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Up-dated March 2008 |
TAMESIDE FAMILY HISTORY GROUP
Genealogical Information
Tameside Local Studies Library - their site includes a full list of resources available to family historians, house history, local history, and black and asian history. Their Image Archive is searhcable and has nearly 50,000 photographs on-line.Image Archives on-line.
Cheshire BMD's On-line - The Family History Society of Cheshire were the pioneers of the UK BMD Project and now has more than four million records available on line.
Free BMD - transcribed General Register Office (GRO) BMD indexes on-line.
Tameside Cemeteries - a relatively new and growing database of burials in Tameside cemeteries, which is searchable on-line. Out of an estimated total of 300,000 burials in municipal cemeteries in Tameside, 60,000 are now on-line.
UK BMD Project - redesigned website covering all the known free BMD sites in the United Kingdom. Ian Hartas has recently added the ability to search across all the websites using the UKBMD format.
GENUKI - a must for everyone researching their family history in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Family Search - the Mormon Family History site including the I.G.I (International Genealogical Index), the 1881 Census for England and Wales on-line and their Family History Library Catalogue.
RootsWeb.com - for mailing and surname lists.
Ancestry - subscription website, but now has the 1841,1851,1861,1871,1881,1891,1901 census returns searchable on-line plus an alternative search engine for FreeBMD, full GRO BMD indexes WWI Pension Records, old British Telephone Directories and much more.
Find My Past.com - new name for 1837 on-line - pay per view site enabling the searching of GRO (General Register Office) indexes on-line. Have recently added over 1 million birth and death registrations that occurred abroad, the1841, 1861, 1871, 1881 and 1891 Census, Soldiers who Died. They have also merged with the nationalarchivist.com and added their databases of militaryrecords, death duty registers, various professional registers and in co-operation with 192.com you can now search for living relatives. Are now adding Migration details from British Ports between 1890 and 1929.
Certificates On-line - order certificates directly from the GRO on-line.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission - a searchable database of wargraves of those killed in World War One and World War Two.
Local Family History Societies
The Family History Society for Cheshire - hosting the Cheshire BMD Project, Cheshire Wills on-line, Cheshire Parishes and much more.
North Cheshire Family History Society - have a good database of Monumental Inscriptions and Burial Indexes, including several for churches in Tameside.
Manchester and Lancashire Family History Society- have their own library at Clayton House, Irish Ancestry, Oldham Family History and Computer Groups, and are sponsors for the Lancashire BMD Project.
Derbyshire Family History Society - for a small fee they can offer postal searches of Derbyshire Indexes.
Useful Tameside Webpages
Tameside Local and Family History - information on local and family history, mostly concentrating on pre 1837 name sources, including early Trade Directory and Census transcriptions - Gay Oliver.
Tameside Local History Forum - new website with information about the 29 member groups working towards preserving and recording the history of Tameside
Carl's Cam - local photographs and specialising on war memorial transcriptions - Carl Rogerson.
'Yesterdays' and Rhodes Family History - contains many photographs of local churches and articles extracted from 'The Reporter' one hundred years ago plus Ian Rhodes family history including the Prestwich, Harrop and Binnie surnames - Ian Rhodes.
Stanley Family History - the history of the STANLEY family in Tameside, including stories about John Wroe and the Christian Israelites, and The Poor Law Guardians, and a Stalybridge Mayor who converted to Islam. Also Bennett's and Newtons from Newton and Cartwrights from Gee Cross. Gay Oliver.
Woodhead/Gee Family Tree - Ruth Beck's Woodhead/Wallwork family from Stalybridge and Dukinfield and Gee from Romiley, Werneth, Godley and Newton.
Knowles Family History - Chris Knowles family history website with 3,200 individuals and 346 surnames. These are mostly form the Hyde/Denton area and should prove useful to other researchers in the area
Family Past - Judith Heap's Waterhouse/Schofield Family.
Kirk Family Tree - Bob Kirk's family originally from Crewe but migrating to Tameside via Gorton.
Lawton Family Tree - Trevor Lawton's family from Saddleworth, Mossley, Micklehurst and Stalybridge.
Bardsley One Named Study - Alan Bardsley's one named study of the Bardsley family from Bardsley on the Ashton/Oldham border.
Tameside Local History Forum - new website with information about the 29 member groups working towards preserving and recording the history of Tameside