Our other online resources

A number of our archives have dedicated search tools:

York Cause Papers
Findmypast
Lascelles Barbados Papers
Discover

York Cause Papers

Search York Cause Papers

A searchable catalogue of cases heard in the Church Courts of the diocese of York, 1300-1858.

These records offer an extremely valuable resource for family and local historians and scholars interested in social, ecclesiastical, economic and legal history.

Findmypast

Findmypast now contains entries from both our Parish Registers and Probate/Marriage bond collections (the latter formerly available via British Origins):

Search findmypast.co.uk

Over 3.2 million entries from the historic Parish Registers and Bishops' transcripts which we care for are available online in conjunction with www.findmypast.co.uk

The entries include indexed images of registers of baptism, marriage and burial from over 350 parishes from Yorkshire and beyond, spanning over 450 years of history. The collection also includes entries from our Bishops' transcripts collection, and so includes copies of parish entries from the whole of Yorkshire.

Access to findmypast.co.uk is free of charge on-site at the Borthwick and many other local libraries.

A full list of the items that are available online: Findmypast spreadsheet

Probate and Marriage Bonds and Allegations

A great resource for family historians and other researchers, our probate indexes and marriage bonds are searchable through the National Wills Index and British Origins.

Currently available online:

Prerogative & Exchequer Courts of York Probate Index 1688-1858
York Medieval Probate Index 1267-1501
York Peculiars Probate Index 1383-1833

This project is on-going, and more index material for the Prerogative and Exchequer courts is being prepared to complete the series.

York Marriage Bonds and Allegations Index 1613-1839

Lascelles Barbados Papers

Search the Lascelles Barbados Papers

A number of documents from the Lascelles Barbados Papers have been photographed and fully transcribed and are available to view online.

A searchable database provides access to information on nearly 500 other documents.

Discover

Search Discover, the University of York digital library

Some of our collections are available to browse and download through Discover, the University of York digital library.

Collection	Notes
Aero Girl paintings from the Rowntree archive	Photographs of the Aero Girl paintings, commissioned for an early 1950s advertising campaign
Archbishops' Registers of the Diocese of York, 1225-1646	A sample selection of medieval and early modern Registers of the Archbishops of York
Lord Halifax diaries	The wartime diaries of Lord Halifax, 1940-46, written for and circulated to his family. This work is ongoing and so not all of the diaries are currently available online
Raymond Burton Archive Playbills	The playbills date from the nineteenth century and advertise productions at various theatres in Yorkshire
Society of the Sacred Mission Images	Digitised glass slides from the archives of the Society of the Sacred Mission. Images include locations in Israel and other parts of the Middle East and churches and activities in England
Vickers Instruments Images	Images digitised from glass negatives and glass lantern slides, documenting the products and work of the companies Troughton & Simms, T. Cooke & Sons and Cooke, Troughton & Simms