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The following is from FamilySearch: Ecuador Catholic Church Records 1565-2011, United Kingdom World War I Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps Records 1917- 1920, Spain Province of Barcelona Municipal Records 1387-1986, Italy Forlì-Cesena Forlì Civil Registration (State Archive) 1800-1815 1866-1930, and Philippines Continue reading New FamilySearch Database Collections Update for November 9, 2015
A few days ago, I posted a blog about the 1939 Register. The database launched today with much fanfare. Following is an excerpt from an interesting article posted November 1 at the DailyMail website. It is a remarkable snapshot of Continue reading The 1939 Register of England and Wales Has Launched!
For those with family living in England and Wales at the start of WWII, the digitization and Internet access to the 1939 Register is an exciting development. Forty-one million people are included in the records, while records for 28 million Continue reading The 1939 Register of England and Wales – Coming November 2 to FindMyPast.com
The following news release is from Nick Thorne at TheGenealogist: New Passenger lists go online with unique search facilities TheGenealogist has just released five million Emigration BT27 records as part of their growing immigration and emigration record set. Uniquely TheGenealogist Continue reading TheGenealogist Has Released 5 Million British Emigration Records
The following excerpt is from the September 23, 2015 edition of Newser.com: (NEWSER) – Workers demolishing a section of Westminster Abbey to make room for a new tower stumbled upon something most unexpected (at least in that part of the Continue reading Remains of at Least 50 People Found at Westminster Abby
The following teaser is from the September 25, 2105 edition of DailyMail.com: Mary, Queen of Scots has been cleared of any involvement in the notorious murder of her husband, more than four centuries after the unsolved crime took place. The Continue reading Mary, Queen of Scots, Cleared of Murdering Her Husband – Over 400 Years Later
The following teaser is from the September 27, 2015 edition of DailyMail.com. The Prince of Wales stood in solemn silence yesterday as he took part in a centenary memorial service in Dundee to honour the British troops who lost their Continue reading The Queen Mother’s Brother Was a Genuine WWI Hero
The following is from FamilySearch: Check out the Pennsylvania Civil Marriages 1677-1950, Ohio County Marriages 1789-2013, and Virginia Richmond City Birth Index 1870-1912 additions this week. Millions more records were also added for Italy (Potenza, Rieti, and Trapani) and Colombia. Continue reading New FamilySearch Database Collections Update for the Week of September 21, 2015
The following is from FindMyPast: Today, 4 September 2015, one million records of service men, women and civilians who were taken captive during World War II are published online for the first time at Findmypast. The publication, in association with Continue reading British WWII Prisoners of War Records Published Online as Britain Marks 70th Anniversary
The following news release is from the ScotlandsPeople website: A complete record of the deaths of Scottish seafarers from late Victorian times until 1974 is being made available online for the first time through ScotlandsPeople. Among the 14,000 new records Continue reading Deaths of Seamen & Other British Marine Returns of Deaths Go Online
The following is from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website: The digitized records cover British, Irish and Commonwealth casualties from the Second World War, together with records for most other nationals commemorated at CWGC sites: this includes the records for Continue reading The Commonwealth War Graves Commission Launches New Online Resources
The following press release of August 1, 2015 is from TheGenealogist: TheGenealogist and the Norfolk Record Office announce that they have signed an agreement to make Norfolk parish and other historical records available online for the first time. The registers Continue reading Norfolk Parish Registers Go Online at TheGenealogist
The following is from ScotlandsPeople: You can now view the updated indexes for statutory records until the end of 2014, and in addition to this, images for births until 1914, marriages until 1939 and deaths until 1964. You can also Continue reading Statutory B, M & D Indexes for 2014 Now Available to Search at ScotlandsPeople.
The following press release is from directionsmagazine.com: View the History of Britain from the Air as Bluesky Brings Old Aerial Photos Online Thousands of aerial photographs of Britain, dating back more than seventy years, are now available online. Visitors to Continue reading Bluesky Brings Old British Aerial Photos Online
The following teaser is from an article posted in the August 6, 2015 dailymail.co.uk: A blue-collar American is getting the royal treatment after a search for his family ancestry online revealed that he is the heir to the throne of Continue reading Maryland Mechanic Discovers He is Heir to the Throne of the Isle of Man