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What is the Yorkshire Biographical Database?

The Yorkshire Biographical Database is a wonderful resource for those interested in Yorkshire family and local history. It contains over half a million entries for Yorkshire men and women who lived before 1550 and over forty thousand entries for Yorkshire men and women who lived between 1550 and 1900. The entries have been created from original and published sources including wills, charters, taxation returns and gild records.

The database was compiled by Prof. Philip M. Stell, MBE, c. 1997.

Each entry contains the following information: surname, forename, sex, place, job, year and details of the source from which the entry was created.

How much does it cost?

A search of the Database for one surname with its various spellings is available for £17.50, US/Canadian $45.75, Australian $52.50 or NZ $61.75. Payment is returned if there are no results. The Database may also be searched, for the same fee, by any of the other types of information that it contains (a search for a place, for instance, may be helpful for a local history project).

Submission by post

To submit a form by post please download, print out and complete a Yorkshire Biographical Database application form (found in the left hand column under Useful Documents) and send it, together with a cheque made payable to the Dean & Chapter of York to:

The Yorkshire Biographical Database
York Minster Library
Dean’s Park
York
YO1 7JQ.