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This category contains 19 sites:

• Cumbria Ancestral Research - Professional genealogy services.
• Cumbria Archive Service - Contact details for public record offices in Carlisle, Kendal, Whitehaven and Barrow in Furness. Brief indication of the types of records held.
• Cumbria Family History and Genealogy - Professional services.
• Cumbria Family History Society - Publications, transcriptions of census information, window tax, and hearth tax, back issue newsletters. Index of wills and newsletters.
• Cumbrian Genealogy - A full transcription of names contained in trade directories from Parson and White 1829, Mannex and Whellan 1847, Harriet Martineau 1855 and Bulmers 1901. Many parish register transcriptions too.
• Ducksbury - Family research, mainly from Kendal Westmorland, descendants of William born c 1785.
• Edenlinks Genealogy - History and trade directory of each Westmorland parish from 1829, Constables census 1787, window tax 1777, hearth tax 1664.
• Hills, Patterson and Graham - Family history from the Border areas of England and Scotland.
• History of the Parish of Clifton - Based largely on the writings of the Revd. Richard J.S. Watson, A.K,C, Vicar of Great Clifton, 1970.
• Images Of Cumbria - Cumberland and Westmorland Parishes index, with links to parish descriptions, transcribed from Mannix and Whellan, 1847 and 1851. Photographs and ballads too.
• Jill Coulthard - Family page containing Mossop information. Coulthard, Walker and Fox lines from mid-west Cumberland.
• Matterdale Matters - A collection of transcriptions, census, tithe documents, parish registers and directories plus more from the parish of Matterdale in Cumberland.
• Robley - Family members who have their origins in the county, now spread worldwide. Includes a few famous Robleys eg. Maj.Gen. Horatio Gordon Robley, Robley Dunglison, and Joseph Robley once Governor of Tobago.
• The Hunters of Kendal, Westmorland - The family history site of Nigel Hunter, tracing the 'Hunter' line and associated families back into the 1600s.
• The Westmorland Look-Up Exchange - Provides a list of Genealogical reference documents which volunteers are willing to search on your behalf.
• UK Genealogy Westmorland - Genealogy links and maps. Research aids in the former county.
• UK Genealogy Cumberland - Genealogy links and maps. Research aids in the former county.
• Ulverston Heritage Centre - Museum, heritage centre, family history group, membership, local history and historical research.
• Westmorland Mailing List - The county of Westmorland was established for administrative purposes in 1131 but was merged in 1974 with Cumberland, the Furness part of north Lancashire and a small part of North Yorkshire to form the county of Cumbria.