Tracing Family History

Write down everything you already know about yourself, your parents, and your grandparents. Once you have it written down, you may realise that you do not know much, but get it down on paper so that you have a starting place.

Gather records and information about your birth, marriage and so forth. Look for photographs, documents, old letters, diaries, newspaper clippings, and family Bibles.

Also ask your parents, grandparents, Aunts and Uncles about such items, you never know they might have already started researching.


Local places to visit
Redcar Library:

Census

International Genealogical Index (IGI)

Births, death and marriage indexes

Electrol Roll

Newspapers

Monumental records

plus lots more....


Middlesbrough Archives:

Tel: 01642 248321 to reserve a machine

Census

Parish records on film, microfiche, cds

Some of these records have been transcribed and are in book form for easier viewing.

Photographs, Maps, Parish council records, and probably lots more that I don't even know about.
They are very helpful.



FREE websites

www.freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search

transcribed births, deaths and marriages from 1837 to about 1930

not completed but it does help with finding some of the above and an idea of when events happened, these are broken down into quarters.
March, June, September and December.


www.middlesbrough-indexes.co.uk

Births, deaths and marriages - covers Guisborough, Middlesbrough, Hartlepool and Stockton registration districts.
Also shows spouses in marriages and certificates can be ordered online.
Not complete.


www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search

includes : International Genealogical Index, 1881 census, other Ancestral files, and pedigree files, going way back.

Good to use as a guide but also not complete.


www.rootsweb.ancestry.com

a search can be done under the heading Search family trees you may be lucky and find that someone has already started their tree and added it to the site.