More Irish baptisms, marriages and burials coming in June

The Irish Republic’s Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport has announced that more church genealogy records will become available in June 2010.

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Irish 1901 census to be launched next week

The digitised images of the 1911 census of Ireland will soon be joined by those of the 1901 census.

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London non-conformist registers 1694-1921

The baptism, marriage and burial registers of the non-conformist churches of the Greater London area are now accessible online.

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British Library and brightsolid digitising historic newspapers

The British Library (BL) has announced a major new partnership between the Library and online publisher brightsolid. BL’s Chief Executive, Dame Lynne Brindley, says the ten-year agreement will deliver the most significant mass digitisation of newspapers the UK has ever seen: up to 40 million historic pages from the national newspaper collection will be digitised, making large parts of this unparalleled resource available online for the first time.

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News from Durham Records Online

I haven’t published any news from Holly Cochran of Durham Records Online for some time, so here’s her latest newsletter. You’ll note that many of the County Durham parish register entries contain more information than is usual elsewhere. These are from the so-called “Barrington registers”. The Right Reverend Shute Barrington, the Bishop of Durham, was responsible for the additional information being recorded. (His counterpart in Yorkshire was the Reverend William Dade.)

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More military records

FamilyRelatives has issued the following news release:

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Cheshire BMD

Ian Hartas of Cheshire BMD has sent the following message:

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GWR Shareholder Index

The full Great Western Railway (GWR) Shareholder Indexhas now been made available online, along with colour images of the original records. The index includes over 570,464 records covering the period from 1835 to 1932, recording 440,000 shareholders and related parties, such as executors and spouses. The records indicate when the original shares went through a change of ownership.

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British West Indies records online

Births/baptisms, marriages and deaths/burials in some of the former British islands of the West Indies are now available online.

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New UK family history magazine

Wharncliffe Publishing, who previously published Ancestors magazine in conjunction with The National Archives, have now launced a new magazine.

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