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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.

Resources

Primary Reference

County Record Office

Warwick Library - The Modern Records Centre

West Midlands BMD

Warwickshire OPC

Warwickshire Look-up Exchange

Countywide Interest

Warwickshire Baptisms and Marriages

The Census in Warwickshire

Warwickshire Census Strays

The Midlands' Digital Library

List of Illegitimacy Orders

Nuneaton and North Warwickshire FHS

Pickards Pink Pages for Warwickshire Genealogy

Warwickshire Parishes, Villages and Hamlets

John Crossling's History of Warwickshire Pubs

Transcriptions from Warwickshire Records

Tracing Your Ancestors in Warwickshire (excluding Birmingham)

Tithe Apportionments

Windows on Warwickshire

Specific Town and Village Interest

Alcester and District Local History Society

Aston Brook Through Aston Manor

The Baddesley/Baxterley Pit Explosion 1882

Barford Heritage Group

Birmingham City Archives

Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry

Birmingham History Webring

Birmingham Area WW1 & 2 Family Memorial Inscriptions

Old Birmingham Garages

Birmingham History and Genealogy

Birmingham Lunatic Asylum - Cases

http://www.dwarner.com/data/data.htm Wrightson's Triennial Directory, 1818, for Birmingham]

Virtual Brum

Chilvers Coton Inhabitants in 1836

Coventry During The Blitz Includes a list of victims

Coventry FHS

Coventry People

Coventry Collections

Coventry's Historic Past

Coventry 1805 Holden's Triennial Directory

Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council - Deaths, Funerals & Cremations

Dunchurch

Digital Handsworth

Harbury & Lockley Poll Books & Census

Ladywood

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

Ladywood Past and Present

Leamington Priors

History of Oxhill

Perry Barr, Photographs and Comprehensive Name Indexes

Quinton Local History Society

Quinton National School Registers also Woodhouse Road School

The Quinton Oracle

Register of Burials Parish of Christ Church, The Quinton, 1840 to 1868

Rugby Family History Group

Solihull History

Online Databases for Stratford-Upon-Avon

Warwick County Prison Inmates 1800-1900

Warwickshire History Society

Virtual Museum, Willenhall

Winson Green to Brookfields

Wythall People

Maps and Photographs

Victorian Photography Studios

Books of local interest

Register Office

Warwickshire BMD

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.

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 send a private message to the member with your queries.

