Research Sources

Looking for your Brough ancestors?

    If you're looking for information on your Brough ancestry, or if you're not sure you're related to the Broughs of the Brough Family Organization, we recommend you do the following: 

1.)    First, see if you can find your Brough ancestors in the BFO Genealogical Databases or in the world's largest free online genealogical database at Family Search.  The Family Search website provides you with access to the extensive genealogical records of the Family History Library (FHL) of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

2.)    Second, contact the BFO via email and briefly explain your research problem.  BFO family genealogists usually investigate most research questions related to Brough ancestry within 30 days.  However, BFO family genealogists usually volunteer only two hours of their time to each such inquiry.  If BFO family genealogists are not able to freely resolve your research question(s) within this time period--or if you feel it would require more than two hours of research to resolve your question(s)--you can contact family genealogists, a professional genealogist or a genealogical research firm to conduct additional research on your behalf.

3.)     Third, the following websites may be of help to you in your genealogical research endeavors:

Ancestry.com (commerical genealogy website)

Australian BMD records (birth, death and marriage records in Australia)

BillionGraves (extensive database of gravestone information and photos throughout the world)

British Newspaper Archives (searchable names and events in British newspapers) 

Commonwealth War Graves Commission (death records of British Commonwealth military personnel in WW1 & WWII)

Family Search Wiki (free family history research advice)

FamilySearch (free genealogical website of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)

Find A Grave (extensive database of gravestone information, photos and brief biographies throughout the world)

Find a Will or Probate in England & Wales between 1858-1996 (via: gov.uk)

FindMyPast.com (commerical genealogy website)

Free BMD (listing of births, marriages and deaths in the United Kingdom & Ireland--beginning in 1837)

GENUKI (a very large collection of United Kingdom and Ireland genealogical resources)

GRO Online Index (England and Wales births and deaths of 1837-1916 which birth's contain the mother's surname) 

Interactive Maps of FamilySearch (show parish locations and information about available records)

Irish Genealogy (births: 1864-1915; marriages: 1882-1940 (eventually 1845+); deaths: 1891-1965 (eventually 1864+)

Mormon Immigration Ship Index (of LDS members who sailed to the United States in the 1800's)

Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel (contains thousands of names and dates of pioneers, 1847-1868)

MyHeritage.com (commercial genealogy website)

National Archives of Australia (viewable records since 1901--especially military service records)

National Archives of Ireland (census records of 1821 to 1911) 

New Zealand, Birth, Marriage and Death Records (and ordering such certificates)

Old Occupational Names and Titles (via Hall Genealogy website)

Online Parish Clerks for Lancashire England (contributed parish records for Lancashire, England)

Publication of The Harleian Society (online publications showing British heraldry and pedigrees)

Relative Finder (discover your relationship to others via FamilySearch database)

Roots Ireland (large Irish family records database)

Scotlands People Search (official government source of genealogical data for Scotland)

Staffordshire England Parish Register Society (contains lists of available parish registers)

Staffordshire England BMD (listing of births, marriages and deaths in Staffordshire, England, 1837-1950+)

The National Archives of England and Wales (contains 1000 years of UK government records)

Utah Death Records (covers the years 1905-1967 and includes digital images of death certificates)

Western States (USA) Marriage Record Index (BYU-Idaho Index)

Will Indexes of Lichfield & Coventry, 1650-1730 (Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Shropshire, and Warwickshire, England)

Wills of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury (1384-1858 index of Wills in England and Wales held by this Court)