Ancestors from the Black Country?

Curious about your Family History?

Brick Wall in your Genealogy?

Then take a look at our Black Country One Stop Family Tree!

From Dudley to Netherton
Oldbury to Rowley Regis 
Halesowen to Cradley Heath 
and many many more villages and towns in and surrounding the Black Country!
An area famous for its hard working, friendly people and world famous products.

The same names crop up time and time again.
All have their own story rich, poor, famous and infamous. 
YOU are the Black Country Connection. 
Leaves, Branches or Shoots they all need Roots,
So Plant your names here! 
Our aim is to have a Black Country Tree to show 
how all our Black Country Ancestors link together. 

We hope you enjoy our site and wish you lots of luck in your research
If we have helped you a little then it will have been worthwhile! 
Should you wish to help our BCC Tree to grow 
then please send a message via this site.....

http://bcconnections.tribalpages.com/

Or we can be found on an excellent website called Genealogy Forum UK

www.genealogyforum.co.uk

(Contact Northern Lass on there for more info!
Link is also on right hand side of this page.)

BLACK COUNTRY CONNECTIONS.....YOUR Link to YOUR Past!

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DO'S & DON'TS- very important you must read!
(We all need to input information the same or it won't work!)

*Check to see that the ancestor is not already on otherwise they will be on 
twice and the link won't work.

*Ensure you click the "alive" or "dead" button when putting in  detail. 
Very important that!
NO living people are to be entered in order to respect privacy.
DO NOT enter anyone born after 1920 unless you know that they are deceased.
Add the date of death or estimate one, any without a date of death and born after 
1920, even if marked as deceased, will be deleted.
Any born before 1920 that may well be deceased, you do not need to add a date of 
death for these unless of course you know it, but do remember to click on the 
deceased button!

*Do Put a dob in  even if you only estimate it! 
Makes it easier to check if name is on the site already - especially if a few with 
the same name.

*Do check a name out that you are entering for similar dates of 
birth. 
eg a John Smith b 1852 may be one already entered but down as maybe Est or Bef b1850.

*Do put your name on in the notes section  so we know to whom the ancestor 
links! ie "Connects to ..."
And do add your name on an existing ancestor that you connect to. 
Ensure that the first thing we see in the notes is Connects to:- then your name.
Also if you add info and it is not your family no worries the more the merrier just 
add a note will you eg "added by" then your name. 

*DO NOT AMEND ANY POST  without consulting the person who has entered the 
initial info, alternatively contact Jan for advice. 
However you may add to the post any checked 
information cos that is the whole idea to get more info and see how we all link!

*When a surname has variations eg Tibbetts/Tibbitts and Tromans/Troman just
use just the main variant even if yours is down as say Troman but the 
majority are Tromans as this will make linking and searching easier. You can put a 
note in notes section as to actual spelling of name.
You may however show how through the generations of the same family, the name changes 
ie John Jeavons Fellows then next generation it is James Fellows Jeavons and then to 
Mark Fellows and on to Simon Jeavons....that is fine as long as Jeavons not Jevons 
and Fellows and not Fellowes.

*Do NOT move or join anything up ie one ancestor to another part of the tree 
UNLESS YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE DOING contact Jan for help here!!
Do not connect up any part of the tree unless you are very very sure that the 
individuals have the same parents as on the marriage docs.....so dble check please!

*Don't put the surnames or forenames in all capitals. Please use Initial Caps 
then lower case. Easier on the eye when scrolling.

*If you don't know the surname put Unknown and not ?.

*Do not click on the private box  as this hides the notes detail of any future 
other users and their names/connections! 
Should this box be ticked we will untick it. 

*Do not just add a photo of your ancestors or anything without checking with me 
first for the first upload time. 
I need to set you up an album. Then the first one let me show you how to do it as it 
can be a bit tricky, once you know you can add your own within the guidelines as 
detailed below.

*Do please credit your sources wherever you can and DO NOT just lift information 
in a tell tale format into the notes! 
You can add your Citations on the ancestor body copy and let us know where your 
source information is from.
When posting census info do please go into the actual image and transcribe 
exactly as on that image, do not use the transcribed information from a website which 
may have been indexed incorrectly..although it is useful to state in the notes 
indexed as Sharpe on such and such site but should say Stringer....that way it shows 
another person the correct information but flags why they might not have been able to 
find it!

