’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
A new study dismisses a beautifully preserved fossil’s usefulness, suggesting it is surprisingly uninformative about primate evolution
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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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Silverback female gorillas use sex as a tactic to thwart their rivals with even pregnant apes courting their male to stop other females conceiving. Diane Doran-Sheehy at Stony Brook University in New York says this kind of competitive behaviour may even help explain how humans evolved into a mostly monogamous species.
Apparently, the earliest adult milk drinkers came from central Europe and not from the sun-starved Scandinavian regions. Northern Europeans, unlike more than half the world’ s populations are highly lactose tolerant.
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A British plant biologist believes he has discovered why our brains stopped developing thousands of years ago and why we all have the potential to become geniuses. Read More Here
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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Over at The Loom, there is an interesting article ‘Tree or Trellis’ that takes another look at the ‘out of Africa’ theory for man’s history. Using DNA evidence the newer theory is that instead of one great migration, there were about three and at least once, there was movement back towards Africa.
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.
If you do not want to shake any family skeletons out of the cupboard, don’t do genealogy and certainly do not do genetic genealogy.
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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.
The Abraham Lincoln quote on the front page of the dynastyDB page ( ‘I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.’ ) is exactly how I thought of genealogy. I saw researching family history as trying to live in the past when the future beckons. Now, though I can tell the difference.