Birmingham Archives 

Archives Search room part closed end of November and the Archives and Heritage section to close end of December 2012.  To enable move to new library September  2013.

http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/cs/Satellite/localstudieslibrary?packedargs=website%3D4&rendermode=live

Gibb family and Samuel Crompton

Samuel Crompton - Inventor of the spinning mule.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDuR62YnFCM
From the program - Who do you think you are?
Thought they would have mentioned the Samuel Crompton connection.  The link to Crompton is slightly further back in the mothers side of the family - PASS.

genes reunited 1911 census free

1911 census free on
genes reunited for a short time

Family Search and marriages

Family Search

You can Family search now to search for marriages under trees, found  some from my family tree.  Which I will check on my next visit to Birmingham archives but some I could't find.  This may be uesful for people looking for marriages. 

Sandwell Archives, Smethwick Closure dates

Sandwell Archives, CHAS (Community History & Archives).
Will close for a couple of weeks in October from Monday 8 October, reopening 22 October.

Usually for stocktaking reasons.

http://www.sandwell.gov.uk/info/200111/records_and_archives

Research time and St James, Handsworth

Have been on leave from work doing lots of research.  Adding my trees to  ancestry names of interest: Addison (Shropshire), Beasley (Smethwick, Warwickshire).  Bacciochi  (Birmingham). 

Have been doing research for quite a while tying to add details to Ancestry currently.http://www.ancestry.co.uk/home/lo/index?version=a&o_xid=45160&o_lid=45160&o_sch=External+Paid+Media

Went to Birmingham Archives working on marriage index for St James, Handsworth.

Family history in smethwick

My family history covers the area of Smethwick in the West Midlands.  But has I progressed with my research it covered other areas and most of my family came to Smethwick from 1850.

The areas covered were Gloucestershire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Cambridgeshire.
Currently working on my maternal side of the family.  Working on Addison which goes to Shropshire.  My Great - Grandmother was Fanny Alice Addison who was born in Smethwick in 1884 and Fanny married by Great Grandfather Joseph Beasley (he was born in 1885 in Warwickshire) and they married in 1906 at St Michael and All Angels in Smethwick, which doesn't exist any more.

My Grandfather was there first child he was born 10 October 1907.  Harold was the next child born October 1910 and then Horace in 1913.  Horace was born in February and  lived for 1 hour.  Fanny died very soon after of TB.

Horace and Fanny are buried in the same grave at Uplands Cemetery, Smethwick.   Joseph married again but had no further children.  He died in October 1964.