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| In the heart of England, Staffordshire is the home of the world-renowned English pottery industry.
  
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'''Staffordshire'''
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The countryside is varied with the windswept Staffordshire moorlands in the north and the beautiful parkland of Cannock Chase in the south.
  
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County town: Stafford
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Tamworth in the south boasts the Snowdome, Europe's first real snow indoor ski-slope, and the internationally famous theme park Alton Towers is hidden in the midst of beautiful peaceful countryside near the quiet market town of Leek in the north.
  
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Other major towns: Stoke on Trent, Wolverhampton, Walsall
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'''County town:''' Stafford
  
  
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In the heart of England, Staffordshire is the home of the world-renowned English pottery industry. The countryside is varied with the windswept Staffordshire moorlands in the north and the beautiful parkland of Cannock Chase in the south.
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'''Other major towns:''' Stoke on Trent, Wolverhampton, Walsall
  
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Tamworth in the south boasts the Snowdome, Europe's first real snow indoor ski-slope, and the internationally famous theme park Alton Towers is hidden in the midst of beautiful peaceful countryside near the quiet market town of Leek in the north.
 
  
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'''[[Places_of_Worship:Staffordshire| Staffordshire Places of Worship]]'''
  
  
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==Register Office Contact Details==
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'''[https://www.familytreeforum.com/forum/site-projects/regional-projects Regional Projects Forum]'''
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| [[Image: EnglandStaffordshire.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Source: Wikipedia]]
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==Resources==
  
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Staffordshire is part of the UKBMD project. UKBMD sites offer a searchable BMD index. Online certificate ordering service and listings to each local register office:
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'''Primary Reference'''
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*[http://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/leisure/archives '''Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service''']
  
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*[http://www.staffordshirebmd.org.uk Staffordshire BMD]
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*[http://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/leisure/libraries/ Staffordshire Libraries]  
  
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*[http://www.bmsgh.org/wmbmd/ West Midlands BMD]
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*[http://www.midlandshistoricaldata.org/index.html The Midlands' Digital Library]
  
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==Record Office Lookup Requests==
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*[http://www.bmsgh.org Birmingham and Midlands FHS]
  
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Please read the [[Record Office Lookup - Terms and Conditions|Terms and Conditions]] before requesting a lookup.
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*[http://www.sprs.org.uk/ Staffordshire Parish Registers Society]
  
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By requesting a lookup you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions as linked above.
 
  
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'''Countywide Interest'''
  
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'''Record Office Lookup Contacts'''
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*[http://www.pigsonthewing.org.uk/blackcountry/ The Black Country]
  
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*Stafford R/O. ''Monthly'' [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=637 Margo]
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*[http://www.blackcountryhistory.org.uk/default.aspx Black Country History]  
  
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*[http://dcdudley.tripod.com/ The North and South Staffordshire Ancestors Project]
  
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==Cemetery Lookup Requests==
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*[http://www.census-online.com/links/England/Staffordshire/ Staffordshire Online Census Records]
  
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Please read the [[Cemetery Lookup -Terms and Conditions|Terms and Conditions]] before requesting a lookup.
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*[http://www.staffspasttrack.org.uk/churches/default.htm Staffs Churches]
  
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By requesting a lookup you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions as linked above.
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*[http://www.the-staffordshire-encyclopaedia.co.uk/ The Staffordshire Encyclopaedia]
  
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'''Cemetery Lookup Contacts'''
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*[http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~jimella/staffs.htm Genealogy and Staffordshire]
  
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*Gayton, St Peter's  [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=868 bren.mac]
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*[http://www.local-history.co.uk/Groups/staffs.html The Local History Directory — Staffordshire]
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*Gomal [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=634 Pamdidle]
 
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*Kingswinford [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=634 Pamdidle]
 
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*Stoke-on-Trent area [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=585 Sam from Stoke]
 
