Category Archives: BMD data

Scottish OPR burials are online

Posted on March 31, 2009 by sheena

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 … Continue reading →

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Scottish OPR burials due online on 1 April

Posted on March 27, 2009 by 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 … Continue reading →

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London Metropolitan Archives’ records start to go online at Ancestry

Posted on March 27, 2009 by sheena

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, … Continue reading →

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New Year ….. New Data

Posted on February 2, 2009 by sheena

London is currently shivering under a thick layer of snow which, according to the news, is the heaviest for 18 years. So this seems like a good time for an update on some of the new data that’s appeared online … Continue reading →

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