On Friday 19 November, Findmypast‘s “Fridays” headline statement was “Over 22 million more US records released“. Under the sub-heading “United States Obituaries Notices” Findmypast expanded “We’ve added over 22 million…
If you are studying a place in Devon, be sure to check the Chapman collection. It consists of 3,000+ glass negatives and 2,000+ prints (taken mostly from the plates), produced…
Clericus is a digital humanities research project that aims to develop a database on the Irish RC clerical population for the early modern and modern periods. Phase I of the…
Watercolour World have created a free online database of documentary watercolours painted before 1900. Before the invention of the camera, people used watercolours to document the world. Over the centuries,…
BALH (The British Association for Local History) has made all online back issues of The Local Historian (their quarterly journal) free to download for the duration of the pandemic crisis.…
The Cumbrian Railways Association has created a database of references to Cumbrian Railway Employees. The database comprises over 28,000 records derived from a large number of sources including official railway…
Massive congratulations to Library and Archives Canada (LAC) on completing the digitization of all Canadian military personnel records from World War 1. It took five years of work, encompassing over…
Historic England have made available online the Architectural Red Box Collection started by the National Buildings Record back in 1941 to document England’s built heritage, especially those buildings threatened or…
The General Register Office (GRO) has been piloting a service in England & Wales providing PDF copies of historical birth and death records. The pilot, originally extended to July…
The City of London Cemetery is one of the largest municipal cemeteries in Europe and anyone may be buried there irrespective of City connections or religious beliefs. Images of their…
Ancestors from Berkshire or a one-place study there? Take a look at the New Landscapes: Enclosure in Berkshire site to learn more about the process of enclosing the common fields…