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General Regiustry Office for England
Used the service myself with excellent results

http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/


http://www.ancestry.co.uk (http://www.ancestry.co.uk)
Well worth joining too

jan2002

Hi spook, - welcome to the madhouse ;)

You can search the Birth, Marriage and Death index here - Sheffield Archives

http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/in-your-area/libraries/find/archives/sheffield-archives

They also have lots of local census info which you'll probably need eventually.

FreeBMD can be useful but the indexing isn't yet complete and doesn't extend beyond about 1910

http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl

When you get back to the 19th century you'll find this guide to resources well worth reading

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/index.html

where this Newbies Guide is also hosted

http://www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html

A friendly family history forum -

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php

The ENG-SHEFFIELD-L Archives

http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ENG-SHEFFIELD/

which you can search from here (for people who may have the same family interests)

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~engsheffield/

and the Local Studies Library have Sheffield directories going back to the 1840s as well as a full set of electoral registers and census indexes etc.

By no means an exhaustive list of resources, but should keep you occupied for a while. The ENG-SHEFFIELD-L mailing list is worth joining, for when you get stuck,- if you browse the archive you'll see what I mean.

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