The Scottish Old Parish Register deaths and burials are now online - a day before planned. ScotlandsPeople has comprehensive guidance notes about these records on their site at http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/content/help/index.aspx?r=554&1353
And I've got a meeting in London tomorrow, and another commitment tomorrow night - rats!
Sheena
www.setait.co.uk
Tuesday 31 March 2009
Friday 27 March 2009
Scottish OPR burials due online on 1 April
I was looking at the Glasgow-based newspaper The Herald for a Scottish take on the new London records released on Ancestry (covered in my previous post) when I came across this throwaway comment:
On April 1, the final tranche of the old parish registers, death records for the period 1553-1854, will go online.
Hurrah! Guess what I'll be doing on Wednesday!
Read the full story at http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.2498137.0.Scots_now_able_to_trace_London_roots.php
Sheena
London Metropolitan Archives' records start to go online at Ancestry
Indexes to, and digital images of, the records held by London Metropolitan Archives have started to appear online at Ancestry.
The whole collection spans over 400 years from the 1500s to the 1900s and covers parish baptism and marriage registers, burial registers, Bishops' Transcripts, Non-conformist baptisms, marriages and burials, poor law Board of Guardians records, school admissions and discharge registers, electoral registers and poll books, land tax documents, Surrey marriage bonds and allegations, wills, transportation records from the Middlesex Sessions of the Peace, Diocesan marriage bonds and allegations, Diocesan divorce exhibita and City of London Freedoms. The full collection is due to appear gradually over the next year.
At the moment the online data covers the poor law Board of Guardians Births and Baptisms 1834-1934 and the poor law Board of Guardians Deaths and Burials collection 1834-1906. The London boroughs covered are:
Camden
Islington
Lambeth
Southwark
Tower Hamlets
Wandsworth
Westminster
You will need either a premium or worldwide subscription to view the data.
See the full details at http://landing.ancestry.co.uk/lma/london.aspx
Sheena
www.setait.co.uk
The whole collection spans over 400 years from the 1500s to the 1900s and covers parish baptism and marriage registers, burial registers, Bishops' Transcripts, Non-conformist baptisms, marriages and burials, poor law Board of Guardians records, school admissions and discharge registers, electoral registers and poll books, land tax documents, Surrey marriage bonds and allegations, wills, transportation records from the Middlesex Sessions of the Peace, Diocesan marriage bonds and allegations, Diocesan divorce exhibita and City of London Freedoms. The full collection is due to appear gradually over the next year.
At the moment the online data covers the poor law Board of Guardians Births and Baptisms 1834-1934 and the poor law Board of Guardians Deaths and Burials collection 1834-1906. The London boroughs covered are:
Camden
Islington
Lambeth
Southwark
Tower Hamlets
Wandsworth
Westminster
You will need either a premium or worldwide subscription to view the data.
See the full details at http://landing.ancestry.co.uk/lma/london.aspx
Sheena
www.setait.co.uk
Thursday 26 March 2009
Italian family searching for relatives of the British soldier who saved their mother's life
An Italian family is searching for relatives of a British soldier who saved their mother's life during WWII.
In January 1944, the pregnant Maria Mancini from the Abruzzo region of Italy needed emergency medical treatment to save her life. A British soldier called Martin drove her to hospital in his jeep through snowstorms and across mined roads.
After an emergency cesearian section, Mrs Mancini gave birth to twin girls. Sadly one of them died a week later. Martin continued to visit Mrs Mancini in hospital, they became friends and he gave her a photo of his own two daughters.
Just after Mrs Mancini and her daughter were released from hospital, Martin was killed in action.
Mrs Mancini remembered and often told the story of Martin's kindness and friendship to her family. Unfortunately she never knew his surname.
Her daughter, Angela, and her granddaughter are now searching for the two children in Martin's photo.
Are you, or is one of your relatives, one of these girls. Check the photo and the full story on the Telegraph website at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/5049684/Family-seek-relatives-of-hero-British-soldier-who-saved-Italian-womans-life.html
Sheena
http://www.setait.co.uk/
In January 1944, the pregnant Maria Mancini from the Abruzzo region of Italy needed emergency medical treatment to save her life. A British soldier called Martin drove her to hospital in his jeep through snowstorms and across mined roads.
After an emergency cesearian section, Mrs Mancini gave birth to twin girls. Sadly one of them died a week later. Martin continued to visit Mrs Mancini in hospital, they became friends and he gave her a photo of his own two daughters.
Just after Mrs Mancini and her daughter were released from hospital, Martin was killed in action.
Mrs Mancini remembered and often told the story of Martin's kindness and friendship to her family. Unfortunately she never knew his surname.
Her daughter, Angela, and her granddaughter are now searching for the two children in Martin's photo.
Are you, or is one of your relatives, one of these girls. Check the photo and the full story on the Telegraph website at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/5049684/Family-seek-relatives-of-hero-British-soldier-who-saved-Italian-womans-life.html
Sheena
http://www.setait.co.uk/
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