Services
We can provide the following research services as required:
- Family history research and production of family trees and family group sheets
- Birth, marriage and death certificates of your ancestors
- Copies of baptism, marriage and death entries from original parish registers
- Copies of census returns showing how and where your ancestors lived, 1841-1901
- Photographs of relevant buildings, locations, churches etc where available
- Copies of old maps
- Historical information on local areas
- House histories
We produce our research findings in a bound report for you to keep with a diagram of your family tree.
We have access to the following vital genealogy sources:
- National Civil Registration Indexes (GRO) for births, marriages an deaths
- National Census records 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901
- British Isles Vital Records Index
- Parish Registers for baptisms, marriages, banns and burials in Staffordshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire (including Birmingham), Shropshire and the Black Country
- Bishops transcripts
- International Genealogical Index
- Historical directories
- Cemetry records and monumetal inscriptions
- Wills indexes
- Local history books
- Electoral registers
- Newspapers