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Discover Scottish Land Records now on sale

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 04:18 AM PDT

My latest book Discover Scottish Land Records is now on sale, published by Australian based Unlock the Past. It can be purchased from Gould Genealogy at AU$22 from www.gould.com.au/Discover-Scottish-Land-Records-p/utp0283.htm


(With thanks to Alan, Rosemary and Alona at UTP)

Chris

Check out my Scotland's Greatest Story research service www.ScotlandsGreatestStory.co.uk
New book: It's Perthshire 1866 - there's been a murder... www.thehistorypress.co.uk/products/The-Mount-Stewart-Murder.aspx (from June 12th 2012)

Lancashire parish registers on Ancestry

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 02:50 AM PDT

Ancestry (www.ancestry.co.uk) has released a new series of collections online for Lancashire:

Lancashire, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1911 (850138 records) http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=2575

Lancashire, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1936 (645187 records)
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=2576

Lancashire, England, Deaths and Burials, 1813-1986 (441009 records)
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=2577

Lancashire, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 (931033 records)
http://www.ancestry.co.uk/cs/reccol/default

Original data: Lancashire Anglican Parish Registers. Preston, England: Lancashire Archives.

Chris

Check out my Scotland's Greatest Story research service www.ScotlandsGreatestStory.co.uk
New book: It's Perthshire 1866 - there's been a murder... www.thehistorypress.co.uk/products/The-Mount-Stewart-Murder.aspx (from June 12th 2012)

Further colonial records released

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 02:44 AM PDT

The National Archives (www.nationalarchives.gov.uk) in England has released a second tranche of colonial records, covering Basutoland, the Cameroons, Ceylon, Cyprus, Fiji, the Gambia, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, and Gold Coast. The records are sourced from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, catalogued under FCO141.

The news announcement is at http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/746.htm, whilst a guide to the new release is available at http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/migratedarchives-2.guidance.pdf.

Chris

Check out my Scotland's Greatest Story research service www.ScotlandsGreatestStory.co.uk
New book: It's Perthshire 1866 - there's been a murder... www.thehistorypress.co.uk/products/The-Mount-Stewart-Murder.aspx (from June 12th 2012)

Edinburgh cemetery photos exhibition

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 01:59 AM PDT

Images taken by US art lecturer Robert Reinhardt of several of Edinburgh's cemeteries form part of an exhibition to be hosted at Edinburgh Central Library, from July 30th to September 1st 2012. The images belong to the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, which has more details and several examples available to view at http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/publication/?publication=robertreinhardtcemeteries

(With thanks to @RCAHMS)

Chris

Check out my Scotland's Greatest Story research service www.ScotlandsGreatestStory.co.uk
New book: It's Perthshire 1866 - there's been a murder... www.thehistorypress.co.uk/products/The-Mount-Stewart-Murder.aspx (from June 12th 2012)

Eddie's Extracts updates

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 01:54 AM PDT

Eddie Connolly's Eddie's Extracts website has been updated at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~econnolly/ with additions of BMD intimations and other clippings sourced from the Lisburn Standard from July 1918. There are also additions to the Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-1919 collection for members of the Royal Irish Rifles.

(With thanks to Eddie @teddiec on Twitter)

Chris

Check out my Scotland's Greatest Story research service www.ScotlandsGreatestStory.co.uk
New book: It's Perthshire 1866 - there's been a murder... www.thehistorypress.co.uk/products/The-Mount-Stewart-Murder.aspx (from June 12th 2012)

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