Record Focus : Gibraltar List of Inhabitants

John Mace, North View of Gibraltar from Spanish Lines 
Government Art Collection, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

This week I’ve got a recommendation for an archive resource – the Gibraltar National Archives’ List of Inhabitants, which contains 219,229 records covering over six hundred years, from 1309 to 1920.  It’s got a very straightforward search function, so give it a play if you have relatives who might have spent any time there.

Clicking on the “Inhabitants” tab at the top of the page next to “Home” lets you switch to searching Military records – very useful as the Rock has had a significant British military presence for many years.  This particular record set contains births, marriages and deaths from 1869 to 1914.

It’s also well worth exploring the rest of this fascinating Archives website which includes historical background, photographs, and oral histories.

Tip: This may just be my browser, but I found the text on the Gibraltar site rather small, so I used this shortcut: to enlarge any text and images on any web page, simply press the "Ctrl" and "+" keys at the same time. You can do this as many times as you need to in order to make the text readable.  And to reverse the process if necessary, use "Ctrl" and "-" (minus) together.  (If you have an Apple device, the "Command" key works in a similar way to Windows' "Ctrl".)