  
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==Links==
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*[http://www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/genuki/STS/MIs.html Wishful Thinking's GENUKI - Staffordshire Memorial Inscription Collection]
  
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*[http://www.staffshistory.org.uk/ Staffordshire History]
  
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*[http://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/leisure/archives County Record Office]  
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*[http://www.staffspasttrack.org.uk/ Staffordshire Past Track - Local History Online]
  
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*[http://www.familia.org.uk/services/england/staffordshire.html Library Link]  
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*[http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/SOC/88627.htm Irish families who settled in Victorian Staffordshire]
  
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*[http://www.bmsgh.org Birmingham and Midlands FHS]  
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*[http://www.ontaworld.co.uk/england/staffordshire/index.html Staffordshire Parishes, Villages and Hamlets]  
  
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*[http://www.geocities.com/bfhg1986 Burntwood Family History]  
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*[http://www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/engine/theme/default.asp?theme=18&text=0 Staffordshire Prisons]
  
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*[http://www.local-history.co.uk/Groups/staffs.html Local History Societies]  
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*[http://uk-transcriptions.accessgenealogy.com/Staffs..htm Transcriptions from Staffordshire Records]
  
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*[http://www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/genuki/STS/MIs.html Wishful Thinking's GENUKI: Staffordshire Pages]
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*[http://www.geocities.com/fountalnpen/moreton.html Villages and Townships on the Shropshire/Staffordshire Borders]  
  
  
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'''Specific Town and Village Interest'''
  
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'''Local History Society'''
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*[http://www.btinternet.com/~aldridgelhs/ Aldridge LHS]
  
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*[http://www.amblecote.org/ Amblecote History Society]
  
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*[http://www.census-online.com/links/England/Staffordshire/ Staffordshire Online Census Records]
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*[http://www.bagnallvillage.com/ Bagnall Village]
  
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*[http://www.thepotteries.org Stoke-on-Trent]
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*[http://www.betley.net/ Betley]
  
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*[http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~jimella/staffs.htm Genealogy and Staffordshire]
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*[http://www.lnw1.demon.co.uk/bdghs/bdghs.htm Biddulph & District Genealogy & Historical Society]
  
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*[http://www.btinternet.com/~aldridgelhs/ Aldridge LHS]
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*[http://www.bilbrook.50megs.com/ The Village of Bilbrook]
  
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*[http://www.sprs.org.uk/ Staffordshire Parish Registers Society]
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*[http://www.blythebridge.org.uk/ Blythe Bridge]
  
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*[http://www.lnw1.demon.co.uk/bdghs/bdghs.htm Biddulph & District Genealogy & Historical Society]
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*[http://www.brownedge.com/index.php Brown Edge Village]
  
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*[http://www.bmsgh.org Birmingham and Midlands FHS]  
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*[http://www.walsall.gov.uk/index/brownhills_in_history.htm Brownhills History]
  
 
*[http://www.geocities.com/bfhg1986 Burntwood Family History]  
 
*[http://www.geocities.com/bfhg1986 Burntwood Family History]  
  
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*[http://www.local-history.co.uk/Groups/staffs.html Local History Societies]
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*[http://www.caverswall.org.uk/ The Parish of Caverswall]
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*[http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/3542/ Draycott-en-le-Moors]
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*[http://www.fazeley.info/burialsbyyear.html Burials at St. Paul's Church, Fazeley 1855 - 1900]
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*[http://www.fazeley.info/marriages.html Marriages at St. Paul's Church, Fazeley 1842 - 1900]  
  
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*[http://www.forsbrook.org.uk/ Forsbrook Village]
  
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'''OPC'''
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*[http://www.rduckett.clara.net/little-aston/index.htm Little Aston]
  
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*[http://www.madeleyvillage.co.uk/genealogyp1.htm Madeley Genealogy]
  
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'''Archives'''
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*[http://www.odd-rode.org.uk/ Odd Rode and Surrounding Townships Under the Original Astbury Parish Umbrella]
  
