THEY were shipped in their thousands from their cold northern homes to the hostile environment of a distant island lying south of Australia.
The 10,000-mile trip to Tasmania was a hefty price to pay for 19th-century Scots accused of petty crimes such as burglary and trespass. Bound to the island by British justice, they [...]
Following is an excerpt from a fascinating article dealing with various “famous folks” wills. Ancestry.co.uk is posting 6 million English & Welsh wills running from 1861 to 1941. If you do a Google News search, you’ll come up with all kinds of articles about this. However, this exceprt is from the best one I could [...]
The following was received from Debra Chatfield of findmypast.co.uk:
Findmypast.co.uk, leading UK family history website, has launched an easier way to find the births of English and Welsh ancestors online. The company has re-indexed over 100 million birth records dating from 1837 to 2006.
Findmypast.co.uk’s fully re-indexed birth records make finding ancestors much simpler and [...]
The following news release was received from Debra Chatfield at FindMyPast.co.uk:
Chelsea Pensioners British Army Service Records 1760-1854 now available to search online
In-depth and colorful insight into the lives of ordinary ranking soldiers
Records include servicemen born in the UK and throughout the world, including India and Jamaica
Leading family history website findmypast.co.uk has added a further [...]
The following news release was received from Debra Chatfieid, marketing manager at findmypast.co.uk:
As the 2010 Wimbledon Championships head towards the closing stages, leading UK family history website findmypast.co.uk has delved into its collection of census records from 1841 to 1911 to find some interesting tennis-themed entries..
The finds…
In the 1891 census, a Miss [...]
The following information was received this morning from Paul Nauta with FamilySearch:
There were over 150 new collections added or enhanced this week at FamilySearch.org. FamilySearch volunteers indexed over 120 million records — over 300 million new names — from original source documents to accomplish this great feat. The massive release was announced [...]
The following news release was received from Pharos:
19 January 2010 – For Immediate Release
Get the children involved!
Pharos provides unique help for family historians with innovatory new courses
Hannah Baker, B.A. (Hons) History, PGCE, has joined the Pharos teaching team. With many years of teaching experience and a degree in Medieval History, Hannah brings a [...]
The following databases have been added at The Original Record:
1130-1770 - Bodleian Library Charters and Rolls
A large accumulation of documents preserved in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, formerly constituted the antiquarian collections of Anthony a Wood, Roger Dodsworth, Ralph Thoresby, Thomas Martin of Palgrave, Thomas Tanner bishop of St Asaph, Dr Richard Rawlinson, Richard [...]
The following is from the British National Archives Website:
… BMDRegisters.co.uk has added records of births, deaths and marriages of passengers at sea to its online service.
The records give detailed information compiled from ships’ logs by the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen and its predecessor. The registers cover 1854 to 1908 and include over 150,000 [...]
It seems that the staid British National Archives is coming forward in support of the sale of Friends Reunited to Brightsolid. The sale has been somewhat in doubt, as the “Competition Commission” has expressed reluctance to allowing the sale to go through. It’s looks like the principle reason for the support is that the Archives [...]
The following databases have been added at The Original Record in the last week:
1766-1769 - Board of Stamps Apprenticeship Books: Country Collectors’ Returns
Apprenticeship indentures and clerks’ articles were subject to a 6d or 12d per pound stamp duty: the registers of the payments usually give the master’s trade, address, and occupation, and the [...]
The following databases have been posted at The Original Record website in the last two weeks:
1763-1766 - Board of Stamps Apprenticeship Books: Country Collectors’ Returns
Apprenticeship indentures and clerks’ articles were subject to a 6d or 12d per pound stamp duty: the registers of the payments usually give the master’s trade, address, and occupation, [...]
Scotland’s People has now released the new years statutory images containing records from the Statutory Register of Births for 1909, the Statutory Register of Marriages for 1934, and the Statutory Register of Deaths for 1959.
The following news release was received from my friend, Kia Rahmani, at arcalife:
(PRWEB) December 17, 2009 — arcalife and Firebird Media Limited have signed a deal bringing the two companies closer together in the personal and historical archiving space.
arcalife provides personal archiving solutions to its members, giving them the opportunity to store and [...]
The following databases were added this week at TheOriginalRecord.com:
1882 - Oxford Electoral Register
The electoral register for the City of Oxford for 1882 lists persons entitled to vote at any election of a member or members to serve in parliament for the city or parliamentary borough of Oxford in that year. The [...]
