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just to remind people that the familysearch pilot site that we use for Irish Civil BMD and extracted record searches is soon to be discontinued and replaced with the allegedly improved Beta site at : https://beta.familysearch.org/

There is an option to report feedback and problem with a tab to the right of the screen.

The only improvement that I see in this system is that you can now use either a registration district or county in the location field .. although this does not seem to work consistently (particularly for deaths).

The main problem that I see is that there are now no filters to limit the results to a particular event type, county or series of decades etc

Quite a few of the comments reported have been relating to the missing filters.



Shane

might be of interest to people in Ireland and with Irish connections. Google Street view for southern Ireland is due to go online this afternoon. (about 16:00)

update : Street View is up and running (if in Ireland use http://maps.google.com/maps rather than the .ie address)


Shane

We've heard various stories about one or more or my gt-grandfather brothers serving in WW1 but only just found a connection with the service record for John William Wilson. Military records are new to me so I'm not certain what all this means...so any pointers or opinions would be appreciated.

A few extracts of the record I found..

[damaged]  Attestation ? Army Form B. 2512  (cant see a date?]
Labour Corps, West Yorkshire Reg. 25th(Wks) Batt Durham Light Inf.

Protection Certificate and Certificate of Identity
Reg. No. 168082  Sgt. Labour Corp Dispersal Unit 17 Jul 1919

[damaged] ....Disability - Army Form Z.22
..8082  Sgt. Labour Corp  dated 15 Jul 1919
'I do not claim to be suffering from a disability due to my military service'

see below en extract from one of the forms with what appear to be a list of promotions included on one of the forms. I dont see anything yet that looks like a list of postings..

what exactly is involved in the Labour Corps ?



thanks,


Shane

does anybody recognize the pub in the photo below ?

The Woodman Inn was apparently located somewhere near Castleford, and was owned (and possibly built) by my gtgt-grandfather Henry Wilson.. sometime in the late 1880s to early 1890s.

He vanished in the mid 1890s and I'm hoping that locating the pub might help find further details on him.

thanks,


Shane

Update I received in an email from the IFHF - they have now added Church of Ireland Baptisms for Co. Wicklow to their system.

see : http://wicklow.brsgenealogy.com

updated list of Wicklow Sources


Shane