Many documents in the archive collections in the Hive contain valuable information about the people and places of Worcestershire. For many years, staff and volunteers have been compiling indexes and guides to make these records easier to search. More will be added as time permits.
Although the indexes and guides do not contain images of the records, the originals are in most cases available to view at the Hive. Not all documents are suitable for photocopying, but you are welcome to visit the Hive to photograph entries with a digital camera, subject to copyright restrictions.
We now have indexes and guides available for the following collections of records. The utmost care is taken in the preparation of our electronic indexes. However, if you find any errors in any of these indexes please let us know.
- Absent Voters Index
- Aerial photographs in the Worcestershire Photographic Survey
- Agriculture
- Apprentices Indentures
- Artists
- Benjamin Stone and Packer photographic collections
- Berrows Newspaper Illustrations Index 1914-1915
- Birth, Marriage and Death information and coroners reports, extracted from the Berrows Worcester Journal 1814-1833
- Bishops Transcripts index
- Bishops Transcripts introduction
- Calendar of Prisoners 1839-1849
- Carpenters and Wheelwrights records
- Carpet Industry and Businesses
- Cemetery and Crematoria
- Census Street Index - 1871
- Divorce
- Ecclesiastical Census
- Enclosure Awards Plans Handlist
- Greenbank Wills
- Index to the IGI
- Kidderminster St Mary's Militia 1824-1831
- Manorial Handlist
- Maps on Microfilm
- Marriage Bonds and Allegations
- Marriage Licences 1853 - 1916
- Newspapers on Microfilm
- Non-conformist records on microfilm
- Ordinations papers
- Overseas and Military
- Parish Registers
- Peculiars
- Powick Hospital admissions registers 1854-1906
- Quarter Sessions
- Quarter Sessions Order Books
- Tax Records
- Tithe Apportionment and Plans
- Trade Directories
- Watch and Clock Makers
- Wills
- Worcester City Planning Applications 1865 - 1901
- Worcester City Freemen
- Worcester Royal Grammar School Admission Registers Index 1850-1913