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2. Principal Libraries with Family History resources
Wolverhampton Archives and Local Studies
42-50 Snow Hill
Wolverhampton
WV2 4AG
Tel: 01902 552480
Fax: 01902 552481
Email: [email protected]
Opening hours:
Mon, Tues & Fri 10.00-17.00
Wed 10.00-19.00
Thurs Closed
1st & 3rd Saturday each month 10.00-17.00
Other Libraries:
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3. Research Service
Service available?
Yes
Fee-based?
Yes
Provided by local Record Office?
This library provides a joint service with the Local Record Office
4. Births, Deaths and Marriages
Registrar General's Indexes from 1837 (microform), or Registrar General for Scotland's Computerised Index from 1855. Now up to 1999
Locations
Wolverhampton Archives and Local Studies 1837-1992 on microfiche.
Advance booking strongly recommended.
5. Census returns
1841-1901 for Wolverhampton and some South Staffordshire villages (advance booking recommended)
6. Directories
6(a) County and Regional Directories
Staffordshire 1770 - 1940
6(b) City and Town Directories
Wolverhampton Red Book 1892-1959/60
Kelly's Directory of Wolverhampton 1961-1976
6(c) Telephone Directories
Wolverhampton area 1901 to date (many gaps)
7. Electoral registers and polls books
7(a) Electoral Registers
Wolverhampton area 1833 to date (some gaps)
7(b) Poll Books
West Staffordshire 1868
8. International Genealogical Index (IGI)
IGI - no longer available. Internet access to familysearch.org is given instead.
9. Unpublished Indexes
Various Parish registers available on website http://www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/archives
10. Parish Registers
Microfilm/microfiche copies of most Wolverhampton parishes up to c.1900
Published transcripts of other Staffordshire parishes up to c.1812
(N.B. original Methodist registers held for the Wolverhampton area)
11. Periodicals (excl. newspapers)
Birmingham and Midland Society for Geneology & Heraldry Blackcountyman.
Staffordshire Studies.
12. Published Transcripts of Archival Material
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13. Other material
10,000 plus photographs & map collection.
14. Guides to Collections
Various guides to holdings (free)
15. Local Record Offices
Wolverhampton Archives and Local Studies
42-50 Snow Hill
Wolverhampton
WV2 4AG
Tel: 01902 552480
Fax: 01902 552481
Email: [email protected]
Other information
Reader's ticket (County Archive Research Network) required for which proof of ID is needed
Other material: cemetery register microfilms 1850 - 1980s
website (1000+ pages) www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/archives
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