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Archive for July, 2009

Lincoln wills go online

Posted in Wills on July 28, 2009| Leave a Comment »

Transcribed wills for the historic county are now live.

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New Angus burials

Posted in Burials and cremations on July 27, 2009| Leave a Comment »

A further 73,500 Angus burial records have just been made available online.

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US Civil War Roll of Honor 1861-65

Posted in Armed forces records on July 27, 2009| Leave a Comment »

One of the largest and most complete Rolls of Honor for the US Civil War has been released. This is the first time that all 27 volumes have been made available online.

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Vision of Britain website relaunched

Posted in Websites on July 13, 2009| 2 Comments »

The website A Vision of Britain through Time has been relaunched courtesy of funding from the Joint Information Systems Committee, the IT arm of the Higher Education Funding Councils under their Digitise Programme.

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David Cameron descended from Moses?

Posted in Uncategorized on July 10, 2009| Leave a Comment »

An academic at the University of Manchester has suggested that David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party, may be descended from Moses.

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The Original Record July 2009 update

Posted in Documents and papers on July 10, 2009| 1 Comment »

Various records have been added to The Original Record website, which now has 8.7 million entries directly available online, with free unlimited search. All records have been hand-indexed (no OCR). You can purchase sets of scans, or buy open access to the surname(s) of your choice, including variants.

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New links at UKBMD and UKGDL

Posted in Online links on July 9, 2009| Leave a Comment »

Sharon Hartas of UKBMD and UKGDL has sent a message about some of the interesting websites that she’s added to UKBMD and UKGDL.

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More Irish records online

Posted in BMD, Parish registers on July 8, 2009| 1 Comment »

The Irish Family History Foundation has added another county to its database of Irish parish register entries and civil registration births, marriages and deaths.

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Forest of Dean Parish Records Project July 2009 Progress Report

Posted in Parish registers on July 8, 2009| Leave a Comment »

The Forest of Dean transcription project has now been running for just over three and a half years, during which time around 700,000 records have been added to the database.

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Irish voters roll 1832-38 goes online

Posted in Electoral rolls on July 7, 2009| Leave a Comment »

A new database has been made available online that details those men eligible to vote in Ireland after the electorate had been greatly increased following the Great Reform Act of 1832.

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