Wednesday 30 June 2010

New Irish Church Records Online - FREE!

New Irish Church Records Online - FREE!: "Irish Genealogy, hosted by the Ireland Department of Tourism, Culture and Sport, has added a large number of new church records of baptism, marriage and death to their free Web site. This brings the total to over 2 million church records from Dublin City and counties Kerry and Carlow, plus a subset from Roman Catholic parishes in the Diocese of Cork & Ross."

Tuesday 29 June 2010

Sunday 20 June 2010

Bedfordshire Family History Society.

Rushden sits by the Northamptonshire border with Bedfordshire, and a number of our U3A Genealogy Group members have ancestors from Bedfordshire. Here is access to information held by the Bedfordshire Family History Society
Bedfordshire Family History Society.

Friday 18 June 2010

Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter: Genealogy Programs for Windows

Here is an interesting article from Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter comparing the most popular genealogy applications on offer in North America. many of them (eg legacy, which I use) are available in the UK alsoEastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter: Genealogy Programs for Windows

Thursday 17 June 2010

Dorset Online Parish Clerk

Dorset OPC: Here are a pile of family history records for the County of Dorset, not close to Rushden, but some of you may have Dorset ancestors. An Online Parish Clerk (OPC) researches all the available historical data they can find on a parish, records are transcribed, and in order to promote further private research, are made FREELY available to any researcher. An OPC is a volunteer and should not be confused with the civil Parish Clerk appointed by a Parish Council."

The Genealogist's Internet, 4th Edition

The Genealogist's Internet, 4th Edition: "This is a comprehensive introduction and guide to researching British family history on the Internet, (their words!) published by The National Archives."

Tuesday 15 June 2010

10 Sources for Researching British Military Ancestors

From the About.com site some very useful sites identified to dig into what your ancestors did while serving their country in the British Military Services
10 Sources for Researching British Military Ancestors

Thursday 10 June 2010

Genealogy BLOGS

I have established the genealogy blog in the last month.
But there have been lots of others do it before me.
Here is a listing of over 900 genealogy blogs for you to peruse.
A listing of over 900 genealogy and family history-related blogs. | GeneaBloggers

Thursday 3 June 2010

The Irish 1901 Census goes online

IRISH 1901 CENSUS GOES ONLINE: THE EARLIEST surviving complete Census of Ireland has been put online, giving access to more than 4.5 million records from 1901 for historians, genealogists and anyone curious about their family history.

Some 850,000 households on the entire island were covered in the census, which was taken on the night of Sunday, March 31st, 1901.

Millions of files offer historic snapshot - The Irish Times - Fri, Jun 04, 2010