These sites are very helpful but treat the data with caution; i.e. some of it is 100% accurate, some of it is slightly inaccurate and some of it is just plain wrong!

When you find a possible piece of relevant information always corroborate it with a separate piece of supportive data.

www.staffordtown.co.uk :Welcome to Stafford Town. Our goal is to provide as much informal and enjoyable information about the great town of Stafford. All of our articles are written by a small team of Staffordians who have lived and worked in the town all of their lives. We hope to provide every visitor a glimpse of what life and leisure are like in Stafford.

Garbett Genealogy

Harrison Family Genealogy

Birmingham Historian & writer

Family genealogy for the Beeson family

US Site for Goodwin Family www.goodwins.com

STAFFORDSHIRE ANCESTRY RESEARCH SERVICES
'Sue Gill is a professional archive researcher & undertakes genealogy and family history research in Staffordshire archives'
Website: http://www.ancestrysearch.co.uk
Email: stars@launchpoint.demon.co.uk

Smethwick Local History Society

http://www.dumbleton-williams.fsnet.co.uk/SMETHWICKLOCALHISTORYSOCIETY.htm

Website of Ray Godwin

www.godwin.org.uk

The Honerable Cordwainer's Society

http://www.thehcc.org/

Genealogy Links

Genes Connected

A relatively new site from the creators of FriendsReunited which allows you to add your family history and then search our database to see if you can match any of your relations against any other member's details. It is not limited to the UK - it is a global resource.

www.familysearch.org

The main Mormon database for family history. Includes International Genealogical Index (I.G.I.) and British 1881 Census.

www.genuki.org.uk

Database of sources of information for genaelogy and local history in the UK - record offices, libraries, societies, maps etc.

www.pro.gov.uk

Public Record Office website which includes the Family record Centre and census registration districts. Also has an online catalogue and a good 'Quick Start on Genealogy' section.

www.rootsweb.com

Good genealogy links and some St Catherine's House Indexes to Births, Marriages and Deaths. Indexes which are continually being upgraded but are far from complete.

www.cwgc.org

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission provides details of Commonwealth soldiers, sailors and airmen who died during the two world warsand where they are buried. Also has details of 60,000 civillian casualties of the Second World War.

www.a2a.pro.gov.uk

Database listing the catalogies of archives held across England.

Methodist Archives

Methodist Archives and Research Centre, John Rylands University Library of Manchester

Lancaster Castle

Lancaster Assize Records - Information about judgements made in the Courts at Lancaster Castle and a good section on convicts transported to Australia - Database is in the early stages of development but a promising resource.

www.origins.net

Scottish births, deaths and marriages index data has been put online at the Origins site.

www.ons.gov.uk

Office for National Statistics.

www.hmc.gov.uk

Historical Manuscripts Commission

www.ihr.sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

www.cyndislist.com

A good site for links to global records with over 67,000 links which are cross indexed into over 120 categories.

www.genealogyhomepage.com

Comprehensive Genaelogy site