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Tag Archives: tna
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 digitisation, Document Sources, research, Soapbox
Tagged antiquarians, census, digitisation, documents, family history, genealogy, indexing, research, the national archives, tna, transcription
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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 digitisation, Document Sources, research, Soapbox
Tagged death duty registers, documents, family history, genealogy, research, the national archives, tna
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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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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
Posted in research
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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