Record details
- Name
- Local History Centre
- Address
-
John Gray Centre
15 Lodge Street
Haddington
East Lothian - Postcode
- EH41 3DX
- history@eastlothian.gov.uk
- Telephone
- 01620 820 695
- Opening Times
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Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday 10am to 1pm and 2pm to 5pm
We encourage you to make an appointment.
Facilities and services
- family history research and enquiries
- house/property history research and enquiries
- local studies research and enquiries
Customers can consult the items listed here at our centre or submit an enquiry and request for information by contacting us with as many details as possible.
Family history references
- Find My Past library edition
- annual county directories/registers 1820s to 1930s
- East Lothian census returns
- East Lothian World War One Memorials Database
- historical local newspapers
- microfiche indexes to East Lothian Old Parish Register baptisms and marriages
- microfiche indexes to International Genealogical Index 1992 edition for Scotland arranged by counties
- monumental inscription booklets and burial/mortcloth registers for East Lothian graveyards
- old parish registers of East Lothian baptisms, marriages and deaths on microfilm
House history references
- East Lothian censuses
- historical local newspapers
- reference books and documents on respective parishes
- statistical accounts of East Lothian
- valuation rolls for East Lothian from 1855 onwards on microfilm and microfiche
Useful links
- list of historical newspapers
- house history – a case study
- World War One memorials database
- East Lothian images
- SCRAN – a charitable online learning resource base with over 360,000 images and multimedia files
- reference book catalogue
- East Lothian Life index
- list of digital transcriptions of books, documents and images relating to Tranent and surrounding areas
- Haddingtonshire Histories podcast series
- Library Catalogue
- Location