Family history
Every Thurrock library gives free use of the Ancestry and Find My Past websites.
A library card – Thurrock, Essex or Southend – is all you need, but you can only access Ancestry and Find My Past in libraries. You can use library computers for up to 2 hours a day.
As well as books on how to research your family, Grays library has a collection of family history resources on the first floor:
- Thurrock parish registers (births, deaths, marriages) on microfilm
- Thurrock census returns on microfilm 1841-1891
- Thurrock census returns on microfiche 1901
- indexes to census returns 1851,1881
- Thurrock electoral registers 1936-2001