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This month’s resources were provided by My History, Anguline Research Archives, Midland Ancestors, Nuneaton & North Warwickshi­re Family History Society and Warwickshi­re CRO

Black’s Guide to Warwickshi­re

This 1879 publicatio­n from My History is normally £7.50 on CD

Kelly’s Directory of Warwickshi­re

This 1928 directory, also supplied by My History, usually costs £8.95

History of Coventry

This book from 1870 normally costs £7 as a download from Anguline

Coventry Holy Trinity Parish Registers

This huge resource from Midland Ancestors usually costs £15

Nuneaton Street Index,

This £6 product, from 1901, is normally available from Nuneaton & North Warwickshi­re FHS

An image set supplied by Warwickshi­re CRO

Explore free resources courtesy of My History, Anguline Research Archives, Midland Ancestors, Nuneaton & North Warwickshi­re Family History Society and Warwickshi­re County Record Office.

Black’s Guide to Warwickshi­re, 1879

This month’s first product, provided by My History ( myhistory.co.uk), is normally sold on CD at a cost of £7.50.

Presented here in PDF format, the document contains 215 pages of text and illustrati­ons focusing on Warwickshi­re places and people, followed by maps, plans, a contents list and 112 pages of contempora­ry advertisem­ents.

Kelly’s Directory of Warwickshi­re, 1928

My History has also supplied a digital version of Kelly’s Directory of Warwickshi­re, 1928. Priced £9.95 on CD (or £8.95 as a download from sister website twrcomputi­ng. co.uk), this later publicatio­n features details of private residents and local traders across the historic county of Warwickshi­re, along with plenty of town and social history informatio­n.

History of Coventry

Normally priced £14 on CD or £7 as a download, this Anguline Research Archives ( anguline.co. uk) product is a digital recreation of Benjamin Poole’s Coventry: Its History & Antiquitie­s (1870), with historical informatio­n gleaned from manuscript­s, charters and corporatio­n records, plus “sixty exquisite tinted etchings, facsimiles, maps &c”.

Coventry Holy Trinity Parish Registers

The highlight of this month’s bonus content comes from Midland Ancestors ( midland-

Normally available on CD and download at a cost of £15, this mammoth resource contains records of baptisms, banns, marriages, burials and memorial inscriptio­ns from the parish of Holy Trinity, Coventry, dating back to the 16th century.

Because of the overall size of the product, the transcript­ions are distribute­d across several interconne­cted PDF files. It is therefore recommende­d that you begin your research by clicking on the document named ‘CovHTintro’ (which acts as a homepage), making sure that you keep all files together in the same folder.

Full instructio­ns can be found when accessing the materials online (see page 87).

Nuneaton Street Index, 1901

This £6 product is normally available to purchase from Nuneaton & North Warwickshi­re Family History Society ( nnwfhs.org.uk).

Fully searchable, the PDF contains alphabetic­al lists of local residents, businesses and public buildings carefully transcribe­d from the 1901 Street Directory for Nuneaton – the largest town in the modern county of Warwickshi­re.

Warwickshi­re County Record Office image set

Finally, readers can access a gallery of historical images, which have been supplied by Warwickshi­re County Record Office.

Highlights include an excerpt from a ‘Known Thieves’ album, containing mugshots of local criminals at the turn of the 20th century, plus a photograph of a suffragett­e march passing through Stratford-upon-Avon.

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This photo of Coventry-born Frank Whittle ( far right), who helped invent the jet engine, is among the bonus content
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Warwickshi­re County Record Office has donated this image of an 18th- century map of Atherstone

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