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The Thoroton Society

January 19th, 2012 Linda Elliott

clip_image002The previous posting about The Nottinghamshire Heritage Gateway led me to this website, The Thoroton Society, which is the leading historical & archaeological society for Nottinghamshire. The aims of the society are to promote knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the history, archaeology and antiquities of Nottinghamshire, and to support local research and conservation.

This looks to be a very interesting & informative website which would be very useful to give a background to Nottinghamshire ancestors. It’s going onto my list of sites to spend time browsing at the weekend.

http://www.thorotonsociety.org.uk/

 

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Nottinghamshire Heritage Gateway

January 19th, 2012 Linda Elliott

clip_image002Have you got folk from Nottinghamshire ? My husband has so I was interested in this website. The first page introduction says it all really !!….

The Nottinghamshire Heritage Gateway is designed to provide a guide to the heritage resources of the county, and a history of Nottinghamshire featuring the latest research.

The information provided by the Gateway is arranged through a series of research pathways, organised into the following groups: places, people, themes and events. The pathways provide users with a brief overview of a subject area and a list of key resources for further research, arranged by type of source material.

The Gateway is being developed by The Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire, and new pathways are added on a regular basis.

 

http://www.nottsheritagegateway.org.uk/

 

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Bedfordshire Online

January 10th, 2012 Linda Elliott

Talking to fellow genealogists I have found that a recurring topic is that it is getting harder to keep up with what is available for a specific county. I thought I might do an occasional posting about what I have found for a particular county. I won’t include the GRO Indexes, Census or other country wide material. Of course the moment I post it online it will be incomplete, but hey it’s better than nothing Winking smile

www.ancestry.co.uk

  • Register of Marriage Licences, 1747-1790
  • Wilstead – Parish Registers of Wilstead, 1593-1812
  • Suffolk Green Books, Subsidy Lists, 1309-1332
  • The Orlebar chronicles in Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire, 1553-1733, or, The children of the manor house and their posterity. London: Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke, 1930.
  • The history of a Bedfordshire family : being a history of the Crawleys of Nether Crawley, Stockwood, Thurleigh, and Yelden in the county of Bedford. London: A. Rivers, 1911.
  • The Visitations of Bedfordshire, Annis Domini 1566, 1582, and 1634
  • Pedigree of Acworth of Bedfordshire, etc. : together with some notes on the genealogy.
  • Some records prior to 1700 of White of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire and a few of other English shires : with incidental records of more than 80 other families, specially indexed. Printed by Allen, Lane & Scott, 1945.

www.findmypast.co.uk

I have to say that trying to find out which parishes are included in the online parish registers on Find My Past is almost impossible !!! Hope someone from FMP reads this and does something about it !!

Bedfordshire Burial Index – 159 parishes, 355,503 entries.

http://www.bfhs.org.uk/

The Bedfordshire Family History Society has CD & fiche of Bedfordshire parish registers and a whole lot more for sale from their website. The county is unique in that all pre 1812 registers have been transcribed.

http://www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/ArchivesAndRecordOffice

Bedfordshire Gaol Register 1801 – 1879 online.

65% of the holdings are on their online catalogue. The entries are quite detailed so can be very useful without purchasing a copy of the actual document.

Online listing of Bedfordshire pubs with photos & histories.

https://www.familysearch.org/

100% coverage on the IGI

According to my Phillimore Atlas & Index there is 100% coverage for the old IGI, whether that is correct for the new family search I can’t say, but I suspect that many of the parishes will have been taken across.

Hope some of you have found this helpful.

 

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Hampshire Marriages 1538 – 1659

October 29th, 2011 Linda Elliott

clip_image002The Hampshire Genealogical Society is pleased to announce that the Hampshire Marriage Index 1538-1659 on CD is now available for purchase £25.

The other indexes that the Society produce are now on Find My Past, I wonder when we can expect to see this latest block of information become available?

http://www.hgs-online.org.uk/index.htm

www.findmypast.co.uk

 

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Wiltshire Parish Records

April 15th, 2011 Linda Elliott

Search more than 1 million new Cambridgeshire records now on findmypast.co.uk

Just got this from www.findmypast.co.uk

We have just published 99,717 new parish baptism records for Wiltshire on findmypast.co.uk

The Wiltshire Family History Society provided findmypast.co.uk with these records, in association with the Federation of Family History Societies.

