The following announcement was written by the folks at Findmypast: More 1939 Register records and new Irish records added this Findmypast Friday · 65,000 new records opened on the 1939 Register, and over 6,300 Irish records added in the last release of 2022 · Over 600,000 more newspaper pages published to finish off the …
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Our Ancestors’ Christmases
December 23, 2022 It’s a couple of days before Christmas, and most of my rushing around buying, wrapping, cooking, mailing and decorating is done. As I sit by the glowing Christmas tree, my thoughts have strayed to my ancestors’ Christmases. One of my great grandfathers spent Christmas of 1867 aboard an immigrant ship bound …
The Herald Digital Archive Project (in Farnham, Surrey, England) Online Newspaper Archive
The Herald Digital Archive Project was first launched by the Farnham Herald in November 2019, but its progress was stalled by the Covid-19 lockdowns. However, the lockdowns also prompted an increase in local interest for local newspaper archive material and the Herald has now got the project back on track. With the help of volunteers …