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*[http://www.pelsall-history.co.uk/ Pelsall History]
  
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*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountyStafford_(A-M).htm#PageTitle IGI Staffordshire A-M]
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*[http://www.rowleyregis.com Rowley Regis]
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*[http://www.sedgleymanor.com/ The Ancient Manor of Sedgley]
  
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*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountyStafford_(N-Z).htm#PageTitle IGI Staffordshire N-Z]
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*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~blanchec/StapOPC.htm Stapenhill OPC]
  
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*[http://uk-transcriptions.accessgenealogy.com/Staffs..htm Transcriptions from Staffordshire Records]
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*[http://www.thepotteries.org Stoke-on-Trent]
  
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*[http://www.census-online.com/links/England/Staffordshire/ Staffordshire Online Census Records]
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*[http://www.thepotteries.org/general/history.htm Stoke-on-Trent History]
  
 
*[http://www.staffs.ac.uk/schools/humanities_and_soc_sciences/census/parlist.htm Stoke-upon-Trent Parish Listing of 1701]
 
*[http://www.staffs.ac.uk/schools/humanities_and_soc_sciences/census/parlist.htm Stoke-upon-Trent Parish Listing of 1701]
  
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*[http://www.wolverhamptonarchives.dial.pipex.com/churchrecords.htm Wolverhampton Archives and Local Studies]
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*[http://www.thepotteries.org/allpotters/index_alpha.htm Stoke-on-Trent Potters]
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*[http://www.st-marys-swynnerton.org.uk/ St Mary's Church Swynnerton - includes Gravestone Records]
  
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*[http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/census/whittington_1891.html 1891 Census Returns for Whittington near Lichfield, Staffordshire.]
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*[http://www.walsall.gov.uk/localhistorycentre Walsall Family History Centre]  
  
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*[http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/census/whittington_1861.html 1861 Census Returns for Whittington near Lichfield, Staffordshire.]
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*[http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/home.htm Wolverhampton History and Heritage Society]
  
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*[http://www.memorial-inscriptions.org.uk/index.htm Cheshire, Staffs & Shropshire memorial inscriptions]
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*[http://www.wolverhamptonarchives.dial.pipex.com/churchrecords.htm Wolverhampton Archives and Local Studies]
  
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*[http://www.wolverhamptonhistory.org.uk/ Wolverhampton History, for parish register indexes click on Resources > Family History]
  
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'''Family and social history'''
 
  
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'''Maps and Photographs'''
  
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*[http://www.somersetlarders.com/pages/content.php The Larder Family] Mostly for Somerset but contains links for Staffordshire and the Black Country.
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*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~laetoli/lowerdovevalleytitheviewer.html Lower Dove Tithe Maps and Apportionments]
  
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*[http://www.staffspasttrack.org.uk/churches/default.htm Staffs Churches]
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*[http://www.search.exploringthepotteries.org.uk/engine/theme/ Old Photographs of Staffordshire]
  
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*[http://www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/engine/theme/default.asp?theme=18&text=0 Staffordshire Prisons]
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*[http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/articles/Exhibition/Shopping/photos.htm Some Early Photographers and Photographic Studios in Wolverhampton]
  
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*[http://www.institutions.org.uk/hospitals/england/staffs/staffordshire_hospitals.htm Staffordshire Hospitals]
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==Register Office==
  
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*[http://www.institutions.org.uk/asylums/england/sts/staffordshire_asylums.htm Staffordshire Asylums]
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Staffordshire is part of the UKBMD project. UKBMD sites offer a searchable BMD index. Online certificate ordering service and listings to each local register office:
  
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*[http://www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses/england/staffs/staffordshire_workhouses.htm Stafford Workhouses]  
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*[http://www.staffordshirebmd.org.uk Staffordshire BMD]
  
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*[http://www.bmsgh.org/wmbmd/ West Midlands BMD]
  
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'''Maps & Photographs'''
 
  
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*[http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/articles/Exhibition/Shopping/photos.htm Some early Photographers and Photographic Studios in Wolverhampton] Useful for dating old photos
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==Record Office & Archive Lookup Requests==
  
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Please read the [[Record Office Lookup - Terms and Conditions|Terms and Conditions]] before requesting a lookup.
  
