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| − | | In the heart of England, Staffordshire is the home of the world-renowned English pottery industry.
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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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| − | 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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| − | '''County town:''' Stafford
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| − | '''Other major towns:''' Stoke on Trent, Wolverhampton, Walsall
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| − | '''[[Places_of_Worship:Staffordshire| Staffordshire Places of Worship]]'''
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| − | '''[http://www.familytreeforum.com/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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| − | '''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.staffordshire.gov.uk/leisure/libraries/ Staffordshire Libraries]
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| − | *[http://www.midlandshistoricaldata.org/index.html The Midlands' Digital Library]
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| − | *[http://www.bmsgh.org Birmingham and Midlands FHS]
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| − | *[http://www.sprs.org.uk/ Staffordshire Parish Registers Society]
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| − | '''Countywide Interest'''
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| − | *[http://www.pigsonthewing.org.uk/blackcountry/ The Black Country]
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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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| − | *[http://www.census-online.com/links/England/Staffordshire/ Staffordshire Online Census Records]
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| − | *[http://www.staffspasttrack.org.uk/churches/default.htm Staffs Churches]
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| − | *[http://www.the-staffordshire-encyclopaedia.co.uk/ The Staffordshire Encyclopaedia]
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| − | *[http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~jimella/staffs.htm Genealogy and Staffordshire]
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| − | *[http://www.local-history.co.uk/Groups/staffs.html The Local History Directory — Staffordshire]
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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.staffspasttrack.org.uk/ Staffordshire Past Track - Local History Online]
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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.ontaworld.co.uk/england/staffordshire/index.html Staffordshire Parishes, Villages and Hamlets]
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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://uk-transcriptions.accessgenealogy.com/Staffs..htm Transcriptions from Staffordshire Records]
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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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| − | *[http://www.btinternet.com/~aldridgelhs/ Aldridge LHS]
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| − | *[http://www.amblecote.org/ Amblecote History Society]
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| − | *[http://www.bagnallvillage.com/ Bagnall Village]
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| − | *[http://www.betley.net/ Betley]
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| − | *[http://www.lnw1.demon.co.uk/bdghs/bdghs.htm Biddulph & District Genealogy & Historical Society]
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| − | *[http://www.bilbrook.50megs.com/ The Village of Bilbrook]
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| − | *[http://www.blythebridge.org.uk/ Blythe Bridge]
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| − | *[http://www.brownedge.com/index.php Brown Edge Village]
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| − | *[http://www.walsall.gov.uk/index/brownhills_in_history.htm Brownhills History]
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| − | *[http://www.geocities.com/bfhg1986 Burntwood Family History]
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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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| − | *[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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| − | *[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://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/~blanchec/StapOPC.htm Stapenhill OPC]
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| − | *[http://www.thepotteries.org Stoke-on-Trent]
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| − | *[http://www.thepotteries.org/general/history.htm Stoke-on-Trent History]
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| − | *[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.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.walsall.gov.uk/localhistorycentre Walsall Family History Centre]
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| − | *[http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/home.htm Wolverhampton History and Heritage Society]
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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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| − | '''Maps and Photographs'''
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| − | *[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~laetoli/lowerdovevalleytitheviewer.html Lower Dove Tithe Maps and Apportionments]
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| − | *[http://www.search.exploringthepotteries.org.uk/engine/theme/ Old Photographs of Staffordshire]
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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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| − | ==Register Office==
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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.staffordshirebmd.org.uk Staffordshire BMD]
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| − | *[http://www.bmsgh.org/wmbmd/ West Midlands BMD]
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| − | ==Requests for Research and Photographs in this area==
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| − | Please read the [http://www.familytreeforum.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Research_Offers Terms and Conditions] before requesting a lookup.<br>
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| − | A list of members who have volunteered to do Research lookups or take photographs can be found in the [http://www.familytreeforum.com/research-offers/ Research Offers forum] or on the following pages in the Wiki:<br>
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| − | *[[Research Offers: Cemetery]]
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| − | *[[Research Offers: Photograph]]
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| − | *[[Research Offers: Probate]]
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| − | *[[Research Offers: Record Office/Archive]]
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| − | If any member wishes to offer to do lookups or take photographs in a particular location, please leave a message on our [http://www.familytreeforum.com/research-offers/73000-volunteers-needed-records-office-cemetery-lookups-photos.html Volunteers Needed thread].
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