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:
Category: Scottish
New Year ….. New Data
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 the 1911 census for Ireland at http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/ which were added to the existing records for Dublin on 23 December 2008.
Next came the annual upload of new data on Scotlandspeople. We can now view the images of the registers of births for 1855-1908, marriages 1855-1933 and deaths 1855-1958 at http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/
The current big excitement is the 1911 census for England and Wales which went live on 14 January at http://www.1911census.co.uk/. They have gradually added to the number of counties available and currently the whole of England except for Cumberland, Westmorland, Northumberland, Durham and the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire are available. Wales has still to be added. To check on progress and find out about enhancements to the search facilities as they are added, read the blog at http://blog.1911census.co.uk/
A less well publicised launch was the addition of the civil registration indexes for Ireland which are available on the Familysearch Record Search pilot site at http://pilot.familysearch.org. Irish civil registration indexes begin in 1845 for Protestant marriages. Civil registration indexes for births, deaths and all marriages begin in 1864. The available indexes cover all of Ireland from 1845/1864 to 1922 and the Republic of Ireland from 1923-1958. As the General Register Office for Northern Ireland has an online certificate ordering facility at http://www.groni.gov.uk/index/order_certificates.htm and the General Register office for Ireland has downloadable order forms at http://www.groireland.ie/apply_for_a_cert.htm ordering Irish certificates has now become much easier.
Sheena
Glasgow Police Museum to close
Early female aviators
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Miss Elizabeth Ann Roche Anderson, born 1908 Aug 18 in Dullatur
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Miss Winifred Joyce Drinkwater, born 1913 Apr 11 in Waterfoot
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Isabel Clare Drummond, born 1915 Dec 12 in Ardrossan
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Miss Ivy Barbara Mary Forsyth, born 1905 Apr 24 in Inverness
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Mary Coutts Gordon, born 1906 Oct 13 in St Andrews
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Sheila MacDonald Green, born 1901 Feb 15 in Elgin
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Maie Hardie, born 1893 Jan 14 in Kirkaldy
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Mrs Eleanor Amalie Harper-Gow, born 1894 Jun 21 in Cupar
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Miss Janet Hendry, born 1906 Oct 23 in Ardrossan,
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Marjorie Emily Meredith Hunter, born 1908 Jun 22 in Kilmalcolm
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Dorothy Millicent Kay, born 1911 Jan 3 in Edinburgh
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The Hon Miss Mildred Katherine Leith, born 1894 Mar 22 in St Andrews
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Mrs Henrietta Learmont MacEwan, born 1897 Jun 21 in Hurlet
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Mrs Margaret Helen Saunders, born 1901 Jun 30 in Montrose
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Shaw Annie Gillespie 1904 May 28 Uddingston
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Mrs Mora Morton Weir, born 1896 Jan 16 in Tayport, Fife