In October, MyHeritage added 14 million records from 23 collections from all over the world including Australia, Canada, Germany, Hungary, Scotland, Spain, the U.K. and the U.S. The collections include marriage, death, burial, passenger, immigration, census, voter, wills and testaments, and more. It is a very lengthy list. Rather than republishing it here, you can …
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Jamaican RGD Adds Genealogical Research Tool to List of Products, Services
Note: The following refers to the “RGD,” which is the Jamaican government’s Registrar General’s Department. The rebranded “Outtamany Search” and other products and services were launched on Wednesday, December 7, during a ceremony at the Courtleigh Hotel, St Andrew, Jamaica. The Outtamany Search, formerly known as Genealogical Research, provides useful information on a family’s history, …
Two Seventeenth Century Atlases Digitised and Online in England
Two bound sets of maps from the British Library’s core collection of early modern English cartography have recently been digitised and placed online. Harley MS 3749 is a series of 18 hand-drawn maps of parts of the Royal estate at Windsor, produced in 1607 by the English surveyor, mapmaker and author John Norden (c. 1547-1625). …