAAJ&hl=en
Convicts - transported from Lincolnshire to Australia, Bermuda, and Gibraltar between 1788 and 1868
You can also search for the names of their victims
https://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/resi...s-transported/
Deaneries - the 'administrative divisions' of the See of Lincoln.
https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LIN/Deans/index.html
Map of the deaneries - number 23 is Loveden. (Link might be quite slow to load.)
https://web.archive.org/web/20041011...x_parishes.htm
Domesday Book
https://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/lincolnshire.html
Film Archives
https://www.lincsfilm.co.uk/
Lincolnshire Archives
Update January 2023
https://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/hist...ire-archives/2
For at least the last fifteen years, I swear the county council have changed the links in the Archives website every year, and what used to be a wonderful website with everything easy to find, and included an excellent Convicts Database, is now extremely user-unfriendly.
To further enrage me, I can't access any part of the 'old' even via The Wayback Machine.
The Convicts Database is still on the Archives website but it's a faff to find, and then you need to know a name. (See 'Convicts' above.)
What was Lincstothepast is now
https://www.calmview.eu/lincolnshire...w/default.aspx
As of January 2023 no images of items such as the parish registers are available, and I don't believe there is a likely date for images to once again be shown.
Medieval Lincolnshire - an archeological resource assessment
https://www.le.ac.uk/ulas/publicatio...linmed_000.pdf
Newspapers -
Update January 2023
There used to be a website detailing which newspapers were held in which libraries but it's disappeared, and although the basic site can be accessed via The Wayback Machine, the search engine on it is unusable so I have deleted it from this list.
The British Newspaper Archive will only tell you which newspapers it has digitised/part digitised.
Boston library has most, if not all, editions of the Boston Standard and the Boston Guardian. BNA has the Standard online until the end of 1955. The Guardian until the end of 1959, though I can't verify the start dates of each paper. Where the paper says it's the Lincolnshire Standard and Boston Guardian it's actually the Boston Standard. The Guardian was taken over by/merged with the Standard I think sometime in the 1960s.
Other libraries are likely to have the newspapers for their area.
Oral history
https://www.le.ac.uk/emoha/emoha/lincs.html
Place names - their origins, and their earliest spellings
https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/gunn...irePlacenames/
Society for Lincolnshire History & Archaeology
https://www.slha.org.uk/
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https://www.lincstothepast.com/home/
Suggested extra link. I am surprised that this link is not already included - is it hidden in one of the Lincolnshire local government links? Due to the recent malicious attack on the Lincolnshire local government website, the above link is not currently fully functioning, but when it is, it is a mine of useful information.
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Hello Alan,
Welcome to British-Genealogy.
I did say in the first sentence that it was an on-going project - which I must admit I haven't returned to as other things have taken over my life at the moment. If I recall there was supposed to be a method to the way I was listing things which was probably why I hadn't included Lincstothepast at that point.
As you say, lots of resources available there, including online parish registers though future users please note that the PR pages are watermarked and that marriages stop at 1837. Non-watermarked PR pages are available on FMP, though (to the best of my knowledge) not all parishes are available on either site.
PamVulcan XH558 - “Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”
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I've done some updating of the links in post #1.
See the section on Lincolnshire Archives re the now-defunct Lincstothepast.Vulcan XH558 - “Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”
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