Here’s my choice of 2010’s most interesting new and updated websites (and a few other items) for British and Irish family history.
January
Association Oath Rolls 1696 on British Origins;
February
UK Military Family History - new website;
March
Chelsea Pensioner army service records on Find My Past;
National Burial Index – new Third Edition on CD;
April
FamilySearch’s Record Search – many new databases from the British Isles Vital Records Index;
May
1901 Census of Ireland on 1911 website;
London non-conformist church registers 1694-1921 on Ancestry from London Metropolitan Archives;
Historic newspapers to be digitised by the British Library and brightsolid;
June
London Lives – new website;
National Archives Labs – new part of UK’s The National Archives website;
Fully-searchable birth index on Find My Past;
July
RootsIreland (formerly the Irish Family History Foundation’s Online Record Search System) – new version of website with new advanced search;
August
National Probate Calendar 1861-1941 on Ancestry;
September
ScotlandsPeople – new version of website with Roman Catholic marriages, burials, etc.;
October
Welsh parish registers to go online at Find My Past;
London pre-1813 baptisms and burials and pre-1754 marriages indexed on Ancestry;
Manchester parish, cemetery and Poor Law records to go online at Find My Past;
November
North of Ireland will images 1858-1900 at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland;
December
North East Inheritance project index goes online;
British Record Society probate collection goes online at the National Wills Index;
Fully-searchable marriage index on Find My Past;
In addition, Ancestors and Practical Family History magazines ceased publication in April and December respectively, while a new magazine Your Family History arrived in May.
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