British Cemetery and Cremation Records from Deceased Online

This week, Deceased Online add ed more record s to its Sandwell Collection. The new records cover parts of the Black Country where death from industrial work or p o llution were common. In this week's post, I explore further into the lives and deaths of We st Midlands Ancestors. The Deceased Online database now holds over 3.5 million records from the Midlands, including the Black Country in the West Midlands, and Lincoln in the E ast Midlands. This week, we added burial re gister s for Rowley Regis Cemetery and Crematorium , Fallings Heath Cemetery in Wednesbury , and Sandwell Valley Crematorium (previously known as West Bromwich Crematorium) . Rowley Regis, Wednesb ury, and West Bromwich have all contr ibuted to the rich history of the region known as the Black Country . Wednesbury stands in the north of the ar ea, with West Bromwich to the west and Rowley Regis to the south. Pag e from the Burial Register of  Rowley Regis Cemetery showing burials for 1923 The ar e...

We're counting down the days to the opening of Who Do You Think You Are? Live 2015 on Thursday in Birmingham. Also this week, to celebrate the event's first outing to the West Midlands, Deceased Online is pleased to be uploading records for local council of Sandwell. Once again Deceased Online will be be demonstrating collections and meeting database users at the annual WDYTYA? Live show . We're at Stand Number 406. This year's event takes place at Birmingham's NEC from the 16th to the 18th of April, and is packed with the usual features, such as Ask The Experts, workshops and talks , celebrity guests , heirloom detective, photograph dating, the Society of Genealogists ' Family History Show and the Military Checkpoint. I'm particularly pleased that the show is being held in Birmingham this year as it gives me a chance to re-visit the land of my maternal ancestors. My mother grew up near Birmingham, in the Black Country , and my great uncle was a cele...