Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council

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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.

• Order a Getting Started pack from Directgov

• 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

• Census records

• Electoral registers and Burgess rolls

• Internet and CD ROMs - free service at Oldham Local Studies and Archives

• Memorial inscriptions

• Military sources

• Newspapers and obituaries

• Parish registers

• Probate records - wills

• Trade and telephone directories

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Oldham Council is not responsible for the content of external Internet sites

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