Benny on October 2nd, 2010

The National Archives has opened up and made accessible over 1,000 Royal Navy Medical Officers Journals ADM 101 series, as part of an extensive cataloguing project supported by the Wellcome Trust.

via Discover 19th century life on the high seas | The National Archives.

Benny on September 15th, 2010

The Prison Hulk Registers and Letter Books, 1802-1849, are launched online today, making accessible the incarceration records of almost 200,000 convicts who were imprisoned on giant floating jails known as prison hulks.

via Victorian prison ship inmates revealed in new online archive | The National Archives.

Benny on September 8th, 2010

A team of experts from The National Archives will be attending the National Family History Fair in Newcastle on Saturday 11 September 2010.

via The National Archives at the National Family History Fair | The National Archives.

Benny on September 6th, 2010

At midday on Sunday 26 September, a new war memorial, built by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, will be unveiled in Sussex, paying tribute to some of the one and half million Indian soldiers who fought for the British Empire during the First World War.Over the past few months, the Commission’s stonemasons have built a new memorial, which bears the names of 53 Indian soldiers who died during the Great War.

via News : NDS.

Benny on September 4th, 2010

Ancestry.com announced today it has launched a collection of more than 1,700 recorded oral histories from immigrants who arrived in the United States through Ellis Island. This is the first time this collection of poignant recordings has been available online. To celebrate the new addition, Ancestry.com is making its entire U.S. Immigration Collection free through Labor Day.

via Ancestry.com – Press Releases.

Benny on August 28th, 2010

Ancestry.com today launched millions of records that now make up the largest searchable collection of yearbooks available online. Along with Ancestry.com’s existing collections, there are now more than 60 million yearbook records available in the site’s U.S. School Yearbook collection, which also includes class and candid photos of famous celebrities.

via Ancestry.com – Press Releases.

Worlds Largest Family History Web Site Continues Sponsorship of Critically Acclaimed TV Series That Takes a Personal Look at Celebrity Family Histories

via Ancestry.com – Press Releases.

Benny on August 19th, 2010

Thousands of pages of Victorian workhouse and poor law records have been made available online today following the conclusion of a major project by The National Archives. Living the Poor Life involved more than 200 volunteers across the country, including local and family historians, researching and cataloguing 19th century records from the huge Ministry of Health archive MH12.

via Living the Poor Life: untold history of the poor now online | The National Archives.

Benny on August 13th, 2010

Communist and anti-capitalist philosopher Karl Marx died a poor man and once-rich polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton left even less than Marx, the records show.  Naturalist Charles Darwin, by contrast, left the Victorian equivalent of about £13m today, and Charles Dickens £7m.

via BBC News – Marxs will among millions online.

Benny on July 27th, 2010

The UK Statistics Authority welcomes the Government’s decision to proceed with the existing plans for the 2011 Census in England and Wales, set out in an answer by the Minister for the Cabinet Office, Rt. Hon. Francis Maude MP, to a Written Parliamentary Question.

via News : NDS.