Ancestry Library Edition

Middlesbrough Libraries have taken a subscription to Ancestry Library Edition from Proquest Information and Learning.This includes for England and Wales the indexes to the Civil Registrations of Births, Marrages and Deaths 1837-2000. Ancestry Library Edition is a web delivered research tool offering comprehensive geneaological information online, with more than 1.5 billion names in over 4,000 collections. The resource is available in all Middlesbrough branch libraries as well as the Reference Library. The librarians will log you on.

The following web sites are accessible on your home computer or via any machine,anywhere.

North East Births, Marriages & Deaths http://www.nebmd.co.uk/
This site is funded by a partnership of Register Offices based in the North East of England and provided to help users gain fast access to the wealth of websites and organisations devoted to records and family history.

British Library-Family History Sources Ecclesiastical records http://www.bl.uk/collections/oiocfamilyhistory/familyeccles.html

Family Records Centre -TOPICS Births, Marriages and Deaths http://www.familyrecords.gov.uk/topics/bmd.htm

FamilySearch. British Isles Vital Records Index: England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Set of 17 CDs. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 2001. Contains approximately 10.4 million birth and christening records and 1.9 million marriage records from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The civil and church records in this partial collection are dated from 1530 to 1906. This collection includes 7.3 million records never before published and 5 million records published in the previous British Isles Vital Records Index. This collection does not contain all available records from this time period or from these localities.

General Register Office (GRO) - Births, Deaths and Marriages registration http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/

The GRO has a responsibility for England and Wales. There are equivalent offices for Scotland and Northern Ireland (see Directgov http://www.direct.gov.uk ( within this site click on Do It Online, then “Search Family Records”)
This site will also allow you to search by town or postcode for your local register office.

Oxford Companion to Local and Family History, edited by David Hey. OUP,1996 pp95-7. 929.1072041

Public Record Office. Using Birth, Marriage and Death Records. PRO,2000 (Pocket Guides to Family History). 929.342

Registration and Census Districts 1837-1851; 1852-1946. 2 A2 maps from the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies. 912.42 Map Cabinet 2

St Catherine’s House, by Eve McLaughlin. FFHS,1985 (McLaughlin Guides) 929.342

St Catherine’s House Districts: an Alphabetical List of over 650 districts with details of counties, sub-districts and adjacent districts, by Ray Wiggins. The author, 1992. 929.342