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Since websites, their
content and their links are prone to frequent change, or even removal, we will
only display the articles from the previous four issues of the journal.
Vol 26, No 3: March 2013
The
National Archives – http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
New
to TNA? Start here - http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/start-here.htm
Online
map showing where Blitz bombs hit London - http://bombsight.org
A new interactive map of London, devised by The University of Portsmouth in
collaboration with TNA, shows the location of every German bomb that landed in
London between 7th October 1940 and 6th June 1941.
Detailed
descriptions for nearly 12,000 tithe maps of England and Wales from the 1840s
are now available in
the Discovery catalogue.
A
useful article on their blog by Audrey Collins - http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/missing-from-the-census/
On
the 1911 census, a number in red ink at the bottom of the sheet towards the
left indicates the number of children under 10 in the household having been
rechecked by the enumerator. Where this differs from the named list of
under 10s it may indicate the recording of a deceased child. The
green figure relates to the number of servants. (Thanks to Jackie Depelle for this).
Ancestry
- http://www.ancestry.co.uk
They
have added Divorce Records for 1858 to 1911 - http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/?htx=List&dbid=2465 The indexes have been online for some years,
now on FMP, but these records from J77 at TNA are the court papers, heavily
weeded. For fuller details use newspaper
archives.
Other
new additions include Outward Passenger Lists 1890-1960 (already on FMP) and
Manchester parish records.
Find
My Past - http://www.findmypast.co.uk
With
TNA, FMP have added more army records for the Boer War from WO128 and for the
Chelsea Hospital from WO121, WO122 and WO131.
Deceased
Online – https://www.deceasedonline.com/servlet/GSDOSearch
The
first part of Manor Park Cemetery in East London has been added - 103,000
records from 1930 onwards.
The
Genealogist - http://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/index.php
With
the 52 million death records for E&W from 1910 to 2005 now available
and using their 'SmartSearch' feature, you can now go from the death
record to a birth record, to finding the parent's marriage, to tracing
siblings in very easy steps.
Scotland’s
People - http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/
They
have added the usual further year’s images, plus the 1905 Valuation Rolls.
British
Library - update on the new newspaper building at Boston Spa - http://pressandpolicy.bl.uk/Press-Releases/Minister-gets-first-look-at-gigantic-new-Newspaper-Storage-Building-at-the-British-Library-in-Boston-Spa-5de.aspx
Origins
- http://www.origins.net/
Linked
to their pre-1858 National Wills index, they have loaded Jeremy Gibson’s maps
of each pre-1974 county showing the ecclesiastical jurisdictions.
Also
over 300,000 more baptisms and burials for Middlesex and the City of London.
Lost
Cousins - http://www.lostcousins.com/
The
newsletters are always worth reading and a recent one had a Master Class on
finding pre-1837 baptisms and marriages and some notes on adoption -
http://www.lostcousins.com/newsletters/midnov12news.htm
FamilySearch
- https://familysearch.org/
You
can now order copies of all kinds free by e-mail for delivery electronically -
https://familysearch.org/blog/en/policy-change-patrons-requesting-photocopies-family-history-library-salt-lake-city-utah/
https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Photoduplication_Services
Inner
Temple. The Calendars of Inner Temple
Records 1505 to 1845 are now online -
http://www.innertemple.org.uk/history/caldendars-of-inner-temple-records-1505-1845
Audrey
Collins reminds us that things were a good deal different in the old days -
http://thefamilyrecorder.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/no-paperwork-required.html
Tim
Forsyth - http://timforsythe.com/blog/adam/
Various
tools for building websites, verifying Gedcoms for syntax, checking Gedcoms for
things like having children after death, estimating birth dates, and listing
the censuses in which each person appears.
Vol 26, No 2: December 2012
The
National Archives – http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
The
major change has been the full introduction of the new catalogue called
Discovery.
A
new set of digitised records is the Home Guard enrolment forms for County
Durham in WO409.
Pests
in the Archives [no, not us family historians!] -
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/pest-monitoring-in-the-archives/
Ancestry
- http://www.ancestry.co.uk
Ancestry
has added a new database entitled UK, Articles of Clerkship, 1756-1874
containing records associated with articles of clerkship for young men
apprenticed to attorneys for the years 1756-1874.
