East and South East Lancashire
Local History and Genealogy Resources' Sites
 Useful sites for those who have interests of the traditional Registration
Districts of  Blackburn, Burnley, Haslingden, Clitheroe, Bolton, Rochdale, Bury, Oldham,
Salford, Manchester, Ashton-under-Lyne, Chorlton, Barton-on-Irwell, Leigh
 (Wigan also included, though sometimes considered
as South-West Lancashire or Central Lancashire)

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.. Accrington Pals by Andrew Jackson

Blackburn with Darwen Local History Site - Cotton Town

 Blackburn Local History Society

"Blackburn Now & Then" - Images, History and Memories


 Cotton Times - Story of industrial upheaval in Lancashire

 Spinning the Web - Story of the Cotton Industry

 "Burnley, a town among the Lancashire Pennine Hills" Local History by Jack Nadin 

Burnley Queen Street Mill History (Lancs Museums)

 Burnley - Weavers Triangle (Cotton Industry)

 Burnley Cemetery Database by S.Scaife & D.Ollerton

 Darwen Football club History 1875-1939

Darwen-Roots (Yahoo Group)

 "My Lancashire Ancestors (formerly Back to the Past" by Susan Eldridge
(East Lancashire Surnames, Churches & Burial Grounds)

 East Lancashire War Memorials by Susan Eldridge

 Cemsearch Lancs D/bases incl Accrington, Blackburn,Burnley,Nelson

Great Harwood Genealogy & Local History Resources
 
Great Harwood Consolidated Ancestry Tree
(by Robert Calvert, and data submitted by different contributors)

Gisburn Village St Mary The Virgin Burials Database1720-2002

The Forest of Bowland : Local History, Culture & Heritage

Family History and Local History in East Lancashire & West Yorkshire
by Craig Thornber

"Oswaldtwistle,Church & the Haworth Families" by Fiona Hall

Oswaldtwistle - Life and Times,  by Mike G. Baron 

Roman Riches of Ribchester (Bremetennacum Veteranorum) by Elizabeth Ashworth

Duxbury Family History - Darwen, Blackburn, Colne, Gt.Harwood, others

Fielden Society Online
(The Fieldens of Todmorden and other parts of Lancashire and Yorkshire)
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Pomfret Families of Lancs incl. Darwen/Blackburn by N.Delaney

 Boothstown Website

 Oldham Local Studies & Archives

Our Manchester

Pendleside (Nelson, Colne, Barrowford, others) by the late Jim Sanderson

Pendle.net

Rochdale History

Rochdale Cemetery Database by Dave Ollerton (at interment.net)

Salford Hundred: Historical & Genealogical Info (Gtr Manchester)

Tameside Local & Family History Research & Databases compiled by Gay J Oliver.

Whitworth Heritage Museum & Historical Society (Rossendale Valley)

 Wigan-Roots (Yahoo Group)

"The Road to Nab End" & sequels by Wm Woodruff, from Amazon

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 Smith Chat Forums: North-West England & Isle of Man Boards

 Smith List Indexes Portal - Smith interests of Lan, WRY, IoM
 
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