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Tag Archives: research
So, what next?
Two weeks ago today, I sat down and composed a blog post entitled, Where Have All The Registers Gone? I referred to it as a ‘soapbox’ piece and my aim was to highlight what I saw as a serious problem … Continue reading
Posted in Document Sources, research, Soapbox
Tagged digitisation, family history, genealogy, parish registers, research
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Where have all the registers gone?
Let’s make something clear right from the start. I am a huge fan of digitisation and online access in genealogy. Both as an enthusiastic hobbyist and as a professional genealogist with 37 years’ experience, I have reason, on a daily … Continue reading
Posted in Document Sources, research
Tagged digitisation, documents, genealogy, online access, research, transcription
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1813 And All That
A comment on Twitter this morning in response to a tweet of mine about George Rose’s Parish Register Act got me thinking. My original tweet suggested that the post-1813 printed burial registers introduced by Rose’s Act were “somewhat lacking in … Continue reading
Don’t Believe The Hints
We’ve all been there. We’re following a line back, we’ve got our ancestor in the census, and we’ve found her marriage. We know the four key pieces of information that we ideally need to formulate a search for her birth; … Continue reading
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Tagged census, documents, family history, genealogy, registration, research, tna
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The Joy of Signatures
As family historians, we should never rely on transcripts. Access to original documents, or at least, to digital images of original documents is an essential part of the process of genealogical research. Even the most thorough and comprehensive transcripts are … Continue reading
Posted in Document Sources
Tagged documents, family history, genealogy, research, signatures, tna, transcription
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Handle with care
There’s been a lot of publicity this week around the decision by Oxford Reference to make their Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland freely available online for a limited period. Now, I’m not going to deny for a … Continue reading