AHBIR - Archbishop's House, Birmingham
BCP - (1881) British Census Project
BIR - Birmingham Central Library (Local Studies Dept and Birmingham Record Office)
BMI - Birmingham and Midland Institute
BMSGH - Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry
BMSGH (LL) - BMSGH Lending Library. (members only)
BMSGH m/fiche - Published on microfiche: for sale and accessible at specific respositories.
BMSGH (Pbn) - BMSGH Publication: for sale only unless viewed at specific repositories
BMSGH (PS) - BMSGH Print-out Service - DISCONTINUED SINCE DECEMBER 2001
BMSGH (RL) - BMSGH Reference Library: books and microfiche on open access in Kingsley-Norris Room. Members only.
BMSGH (SI.v.) - BMSGH (Census) Surname Index vol. (published)
BOYD MISC - Boyd's Marriage Index, Miscellaneous Series (available at library of SoG)
BRL* - Birmingham Reference Library
C - Christenings (for Baptist records it refers to adult baptisms.)
CamGp - Cambridge Group for Population Studies
CARN - County Archive Research Network
CCL* - Coventry Central Library
C, M & R - Catholic Missions and Registers 1700-1880 A six volume guide to the wherabouts of Catholic Missions in the 18th and 19th centuries, and the places where surviving registers were deposited at the time of publication in 1993. Volume 2 relates to "The Midlands and East Anglia"
COV - Coventry Local Studies Library or Coventry City Record Office
CRO* - Coventry City Record Office
CvRO* - Coventry Record Office
FFHS - Federation of Family History Societies
FHN&D - Family History News and Digest (Journal of the FFHS)
Gen.Mag. - Genealogists' Magazine
GLO - Gloucestershire Record Office
IGI - International Genealogical Index
IHGS - Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies (see also also Pallot Index)
IRC - International Reply Coupon
LIC - Lichfield Joint Record Office
NIPR - National Index of Parish Registers
Pallot - Marriage and baptismal index owned by IHGS
PHIL - Phillimore's Printed Marriages (Number refers to volume number in the County Series).
ROB* - Copies previously held by Mrs B. Robinson, now BMSGH.
ROE - Roe's Gloucestershire Marriage Index (in GLO/CRO)
RpL* - Rugby (East Divisional) Library
RR - Relative Reflections: Census Index
sae - stamped, addressed envelope (or overseas:self-addressed envelope)
SBT* - Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Records Office
SLC - The Library of the Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A.
S of F - Society of Friends (Quakers)
SOL - Solihull Central Library
SS - Search Service: fee paying. BMSGH or Independant.
STR - Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Records Office
SUT - Sutton Coldfield Library, Local Studies Service
TBAS - Transactions of The Birmingham Archaeological Society
TBMIAS - Transactions of Birmingham and Midland Institute Archaeological Society
TMA - The Midland Ancestor (originally The Journal of the BMSGH).
Ts./TS - Typescript/Transcript
WAR - Warwickshire County Record Office
War. Hist. - Warwickshire History (magazine)
WOR - Hereford and Worcester County Record Offices
WRO* - Warwickshire [County] Record Office
WWM - Warwickshire and Worcester Magazine
Z - Births (found in Nonconformist records especially).
+ - Onwards (usually after 1900)