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Also known as Shakespeare country being the home of William Shakespeare. Home to two castles, Warwick and Kenilworth, the remains of the 'Forest of Arden', as portrayed by Shakespeare in As You Like It, and the site of the English Civil War battlefield of Edgehill. The county's industries are engineering and textile production.

The 15th-century Earl of Warwick known as the Kingmaker lived at Warwick Castle.

Online certificate searching and applications - Warwickshire Web

There are currently four main offices from which copy certificates may be issued. Certificates from the Warwickshire North Registration District may be ordered from both Atherstone and Nuneaton

Register Office

Atherstone Register Office

Superintendent Registrar
Warwickshire North Registration District
First Floor, Warwick House,
Ratcliffe Street,
Atherstone
CV9 1JP
Tel 01827 713241

Nuneaton Register Office

Superintendent Registrar
Warwickshire North Registration District
The Register Office
Riversley Park,
Coton Road
Nuneaton
CV11 5HA
Tel 02476 348948

Rugby

Superintendent Registrar
Warwickshire East Registration District
5 Bloxam Place
Rugby
CV21 3DS
Tel 01788 571233

Warwick

Superintendent Registrar
Warwickshire South Registration District
Pageant House
2 Jury Street
Warwick
CV34 4EW
Tel 01926 494269

Record Office Lookup Requests

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Record Office Lookup Contacts

Cemetery Lookup Requests

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Cemetery Lookup Contacts

Nuneaton Dawnie and her 3 munchkins
Shirley (West Midlands) JBee
South Birmingham JBee

Photo Offers

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

Links

County Record Office

Birmingham City Archives

Warwickshire BMD

West Midlands BMD

Warwickshire OPC

Warwickshire Look-up Exchange

IGI Warwickshire A-L

IGI Warwickshire N-Z

Pickards Pink Pages for Warwickshire Genealogy

Transcriptions from Warwickshire records

The Census and Suchlike in Warwickshire

Warwick Library - The Modern Records Centre

Family and Social History

Warwick County Prison Inmates 1800-1900

John Crossling's History of Warwickshire Pubs

Tithe Apportionments

Birmingham Lunatic Asylum - Cases

Birmingham Area WW1 & 2 Family Memorial Inscriptions

List of Illegitimacy Orders

Old Birmingham Garages

Maps & Photographs

Population of Warwick Town From The Town Maps of Warwick 1610 - 1851

Victorian Photography Studios

Countywide Interest

Windows on Warwickshire

Tracing Your Ancestors in Warwickshire (excluding Birmingham)

Warwickshire Census Strays

Warwickshire Parishes, Villages and Hamlets

Specific Town Village Interest

The Baddesley/Baxterley Pit Explosion 1882

People who have a connection with the City of Coventry, criminals, owned property, etc

Chilvers Coton Inhabitants in 1836

Coventry Collections

Coventry's historic past

Coventry During The Blitz Includes a list of victims

Digital Handsworth

Harbury & Lockley Poll Books & Census

Ladywood

Digital Ladywood includes Attwood Green, Benmore, Five Ways, Lee Bank & Woodview

Ladywood Past and Present

Perry Barr, Photographs and Comprehensive Name Indexes
Quinton Local History Society
Quinton National School Registers also Woodhouse Road School

The Quinton Oracle

Winson Green to Brookfields

Wythall People

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 *[http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/dirs/coventry_1805.html Covenrty 1805 Holden's Triennial Directory]
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 *[http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/content/view/543/504/ Online Databases for Stratford-Upon-Avon]
+*[http://www.local-history.co.uk/Groups/warks.html Warwickshire History Society]
+*[http://www.local-history.co.uk/Groups/wmids.html West Midlands History Society]
 *[http://www.virtualmuseum.co.uk/ Virtual Museum, Willenhall]