“The Ministry of Justice is consulting on digitizing and then throwing away about 100 million paper originals of the last wills and testaments of British people dating back more than 150 years in an effort to save 4.5 million pounds a year,” reports Robert Booth via The Guardian. Leading historians are calling these plans “sheer vandalism” and …
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UK’s Ministry of Justice Plans To Digitize Then Destroy 100 Million Historical Wills
“The Ministry of Justice is consulting on digitizing and then throwing away about 100 million paper originals of the last wills and testaments of British people dating back more than 150 years in an effort to save 4.5 million pounds a year,” reports Robert Booth via The Guardian. Leading historians are calling these plans “sheer vandalism” and …
From London to Lincolnshire, There Are Almost 20,000 Fascinating New Records for You to Explore This Christmas With Findmypast
The following is an announcement from Findmypast: In our last record update of 2023, we’ve added over 18,500 English records. These fascinating additions include monumental inscriptions from Yorkshire, Lincolnshire workhouse guardians’ minutes, and 18th-century school records from the UK’s first free school for deaf children. We’ve also added two new titles to our newspaper collection, …