Slough Borough Council

Go to http://www.ancestrylibrary.com/ to access a wide range of family history resources eg,

• UK censuses 1851-1901
• Birth, marriage and death indexes for England and Wales, 1837-1983
• London telephone books 1880-1984
• Some UK and Irish parish and probate records

The service also includes an extensive range of resources for researching US and Canadian ancestry, including US Census, immigration and slavery records. New material is added all the time. Ask at the 2nd floor enquiry desk at Slough Library or visit the Ancestry website for details.

 

FAME from Bureau van Dijk is widely used by professionals researching information on companies in UK and Ireland. It holds information on 3.6 million companies with detailed information on 2.6 million companies.

FAME can help you find:

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• Mergers and acquisitions.
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• Brand names.

You can search for companies using very specific criteria and create marketing lists of companies using criteria of your choice eg, to target companies in a particular industry or location or companies with a certain turnover or employee size. You can also customize the lists to show the specific criteria you need eg telephone, names and roles of executives and directors, description of business activity.

We charge £7.00 per 500 company records (or part of 500 records). There is no limit on the number of records that can be downloaded. Company lists can be sent by e-mail in Excel format. Pages of company reports can also be printed at a charge of 50p a page.

Quality legal database giving access to:

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