GENEALOGY LINKS

General Sites

As we said on the previous page, genealogy is a specialist area and there's a lot of information out there on the Web to help you. Some starting points are:

GENUKI

Genealogical information pages for the UK and Ireland.

Rootsweb

A large international portal. There is a Black Country family history and genealogy list here run via this site by Dave Ogden.

UK Genealogy

More genealogical information pages for the UK.

Cyndi's List

A major portal to genealogical resources on the Web.

findmypast.com

A pay-per-view site that allows access to the indexes of Births, Marriages and Deaths for England and Wales from 1837; Census returns for 1841, ‘61, ’71, ’91 and much, much more. With over 400 million records online this is a valuable bookmark for beginners and seasoned family historians.


More Individual Sites

The Tennant family of Gornal

Paul Clark's family web site containing information and pictures of the Tennant family of Gornal.

Yorkie's site

The site of Ann Shirley Swales, an inhabitant of South Yorkshire, but descended from Black Country stock. Her most recent ancestor from the Manor area was grandmother Mary Elizabeth Clarke from Woodsetton. Ann is looking at names from Sedgley, Gornal, Woodsetton and Coseley.