From our home in Macclesfield, we offer services at:
– Staffordshire Record Office in Stafford (due to re-open as Staffordshire History Centre later in 2024)
– Derbyshire Record Office in Matlock
– Lancashire Record Office in Preston
– Greater Manchester County Record Office (including Manchester Archives)
– Cheshire Archives and Local Studies in Chester (please note the Record Office will be closed from 8th August 2024 until early 2026 when new History Centres will open in Chester and Crewe)
We can cover other areas by arrangement- please contact us for details.
The most commonly used records are parish registers, Bishops’ transcripts (copies of the registers sent to the Bishop) wills and marriage bonds, but when researching a family history there is often additional information available from other documents. These include apprenticeship indentures, trade directories, land records and even prison records.
We can carry out searches of online records such as census returns and parish registers, saving you the cost of subscriptions, and with our expertise and experience in ‘problem solving’ we may be able to find an ancestor who has so far eluded you.
We can provide transcriptions and translations or summaries of documents written in Old English and Latin, or simply if the writing is difficult to read.