A number of photos were scattered throughout the box of “unidentified photographs” that, once I began to take them out, were clearly part...

In Local Studies we have a big box of photographs which have been donated to us over the years that arrived with little to no context....

You’ve seen our previous blog post about parish registers, and you’ve been on one of our free courses about how to research your family...

If you’ve tried to do your family tree before, you know all about the “joy” of parish registers. We thought we would give you a very...

Recently one of our borrowers came into Todmorden Library with some exercise books he had been given many years ago, wanting to know if...

Gill has made a short film looking at The Old Course/ Corpse Road leading from Hebden Bridge to Heptonstall. You can view it here. A...

On May 8th 2020 we celebrated 75 years since VE Day by sharing some local and family history stories relating to World War Two. Here are...

One of out IT volunteers Jeanette has written a fascinating piece about tracing her family history. It all began when my father died in...

Your Military Ancestors and how to find them.  Using Ancestry, Find My Past and the National Archives… Occasionally family history...