any tips on finding ancesters in nottingham?

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Member Since: April 2003 Posts: 30 Send Message	Martin	Report	12 Nov 2004 23:03
Member Since: April 2003 Posts: 30 Send Message	Hiya, been trying to look for a Thomas Fowler who lived in nottingham then moved to leicester. I would love to find out about birmingham and his family but dont know where to go! Thanks!
Member Since: January 0001 Posts: 0 Send Message	Unknown	Report	12 Nov 2004 23:38
Member Since: January 0001 Posts: 0 Send Message	When? This century, last century, 19th century? nell
Member Since: April 2003 Posts: 30 Send Message	Martin	Report	13 Nov 2004 00:12
Member Since: April 2003 Posts: 30 Send Message	1900's
Member Since: January 0001 Posts: 0 Send Message	Unknown	Report	13 Nov 2004 00:16
Member Since: January 0001 Posts: 0 Send Message	Look on the 1901 census first: http://www.1901census.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.html Thre may be some births, marriages and deaths for the early part of the 1900s on FreeBMD: http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl - remove first. Otherwise you will have to trawl through the GRO indexes and/or visit records offices to look at electoral registers etc. Any idea whether any of these relatives were in the wars, because you can check the medals index online here: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/militaryhistory/medals/ nell