Articles About Record Collections
Manchester Parish Records – how do they appear online?
Authored by Clare Connolly. Clare is one of a team of Ancestry.co.uk camera operators who have been working on the digitisation of the new Manchester Parish Registers, 1541-1985. We’ve just launched onsite the new Manchester Parish Records, 1541-1985. These crucial records are the result of months of work behind the scenes to digitise the original… Read more
New divorce records: A silver lining
It’s a family history conundrum. You don’t like to imagine your ancestors having difficult lives. But every time they hit tricky times they seem to be really well documented, and provide some of your most fascinating discoveries. This is true of Poor Law records. It’s definitely the case with criminal records. And it crops up… Read more
New Migration & Travel records – full of emotion
Back at Who Do You Think You Are? Live last February, I saw a perfect example of how much someone’s family history can mean to them. A lady told me that she was struggling to find any record of her granddad before his marriage around 1930. I tried looking in the usual places – censuses,… Read more
New records – Printers, gamekeepers and boat owners in Warwickshire
Authored by Russell James. Most of you will have noticed that we released a new record collection this week: Warwickshire Occupational and Quarter Session Records, 1662-1866. I immediately took a special interest in this collection, as not only did I grow up in the Warwickshire town of Rugby, but generations of my mother’s family also… Read more
Know the ropes about our dead sea captains
‘Take me back to beautiful England & the grey, damp filthiness of ages, fog rolling down behind the mountains, & on the graveyards, and dead sea-captains.’ Lyrics from ‘Last Living Rose’ by P J Harvey. Discovering your family history can be an exciting experience and researching one’s ancestor’s masters’ certificates is one such journey to… Read more
Careers at sea: Masters Certificates, 1855-1948
Occupation records are some of our most popular collections. It’s not surprising really; learning about your ancestors’ careers can really help paint a picture of how they lived their lives, and what sort of people they were. That’s particularly true about our latest addition. Masters Certificates, 1850-1927 reveals more than 250,000 hardy souls who spent… Read more
New Dorset records – are you descended from pirates?
Abandon all hope, ye who enter Ancestry.co.uk today. There be pirates about, and they be thirsty for your blood. Actually, strictly speaking, we’re hoping that our pirates already share your blood. These scurvy dogs – who appear as part of nine new Dorset record collections we’re launching today – are real historical people who could… Read more
“God Himself couldn’t sink this ship”
The sinking of the RMS Titanic is one of the best-known events in British history. Indeed, the disaster has become so shrouded in myth and legend that it’s easy to forget that it directly affected over 2,000 real people. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the accident, we’ve released five new record collections that reveal… Read more
Let the journey into Sarah’s past commence
Avid blogger and lover-of-all-things-vintage Sarah Hurley came to us recently, letting us know that she was on the verge of starting to research her family history, using Ancestry.co.uk, and was going to document her journey into her past on her blog. We were intrigued! We wanted to know more because, not only do we always… Read more
1911 LIVE Q&A TUESDAY 28 FEB AT 10AM
The Ancestry.co.uk team will be on-hand to answer your England & Wales 1911 Census-related questions LIVE on our Facebook fan page – www.facebook.com/AncestryUK – next Tuesday at 10am GMT. Whether it’s a question about how to search the latest census available to the public or advice on using them in conjunction with other historical content… Read more
Don’t forget you can search records, build your family tree and discover more about your family history over on the main site.
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