Another new collection is Masters and Mates Certificates, 1850-1927 covering
over 250,000 merchant seamen.
Commonwealth
War Graves Commission registers with 560,000 names have been added together
with Memorial Books and Officer Prisoners of War in WW1.
Also
records for Dorset and Warwickshire plus dozens of scans of old books
unindexed.
Find
My Past - http://www.findmypast.co.uk
The
first batch of newspaper images from the British Newspaper Archive have now
been copied to FMP, including Dover Express 1858 - 1949, Kentish Chronicle 1859
- 1867, Kentish Gazette 1768 - 1883, and Whitstable Times 1867 - 1904.
Other
new record sets include Prison Ship Records, 1811-1843, 8,900 prisoners held
captive on prison ships, or hulks and the 1918 Royal Air Force muster roll,
with 181,000 names, and parish records for Surrey and Middlesex.
FamilySearch
- https://www.familysearch.org/
They have added images for Kent of Land Tax Assessments 1689 - 1932, Bishop’s
Transcripts 1560 -1911, Quarter Sessions and Court files 1558 - 1899, Register
of Electors 1570 - 1907, Workhouse records 1777 - 1911, and Wills etc 1400 -
1881, but these are all only viewable at Family History Centres.
They
have shared several indexes from FMP so that there are more flexible search
options, but the images can only be viewed on FMP.
Deceased
Online – https://www.deceasedonline.com/servlet/GSDOSearch
Deceased
Online has added some 371,000 records for five cemeteries and the crematorium
in Greenwich borough.
The
Genealogist - http://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/index.php
They
have added numerous parish records including London.
Scotland’s
People - http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/
They
had added further 400,000 Wills for 1902 to 1925.
Trade
Union Ancestors - http://www.unionancestors.co.uk/
Includes a listing of over 5000 UK unions, some with brief histories, with
links to sources, plus a wealth of other information.
I'm
sure we can all recognise a little of ourselves in Audrey Collins' list
entitled 'You Know You're a Genealogist When...'
http://thefamilyrecorder.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/you-know-youre-genealogist-when.html
Other
recent blogs by Audrey -
http://thefamilyrecorder.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/online-records-never-mind-description.html Online records - never mind the description,
look at the source.
http://thefamilyrecorder.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/welcome-to-govuksimpler-clearer-faster.html
The new
Big East End Parish St. George-in-the-East - Description of the registers,
problems and oddities, part of a detailed history of the parish -
http://www.stgite.org.uk/media/registers1.html
http://www.stgite.org.uk/media/registers2.html
Early London medical records - http://www.magicandmedicine.hps.cam.ac.uk
Simon
Forman, a notorious London astrologer, recorded 10,000 consultations between
1596 and 1603. Most of these are medical.
His casebooks can now be searched by name (of any party involved), date,
sex, age, topic of consultation and many other criteria. The first batch
includes images of all the manuscript pages of
Forman's first volume, and more will follow soon.
Test your knowledge with this quiz on marriage law linked to Rebecca Probert's
new book Marriage Law for Genealogists -
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/staff/academic/probert/marriagelawforgenealogists/
Help on Quaker dates using numbers and the calendar change in 1752 -
http://ftp.rootsweb.ancestry.com/pub/roots-l/genealog/genealog.quakerc1
and
http://www.quaker.org.uk/subject-guides
second guide down.
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Vol 26, No 1: September 2012
The
National Archives – http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
The
service records of the first 320,000 First World War airmen to serve with the
Royal Air Force (RAF) and its forebears are now searchable by name in the
catalogue. The records in
Fees
for images ordered from Documents Online have reduced slightly in some cases,
for example
http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/default.htm
is their starting point for research in TNA and elsewhere.
Ancestry
- http://www.ancestry.co.uk
Ancestry
now has E&W Probate indexes on line from 1858 up to 1966 and have filled in
the gaps.
They
have added Poll Books and Electoral Registers for 1538 to 1893 for England from
London Metropolitan Archives. This contains the names of 4.6m voters mainly
from 1660.
Also
from LMA, 12m entries have been added from London and Middlesex Land Tax
records for 1692 to 1932.
