The following announcement was written by the folks at TheGenealogist: Find the vital details of your ancestors from the Stuart Era to the Victorian Era, recorded at the time of their deaths TheGenealogist has added obituary records from the Index Society, Musgrave’s Obituaries and the Society of Friends to its record collection, with obituaries dating back to …
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New Database Boasts More Than 200 Years of Data on Crime and Punishment in the Nordic Nations
The Nordic countries have kept crime and punishment records for almost 200 years. Accessing early records has been difficult, requiring year-by-year searches of handwritten documents. An internet database provides historical criminal statistics to everyone. University Lecturer Miikka Vuorela of the University of Eastern Finland Law School has produced a database of crime and punishment information …
Taylor Swift’s Irish Roots Explored by Genealogy Experts
Taylor Swift’s Irish roots have been traced back to Derry. Genealogy experts have pieced together the global icon’s ancestry and found that her forebearers departed for a new life in America on board a ship that left Derry in 1836. Ahead of the American popstar’s arrival to Dublin’s Aviva Stadium next week, EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum, …