Family history
Get started
Talk to older family members and look at family papers and birth certificates.
Collect as many dates, names and addresses as possible and begin by checking it.
Family history help - advice services
Birth, marriage, and death certificates
General Register Office website - order birth, marriage, and death certificates
You can also search the General Register Office Indexes (birth marriages and deaths since 1837) at Oldham Local Studies and Archives.
Where to search
Local register offices
Records for Oldham Metropolitan Borough
Phone: 0161 770 3708
Email: registrars@oldham.gov.uk
Charges - Register Office fees
Records for other areas
Lees 1837 to 31 March 1974 are held at Tameside
Failsworth 1837 to 31 March 1936 are held at Manchester
Failsworth 1 April 1936 to 31 March 1974 are held at Tameside
Other sources
Cemeteries - grave records
Internet and CD ROMs - free service at Oldham Local Studies and Archives
Probate records - wills
External Links:
- Family Search
- Genuki
- Cyndi's List
- Diocesan Record Office
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission
- Lancashire Births, Marriages, Deaths
- Office for National Statistics
Oldham Council is not responsible for the content of external Internet sites
