Hi Ray welcome to the forum
We will be only too pleased to help you with your search we have some very good researchers on here!
The General discussion just under the Introductions is for any Counties other than Black Country Counties...
So do post any queries from anywhere else in there.
If you have Black Country topics/queries then if you scroll down the board you come to the Black Country Genealogy section.
This is a dedicated section for the Black Country area specifically
So your Hacketts will be right at home in there!
Quite a few of us have access to records and archives so can help you with regards to checking/verifying infor in the
posts we are running with.
Myself and My cousin also have this website which is Called Black Country Connections
and many of us on here work at building up this really useful Black Country Genealogy tree....here is the link
http://bcconnections.tribalpages.com/Take a look you may see some that connect to you on there.
If you are interested in joining that pm me
Cheers NL
ps Hacketts will link to quite a few of us....
and Laytons I wonder if they link to a5 baggie on here...
http://bcconnections.tribalpages.com/tr ... =685364639