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Examples of archive material available

The following list is just an example of the kind of archive material that our researchers can access on behalf of clients:

• Birth, marriage and death indexes
  
• Census returns
  
• Titles
  
• Deeds
  
• Maps and plans (UK and overseas)
  
• Registered designs and trademarks
  
• Sources for overseas and colonial history
  
• Immigration and emigration records
  
• Metropolitan police records
  
• Records of the Royal Household
  
• Bankruptcy proceedings
  
• Conveyances
  
• Enrolments
  
• National Probate Calendar
  
• Divorce Records
  
• Change of name
  
• Private Litigation
  
• Death duty registers
  
• International Genealogical Index
  
• Adoption Register
  
• National Farm Survey
  
• Customs and Excise records
  
• Railway workers
  
• Apprentices
  
• Non-conformist and Roman Catholic Records
  
• Local History
  
• Wills
  
• Manorial court rolls
  
• Taxation returns
  
• Accounts
  
• Medieval Government Records: Pipe Rolls, Patent Rolls, Close Rolls
• Charter Ministers and Receivers
• Accounts, Rentals and Surveys
• Inquisitions Post Mortem
• Law Courts
• Records of Monastic Institutions
  

Sticks Media Services include - history research, specialist archive research, genealogy (family history research), house history research, military research, television research, research at The National Archives TNA, Family Records Centre, British Library, London Metropolitan Archives and institutions throughout the UK, expert on-screen advice from Dr Nick Barratt