Deceased Online have just announced an addition to their extensive Greater London holdings. West Ham, Newham Cemetery opened in 1857 and was one of London’s first publicly owned cemeteries. The cemetery covers 22 acres and comprises 180,000 burials. Elizabeth Stride, one of the victims of Jack the Ripper, is buried in this cemetery.
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West Ham Burial records
January 27th, 2012 
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Appleton, Cheshire Burial Records
January 20th, 2012 Linda Elliott 
Our friends at FindMyPast have just released the burial records for Appleton, Cheshire 1800 – 2002. So if you have ancestors from this parish it’s your lucky day 
The records have been provided by the Cheshire Family History Society.
Irish Burial Records
January 16th, 2012 Linda Elliott 
This website has more than 1.5 million burials & cremations recorded in it’s database. The cemeteries covered are Glasnevin, Dardistown, Goldenbridge, Newlandds Cross & Palmerstown, all of which are in the Dublin area.
Searching the index is free, if you wish to get more detailed information the cost is between 3 – 8 credits, credits can be purchased online for £1 per credit.
The Trust recently was awarded the CIGO 2011 Award for Excellence in Genealogy.
Find My Past Parish Records
January 14th, 2012 Linda Elliott 
In one of my previous posts I mentioned how hard it was to find out which parishes and for what time period were covered on the Find My Past parish records collection. Being the sort of genealogist who likes to know these things I emailed Find My Past and Liam Kelly promptly replied. Many thanks Liam 
The general link to the whole collection is
http://www.findmypast.co.uk/help-and-advice/knowledge-base/parish-records
but you then have to click the “next” to get to the various pages where the info is. Along the way you will go through pages that have some good descriptions of the records you are looking at. Very useful for those who are new to genealogy or who have gone along not really knowing the ins and outs of parish registers. Well worth a read.
So that you don’t have to go through all the pages if you just want to get to the listings here are the links to the actual coverage info.
Churches & Burial Grounds in City of London Collection. The lists are down the page.
http://www.findmypast.co.uk/help-and-advice/knowledge-base/parish-records/city-of-london-burials
Burial Records.
These are from all around the country, some are county wide others from a specific parish.
http://www.findmypast.co.uk/help-and-advice/knowledge-base/parish-records/other-burials
Marriage Records.
Like the burials these are from all around the country, some are county wide others from a specific parish.
http://www.findmypast.co.uk/help-and-advice/knowledge-base/parish-records/marriages
Baptism Records.
Again these are like the burials & marriages.
http://www.findmypast.co.uk/help-and-advice/knowledge-base/parish-records/baptisms
So there is the information, go and have a look to see if your parishes are covered and if they are then I can guess what you will be doing for the rest of the day !!
Durham Records Online
December 30th, 2011 Linda Elliott 
Over 3.5 million transcripts of parish registers, census, vestry minutes etc. are available on this website. The indexes can be searched for free and if you find something of interest then you can purchase credits. The cost per record seems to be £1.50, which is certainly cheaper than a trip to the Archives for most researchers.
The website is created by four genealogists; Holly Wanless Cochran, Tony Whitehead, George Turns & Ken Coleman.
Sheffield Indexers
December 21st, 2011 Linda Elliott 
Just come across another great website run by volunteers. The introduction says ….
The Sheffield Indexers’ mission is to provide, via the Internet, accurate indexed transcriptions of genealogical records for access by all, free of charge.
The original site was first conceived in 2001 by Elaine Pickard. The intention was to index genealogical material, primarily specific to Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, especially Parish Registers and Burial information, into a simple to access format for people who who are interested in Sheffield Genealogy and have difficulty in obtaining the needed source material.
Access to the material is to be free of charge and that all transcriptions of records and management of the site would be from voluntary sources for the benefit of the genealogical community.
There are burial records, parish records, wills, directories, school records and a lot more. So if your people ever lived in Sheffield then this site needs to be bookmarked as you will be using it a lot !!
http://www.sheffieldindexers.com/
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Tylers Collection East Kent now online
December 20th, 2011 Linda Elliott 
I have been alerted to another dataset put onto Ancestry.co.uk website. This time it in the Tyler Collection which is held by the in Canterbury, Kent.
Knowing nothing about this collection I read up about it on the ancestry site. It seems that Frank Watt Tyler compiled 3,240 books which contained transcripts of parish registers, monumental inscriptions and wills. His area of interest was East Kent and the records run from 1538 – 1874.
This sounds like one of those little know resources that are now available to be used by a much wider audience. So anyone with East Kent families this could be worth a search.
Manchester General Cemetery Project
December 2nd, 2011 Linda Elliott 
Whilst researching the previous post I came across this website regarding the project to record all the monumental inscriptions in the Manchester General Cemetery. Great website, beautifully presented and with lots of information.
What would the genealogy world do without volunteers such as these. Browsing the website they haven’t just meandered round and recorded the upright stones, but have dug, prised up and generally excavated stones that have fallen over. Well done team 
Manchester Burials Online
December 2nd, 2011 Linda Elliott 
Have you got ancestors who might have been buried in Manchester ? If so then this is the website for you. Manchester City Council offer a free database of the burials in the cemeteries in their care.
The database is very easy to use, you put in the names of your ancestor, hit the submit button and it comes up with a list of possible entries. This page gives you the burial date, full name, Cemetery, grave number and at the end of the row is a “view details” button. Click on that and it takes you to a list of who else is in the grave.
You can buy credits which will give you fuller details, but the free part of the database is very helpful on its own.
Oldham, Lancashire Cemetery Registers
November 3rd, 2011 Linda Elliott 
Cemetery records 1797 – 2004 for Oldham, Lancashire are now available online on familysearch. The site gives this information ….
This collection contains cemetery registers from Hollinwood, Failsworth, Royton, Crompton, Chadderton, Lees, and Greenacres cemeteries in Oldham. Most registers contain, name, address, date of death, date of burial and burial location.
The records start from when the cemeteries were established so don’t expect records from 1797 for all the cemeteries. There is a more details explanation about the records if you click on the “learn more” button.
The records are very extensive featuring Burial Registers, Crematorium Registers, Stillborn Registers, Armed Services & War Dead Registers, Grave Plans & Family Plot Registers. There are indexes, but you can also browse through scans of the original documents. Wonderful resource. It’s just a pity that I don’t have anyone from Oldham !!
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