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Archive for January, 2011

Reel History of Britain – new TV show

Posted in TV shows, tagged , on January 28, 2011| 1 Comment »

A new television programme ‘Reel History of Britain’ (with Melvyn Bragg on BBC2) needs your family stories for a brand new history series showing how ‘ordinary British people’ lived for over a hundred years.

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Illustrated London News

Posted in Magazines, tagged , on January 28, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Images of the weekly newspaper the Illustrated London News have now been made available online, covering the period January to June 1890.

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New images on Ewyas Lacy website

Posted in Parish registers, Poor Law, Tax records, Websites on January 25, 2011| Leave a Comment »

The latest update of the “What’s New” page of the free website of the Ewyas Lacy (in south-west Herefordshire on the Welsh border) Study Group reports some interesting developments.

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Find My Past’s plans for 2011

Posted in Websites, tagged , on January 24, 2011| Leave a Comment »

The subscription/pay-per-view website Find My Past has announced its plans for the coming year.

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New Norfolk records

Posted in Electoral rolls, Marriages, Monumental inscriptions, Parish registers, tagged , on January 21, 2011| 1 Comment »

Various new records have been made available online for the English county of Norfolk.

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Over 280 Scottish directories online

Posted in Directories, tagged , on January 19, 2011| Leave a Comment »

For some time, the Historical Directories site has provided online access to English and Welsh directories. Now Scottish directories are available online too.

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London Land Tax Valuations 1910

Posted in Land records, tagged , on January 16, 2011| 2 Comments »

The 1910 Land Tax valuation rolls for London have recently been made available online.

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Society of Genealogists’ collection now at Find My Past

Posted in Parish registers, Wills, tagged , on January 6, 2011| Leave a Comment »

The Society of Genealogists’ collection of family history databases has moved from British Origins to Find My Past.

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New Scottish medieval database

Posted in Websites, tagged , on January 4, 2011| Leave a Comment »

A database has been made available online that provides biographical information about all known people in Scotland between 1093 and 1286.

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