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The following was received from Scotland’sPeople: The Valuation Rolls (VRs) in Scotland for 1895 have just been added to the ScotlandsPeople website. The new records, comprising 2,095,707 indexed names and 75,565 digital images, cover every kind of building, structure or Continue reading The 1895 Valuation Rolls Are Now Live on the ScotlandsPeople Website
The following is from FamilySearch 04/23/2013: FamilySearch has added more than half a million images this week from Australia, England, Italy, Philippines, Spain, and the United States. Notable collection updates include the 92,436 images from the new U.S., Ohio, Southern Continue reading FamilySearch Adds to Collections from Australia, England, Italy, Philippines, Spain, & the USA
The following excerpt is from an article posted in the April 15, 2013 edition of dailymail.co.uk: Two long-lost brothers have been reunited for the first time in an incredible 80 years after they were fostered to different families as babies. Continue reading Brothers Reunited After 80 Years
The following press release is from Sandra M. Hewlett CG: WESTMINSTER, Colo., 3 April 2013 — The International Society for British Genealogy and Family History announces the courses for the 13th annual British Institute, to be held 7–11 October in Continue reading The International Society for British Genealogy and Family History Announces Courses and Instructors for 2013 British Institute
The following excerpt is from an article posted in the April 4, 2013 edition of HalifaxCourier.co.uk. It deals with British Methodist Family History on a personal level, with folks world-wide invited to join in the sharing of information. Cool… A Continue reading British Methodist Family History Online
The following is from FamilySearch, April 2, 2013: FamilySearch has added 23.9 million indexed records and images this week with new browsable image collections from Belgium, Brazil, Colombia, England, Italy, Mexico, and the United States. Notable collection updates include the Continue reading FamilySearch Adds 19,206,333 Images to New United Kingdom, World War I Service Records, 1914-1920, Collection
Becoming a skilled genealogists, in many ways, requires becoming well versed in a variety of subject matters. Once the “newbie” learns how to records information on a pedigree chart or family group records, the real work begins. Finding documents for Continue reading Easy Family History
The following databases have been added at The Original Record this week. 1755 – Officers of Fifty New-Raised Companies of Marines The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty directed the officers in the fifty new-raised companies of marines to ‘repair, with Continue reading New Databases at The Original Record
The following is from FamilySearch: FamilySearch has added 1.7 million indexed records and images this week with new browsable image collections from Austria, Paraguay, and the United States. Notable collection updates include the 13,110 images from the new Arizona, Maricopa, Continue reading FamilySearch Adds Data to Collections from Australia, China, England, Italy, and the USA
The following databases were added this week at The Original Record: 1804 – Subscribers to Zoonomia ‘Popular Lectures on Zoonomia, or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease’ by Thomas Garnett, M.D., Member of the Royal College of Continue reading New Databases at The Original Record
The following news release is from FindMyPast.com: 400 Years of Baptism, Marriage, and Burial History Published Online Findmypast.com just added millions of new parish registers to its Westminster Collection. Family historians can now search for London ancestors on transcripts and Continue reading Parish Registers Added to Westminster Collection on findmypast.com
The following is from FamilySearch: FamilySearch added an additional 6.6 million indexed records and images in the last two weeks. Included in this update are 15 new collections: 1 from Canada, 1 from Guam, 4 from Italy, 1 from Russia, Continue reading FamilySearch Adds 18 New Collections Including Germany, Italy, Netherlands, & the USA
On Wednesday, February 27, 2013, a new website was launched that deals with British slave ownership. The database itself is to about 46,000 slave-owners or others who benefited indirectly from that ownership who filed claims and the awards made to Continue reading British Slave Ownership Website With Searchable Database Launched
Mark Thomas, Professor of Evolutionary Genetics in the Research Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment at University College London, doesn’t think much of the announcement that a million British men are descended from the Romans. The following is an excerpt Continue reading Everyone in Britain is Descended From the Romans, Vikings, Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Arabs, Jews, Saracens, Goths, Vandals, etc.
The following databases have been added at The Original Record this past week: 1809 – Ordnance Staff ‘An Account of the Establishment of the Office of Ordnance, as it stood at Midsummer 1809; with the Names of the Persons holding Continue reading New Databases at The Original Record