Useful links for family history projects

Here are some links to other internet sites which are of historical value or useful for family tree researchers.

Coventry Family History Society

If your family are from the Coventry area then why not join the Coventry Family History Society? They have many useful local CD's and books available from their bookshop. For a small membership fee you receive their quarterly journal which makes interesting reading. You could always make a contribution yourself!

Historic Coventry

An excellent local site looking back at the history of Coventry.

Coventry Memories

An online memories collection capturing stories and images relating to Coventry.

Jayne Shrimpton

Photograph dating and analysis service.

The Coventry Watch Museum Project

This site is particularly interesting from a family history viewpoint, because so many Coventry folk were involved in the watchmaking industry at its height that if your family originated from the area you are almost sure to have Watch Making Ancestors.

The National Database of Mining Deaths

Very interesting research site if your ancestors worked in the British mining industry.

BMD Certificates

Site for Ordering Certificates online.
(I also provide this service, see my price list.)

UK Family Researcher

As a Family History Researcher and Genealogist I began with this, my first website, some years ago. My current website provides a more complete list of Coventry Blitz Victims, Home Guard and Local information as well as advertising my services. I have kept this archive of my first website available as an historical curio.

Rock Hard Reviews

... And now for something completely different. Here's a non-genealogy link to a terrific new music site I helped the authors set up in 2012.

	Veterans' Voices: Coventry's Unsung Heroes of the Second World War (In Old Photographs) by Caroline Freeman-Cuerden
The story of Coventry’s war has often been told. This book is different. Turning the focus away from the city itself, these are the memories of 23 veterans, just a few of the thousands of Coventry men and women who served and fought in the Second World War. Their stories are recounted here in their own words, interspersed with letters documents, diary excerpts and photographs. We also discover what it was like to return to a devastated Coventry at the end of the war.

Veterans' Voices: Coventry's Unsung Heroes of the Second World War (In Old Photographs) by Caroline Freeman-Cuerden

The story of Coventry’s war has often been told. This book is different. Turning the focus away from the city itself, these are the memories of 23 veterans, just a few of the thousands of Coventry men and women who served and fought in the Second World War. Their stories are recounted here in their own words, interspersed with letters documents, diary excerpts and photographs. We also discover what it was like to return to a devastated Coventry at the end of the war.