Many of you will have used the very useful Hugh Wallis Batch Number site over the past few years. It was a great site which was so helpful to so many family historians. Sadly it now has many problems … Continue reading
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, … Continue reading
An index (limited transcript) of Essex parish registers 1538 – 1900 are now online free at https://familysearch.org/search/collection/show#uri=http://hr-search-api:8080/searchapi/search/collection/1465709 There are no images available at the familysearch site, but scans of the actual registers can be found at http://seax.essexcc.gov.uk/displayParishContents.asp … Continue reading
Ancestry.com have announced that it will be making the US 1940 census free to view until 31 December 2012. The records will be released by the US National Archives on 2 April 2012 and then there will be a wait … Continue reading
I see in various blogs and magazine articles that many people are finding the new familysearch website a challenge. I must say that I don’t find it as user friendly as the old site and I like to think I … Continue reading
