PUT THE LEAVES ON YOUR FAMILY TREE!!!

Wherever your ancestors are from, you can start your family history at Tameside Local Studies and Archives as you can now access Ancestry for free. Ancestry Library Edition provides the most genealogical information available on-line, with more than 5 billion names in over 4,000 collections. Content highlights include:

• England and Wales Census Collection, 1841 – 1901
• England and Wales Civil Registration Index, 1837 – present
• Immigration Collections
• Parish & Probate Records
• U.S Federal Census 1790 – 1930
• Family & Local History Collections

There is help available to assist you in your search. Enter details like names, dates and places for an automatic search through all the records (over 730 million names, some dating back to the 1500s) for potential matches - giving results in seconds.

And there’s more!!!

If your ancestors were from any of the areas that make up Tameside then you are in luck as we also hold the archives for Tameside. These include sources that can help put the leaves on your family tree. There are records such as census, parish registers, rate books, registers of electors, historical trade directories and telephone books, school records, hospital records, company records, personal papers, local newspapers going back to the 1850’s, Ordnance Survey maps starting from 1845, 1840’s tithe maps and accompanying apportionment books (which record landowners and occupiers), and much, much more…It is worth remembering that the majority of these records are unique to the Archives and not available anywhere else. Contact us to find out which records have survived for each area. You can also research the life and times of your ancestors as we have an extensive local history book collection.

If you are researching a soldier you may be interested to know that World War One service records are now being added to Ancestry. If your ancestor was in the Manchester Regiment you may be able to find his service or pension records or details of his campaign medals if (he served overseas) and of course we do have the records of the Manchester Regiment which includes war diaries, post 1920 enlistment War diaries, enlistment books and photographs.

Tel: 44 (0)161 342 4242
web: www.tameside.gov.uk/leisure/new/lh23.htm
email: localstudies.library@tameside.gov.uk