*Extracted and Submitted entries from sources  It is imp to remember that 
Extracted means taken from the Parish Registers...and ...Submitted is info submitted 
by a person.
Whilst submitted may be added to the notes of an ancestor as a "Possible" DO NOT add 
to the actual ancestor template or put in as a fact in the boxes on ancestor. We must 
ensure that we verify any submitted info before it goes into body copy template so 
actual Parish Registers/and other etc would need to be looked at.
We must always strive to get the correct info added to BCC

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It is all a bit of an experiment and very much a work in progress!
So please do bear with us. 

Don't blame us if it all vanishes one day due to outside influences, so 
please DO NOT regard this as your main storage place for family details.

Black Country Connections is a team effort with a lot of people adding 
information - and that really is the whole point!

So please DO VERIFY  THE INFORMATION GIVEN ON HERE YOURSELF 
As we rely solely on our contributors personal research.
Having said that our members take their research very seriously and we believe that 
information given is at least a starting point for further clarification

If anyone disagrees with some of the information on the site then they are welcome to 
contact the administrators and we will look into the matter.
We now have many entries on the site and we would like them all to be correct if 
possible.

The information to be found on here is usually in the public domain i.e. indexes, 
census bmd certifs etc. Please bear in mind that once information has been 
added to the website it forms part of our data and therefore only withdrawn at the 
discretion of its site owner Jan.

We also have a private tree on Ancestry. 
Ancestry do not show living info under 85 yrs. As it is a private tree people 
will need to contact us for more info about our Project.
So if you see a tree called  Black Country Connections that is us too!

We hope to inform as many people as possible about our Tribal pages thus helping 
other researchers with their family history research. Thus the tree info may be on 
other sites but always a private tree and always directed back to this main viewing 
one.

Please note the access code above, is only given out by agreement with site owner.
As is being able to add any information to this site!

If you were able to add info before and unable to do so now please contact us and we 
will look into it. If you have not been active on the site for a while I will adjust 
your status to that of Guest. You will still be able to view the info and when you 
wish to be active and add your ancestors again just let me know and I will reinstate 
you. This just saves me having a huge list of inactive admins to monitor.

The owner reserves the right to amend, change or update info here as and when is 
necessary.
Please note that invitation/permission to add your information is at the discretion 
of the site owner which can be refused/withdrawn at any time.

By joining in/and using our site you agree and abide by all of the above. 





All census information (England/Wales) is Crown Copyright, from 
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk 

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Whilst here.........
do have a look at the Stories and Photos section. 

We would love Stories about you or your ancestors- happy, sad, romantic, 
funny, ordinary or extraordinary. 

If you have any Photos of your ancestors you can have your own album 
with your username on. 
Please ensure that any photos are 100% your own and not from a book or 
website due to any copyright restrictions.NB- Any photo that looks suspicious 
I am afraid will be deleted.
NB- as a matter of courtesy please do not  just copy any of our photos send a 
message via this site with a request and any access/copy required.)

This site was first started on the 19 July 2007 under a 
different name of Rowley Regis Connections but with the same tribal pages 
format as above of Photos, Names and a Stories section for its members. 

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OTHER USEFUL LINKS



Black Country Genealogy and Family History....a great website with a wealth of 
information and resources specific to the Black Country

Cradley Links-
Dedicated to the local and family history of Cradley in the Black Country 


The Tibbetts Family of Hayseech

The Black Country Willetts

Mateer/Perry/Riddell Families

The Wood family of Alveley

The Pargeter Family

The Shakespeare Family History and Genealogy Site-
The Internet Resource for Shakespeare Genealogy, History & Ancestry

Hales Owenroots 
Dedicated to the town of Hales Owen, in the West Midlands of England

The Curate's Line
A Garratt Family website covering Netherton and Rowley Regis in the Black Country

Tee T Shirts-Use this link to order the 
Black Country Connections T.shirts from! BCC T.shirts are on display in our 
Photos section.  Please liaise with Jan first though for sizes and prices