New seventh series of Who Do You Think You Are

The six celebrities who will feature in the summer 2009 series of Who Do You Think You Are on BBC1 have been announced.

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National Archives digitisation project news

The National Archives (TNA) has provided the following update on its digitisation projects;

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1911 census online for the Isle of Man, Channel Islands and overseas military

Find My Past have issued an announcement about the 1911 census.

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Shock, horror, Tom Jones is three-quarters English!

According to a story in The Times, Tom Jones is not as Welsh as we all thought.

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TNA Criminal records online

The following information comes from The National Archives:

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Find My Past adds Australian records

The pay-per-view/subscription website Find My Past has added Australian records to its collections.

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Tips on researching adoptions

The Federation of Family History Societies has added a page to its website about researching people who have been adopted.

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UK land records go online

The 19th-century Return of Owners of Land for England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales has been made available online.

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Welsh 1911 census records go online

The 1911 census of Wales has gone online today. ‘Wales’ includes those areas of England (such as Lydney and Coleford in Gloucestershire) that were enumerated with Wales (in these cases with Chepstow and Monmouth). The following information has been made available by Find My Past:

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Isle of Man records to be digitised

The Isle of Man is due to get a new Manx Ancestry Centre next year.

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