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Tag Archives: documents
Transcripts and indexes
The release of the 1921 census returns for England and Wales earlier this year led to some (fairly heated) discussion on social media regarding the quality of the transcription provided by Findmypast, the National Archives’ commercial partners in the online … Continue reading
Posted in Document Sources, research, Soapbox, digitisation
Tagged tna, the national archives, research, family history, census, documents, transcription, genealogy, digitisation, antiquarians, indexing
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The original and best
This blog is dedicated to the memory of genealogist Lorine McGinnis Schulze who passed away recently. I had the pleasure of working for Lorine over the past few years, transcribing several early English wills for her. Lorine’s enthusiasm for the … Continue reading
Posted in Document Sources, research
Tagged documents, family history, genealogy, research, the national archives, wills
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When Digitisation Goes Bad Part II: Death’s Apprentice
or…Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Back Onto The Internet This is the second part of a blog post looking at some particularly bad examples of digitisation in the world of family history research. In the first … Continue reading
Posted in Document Sources, research, Soapbox, digitisation
Tagged research, family history, documents, genealogy, london metropolitan archives, apprenticeship, indexing
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When Digitisation Goes Bad Part I: The Night Of The Living Death Duties
This is the first part of the latest in a series of blog posts looking at the some of the problems behind the way that we access family history sources via the major commercial websites. In previous posts I’ve looked … Continue reading
Posted in Document Sources, research, Soapbox, digitisation
Tagged tna, the national archives, research, family history, documents, genealogy, death duty registers
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Please Release Me…
…being a very brief history of the releases of the English & Welsh census returns. We need to understand right from the start that the primary purpose of the census has never been to produce a resource for the benefit … Continue reading
Posted in Local History, research, Soapbox
Tagged 1921 Census, census, documents, family history, genealogy, latter day saints, research, society of genealogists, the national archives, tna
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