{"id":944,"date":"2019-03-25T08:55:13","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T08:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visionrcl.org.uk\/?page_id=944"},"modified":"2025-10-07T09:52:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T08:52:05","slug":"local-family-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/isca00.bigwaveserver.co.uk\/~visionrc\/redbridge-museum-and-heritage-centre\/local-family-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Local &#038; Family History"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-bootstrap-blocks-container container mb-2\">\n\t\n\n<p><strong>Redbridge Heritage Centre<\/strong>\u00a0provides a service for local and family history research and\u00a0holds the largest collection of materials in the Borough on the history of Ilford, Wanstead, Woodford and Redbridge.<br>\u00a0<br>These materials include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>periodicals<\/li><li>census information<\/li><li>maps<\/li><li>military resources<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following websites are free to access from computers on the Redbridge Libraries network:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><u><a href=\"https:\/\/ancestrylibrary.proquest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Ancestry (Library edition<\/strong><\/a><\/u>) <\/li><li><b><u><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.findmypast.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Find My Past<\/strong><\/a><\/b><\/u><\/b><\/li><li><b><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>British Newspaper Archives<\/strong><\/a><\/u><\/b> <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Heritage Centre also has a general collection of books on the history of Essex and the surrounding London boroughs including maps, periodicals and local newspapers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Archive records, historic photographs and building plans&nbsp;are available by appointment at&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:info.heritage@visionrcl.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>info.heritage@visionrcl.org.uk<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":44028,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-general-article.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-944","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/isca00.bigwaveserver.co.uk\/~visionrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/isca00.bigwaveserver.co.uk\/~visionrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/isca00.bigwaveserver.co.uk\/~visionrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isca00.bigwaveserver.co.uk\/~visionrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isca00.bigwaveserver.co.uk\/~visionrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/isca00.bigwaveserver.co.uk\/~visionrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115128,"href":"https:\/\/isca00.bigwaveserver.co.uk\/~visionrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/944\/revisions\/115128"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isca00.bigwaveserver.co.uk\/~visionrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/isca00.bigwaveserver.co.uk\/~visionrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}