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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.