Genealogy Snippets 11 July 2012

Genealogy Snippets are short news items that I think you would want to hear about sooner rather than later. 1. Family Search has just put online 76 million new records, those guys never do things in small numbers !! Amongst … Continue reading

Welsh Parish Registers online

I usually confine myself to English records because that is where my area of expertise is, but I have been asked to include notices about additions to the collections offered by Ancestry and FindMyPast. So here goes …. FindMyPast has … Continue reading

Sheffield Parish Registers Online

FindMyPast has just put online baptism, marriage and burial transcripts for Sheffield, Yorkshire. The records have been supplied by the Sheffield & District Family History Society and cover the following time periods. Baptisms     1858 – 1940 Marriages    1848 – 1986 … Continue reading

Prisoners of War Records now online

FindMyPast has added WW1 & WW2 Prisoners of War records to their military collection. The records were provided by the Naval & Military Press and consist of 7,703 British Army Officers who were Prisoners of War between 1914 and 1918 … Continue reading