Further details about these records are as follows:

Baptisms – 99,717

1538-1867

Ansty,

Collingbourne,

Devizes, Draycot Cerne,

 

Easton Royal, Ebbesbourne Wake,

Foxley, Fugglestone St Peter,

Garsdon,
Hankerton, Hardenhuish, Heytesbury,

Kingston,

Langley Burrell, Lea & Cleverton, Leigh, Leigh Delamere, Little Langford, Littleton Drew, Longbridge Deverill,

Maiden Bradley,

North Newnton, Nunton,

Ogbourne St Andrew, Ogbourne St George, Overton & Fyfield, Patney,
Rollestone, Rushall,

Salisbury, Seagry, Sedgehill, Shalbourne, Sherrington, Slaughterford, South Newton, South Wraxall, Stanton St  Bernard, Stanton St Quintin, Stapleford, Stockton, Stourton, Stratford sub Castle,
Sutton Benger,

Teffont Evias, Tytherton Lucas,

West  Dean, West Grimstead, West Harnham, West Kington, Westport, Westwood, Wilcot, Wilsford, Winsley,

Yatton Keynell

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Manchester 1851 Census free index

April 11th, 2011 Linda Elliott

clip_image002If you have family in Manchester then you will know all about the flood damaged 1851 census and how it was unreadable for years. The Manchester & Lancashire Family History Society (MLFHS) some time ago started a project to transcribe what they could of the census.

It was a long project and during the time it took to complete technology has advanced and recently Ancestry.co.uk have produced the best possible images and indexed them. However it is said there is some difference between the 2 indexes, so it is worthwhile checking them both. The MLFHS index is available for free and the Ancestry one is on their subscription site.

http://www.1851-unfilmed.org.uk/

www.ancestry.co.uk

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Coventry Family History Society

March 17th, 2011 Linda Elliott

clip_image002The Coventry Family History Society has several online databases that you can search for free.

http://www.covfhs.org/

Coventry Family History Society –

This database contains some extracts from the register of boats working the Coventry canal. It covers the years 1879 to 1936 and is searchable on the surname of owners and masters.

Convict Register -

A copy of The Convicts Register is held in Coventry Archives under Reference 1755/1. This gives further information about the convicts including usually their photograph and sometimes details of their convictions. The page shown against each name refers to the page in the register. For a few names no page is shown as it is known to be missing. Some convicts had aliases and these have been included in the index.

Lascelles City Directory 1850 -

Trade directory for Coventry.

Plus details of how to join the Family History Society, their publications and Research Aids.

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Suffolk Family History Society Members Interests

July 15th, 2010 Linda Elliott

 

Suffolk FHSSuffolk Family History Society are pleased to announce that their Members Interests are now available online.

Access to this service is totally FREE to everyone provided the member has an email address. If the member has no email address, then Suffolk FHS incur a charge contacting the member. However, for an introductory period this will also be FREE!

So if you have Suffolk ancestors consider joining up and in the mean time take advantage of this free offer.

http://www.suffolkfhs.co.uk/

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Lincolnshire Record Society

June 21st, 2010 Linda Elliott

 

Lincolnshire Record SocietyGot ancestors in Lincolnshire then this website will be of interest to you. http://www.lincoln-record-society.org.uk/

The Society was founded in 1910 to print records and documents relating to the ancient county and diocese of Lincoln. The ancient diocese covered not only Lincolnshire, the second largest county of England, but also the wide area which lay within the medieval diocese: the counties of Lincoln, Leicester, Northampton, Rutland, Oxford, Bedford, Buckingham, Huntingdon and northern Hertford. Since 1910 the Society has published ninety five volumes many of which are still in print.

The Society has individual and institutional members from around the world including many leading university and national libraries. Its aim is to publish one volume each year and it always welcomes ideas for new projects. Early volumes were often published in Latin but today its policy is to publish in English whenever possible, or otherwise to provide an English summary.

The Lincolnshire Society’s latest publication is “The Correspondence of the Spalding Gentlemen’s Society 1710-1761”.

Many counties have their own Record Societies and they can be very worth while tracking down.

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Pomeroy Family History

June 21st, 2010 Linda Elliott

 

Pomeroy Family AssociationChris Pomeroy is well known in genealogy circles as an expert in DNA as well as his leadership of the Pomeroy Family Association. So if you have Pomeroy’s or one of the variants of the name on your family tree then you are very lucky and can link in with some very knowledgeable genealogists!

http://www.pomeroyfamilyhistory.com/

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