Useful Links

Useful links to other websites. Please note that the Archive Service is not responsible for the content of these sites. Please also note that some of these sites are run by commercial organisations and fees may be charged for use of them. Their appearance on this page does not imply endorsement of their services by the Archive Service.

Links to National Resources

Legislation - incomplete offical online database of legislation of the English Parliament (1267-1706), Scottish Parliament (1424-1707), Parliament of Great Britain (from 1707), Irish Parliament (1495-1801), Scottish Parliament (from 1999), Welsh Assembly (from 1999), Northern Ireland Assembly (various periods).

Links to other Archives and Libraries

ARCHON - the official online directory of archive repositories in the United Kingdom

UNESCO Archives Portal - provides information about archive repositories worldwide

The National Archives

British Library

Libraries in Staffordshire

Libraries in Stoke on Trent

Links to Museums holding Archives

Newcastle Museum

Potteries Museum and Art Gallery

Tamworth Castle Museum

Wedgwood Museum

Family History Sites

If you are interested in Family History some of these sites might be useful:

General Research Sites

1911 Census - commercial site

Ancestry.co.uk - commercial site

Family Search (Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints)

Ancestry-Search

English Family History and Genealogy Links - free to use part of the Price and Associates commercial website

Cyndi's List

Genuki

Familia - UK and ireland's Guide to Genealogical resources in Public Libraries

English Medieval Genealogy

Registration of Birth, Marriage and Death

General Register Office

Staffordshire Registration Service

Staffordshire BMD - part of the Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry website

Family Records.gov.uk consortium

Census

1901 Census

Parish Registers

Diocese of Lichfield Directory of Clergy - gives clergy contact details, useful for obtaining access to parish registers retained by churches

Staffordshire Parish Registers Society - publishes transcripts of parish registers

Military Genealogy

Staffordshire Soldiers of the Great War

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Probate

Probate and other courts

Criminal

Convicts transported to Australia database on the State Library of Queensland website

Family History Societies

Contact details for societies based within the administrative county of Staffordshire can be found in the Clubs and Societies Directory on this website. Some have their own websites :

Society of Genealogists

Federation of Family History Societies

Guild of One Name Studies

Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry (BMSGH)

BMSGH - North Staffordshire Branch

Walsall Family History Group

Black Country Connections

Local History Societies

Contact details for societies based within the administrative county of Staffordshire can be found in the Clubs and Societies Directory on this website. Some have their own websites :

Betley History Society

Brewood Civic Society

Cheddleton Flint Mill Industrial Heritage Trust

Cheslyn Hay and District Local History Society

Codsall and Bilbrook Local History Society

Historical Association (Mid-Trent Branch)

Lichfield Heritage Collection

Staffordshire Heritage Group

Stafford Industrial Archaeology Society