Birmingham Pub Blacklist Now Online
Recently we launched online what has become one of my favourite collections ever! A collection of records detailing drunkards whose behavior resulted in them being barred from Birmingham pubs at the turn of the last century. The Birmingham Pub Blacklist was compiled by the Watch Committee of the City of Birmingham which was created by… Read more
Family Tree Maker and GPS
AUTHORED BY TANA L. PEDERSEN We’ve all been there. You’ve spent days (or years) looking for a relative’s grave, and when you finally locate it in a middle-of-nowhere cemetery, you realize that you’ll never remember how you got there. Or be able to explain to anyone else how find the same location. In years past… Read more
1910 Land Valuation Survey now available for keying in AWAP
Exciting AWAP news as the London, England, Land Tax Valuations, 1910 – better known as the 1910 Land Valuation Survey – is now live in AWAP and ready to be keyed. The 1910 Land Valuation Survey was the first full and detailed survey of land ownership in the United Kingdom since the 11th century. The… Read more
I discovered roots in folk music through Member Connect
I have had my tree on Ancestry.co.uk for a long time now and have always enjoyed adding records and stories about my ancestors. Recently however I discovered yet another reason why I love trees – Member Connect. A while back I noticed that someone had saved some of my photos to their own family tree.… Read more
New filtering options coming to New Search
Welcome to the first Ancestry.co.uk Site Features blog post. We will be bringing you news of changes to search, trees and other areas of the site, some of which will be from our US colleagues who are also working on these features. Our first post is written by Anne Mitchell, who works on the search… Read more
Personal Accounts of the Irish Famine Now Online
Earlier this week we published online a fantastically rich collection of Irish records entitled the Ireland, Famine Relief Commission Papers, 1845 – 1847. These 7000 original letters were written by Irish citizens who were requesting help during the Great Famine in the mid 19th century. I was deeply touched upon reading these harrowing accounts of… Read more
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Welcome to the Ancestry.co.uk Blog, created as a place for us to share the very latest news about new historical records, site features and our World Archives Project, and for our members to leave comments and interact with other Ancestry members. Please provide us with your thoughts and comments so that as we fine tune… Read more
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