’Ancestors’ magazine will be discontinued and the last publication will be the April issue (no 94), available from Thursday 25 March.
via Changes to magazine publishing at The National Archives | The National Archives.
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From Tuesday 6 April 2010 the eight separate fees currently charged by the General Register Office GRO for ordering a certificate will be reduced to two – one for standard orders and one for the priority service.
read more at IPS – General Register Office introduces new charges.
“Genealogy is, depending on who you consult, either the fastest growing hobby in the U.S., the most popular pastime in the U.S., or just so hot right now.”
read more at Why are Americans Mad about Genealogy?: The Book Bench : The New Yorker.
It is surprising how many people do not realise how popular genealogy is even [...]
Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online family history resource, proudly announces it has teamed up with NBC as sponsor of the upcoming “Who Do You Think You Are?” television series in the USA. Ancestry.com provided important research for the show, including tracing the roots of the seven celebrities featured.
read more @ Ancestry.com – Press Releases.
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The Alien Arrivals Collection documents the arrival of more than 610,000 immigrants into the UK between the late 18th and early 20th centuries. The collection includes some of the earliest surviving records of immigrants recorded under the Aliens Act 1793. The records go online for the first time at Ancestry.co.uk
see full story @ Trace your immigrant ancestry [...]
Not content with being the centre of internet genealogy research, being the home of the useful Family Search website – http://www.familysearch.org/, Utah looks set to help genealogists and other lay people understand a bit more about genetics. Two Web sites created at the University of Utah were awarded the Science Prize for Online Resources in [...]
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The death of the “last Tommy”, Harry Patch, in July 2009 put an end to first-hand memories of the World War I trenches. But if Armistice Day pricks your curiosity about what your ancestors did in the world wars, there are many avenues of archives to explore.Read The Full Story
The National Archives has made 99,000 RAF officers’ service records available online for the first time. These records are easily searchable by first name, last name and date of birth, and were previously only accessible to visitors at the Kew site. You can view and download records via the DocumentsOnline service.
More details from http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/stories/385.htm
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Gale, part of Cengage Learning, along with The British Library and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), have made nineteenth-century British newspapers available on the internet. The database, known as British Newspapers, 1800-1900 gives users access to over two million newspaper pages from 49 different national and regional newspapers from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.
Records from the General Register Office: Miscellaneous Foreign Returns, 1831-1964 (RG 32) have been added to the online service at BMD Registers. Searching the records is free, but there is a charge to download images of the original documents.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/stories/381.htm
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The National Archives, in conjunction with Ancestry.co.uk, has now made the entire collection of British Army World War One Service Records, some 2 million of them, available online.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/stories/382.htm
Was your ancestor a social climbing soldier in the Hundred Years War?
And today I feel like Zuzu from the Lion King after my post day yesterday. Anthropology it seems is a popular blogging subject but…. a lot of that stuff is just too heavy! I thought I would spend a couple of hours looking up some links for this blog expecting to find a few that would appeal to genealogists but so far I’ve come up short.
I have been debating with myself whether a blog that tries to cover genealogy, family history, general history and anthropology (the study of the origins of humans) could really be interesting to the amateur genealogist. I have decided to continue covering all aspects because all these things are easily connected.
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In the BBC news today, scientists have discovered that this wonderful island of ours (no, no, not the Seychelles) was peopled some 200,000 earlier than previously thought. It brought a smile to my face when I thought that if it were possible to trace your family to the earlier days, you would now be facing another long haul!
Apparently, the first recorded death by the Birmingham (that is the original Birmingham in the UK, OK?) Registry office was a prostitute whose death was notified by the master of the workhouse.
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I haven’t done much work on the DyNAstyDb in the past few months apart from the work to generate the Ellis Families of West Riding’s pages. In the back of my mind though I am trying to solve the issues that are coming up as I get to the black hole years.
Calling on all Americans to “know their family history,” U.S. Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H., today unveiled an updated version of a computerized tool designed to help families gather their health information
Just read this post which brings me to one of the biggest gripes I have about Crown copyright here in England.
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Haven’t posted for a couple of days, been busy with other things really. Where I have had the chance I have been working on the West Riding Yorkshire Family pages.