Over
855,000 records from English based trade directories in a collection of
Midlands and other Trade Directories, 1770-1941, indexed by
Ancestry
have introduced a new interactive image viewer linked to the 1911 Census.
New
and updated collections - http://www.ancestry.co.uk/cs/reccol/default
Find
My Past - http://www.findmypast.co.uk
FMP
in conjunction with the Royal Archives have added 75,000 records of employees
who worked in the Royal Household between 1526-1924. You can search them free of charge but
viewing a record requires credits or a sub.
New
military nurses records for 8,969 people who were awarded the Royal Red Cross
nursing award from 1883 to 1994.
Prisoners
of War - 7700 records for First World War officers and 166,000 records for
Second World War have been added. Also
2300 records of men who received facial plastic surgery following WW1.
Numerous
parish records - see the article on the Canterbury Collection on pages 12 and
13.
News
of new additions - http://www.findmypast.co.uk/content/news/2012
FamilySearch
- https://www.familysearch.org/
Articles on each of the City of London's 109 historic parishes with tables of
records available online at major websites, with adjacent counties to follow,
at -
https://familysearch.org/blog/free-guide-london-ancestors/
A
new addition is an index to Ireland Prison Registers, 1790-1924 with images on
FMP Ireland.
Steve
Archer has analysed records in the extracted batches, formerly in the IGI, now
in England Christenings and Marriages in the new Family Search -
http://www.archersoftware.co.uk/igi/index.htm
Deceased
Online – https://www.deceasedonline.com/servlet/GSDOSearch
The
main addition is 58,000 records for Harrow.
Origins
- http://www.origins.net/
A
further 15,000 West Kent wills have been added to the National Wills Index,
plus wills and abstracts for other areas.
News
page - http://www.origins.net/news/news.aspx#113
Kent
Archaeological Society - http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Libr/Wills/WillsIntro.htm
Leland
Lewis Duncan’s handwritten lists and transcriptions of Wills of Kent residents
and landowners who lived in medieval and Tudor times pre-1700 are now on two
databases by name and by place.
British
Newspaper Archive – http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/
Coverage
of the Dover Express is now 1875 to 1949, Kentish Gazette 1768 to 1883, Kentish
Chronicle 1859 to 1867, and Whitstable Times 1867 to 1904.
UKBMD - http://www.ukbmd.org.uk
This
has had an update, with the addition of new categories with links to numerous
online resources by county.
London's
Livery Companies - http://www.londonroll.org/
The
Records of London's Livery Companies Online (ROLLCO) is a database that
includes all of the extant information about apprentices and registers from the
Clothworkers' (1545-1908) and the Drapers' (c.1400-1900), with a sample of data
from the Goldsmiths' (1600-1700). Future updates will include the complete
records of the Mercers' (planned for early 2013).
Local
Pubs - http://evenmoretales.blogspot.co.uk/2012_05_26_archive.html
Lists
the names of local pubs along with licensees and licence applications in East
Kent, many of which have closed.
Britain
From Above - http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/
Over
16,000 aerial photographs taken from 1919 to 1953.
Archives
Hub - http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk
This
provides a gateway to 180 institutions across the country with thousands of
unique and little-known sources.
Lost
Family Heirlooms - https://reunitems.com
This
new website hopes to reunite lost or forgotten family heirlooms. The
"Genealogical" and "Lost and Found" sections are
relevant. Items can be auctioned or donated. Currently very sparse,
but worth keeping an eye on.
Burial
Clubs - http://www.historyhouse.co.uk/articles/burial_clubs.html
An
article on the unregulated clubs set up to help the poor pay for a funeral and
not be buried in an unmarked pauper’s grave.
Although focused on Essex, this site has numerous other interesting
articles.
History
of Woolworths - http://www.woolworthsmuseum.co.uk/
Pic’N’Mix
from pages on a decade or a product.
Description
of the steps in conserving old newspapers -
http://www.nli.ie/blog/index.php/2012/07/13/conserving-our-newspapers/
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Vol
25, No 4: June 2012
The
National Archives – http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
TNA
has launched its new catalogue called Discovery, incorporating the catalogue,
Documents Online and other online indexes and images.
They
have completed a project to index 300,000 Naturalisation records.
