Useful links
Collected below are some other useful resources to help you find out more about your theatrical ancestors.
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Theatre and related collections
- Arthur Lloyd
- Music Hall and Theatre History Website
- Association of Performing Arts Collections
- Search over 250 theatre collections
- British Music Hall Society
- Museum of London collections
- Museum of the City of New York collections
- Contains over 120,000 images from the museum's Photography, Prints and Drawings, Maps, Ephemera and Theater collections.
- National Art Library (Victoria & Albert Museum)
- National Fairground Archive
- Scottish Theatre Archive
- The Garrick Club Collections
- The Women's Library (London School of Economics)
- UK Theatre Collections (Association of Performing Arts Collections)
- University of Bristol Theatre Collection
Census data
- 1841 England Census (Ancestry.co.uk)
- 1851 England, Wales and Scotland Census (FindMyPast)
- 1861 England, Wales and Scotland Census (FindMyPast)
- 1871 England, Wales and Scotland Census (FindMyPast)
- 1881 England and Wales Census (FamilySearch)
- 1891 England, Wales and Scotland Census (FindMyPast)
- 1901 England, Wales and Scotland Census (FindMyPast)
- 1911 England, Wales and Scotland Census (FindMyPast)
Passenger lists
- Ellis Island Passenger Lists (The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation)
- The Ships List: Ships Passenger Lists
Photographs
- ArenaPal
- Specialist image library for the performing arts.
- Mary Evans Picture Library
- Holds over 500,000 images and offer a picture search service.
