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News snippets from Lost Cousins
« on: Saturday 02 August 08 19:53 UTC (UK) »
Just received this. Thought it might be of interest.....

Lost Cousins have decided to extend the free weekend announced in the last newsletter. Totally free access to the LostCousins site will now run for a full 10 days, from Friday August 22nd to Monday August 31st.

Australian archives go online
Most Australian records of interest to family historians are held by the individual states - but the National Archives of Australia  are digitising many of the records they hold, including those relating to 20th century immigrants.

BMD project collapses
For several years the General Register Office has been working on a major project to digitise birth, marriage, and death records - and this could have provided England & Wales with an equivalent to the online registers at Scotlandspeople .
The controversial closure of the Family Records Centre in Islington was partly justified by these forthcoming changes - but now the private contractor responsible for implementation has withdrawn "by mutual consent", and it isn't clear when, or if, the project will re-start.
My personal opinion is that, with the GRO now part of the Identity and Passport Service, the interests of genealogists are going to come well down in the list of priorities.

Access to Archives
I'm delighted that Peter Foden, a Freelance Archivist and Genealogist who runs Ancestography  has agreed to contribute an article on Access to Archives
In case you haven’t discovered this resource before, here’s a quick summary of what it is and how it might help you in your research.
It is a collaborative index of about a third of the documents in public record offices around England and Wales (over ten million records). It can be a useful pointer towards historical records about individuals or communities. But it is worth remembering that it isn’t comprehensive. There is a huge wealth of archives “out there” that could tell you much more about your ancestors than just key life events.

You can narrow your search to one archive (over 400 have posted information on A2A), or to a region.  You can use Boolean logic (and/or/not) and adjacency searches (for instance if you want to look for a surname in a particular place).  There is just one flaw: accurate date searches are not possible.  If you don’t find your surname by searching, don’t give up; remember only about 30% is so far online and catalogue descriptions might not replicate all the content of a document (the entry for a rental for example might include place and date but not tenants’ names).


A2A has kick-started online catalogues at many local archive services. One day the content of all our archives might be online with access to images of original documents, but meanwhile family historians can whet their appetites for primary sources about their ancestors by searching on A2A and then making the trip to see something authentic.






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Lewis/Morgan - Carmarthenshire
Jones - Denbighshire
McCormack/McLoughlin - Liverpool
McKenzie - Liverpool/Lanarkshire/ Aus/USA/NZ
Evans - Merionethshire
Turnell - Northamptonshire
Jones - Glamorgan
Wood - Nova Scotia, Mass, USA
Booth - Aus
Francis - Carmarthen
Griffiths - Glamorgan and Llanelli
Morgan - Llanelly, Pontardulais
Williams - Llanelly
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