TNA
has celebrated the centenary of inheriting from the Stationers’ Company the
Ancestry
- http://www.ancestry.co.uk
Ancestry
have added London and Surrey Marriage Bonds 1597 to 1921, Victoria Cross
Medals, a number of new Irish collections and Dorset crew lists. They now have 10 billion records.
Find
My Past - http://www.findmypast.co.uk
FMP
have added the 1901 Scottish census, the first batch of parish records from
Westminster Archives, Chester wills and probate, Boer War records and parish
records from various counties including north west Kent. For parish registers, you can now browse
images consecutively.
Good
news – FMP will soon be available in Kent libraries.
The
Genealogist – http://www.thegenealogist.co.uk
They
have added images of the Illustrated London News 1850 to 1862 plus scans of
directories and transcripts of parish registers.
Titanic
- Ancestry, FMP and The Genealogist have all added or highlighted existing
collections related to the Titanic and its passengers and crew.
FamilySearch
- https://www.familysearch.org/
For
Kent they have added images of some parish registers and Quarter Sessions and
Court files 1600 to 1883, but these are currently only viewable at Family
History Centres. There are regular
additions from all round the country.
Deceased
Online – https://www.deceasedonline.com/servlet/GSDOSearch
210,000
records added for Eltham Crematorium plus other additions.
Origins
- http://www.origins.net/
The
first sets of 13,000 Kent wills have been added to the National Wills Index
relating to the Archdeaconry and Consistory Courts of Rochester for 1660 to
1858, plus 27,000 inventories. Also
106,000 Middlesex burials.
More
good news - Origins is now available free in Kent libraries.
ScotlandsPeople
- http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/
Valuation
Rolls for 1915 have been added, recording the names of owners, tenants and
occupiers of each property.
British
Newspaper Archive – http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/
This
now includes the Dover Express for 1902 to 1918.
The
Times Archive – this has been extended to include 1986 to 2006. Access is free at home with your library card
from KCC or many other local authorities, or at a library.
Society
of Genealogists – http://www.sog.org.uk/index.shtml
The
SoG has a large number of datasets on its website that are not on FindMyPast,
such as Poll Books. Searches are free
but to view the record or image you need to be a member or a day visitor.
Woodchurch
Ancestry Group – http://www.woodchurchancestry.org.uk/
A
plug for the group that hosted our April visit.
Note the Mid Kent Marriage Index linked from the page above and Romney
Marsh Baptisms for 1750 to 1911 at http://www.woodchurchancestry.org.uk/romneymarshbaptisms/index.php
Kent
Archaeological Society - http://www.kentarchaeology.ac/ekwills_a/index.html
Indexes
to East Kent wills from 1396 to 1858.
UK
Links to lists and directories - http://www.ukgdl.org.uk/
1700
links to various websites analysed by county and by 62 categories.
Wrecks
- http://www.wrecksite.eu
A
comprehensive database of wrecks. There
is no index of persons, so use a search engine such as Google that can search a
specified website to find unlucky captains.
Also try Lloyds List – http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lloydslist/
and the guides to maritime ancestors at http://www.glamorganfamilyhistory.co.uk/maritime/Site.html
Royal
Flying Corps and RAF – http://www.britishmedals.us/kevin/raf1918.html
and
http://www.airwar1.org.uk Two websites with lists of personnel from
1914 to 1918.
Local
images etc - http://www.culturegrid.org.uk/
Search
for images and other media in libraries and archives. A search for “Folkestone” produced 150 images
and over 250 other items.
London
Burial Grounds – http://www.londonburials.co.uk/
Details
of the history and pictures of numerous cemeteries in inner and outer London.
Industrial
Heritage - http://www.gracesguide.co.uk
Grace's Guide is the leading source of information about industry and
manufacturing in Britain from the start of the Industrial Revolution to the
present time. It contains 68,000 pages
of information and over 90,000 images on early companies, their products and
the people who designed and built them.
Smuggling
- http://www.smuggling.co.uk/gazetteer_se_14.html
for East Kent
and
http://www.smuggling.co.uk/gazetteer_se_15.html
for Romney Marsh.
These
are the pages for our area of this illustrated history of smuggling around
Britain by author Richard Platt.
And
finally, GENES - http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/
Keep
up with all the GEnealogy News and EventS with Chris Paton’s blog and RSS feed.
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