Resources
This is a limited selection of useful resources. We have many more for members along with access to the Tamworth Digital Archive.
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Where Do I begin to Research My Family Where do I being my Family History is biased towards your family but the techniques and methods described can be used to research anyone. Primarily people who are not alive as current data is not always made public. Things like Census are once a decade. Click here to-get your free downloadable and printable guide: Where Do I begin to Research My Family |
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40 Questions to ask your Relatives Our Genealogist has created this set of questions to ask reletives whenresearching family history. All the things you need to cover, and how to go about it. This will make sure you ask everything and saves you having to go back and ask again. NOTE make sure you ask all the questions in order. Evenif you think you know the answers or you think the questions are irrelvant. Click here to download 40 Questions to ask your Relatives |
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DNA is not quite as simple as it sounds. There are various tests that show different things. This short booklet explains simply how it all works. Also what you need to know about tests and what they can and can't tell you. Click here for DNA Testing How and Why |
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This short booklet explained how we got to DNA testing. Where it came from and the route to a DNA testing kit on the shelf in Home Bargins! This story is not to technical but there are links for those who want to go deeper. This is an optional book for those who are itnerested but it is not needed if you are just trying todo DNA tests to find people. Click here for DNA: The History |
| Ancestry and Find My Past | Library Edition |
| Check with your library if they have free access to these sites. You will usually have to visit in person rather than remote access. | |
| Family Search | https://www.familysearch.org/en/united-kingdom |
Access to a worldwide range of records, some with images. You need to register to use site but you do not get inundated with e-mails. Is a partner site with Find My Past. |
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| Free BMD | https://www.freebmd.org.uk |
| Find English & Births, Deaths & Marriages from 1837 – 1992.Use in conjunction with the GRO website which give the mother’s maiden name for births and ages at death from the start of registration useful to verify you have the correct birth or death. | |
| General Register Office | https://www.gro.gov.uk |
| You need to register for free account using your e-mail address and a password but you do not get inundated with e-mails. Use in conjunction with Free BMD to verify birth or death entries from the beginning of registration. This is the site to use to order Birth Marriage and Death Certificates for England & Wales | |
| FreeReg | https://www.freereg.org.uk |
Many from Non Conformist Churches/Chapels |
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| UKBMD (UK births, marriages, deaths) |
https://www.ukbmd.org.uk |
| Search can be narrowed down to a specific County Transcribed from the original records at the individual Register Offices around the UK and Wales. Gives the Sub District where registration took place. Marriages show the name of the Church or whether it was a Civil Ceremony Deaths give the age at death | |
| Find A Grave | https://www.findagrave.com/ |
| Worldwide search for the final resting place of your ancestor. Also accessible through Ancestry and Family Search and Find My Past | |
| Deceased Online | https://www.deceasedonline.com/ |
| UK burials and cremations Need to register for free account using your e-mail address and a password but you do not get inundated with e-mails. You can purchase credits if you wish to order copies of the records | |
| Birmingham Burials | https://birminghamburialrecords.co.uk |
| Trace burials and cremations for your Birmingham Ancestors Free to Search but there is a charge if you order a copy of the registers. You may be able to obtain the information you require from other sources free of charge. | |
| UK Government: Find a Will | https://www.gov.uk/search-will-probate |
| Trace if your ancestor’s estate required probate and if they left a Will. Also includes Soldier’s Wills
Copies of Probate and Administrations can be obtained at a cost of £1.50
Administration means there was no Will Administration (with Will) means there was a Will but there was a problem with it Probate means the deceased left a Will |
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| National Library of Scotland | https://www.nls.uk/ |
| Digitised copies of all OS maps for the United Kingdom | |
| Commonwealth War Graves | https://www.cwgc.org/ |
| Trace the final resting place or memorial for the fallen in WWI or WWII | |
| Pickards Pink Pages for Warwickshire | https://hunimex.com/warwick/ |
| Information on numerous research sources for Warwickshire | |
| Dusty Docs | http://www.dustydocs.com/ |
| Information and links to numerous research sources for United Kingdom | |
Local Family History Societies
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Midland Ancestors | https://midland-ancestors.uk |
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Nuneaton & North Warwickshire Family History Society | https://nanwfhs.org.uk |
| Staffordshire Archives | http://www.archives.staffordshire.gov.uk |
| Staffordshire Past Track | https://www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk |
| Staffordshire Names Index | https://www.staffsnameindexes.org.uk |
| Warwickshire County Record Office | https://heritage.warwickshire.gov.uk/warwickshire-county-record-office |
| Our Warwickshire | https://www.ourwarwickshire.org.uk |
| Warwickshire Libraries | https://library.warwickshire.gov.uk/iguana/www.main.cls?surl=localstudiesandfamilyhistory |
| Tamworth Genealogy Group is part of the Holloway Society | |||||||
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