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Packwood House submitted by Guinevere

Also known as Shakespeare country being the home of William Shakespeare. Home to two castles, Warwick and Kenilworth, the remains of the 'Forest of Arden', as portrayed by Shakespeare in As You Like It, and the site of the English Civil War battlefield of Edgehill. The county's industries are engineering and textile production.

The 15th-century Earl of Warwick known as the Kingmaker lived at Warwick Castle.

Online certificate searching and applications - Warwickshire Web

There are currently four main offices from which copy certificates may be issued. Certificates from the Warwickshire North Registration District may be ordered from both Atherstone and Nuneaton

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 ==Links==
 *[http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/countyrecordoffice '''County Record Office''']
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 *[http://www.dudley.gov.uk/community-and-living/deaths-funerals--cremations/genealogy-research-service Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council -Important Notice]
 '''Local History Society'''
 *[http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/prod/dialspace/town/square/fk26/localpast/index.htm Alcester and District Local History Society]
-*[http://www.bmsgh.org/ Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry  ]
+*[http://www.bmsgh.org/ Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry]
 *[http://www.covfhs.org Coventry FHS]
 *[http://www.nnwfhs.org.uk/ Nuneaton and North Warwickshire FHS]
 *[http://www.qlhs.org.uk/ Quinton Local History Society]
 *[http://www.rugbyfhg.co.uk Rugby Family History Group]
 *[http://www.local-history.co.uk/Groups/warks.html Warwickshire History Society]
 *[http://www.local-history.co.uk/Groups/wmids.html West Midlands History Society]
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 *[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountyWarwick_(A-M).htm#PageTitle IGI Warwickshire A-L]
 *[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountyWarwick_(N-Z).htm#PageTitle IGI Warwickshire N-Z]
 *[http://hunimex.com/warwick/ Pickards Pink Pages for Warwickshire Genealogy]
 *[http://uk-transcriptions.accessgenealogy.com/Warks..htm Transcriptions from Warwickshire records ]
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 *[http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/ Warwick Library - The Modern Records Centre]
 '''Family and Social History'''
-*[http://www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses/england/warks/warwickshire_workhouses.htm Warwickshire Workhouses]
 *[http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/calendarofprisoners Warwick County Prison Inmates 1800-1900]
 *[http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/pubs/index.html John Crossling's History of Warwickshire Pubs]
 *[http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/tithe Tithe Apportionments ]
 *[http://www.stewartelse.com/asylum/index Birmingham Lunatic Asylum - Cases]
 *[http://www.billesley.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ Birmingham Area WW1 & 2 Family Memorial Inscriptions]
 *[http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/illegits.html List of Illegitimacy Orders]
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 *[http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/census.html Population of Warwick Town From The Town Maps of Warwick 1610 - 1851]
 *[http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/photogs.html Victorian Photography Studios]
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 *[http://www.windowsonwarwickshire.org.uk/ Windows on Warwickshire]
 *[http://www.bmsgh.org/parish/warw/tyaiw/tyaiwintro.html Tracing Your Ancestors in Warwickshire (excluding Birmingham)]
 *[http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/census/warks_census_strays.html Warwickshire Census Strays]
-*[http://www.ontaworld.co.uk/england/warwickshire/index.html Warwickshire Parishes, Villages and Hamlets] - under construction
+*[http://www.ontaworld.co.uk/england/warwickshire/index.html Warwickshire Parishes, Villages and Hamlets]
 '''Specific Town Village Interest'''
 *[http://www.astonbrook-through-astonmanor.co.uk/ Aston Brook Through Aston Manor]
 *[http://www.hometown.aol.co.uk/pitexplosion/ The Baddesley/Baxterley Pit Explosion 1882]
 *[http://www.barfordheritage.org/wordpress/ Barford Heritage Group]
 *[http://forums.birminghamhistory.co.uk/index.php Birmingham History Webring]
 *[http://www.bham.de/brum.html Birmingham History and Genealogy]
 *[http://www.virtualbrum.co.uk/genealogy/index.htm Virtual Brum]
-*[http://www.covkid.org.uk/Database%20Homepage.html People who have a connection with the City of Coventry,criminals, owned property, etc]
+*[http://www.covkid.org.uk/Database%20Homepage.html People who have a connection with the City of Coventry, criminals, owned property, etc]
 *[http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/census/chilvers_coton_1836.html Chilvers Coton Inhabitants in 1836]
 *[http://www.coventrycollections.org/index.htm Coventry Collections]
 *[http://www.historiccoventry.co.uk/main/main.php Coventry's historic past]
 *[http://www.familyresearcher.co.uk/CoventryRaids.htm Coventry During The Blitz] Includes a list of victims
 *[http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/dirs/coventry_1805.html Covenrty 1805 Holden's Triennial Directory]
 *[http://www.bmsgh.org/parish/warw/tyaiw/dunchurch.html Dunchurch]
 *[http://www.digitalhandsworth.org.uk/ Digital Handsworth]
 *[http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cas/staff/lockley/harbury/ Harbury & Lockley Poll Books & Census]
 *[http://www.bmsgh.org/parish/warw/tyaiw/leamingtonpriors.html Leamington Priors]
 *[http://www.perrybarrbeyond.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ Perry Barr, Photographs and Comprehensive Name Indexes]
 *[http://www.qlhs.org.uk/archive/archive.htm Quinton National School Registers] also Woodhouse Road School
 *[http://www.qlhs.org.uk/oracle/oracle.htm The Quinton Oracle]
-*[http://www.qlhs.org.uk/archive/archive.htm Register of Burials Parish of Christ Church, The Quinton,1840 to 1868]
+*[http://www.qlhs.org.uk/archive/archive.htm Register of Burials Parish of Christ Church, The Quinton, 1840 to 1868]
 *[http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/content/view/543/504/ Online Databases for Stratford-Upon-Avon]
 *[http://www.virtualmuseum.co.uk/ Virtual Museum, Willenhall]
 *[http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~wythallindex/index.htm Wythall People]

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