British Cemetery and Cremation Records from Deceased Online

We are very excited to add two more cemeteries to our Sandwell Collection from the West Midlands Wednesbury Museum and Art Gallery (Image by Brianboru100 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25968898)  In 2015, we launched our   Sandwell Collection , representing cemeteries in the Black Country. The collection initially consisted of t hree of the West Midland's largest cemeteries: Heath Lane Cemetery,  West Bromwich , B71 3HR (records from 1858) Oldbury Cemetery,  Smethwick , B66 1QT (records from 1858) Tipton  Cemetery, Alexandra Road, Tipton , DY4 7NP (records from 1873: some records were lost during the war. If your relations were buried between April 18th 1899 and July 18th 1908 or August 24th 1911 and August 20th 1915 there is an index record that they were buried in Tipton Cemetery but it is not possible to establish their address, date of death, age or the grave where they were actually buried, or with whom ...

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...