Pet owners can now buy practical pet health insurance that covers the treatment of a pet’s genetic condition through surgery, chemotherapy, or other means. (PRWeb Jul 31, 2007)
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The General Register Office (GRO) has announced that it will be closing its service at the Family Records Centre in Islington at the beginning of November. At present, the GRO runs the services on the ground floor where visitors can obtain birth, marriage and death certificates and use the original ledgers to find references.
The reasons cited are falling numbers of users now that the ledgers are widely available on the internet and certificates can be ordered online – only 11 per cent of applications for certificates are now made in person. In addition the building is urgently needed to house staff from its parent department the Office for National Statistics after its headquarters at Drummond Gate in Pimlico closes.
Sets of the ledgers, however, will be made available in microfilm in the census area on the first floor of the Centre, although this will cease at the end of March when The National Archives moves its services to Kew.
The ONS briefing paper can read at http://www.ffhs.org.uk/archives/gro/briefing070725.php. The GRO has placed additional information about replacement services at http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/aboutus/lookingahead/Latest_news.asp.
The genealogical community has naturally reacted angrily to the news. A strong statement by the Society of Genealogists can be read at http://www.sog.org.uk/latest.shtml. And an e-petition to the Prime Minister against the closure has been launched at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/FRC-closure.
Ancestry Australia has launched a fully indexed set of Convict Transportation Registers: 1788 to 1868 on its website. The originals are at The National Archives at Kew in series HO 11 The original records are not listed by the convict’s name but by ship and date of departure. Entries indicate where and when convicts were tried, and may lead to records of the trial, which are separate series of records.
Transportation began to Australia in 1788, but was not formally abolished until 1868, but in practice it was effectively stopped in 1857, and had become increasingly unusual well before that date. As result 158,702 convicts arrived in Australia from England and Ireland, and 1321 from other parts of the Empire, making a total of 160,023 men and women transported.
Holders of Ancestry international subscriptions have free access to the records, otherwise you will need to take out a subscription to the Australian site http://www.ancestry.com.au.
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South Dakota State University Associate professor Marek Malecki?s “suicide gene therapy” recognizes cancer cells and specifically introduces genetic material to make those cells die by a process called apoptosis ? orderly, programmed cell death. (PRWeb Jul 24, 2007)
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Bioinformatics is fast emerging from mere software technology that is used to interpret genetic information to assume a more comprehensive role that involves integration of information technology with biological sciences. By the year 2010, world bioinformatics market is projected to cross US$3 billion. (PRWeb Jul 24, 2007)
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Cardium Therapeutics (OTCBB:CDTP) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted fast track designation to the Company’s lead product candidate, Generx(TM) (alferminogene tadenovec, Ad5FGF-4) for the potential treatment of myocardial ischemia. Myocardial ischemia, insufficient blood flow within the heart muscle, gives rise to angina associated with coronary heart disease. Generx represents a new therapeutic class of biologics designed to promote angiogenesis, a natural process of blood vessel growth within the heart muscle, following a one-time intracoronary administration from a standard cardiac infusion catheter. (PRWeb Jul 18, 2007)
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BioDiscovery Inc., the leading developer of integrated software solutions for microarray-based research announced today the release of NEXUS CGH, a unique and novel tool for analysis of array CGH-based data from multi-array experiments supporting any platform, including Agilent, Nimblegen, Affymetrix, Illumina, Empire Genomics, and most home-spotted arrays. (PRWeb Jul 13, 2007)
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There are hundreds of websites and books to advise family historians, but often they are not concise enough. When coming across a phrase in a document or thinking about a new area of research, one often needs a just a paragraph or two giving the nub of the subject.
This is where Family History Companion, the new genealogy title from The National Archives (TNA), comes into its own. Sensibly, Mark Pearsall has chosen a broad brush approach covering all periods from the medieval to the mid-20th century in approximately 700 entries, beginning with abeyance and ending with Zetland.
To point you further in the right direction, there are entries for major British and Irish archives and libraries (TNA’s entry is itself a master of compression), plus pointers to key websites and books.
The author puts particular emphasis on legal aspects, with succinct definitions of many terms one might come across in wills and land documents, plus brief histories of various courts, along with an indication of where the records are to be found.
The text is broken up by half a dozen short essays by TNA experts – David Annal, for example, looks at "Tackling the Census"; Adrian Ailes explains "Herald’s Visitations", while Sean Cunningham explores "Inquisitions Post Mortem".
It is genuinely a useful and innovative book.
Publication details
Author Mark Pearsall
Title Family History Companion
Publisher The National Archives
Price £7.99
ISBN 978-1-905615-07-0
Order online at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/bookshop/details.aspx?titleId=377
Plans are well advanced for the move of the Family Records Centre to Kew by the end of March 2008. The opportunity is being taken to radically redesign the reading rooms and generally improve the experiences of researchers while they are at The National Archives.
These changes will entail some building work. Inevitably there will be some disruption to services from late summer 2007 to spring 2008, including the possibility of closing the reading rooms for a short period of time.
Details of building works and any closed periods will be posted on The National Archives website http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk.
If you are planning to visit Kew or the FRC over the next few months it is a good idea to check the website before setting out.
