Useful Links

Useful links to other websites. Please note that the Archive Service is not responsible for the content of these sites.

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

West Midlands Museums Libraries and Archives - site provides links to all the archive repositories in the West Midlands

Libraries in Staffordshire

Libraries in Stoke on Trent

Family History Sites

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

General Research Sites

Ancestry.co.uk

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

Ancestry-Search

Cyndi's List

Genuki

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

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

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

Codsall and Bilbrook Local History Society

Historical Association (Mid-Trent Branch)

Hixon Local History Society

Lichfield Heritage Collection

Stafford Borough Heritage Group

Stafford Industrial Archaeology Society