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The Scottish Old Parish Register deaths and burials are now online – a day before planned. ScotlandsPeople has comprehensive guidance notes about these records on their site at http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/content/help/index.aspx?r=554&1353 And I’ve got a meeting in London tomorrow, and another commitment tomorrow night – rats! Sheena I was looking at the Glasgow-based newspaper The Herald for a Scottish take on the new London records released on Ancestry (covered in my previous post) when I came across this throwaway comment: On April 1, the final tranche of the old parish registers, death records for the period 1553-1854, will go online. Hurrah! Guess what [... to continue reading click on the post title] Indexes to, and digital images of, the records held by London Metropolitan Archives have started to appear online at Ancestry. The whole collection spans over 400 years from the 1500s to the 1900s and covers parish baptism and marriage registers, burial registers, Bishops’ Transcripts, Non-conformist baptisms, marriages and burials, poor law Board of Guardians records, school [... to continue reading click on the post title] An Italian family is searching for relatives of a British soldier who saved their mother’s life during WWII. In January 1944, the pregnant Maria Mancini from the Abruzzo region of Italy needed emergency medical treatment to save her life. A British soldier called Martin drove her to hospital in his jeep through snowstorms and across mined [... to continue reading click on the post title] |
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