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Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal Since Remembrance Sunday is tomorrow, now seems a good time to pull together a summary of the World War One records that are available online. Medal Roll Index Cards These were generated by the Army and list a man’s entitlement to campaign medals. There are over 5 million cards and they are [... to continue reading click on the post title] Anyone who used to search the census returns for England and Wales at the old Family Records Centre in London before its closure in 2008 would have been used to the large binders of street indexes to the 1841-1891 census returns which were such a valuable finding aid. The old Family Records Centre in Myddelton [... to continue reading click on the post title] The National Archives (TNA) has just announced that seven record offices across England and Wales will get free access to the 1911 census for England and Wales. The record offices are in: Birmingham See http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/stories/337.htm?WT.hp=nf-37818 for the full story. [... 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] 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 since Christmas. First of all was the addition of Counties Antrim, Down and Kerry [... to continue reading click on the post title] |
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