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'''Countywide interest'''
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By requesting a lookup you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions as above.
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*[http://www.blackcountryhistory.org.uk/default.aspx Welcom Black Country History]searchable online catalogue for the Black Country archive services.  
 
  
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*[http://cwis.livjm.ac.uk/soc/families/ Diaspora- Irish families who lived in Victorian Stafford]
 
  
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*[http://www.staffspasttrack.org.uk/ Staffordshire Past Track - Local History Online]
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'''Record Office & Archive Lookup Contacts'''
  
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*[http://www.staffspasttrack.org.uk/ Staffordshire Past track]
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*Stafford R/O. ''Monthly'' [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=637 Margo]
  
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*[http://www.pigsonthewing.org.uk/blackcountry/ The Black Country]
 
  
  
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'''Specific Town Village interest'''
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==Cemetery Lookup Requests==
  
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Please read the [[Cemetery Lookup -Terms and Conditions|Terms and Conditions]] before requesting a lookup.
  
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*[http://www.odd-rode.org.uk/ Odd Rode and surrounding townships] Under the original Astbury Parish umbrella, on the Cheshire/Staffordshire border.
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By requesting a lookup you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions as above.
  
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*[http://www.sedgleymanor.com/ The Ancient Manor of Sedgley]
 
  
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*[http://www.thepotteries.org/general/history.htm Stoke-on-Trent]
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'''Cemetery Lookup Contacts'''
  
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*[http://www.madeleyvillage.co.uk/genealogyp1.htm Madeley Genealogy]
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*Gayton, St Peter's  [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=868 brenmac]
  
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*[http://www.thepotteries.org Stoke-on-Trent]
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==Photo Offers==
  
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*[http://www.thepotteries.org/allpotters/index_alpha.htm Stoke Potters]
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Members that have offered to take photographs in particular areas. Please send a private message to the member with your queries.
  
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*[http://www.rowleyregis.com Rowley Regis]
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*Stone [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=868 brenmac]
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*Stafford [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=868 brenmac]
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*Rugley [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=868 brenmac]
  
  
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Latest revision as of 10:22, 16 May 2023

In the heart of England, Staffordshire is the home of the world-renowned English pottery industry.

The countryside is varied with the windswept Staffordshire moorlands in the north and the beautiful parkland of Cannock Chase in the south.

Tamworth in the south boasts the Snowdome, Europe's first real snow indoor ski-slope, and the internationally famous theme park Alton Towers is hidden in the midst of beautiful peaceful countryside near the quiet market town of Leek in the north.

County town: Stafford


Other major towns: Stoke on Trent, Wolverhampton, Walsall


Staffordshire Places of Worship


Regional Projects Forum

Source: Wikipedia

Resources

Primary Reference


Countywide Interest


Specific Town and Village Interest


Maps and Photographs

Register Office

Staffordshire is part of the UKBMD project. UKBMD sites offer a searchable BMD index. Online certificate ordering service and listings to each local register office:


Record Office & Archive Lookup Requests

Please read the Terms and Conditions before requesting a lookup.

By requesting a lookup you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions as above.


Record Office & Archive Lookup Contacts

  • Stafford R/O. Monthly Margo


Cemetery Lookup Requests

Please read the Terms and Conditions before requesting a lookup.

By requesting a lookup you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions as above.


Cemetery Lookup Contacts

Photo Offers

Members that have offered to take photographs in particular areas. Please send a private message to the member with your queries.


Back to England

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