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Unlike TNA, county record offices are a relatively new innovation, starting from the archiving work of George Herbert Fowler in 1913.

The county record offices grew out of the old diocesan record offices and their main achievement was bringing together many of each county’s public records under one roof, and it was this that helped fuel the first boom in family history research in the 1970s. Most county record office catalogues are now accessible through Access to Archives. Offline, an excellent guide to the county record offices is J. Gibson and P. Peskett’s Record Offices: How to find them (FFHS, 1996).