Records likely to be of use for tracing Huguenot ancestors are available at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/familyhistory/guide/. Many such records have been collected and published by the Huguenot Society, (see www.huguenotsociety.org.uk) whose library is available at University College London (see http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/huguenot.shtml). The Society of Genealogists (www.sog.org.uk) has most of these volumes and some are also available in the National Archives's Resource Centre and Library.

Between 1789 and 1945 various groups of refugees arrived on British shores fleeing revolution, war and oppression abroad. Some groups received government support in various ways (see the National Archives series: (PRO) T93 for French, (PRO) PMG53 for Spanish and Polish, (PRO) MH8 for Belgians, (PRO) HO294 for Czechs and (PRO) WO315 for Poles). An alternative source before 1837 are the registers of the churches, that they established and whose records are now with the nonconformist registers at the FRC. Relatively few of these refugees settled permanently in Britain.

More about the National Archives holdings can be found at Refugees and minorities. A small number of personnel files about individual (mainly famous or infamous) aliens can be found in the National Archives series (PRO) HO382.

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