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300,000 new Warwickshire records now available
If you have family from Warwickshire, England you may well find them in one of 300,000 new Warwickshire records we added this week.
Some records in these collections pre date 1837, making them particularly useful in finding people before civil registration began. Some records actually date back to 1564 (shown in the image above).
One interesting new… Read more
130 Years of London Electoral Registers Released Today!
AUTHORED BY RUSSELL JAMES (ANCESTRY.CO.UK)
Our NEW London, England, Electoral Registers, 1835-1965, take you back through the history of Britain and London’s democratic system. More than that, they let you trace your English ancestors’ movements between census years and well into the 20th century, giving you far greater precision in your timeline of their lives.
Electoral registers listed… Read more
British Occupation Records
Butcher, baker or candlestick maker? What your ancestor did to make a living is an important part of their history and your family tree. You can discover your ancestors’ occupations with our new occupation records from Britain. You can examine your ancestors’ work in more detail and see how it affected the rest of their… Read more
Burke’s Family Records
Author Ashworth P. Burke is the son of Sir Bernard Burke who published many works regarding British genealogy with his father, John Burke Esquire.
Sir Bernard and Ashworth co-wrote the Peerage and Baronetage and the Landed Gentry about ancestral lineages of English, Scottish, and Welsh nobility and gentry.
Burke’s Family Records is meant to supplement the Peerage… Read more
Dictionary of National Biography (UK) Volumes 1-20 and 22
The Dictionary of National Biography began in 1882 as an ambitious project spearheaded by George Murray Smith to produce a biographical dictionary of prominent British and Irish figures from the earliest of times up to 1900. The efforts of hundreds of contributors resulted in a 22 volume alphabetical series containing thousands of biographies.
This collection contains… Read more
Fame and scandal amongst a century of ‘runaway weddings’
On this Valentine’s Day, we revisit the Gretna Green Marriage Registers 1795-1895, a fascinating collection which details the weddings of more than half of all Brits who crossed the Scottish border to marry without their parents’ consent.
The collection, also referred to as the ‘Lang Registers’ , contains the marriage records of Gretna Green’s most prolific… Read more
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