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 ==Resources==
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 *[http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/countyrecordoffice '''County Record Office''']
-*[http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/GenerateContent?CONTENT_ITEM_ID=7298&CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE=0&MENU_ID=10468&EXPAND=5396 Birmingham City Archives]
+*[http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/ Warwick Library - The Modern Records Centre]
-*[http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/web/corporate/pages.nsf/(DisplayLinks)/4DDCBAEECD4F52D0802573920051B4D4 Warwickshire BMD]
 *[http://www.bmsgh.org/wmbmd/index.html West Midlands BMD]
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 *[http://www.angelfire.com/wa3/wks/ Warwickshire Look-up Exchange]
-*[http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/ Warwick Library - The Modern Records Centre]
-*[http://www.local-history.co.uk/Groups/wmids.html The Local History Directory — West Midlands]
+'''Countywide Interest'''
-*[http://www.covfhs.org Coventry FHS]
+*[http://www.warwickshire-info.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ Warwickshire Baptisms and Marriages]
-*[http://www.nnwfhs.org.uk/ Nuneaton and North Warwickshire FHS]
+*[http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/warks_cen.html The Census in Warwickshire]
-*[http://www.rugbyfhg.co.uk Rugby Family History Group]
-*[http://www.local-history.co.uk/Groups/warks.html Warwickshire History Society]
+*[http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/census/warks_census_strays.html Warwickshire Census Strays]
-'''Countywide Interest'''
 *[http://www.midlandshistoricaldata.org/index.html The Midlands' Digital Library]
-*[http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/pubs/index.html John Crossling's History of Warwickshire Pubs]
+*[http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/illegits.html List of Illegitimacy Orders]
-*[http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/illegits.html List of Illegitimacy Orders]
+*[http://www.nnwfhs.org.uk/ Nuneaton and North Warwickshire FHS]
 *[http://hunimex.com/warwick/ Pickards Pink Pages for Warwickshire Genealogy]
-*[http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/warks_cen.html The Census in Warwickshire]
+*[http://www.ontaworld.co.uk/england/warwickshire/index.html Warwickshire Parishes, Villages and Hamlets]
+*[http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/pubs/index.html John Crossling's History of Warwickshire Pubs]
 *[http://uk-transcriptions.accessgenealogy.com/Warks..htm Transcriptions from Warwickshire Records ]
-*[http://www.windowsonwarwickshire.org.uk/ Windows on Warwickshire]
 *[http://www.bmsgh.org/parish/warw/tyaiw/tyaiwintro.html Tracing Your Ancestors in Warwickshire (excluding Birmingham)]
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 *[http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/tithe Tithe Apportionments ]
-*[http://www.warwickshire-info.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ Warwickshire Baptisms and Marriages]
+*[http://www.windowsonwarwickshire.org.uk/ Windows on Warwickshire]
-*[http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/census/warks_census_strays.html Warwickshire Census Strays]
-*[http://www.ontaworld.co.uk/england/warwickshire/index.html Warwickshire Parishes, Villages and Hamlets]
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 *[http://www.barfordheritage.org/wordpress/ Barford Heritage Group]
+*[http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/GenerateContent?CONTENT_ITEM_ID=7298&CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE=0&MENU_ID=10468&EXPAND=5396 Birmingham City Archives]
 *[http://www.bmsgh.org/ Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry]
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 *[http://www.stewartelse.com/asylum/index Birmingham Lunatic Asylum - Cases]
+*http://www.dwarner.com/data/data.htm Wrightson's Triennial Directory, 1818, for Birmingham]
 *[http://www.virtualbrum.co.uk/genealogy/index.htm Virtual Brum]
-*http://www.dwarner.com/data/data.htm Wrightson's Triennial Directory, 1818, for Birmingham]
+*[http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/census/chilvers_coton_1836.html Chilvers Coton Inhabitants in 1836]
+*[http://www.familyresearcher.co.uk/CoventryRaids.htm Coventry During The Blitz] Includes a list of victims
+*[http://www.covfhs.org Coventry FHS]
 *[http://www.covkid.org.uk/Database%20Homepage.html Coventry People]
-*[http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/census/chilvers_coton_1836.html Chilvers Coton Inhabitants in 1836]
 *[http://www.coventrycollections.org/index.htm Coventry Collections]
 *[http://www.historiccoventry.co.uk/main/main.php Coventry's Historic Past]
-*[http://www.familyresearcher.co.uk/CoventryRaids.htm Coventry During The Blitz] Includes a list of victims
 *[http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/dirs/coventry_1805.html Coventry 1805 Holden's Triennial Directory]
-*[http://www.dudley.gov.uk/community-and-living/deaths-funerals--cremations/genealogy-research-service Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council -Important Notice]
+*[http://www.dudley.gov.uk/community-and-living/deaths-funerals--cremations/genealogy-research-service Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council - Deaths, Funerals & Cremations]
 *[http://www.bmsgh.org/parish/warw/tyaiw/dunchurch.html Dunchurch]
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 '''Books of local interest'''
 ==Register Office==
-[http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/Web/corporate/pages.nsf/Links/472FA73688E0473780256EC8002D177E Online certificate searching and applications - Warwickshire Web]
+*[http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/web/corporate/pages.nsf/(DisplayLinks)/4DDCBAEECD4F52D0802573920051B4D4 Warwickshire BMD]
+* [http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/Web/corporate/pages.nsf/Links/472FA73688E0473780256EC8002D177E 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.