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| Genealogy News |
Ancestry.co.uk to fund TV show
by Staff Marketing 8 Mar 2006
LONDON - Genealogy website Ancestry.co.uk has tied up with The History
Channel to produce a series of advertiser-funded TV programmes.
Hidden House Histories will comprise a one-hour documentary in
May, followed by a 10-part series broadcast in the autumn.
This news is certainly going to be interesting for people who want
to research buildings. |
BT Archives has entered into a partnership with
the UK's leading genealogy web site Ancestry.co.uk to make BT's historical
phone books 1880-1984 available online
The phone books have been scanned and this information is now available
for historical genealogical research purposes to anyone with Internet
access anywhere in the world. Copies of the phone books from 1880
to the present day may also still be viewed in person at BT Archives.
Find
your ancestors today with a FREE 14 day trial to Ancestry.co.uk
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BBC TV Gene Detectives
On TV at the moment is a program about finding lost family members.
Although they look for immediate family, they do touch on research
and it's been quite an interesting and emotional program.
Melanie Sykes and gene expert Anthony Adolph present a series
that finds relatives who have been missing from a person's life
and reunites them. They track down three possible relatives who
must undergo a series of intense genealogy tests, as only then can
the real relative be identified.
I've watched quite a few now - its on after BBC Breakfast finishes
- and have found them interesting.
They talk about where your ancestors come from - and the groupings
of DNA that show for instance that group H comes from France...
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| http://www.gramps-project.org/
GRAMPS is a Free Software Project for Genealogy, offering a professional
genealogy program, and a wiki open to all. It is a community project,
created, developed and governed by genealogists. |
Sue sent us an email saying "I have used the
following free sites
www.lancashirebmd.org.uk
and www.historicaldirectories.org
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Thanks for the email Sue. |
| Apply
for births/deaths/marriage certificates online - UK |
| Free BMD
-Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England
and Wales |
| GENEALOGICAL
ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS - useful site. |
ABNEY
PARK CEMETERY - on-line index of the 194,815 burials that took
place in this cemetary from 1840 to 1978
LONDON ENGLAND: Hackney - Stoke Newington - Dalston |
There is an ongoing project by genealogists to put the censuses
from 1841 - 1891 online for free (but excluding the 1881 as that is
already there) http://freecen.rootsweb.com/
It's a huge project and will take years to accomplish. Many Family
History Societies have or are transcribing the 1891 at this moment.
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Information about Census in the UK
every 10 years...
Midnight. Sun/Mon. 6/7th June 1841
Midnight. Sun/Mon. 30/31st March 1851
Midnight. Sun/Mon. 7/8th April 1861
Midnight. Sun/Mon. 2/3rd April 1871
Midnight. Sun/Mon. 3/4th April 1881
Midnight. Sun/Mon. 5/6th April 1891
Midnight. Sun/Mon. 31/1st March / April 1901
Midnight. Sun/Mon. 2/3rd April 1911 *
Midnight. Sun/Mon. 19/20th June 1921
Midnight. Sun/Mon. 26/27th April 1931 (Destroyed in W.W. II)
** There was no Census taken in 1941 **
*(Not available before January 2012) |
The Family Tree Database at OneGreatFamily
Free 7 day trial |
| Links to other Genealogy Sites |
Surnames -
Worthington |
| Derbyshire
Family History - Wirksworth |
| http://www.myheritage.com/
Genealogy research and upload a photo and they'll tell you which celeb
you look like! |
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