Category: Genealogy News
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Standards for research and documentation
For the serious family researcher. Newly published, Genealogy Standards, 50th Anniversary Edition. It is produced by the American Board for Certification of Genealogists, but seems a good place to go as it includes sections on Standards for Documenting Standards for Researching Standards for Writing Under a tenner on Amazon.co.uk Amazon .co.uk also has a link…
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Some new Ancestry records
Ancestry has recently had one of its massive uploads of new datasets – in this instance showing as done on 21st January. These are “select” baptisms, marriages, deaths, burials and more from around the world. In other words, incomplete parish register or similar records, from centuries ago up to the 20th century. They are (all?)…
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Online records for British in India
FindMyPast has put online two and a half million records from the British Library’s India Office Records collection, reports Who Do you Think You Are magazine. These would appear to be under (or connected with) Travel and Migration on the current FMP site – a new version is due soon. One of the things that…
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Research News
Note: this feature is not being updated – items date from 2014. News for family history researchers – click on the title for the full version of each item. Material gleaned from own research activity, various social media sources, genealogy publications etc. [catlist name=”news”] » »
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Price increase for Ancestry?
Ancestry has increased its subscription rates for new members on the Ancestry.co.uk site, although the monthly sub at the most basic level has gone down. The changes make sense in that there is a clearer relationship between monthly and annual rates, generally the latter is approximately 10 times more. The ‘Premium’ level is the exception,…