Tameside Family History

Before anyone researching their family history can benefit from the most useful resources on the internet you are going to have to painstakingly get back to about the year 1900 trawling through Birth, Marriage and Death indexes. The national GRO indexes are available to search locally at:

Cheshire BMD Project

*****NOW MORE THAN ONE AND A HALF MILLION TAMESIDE REGISTRATIONS ON-LINE*****

Pioneered by the Family History Society of Cheshire, a team of volunteers is currently working, with the co-operation of the staff at Tameside Register Office, towards getting all the Birth, Marriage and Death indexes for the whole of the Tameside area, from 1837 - 1974, available for searching on-line via the Cheshire BMD project. So far all marriages 1837 until 1974 are on-line. You can check the coverage of the marriage indexes click here

BIRTHS:

A Total of 573,316 births are now on-line covering all the above towns from 1837 until 1974 when Tameside as an administration area came into being.

Recently added 67,088 birth registrations for the combined Tameside Registers 1991-2007

MARRIAGES:

All marriages, totalling more than 200,000, which occurred in any Tameside Churches and Chapels and all Civil Marriages up until 1974 are now on-line.

Recently added 10,635 Civil Marriages for the combined Tameside Registers 1991-2006

You can also click here to see a complete list of Marriage Registers held at Tameside Register Office.

DEATHS

* Date Sub Registration districts ended. Tameside deaths are now complete up until at least 1974.

This will brings the total to more than 500,000 deaths.

To reduce the risk of any transcription errors, all the entries on the Cheshire BMD Project have been checked against the original registers, Entries also have an individual reference number in the top right hand corner, which can be clicked on to print off a copy of a partially completed application form ready for applying to the correct Local Register Office address.

When looking for Birth Deaths or Marriages in the Tameside region of East Manchester go to the CheshireBMD web site at:

You can order your certificates on line at:

PAYMENTS: http://www.tameside.gov.uk/forms/certificatepay.php3

Tameside Register Office
Town Hall
Dukinfield
Cheshire
Tel: 44 (0)161 342 5032
e-mail: tameside.registrars@tameside.gov.uk

Other counties have joined the project incuding, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, West Midlands, North Wales, Bath and the North East of England. Please go to the UK BMD Project for more information. These are now cross database searchable by clicking on Local BMD and then UK BMD. Check the coverage pages for other areas, since this project is not neccesarily as advanced in other register offices. It's no use saying that you can't find a birth of someone in say 1930, when these have only been checked and uploaded up until 1910.

Free BMD

Another extremely useful project whereby it is hoped to copy all the General Register Offices (GRO) indexes of Births, Marriages and Deaths online. The GRO indexes are compiled from quarterly returns sent by Local Register Offices and are the same as those available to view on microfilm at Family History Centres and Local Record Offices. Although not complete, there is almost complete coveraage up until 1915 and patchy coverage to 1929 currently and nearly 197 million records on-line.

Coverage is patchy, some years are complete whilst others have hardly been started you can check this by clicking on the Information page and then on statistics. The reference numbers quoted, in this instance, are different from those at the Cheshire BMD project, and are the ones to quote when ordering from the General Register Office at Southport.

The General Register Office
PO Box 2
SOUTHPORT
Merseyside
PR8 2JD
Tel:0870 243 7788

Ancestry

England & Wales Birth Marriage and Death Indexes 1837-2005

Access the complete birth, marriage, and death indexes. Complete BMD Index ranges & Images 1837-1983

This collection works on name ranges for each quarter and locates the relevant index page. You can then easily scroll around the page to find the person you are searching for.

Partial FreeBMD Indexes & Images 1837-1983

Find birth, marriage and death records from 1837 to around 1915. You’ll find the individual transcribed entry for the person being searched and can also link to index page images Uses the same database as FreeBMD, but with a different search engine.

Complete BMD Indexes 1984-2005

This collection is transcribed meaning you’ll find the individual entry for the person you are searching for.

Find My Past.com

Original BMD indexes held at the Family Records Centre in London are available to search on-line on a pay per view basis. Also includes registrations notified to the British Consul of Births, Marriages and Deaths which occured abroad, and a newly added database of Soldiers who died in the Great war to make it easier to order their death certificates.

BMD Index.Co.Uk

A rival to Find my Past - 5 pounds for three month's subscription, 14.95 pounds for 12 months, fully surname searchable. The entire GRO indexes are now searchable on-line.

Certificates On-line

Another site that has only been running for about two years. It offers the ability to appy directly on-line for certificates from the General Register Office at Southport. Initially only trialled in the UK - excellent site which has just been launched world-wide.Cheaper and Quicker than applying by post.

For more details about Civil Registration and Useful Addresses visit the Family History Section pages on the Greater Manchester County Record Office website.

Family History Research

Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates