Irish 1916 Easter Rising information goes online

One of the most comprehensive records of the Irish 1916 Easter Rising has been released in a fully searchable structured index for the first time.

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More names added to National Wills Index

Over 290,000 additional names are now available on the National Wills Index, in the British Record Society Probate Collection.

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Wicklow marriage records go online

Transcriptions of church marriage records for County Wicklow in the Irish Republic have been made available online.

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Nearly 40,000 Romford cemetery records online

All 39,400 burial records for Romford Cemetery are now available on the Deceased Online website.

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Images of West Yorkshire parish registers now online

Images of the baptism, marriage and burial registers of the parishes of the West Riding of Yorkshire have been made available online.

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300,000 Edinburgh burial and cremation records go online

Nearly 1 million Scottish burial and cremation records are now available online, including more for Peterhead in Aberdeenshire.

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UK militia records go online

The family history website Find My Past has published the records of over half a million men who served in the British militia, the precursor to the UK’s Territorial Army. The Militia Service Records, covering 1806 to 1915, have been made available online for the first time to coincide with British Armed Forces Day.

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Ancestry adds Dorset parish registers and wills

In conjunction with the Dorset History Centre, Ancestry.co.uk has added images of Dorset baptisms, marriages, burials, confirmations and wills to its subscription website.

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