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May 20th, 2013
Search every name, state and territory for FREE.
On April 1, 1940 history was made as the 16th U.S. Census was taken in America and its territories. And today, each and every one of the 134 million records is ready for you to explore here on Ancestry.com. Simply search for your family member by name and you could find records that include details [...] Read more...May 20th, 2013
Discover your ancestors
Take a journey into your past and build your family tree. Did you like this? Share it:Tweet Read more...May 20th, 2013
£6m for First World War centenary projects
Six million pounds has been made available to communities wanting to commemorate the centenary of the First World War. Did you like this? Share it:Tweet Read more...Regular posts
May 20th, 2013
Scots at Work exhibition
Scots at Work is a collaborative exhibition celebrating Scotland’s extraordinary working archives, including rarely-seen documents and objects from Scotland’s archives and museums, as well as the National Records of Scotland. Did you like this? Share it:Tweet Read more...May 20th, 2013
Search every name, state and territory for FREE.
Search every name, state and territory for FREE. On April 1, 1940 history was made as the 16th U.S. Census was taken in America and its territories. And today, each and every one of the 134 million records is ready for you to explore here on Ancestry.com. Simply search for your family member by name [...] Read more...May 20th, 2013
Ye royal fashion bible: New art exhibition shows how Britain’s Tudor monarchs led London to the top of the style stakes more than 300 years ago
We know London was the capital of fashion in the Swinging Sixties. But, judging from the garments on show at a new exhibition at the Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, the capital was also top of the style league 300 years ago. Though the 1660s were a dark time with deadly plague and the Great Fire [...] Read more...May 18th, 2013
Broadside entitled ‘Sale of a Wife’
This report begins: ‘A full and particular Account of the Sale of a Woman, named Mary Mackintosh, which took place on Wednesday Evening, the 16th of July, 1828, in the Grass Market of Edinburgh, accused by her Husband of being a notorious Drunkard; with the Particulars of the bloody Battle which took place afterwards.’ It [...] Read more...May 18th, 2013
The National Archives (United Kingdom)
The National Archives (TNA) is an executive agency of the Ministry of Justice of the United Kingdom.It is “the UK government’s official archive, containing 1,000 years of history”. There are separate national archives in some of the devolved parts of the United Kingdom: the National Archives of Scotland holds government and private documents relating to [...] Read more...May 18th, 2013
Fifth tranche of colonial administration records released
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