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Still spaces on Scottish Research Online course 27 Aug 2013 | 04:35 pm
Need some help with your Scottish ancestral research? There are still spaces available on the next Scottish Research Online course, run by Pharos Teaching and Tutoring Ltd, and taught by yours truly, ...
National Archives to improve website 26 Aug 2013 | 04:57 am
The National Archives at Kew has announced that from September it will slowly start tinkering with its website to implement a series of changes to navigation, improved tablet access and a new home pag...
New South Wales teachers rolls 1869-1908 26 Aug 2013 | 04:53 am
Ancestry (www.ancestry.co.uk) has added a new collection, New South Wales, Australia, Teachers’ Rolls, 1869-1908, sourced from State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, A...
National Family History Fair on September 7th at Newcastle 25 Aug 2013 | 11:17 pm
Yesterday's family history event in Motherwell was great - now news of another fair coming shortly, one I've attended for the last few years, and always a lot of fun! The National Family History Fair...
Brilliant family history fair in Motherwell 25 Aug 2013 | 08:11 pm
Lanarkshire FHS Yesterday I had the real pleasure of attending the Local and Family History Show in Lanarkshire at Motherwell, ably organised by Lanarkshire Family History Society. It was an unbeliev...
TNA podcast - the Great Train Robbery 23 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
The latest podcast from the National Archives at Kew is entitled The Truth About The Great Train Robbery of 1963, a 50 minute talk from Peter Guttridge. It can be listened to at http://media.nationala...
Free access to UK census records on Ancestry 23 Aug 2013 | 07:25 pm
Ancestry (www.ancestry.co.uk) is offering free access to its UK census records collections from 1841-1911 for the Bank Holiday weekend. The records will be available to search for free from 00:00 BST...
You've Been Researched - Nick Hewer on WDYTYA 23 Aug 2013 | 04:30 pm
From the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (www.proni.gov.uk): Who Do You Think You Are at PRONI Advisor to Lord Sugar on The Apprentice and the host of Countdown, Nick Hewer has been filmed ...
Scottish heir hunting firm convicted of fraud 21 Aug 2013 | 05:39 pm
Dick Eastman is reporting on his blog that heir hunting firm World Wide Genealogy Ltd (formerly called Beneficiaries Ltd), has been prosecuted on ten counts of fraud at Reading Crown Court in Berkshir...
FindmyPast to digitise English and Welsh school registers 21 Aug 2013 | 05:19 pm
From the UK's FindmyPast (www.findmypast.co.uk): Millions of school records to be published online for the first time The Archives and Records Association (UK & Ireland) - ARA - has signed a deal, o...
