Some useful books held in the Middlesbrough Reference Library, together with some web sites recommended by our family history users, which we want to draw to your attention.

A Catalogue of British Family Histories, compiled by T.R. Thomson. 3rd ed.,Society of Genealogists, 1973.
The Genealogist's Guide, by George W. Marshall. Reprinted from the last edition of 1903. Genealogical Publishing Co., 1973.016.92910942
A Genealogical Guide: an index to British Pedigrees in continuation of Marshall's Genealogist's Guide (1903), compiled by J.B. Whitmore. Walford Brothers, 1953. 016.9292
 

Surnames Resources at Rootsweb
http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/index.html
 

Storm and Company of Robin Hood's Bay
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~stormrhb/