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• Black Country Connections  Traditional name for area west of Birmingham where the 'thick coal' seam comes to the surface. Today, the metropolitan boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell and Walsall, and the city of Wolverhampton
• Black Country Dialect  Traditional name for area west of Birmingham where the 'thick coal' seam comes to the surface. Today, the metropolitan boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell and Walsall, and the city of Wolverhampton
• Black Country History  Traditional name for area west of Birmingham where the 'thick coal' seam comes to the surface. Today, the metropolitan boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell and Walsall, and the city of Wolverhampton
• Black Country is situated in the middle of England to the north and west of Birmingham, including the towns of Stourbridge, Lye, Dudley, Wolverhampton, Wednesbury, Walsall, West Bromwich, Brierley Hill, Halesowen  Genealogy, Geography and the History of the area, as well as the language and humour of the people     (Source: Rootsweb.com)
• Black Country Living Museum  Traditional name for area west of Birmingham where the 'thick coal' seam comes to the surface. Today, the metropolitan boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell and Walsall, and the city of Wolverhampton
• Black Country region of England mail list      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
• Black Country region, England Message Board  Traditional name for area west of Birmingham where the 'thick coal' seam comes to the surface. Today, the metropolitan boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell and Walsall, and the city of Wolverhampton     (Source: Rootsweb.com)
• Black Country Society  Traditional name for area west of Birmingham where the 'thick coal' seam comes to the surface. Today, the metropolitan boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell and Walsall, and the city of Wolverhampton
• The Debatable Lands, also known as Debatable ground, batable ground or thriep lands was land lying between Scotland and England, formerly in question to which it belonged, when they were distinct kingdoms      (Source: Wikipedia)
• East Anglia is a region of eastern England  It was named after one of the ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, the Kingdom of the East Angles, which was in turn named after the homeland of the Angles, Angeln, in northern Germany. The kingdom initially consisted of Norfolk and Suffolk     (Source: Wikipedia)
• EAST-MARCHES genealogy mail list for local history interest in the old administrative area of the East Marches of both England (Northumberland) and Scotland (Berwickshire and parts of Roxburghshire)      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
• ENG-BLACKCOUNTRY-DIASPORA mail list for genealogy of the families involved in coal mining, who moved in the second half of the 19th century from the Sedgley-Dudley area on the Staffordshire/Worcestershire border to other English counties      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
• ENG-EAST-ANGLIA genealogy mail list for East Anglia, England, which includes the counties of Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, and Bedfordshire      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
• ENG-EAST-ANGLIA-DNA genealogy mail list for discussing and sharing information regarding the East Anglia (southeast England) Geographic DNA Project      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
• ENG-GEORDIES genealogy mail list for the Tyneside region (Geordies) of England      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
• Historically, the name Scottish Borders designated the entire border region of southern Scotland and, together with neighbouring areas of England      (Source: Wikipedia)
• Homepage for The Archive Group of Sandwell      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
• Local History: Isle of Thanet 
• Local History: What and where is the Black Country?      (Source: BBC)
• MIDMARCH genealogy mail list for the counties of Breconshire, Herefordshire, Monmouthshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire and Worcestershire, England and Wales      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
• NORTHERN-ENGLAND mail list, for the genealogy, history, or culture in the entire north of England      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
• Northumbria (Northhumbria) is primarily the name of both a medieval kingdom of the Angles people, in what is now NE England and southern Scotland, and the earldom which succeeded it when a united Anglo-Saxon kingdom became England      (Source: Wikipedia)
• Tyneside is a conurbation in northern England, which is home to over 80 % of the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear  Includes Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, Hebburn, Jarrow, North Shields, and South Shields, all settlements on the banks of the River Tyne     (Source: Wikipedia)
• Using DNA to find the historical and genetic origins of the Elliotts (Elliots) and other Anglo-Scottish families known collectively as the Border Reivers  yDNA only     (Source: Rootsweb.com)
• Wessex was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the West Saxons, in South West England      (Source: Wikipedia)
• WEST-MARCHES mail list for genealogy and history of the West Marches in the south of Scotland and north of England (most of the historic Scottish counties of Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire, Dumfriesshire, Kirkcudbrightshire and Wigtownshire  And the historic English counties of Cumberland and Westmorland, in order to air cross-boundary movements and assist researchers who are uncertain of the precise location of their forebears     (Source: Rootsweb.com)
• What and where is the Black Country?      (Source: BBC)
• Archives
  
  • UK-AGOS mail list discussing The Friends of Sandwell Archive (Archive Group of Sandwell), genealogical and family history queries related the Sandwell area, the holdings of the Archive, and genealogical resources available in the Sandwell area  The Sandwell area is in the Black Country area of the English Midlands, to the West of Birmingham and consists of the towns of Smethwick, Oldbury, Tipton, Wednesbury, West Bromwich, and Rowley (including Cradeley Heath)     (Source: Rootsweb.com)
• Civil Registration, Registration Offices
  
  • North East Births, Marriages and Deaths 
• DNA Projects
  
  • Border Reiver Surname Map      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
  • East Anglia Geographic DNA (EAGDNA) Project  Both yDNA and mtDNA
  • Project for the ancient English kingdom of Wessex i.e. the area where the Wessex dialect was spoken, now Devon, Dorset, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Somerset, Gloucestershire, and Oxfordshire  Both yDNA and mtDNA     (Source: Family Tree DNA)
• Newspapers
  
  • East English Newspapers      (Source: News Directory.com)
  • English Newspapers of the East Midlands      (Source: News Directory.com)
  • English Newspapers of the West Midlands      (Source: News Directory.com)
  • South East English Newspapers      (Source: News Directory.com)
  • South West English Newspapers      (Source: News Directory.com)
  • West English Newspapers      (Source: News Directory.com)

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