The following announcement was written by Findmypast: Findmypast add new workhouse and marriage records, along with more than quarter of a million additional newspaper pages. Lancashire, Oldham Workhouse This brand new collection sees over 150,000 records from Oldham Workhouse in Lancashire published online. These records cover over 130 years, from 1800-1936, and include both admissions …
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Discover Two New Exclusive Indexes Added to Findmypast
The following announcement was written by Findmypast: Findmypast add new workhouse and marriage records, along with more than quarter of a million additional newspaper pages. Lancashire, Oldham Workhouse This brand new collection sees over 150,000 records from Oldham Workhouse in Lancashire published online. These records cover over 130 years, from 1800-1936, and include both admissions …
Alabama Shipwreck Holds Key to the Past for Descendants of Enslaved Africans: “Be Sure That That Legacy Lives On”
Keys to the past and the future of a community descended from enslaved Africans lie in a river bottom on Alabama’s Gulf Coast, where the remains of the last known U.S. slave ship rest a few miles from what’s left of the village built by newly freed people after the Civil War. Work performed this month will …