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Archive for October, 2010
Practical Family History to cease publication
Posted in Magazines, tagged family history, genealogy on October 29, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Welsh parish registers to go online
Posted in Parish registers, tagged family history, genealogy on October 29, 2010| 2 Comments »
Eight million Welsh parish registers are being made available online. This means that people researching their Welsh ancestors will no longer have to travel to one of the Welsh county record offices or to the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth (although it’s a fine place for research) to view the parish registers.
New local BMD site for Cumbria
Posted in BMD, tagged family history, genealogy on October 25, 2010| Leave a Comment »
John Marsden of the Manchester & Lancashire Family History Society has asked me to spread the news about the new local BMD website for Cumbria.
More London parish registers indexed
Posted in Parish registers, tagged family history, genealogy on October 15, 2010| Leave a Comment »
The London pre-1813 baptisms and burials and pre-1754 marriages that Ancestry.co.uk made available online just over a year ago have now been indexed.
Manchester records to be digitised
Posted in Burials and cremations, Convict records, Poor Law, tagged family history, genealogy on October 11, 2010| 2 Comments »
In a two-year project, around eight million Manchester records are to be digitised and made available online for the first time.
More Limerick records go online
Posted in BMD, Census returns, tagged family history, genealogy on October 7, 2010| Leave a Comment »
100,000 additional birth, marriage and death records for County Limerick, as well as census returns, have been made available online.
Chelsea Pensioner records 1901-1913 go online
Posted in Armed forces records, tagged family history, genealogy on October 7, 2010| 1 Comment »
Findmypast.co.uk has added 341,888 new records and 1,928,868 images to its Chelsea Pensioners British Army Service Records collection for the period 1901-1913.
Nearly 900,000 Devon parish records go online
Posted in Parish registers, tagged family history, genealogy on October 7, 2010| 3 Comments »
Almost 900,000 Devon parish records have become available online, making it easier to find your Devon ancestors.