Digital Archive

Ancestry is the world’s largest online family history resource. Trace your Sutton lineage. Get instant access to hundreds of years of history in billions of historical documents and millions of historical photos from all over the world. Users can research their family history using censuses, the fully indexed birth, marriage and death records, passenger lists, the British phone books, military and parish records. Go to Ancestry.

*Accessible in branch only. Available to use FREE at all of Sutton's Libraries.

Find My Past will help you to trace your family history through making original historical documents available to search online so that people can find their ancestors and trace their family tree online. Go to Find My Past

*Accessible in branch only. Available to use FREE at all of Sutton's Libraries.

The British Newspaper Archive grants access to hundreds of historic newspapers from all over Britain and Ireland. Users can access up to 40 million newspaper pages from the British Library's vast collection over a 10 year period. Go to The British Newspaper Archive.

*Accessible in branch only. Available to use FREE at all of Sutton's Libraries.

BFI Replay is a new, free-to-access, digital archive from the BFI (British Film Institute).
It’s an online learning and research platform hosting thousands of digitised videos and television programmes from the collections of the BFI National Archive and partner UK Regions and Nations Film Archives.

Exclusively available in UK public lending libraries, it’s a free resource for library users to browse and enjoy, or to research and study, with thousands of videos – some familiar and memorable, others rare and unseen for decades.

The content, preserved from original videotapes and digitised for the nation, uncovers stories from across the UK, its history and its people. Vividly captured in over 60 years of film, television and video from all corners of the UK – what we, our parents and carers, grandparents and communities watched.

BFI Replay is a unique resource giving democratic access for the public to the nation’s moving image heritage. A living digital archive that will grow and evolve as newly digitised content continues to be added.

*Accessible in branch only. Available to use FREE at all of Sutton's Libraries.