Hertfordshire Archives & Find My Past

Hertfordshire Archives has joined forces with FindMyPast to digitise their parish register holdings 1538 – 1990. According to the Archives Twitter page the registers should be available for online searching by the end of 2012. What good news especially as … Continue reading

Surrey Marriages now working

Yesterday I posted that the advert for Surrey Marriages popped up on Ancestry, but the button didn’t take you to them. Now they are up and running and it seems they are “London and Surrey, England, Marriage Bonds and Allegations, … Continue reading

New National Archives Catalogue online

The National Archives has launched their new online catalogue, the old one will be disappearing soon so we will all be using the new “Discovery” Catalogue from now on. This catalogue will incorporate the Documents Online as well. I have … Continue reading

Gressenhall Workhouse

I came across this website whilst looking for something else as you do on the internet ! If you have ancestors who were unlucky enough to have been inhabitants of the Gressenhall Workhouse in Norfolk then you will be fascinated … Continue reading

Titanic Historical Society

I recall seeing in a museum in Southampton a photograph of the children of the city who had been orphaned by the sinking of the Titanic. I am sure that this photograph will be prominent in the new SeaCity Museum … Continue reading