Resources

Please note: some sites may have additional fees. All links marked with an asterisk (*) are external websites and so we are not liable for the contents within them.

Staffordshire resources

Registration of Birth, Marriage and Death

• Staffordshire Registration Service
  
  
• Staffordshire BMD*

Parish registers

• Findmypast* - Access to the 'Staffordshire Collection' is free in archives and libraries in Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent.
  
  
• Staffordshire Parish Registers Society* - Publishes transcripts of parish registers.

Archives and libraries

• Libraries in Staffordshire
  
  
• Libraries in Stoke on Trent*
  
  
• Birmingham Archdiocesan Archives*

Military genealogy

• Soldiers of the Great War*

Online resources

• Guide to Parish Registers, Bishops Transcripts and Nonconformist registers
  
  
• Staffordshire Name Indexes*
  
  
• Staffordshire Digitisation Project
  
  
• Midland Ancestors

National resources

• Legislation* - incomplete official 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).

Archives and libraries

• Find an Archive* - the official online directory of archive repositories in the United Kingdom
  
  
• UNESCO Archives Portal* - search for information about archive repositories worldwide.
  
  
• The National Archives*
  
  
• British Library*

Family history societies

Federation of Family History Societies* - for a directory of societies, whether local or one-name study groups.

General research

• Ancestry*
  
  
• Findmypast*
  
  
• Family Search* (Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints)
  
  
• English Family History and Genealogy Links*
  
  
• Cyndi's List*
  
  
• Genuki*
  
  
• Familia* - UK and Ireland's guide to genealogical resources in public libraries.
  
  
• English Medieval Genealogy*

• UKBMD

Registration of Birth, Marriage and Death

• General Register Office*  

Anglican Parish registers

• A Church Near You* - Directory of Church of England churches - gives clergy contact details, useful for obtaining access to parish registers retained by churches.

Methodist Church records

• Methodist Heritage*

Military genealogy

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission*

Courts

• Courts and tribunals finder* - helps to locate current courts and tribunals