Family Research - English, Scottish and Irish Genealogy

St. Andrew’s Day not only commemorates Scotland’s National Day, it also marks the opening of many Christmas markets and the beginning of the Winter Festival period: the 100 days that stretch towards spring, encompassing those other big dates in the Scottish calendar – Hogmanay and Burns’ Night. All the more reason to celebrate…
St. Andrew’s Day - 30 NovemberVisit for Free Celebrate St. Andrew’s Day with a ringtone from the Red Hot Chilli Pipers. for more click here

BT is putting its entire archive of old phone books online for genealogists, or anyone else, to browse, and a commercial genealogy company is opening up access to all UK burial records since 1538. for more click here

With itsourtree.com (www.itsourtree.com), the family network for online family trees has been launched in English. A huge interest in the European countries shows a trend concerning family trees and genealogy on the internet. The pan-European service is the Germany’s community of the year and the fastest-growing German Social Network. for more click here

Archive Search contains both Digital and Text Archives. The Digital archive contains exact reproductions of all articles published by the Irish Times from 1859 onwards, while the Text archive contains material published on ireland.com from 1996 onwards. for more click here

First Minister Alex Salmond has recorded a special St Andrew’s Day Message for the country’s National Day and decided to fly the banner of the Royal Arms of Scotland, which shows a lion rampant, outside the Scottish Government headquarters in Edinburgh.

The FM, as Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland, is one of the Crown representatives permitted to use the Royal Arms of Scotland. The banner shows the Royal Coat of Arms of the Kingdom of Scotland, and forms part of the Royal Arms. for more click here

There are 47,000 stories in the WW2 People’s War archive. Browse through the categories below to find stories and photographs concerning major aspects of World War Two, and the locations where key events took place. Find out how these stories were categorised. for more click here

A bag belonging to a World War II soldier from Lancashire has been discovered in the Egyptian desert after lying there for more than 60 years.
Alex Ross, from Burnley, lost the bag containing personal letters and photos, while serving with the 8th Army. for more click here

The Red Cross announced today that for the first time one of the largest storehouses of Nazi documents in the world would be opened to the public, ending more than six decades of secrecy. for more click here

Provo, UT — (SBWIRE) — 11/28/2007 — WorldVitalRecords.com announced today its major sponsorship of the 2008 St. George Utah Genealogy and Family Heritage Jamboree to be held on February 8-9, 2008.

“Being a sponsor of this event is an awesome opportunity and privilege because we have never had sponsors before,” said Kimberly Savage, VP of My Ancestors Found. “I have attended conferences for 20 years, and this is an excellent conference. Professionals who are on the cutting edge of learning will be attending, along with the leaders in the industry, such as WorldVitalRecords.com, Footnote, Ancestry, and FamilySearch.” for more click here

TORONTO, Nov. 28 /CNW/ - Ancestry.ca, Canada’s largest online resource for family history, revealed the results of a national genealogy survey involving more than 1,000 respondents. The results show that a staggering 39 per cent of Canadians cannot trace their roots back more than 100 years, and 20 per cent don’t know where their families came from before moving to Canada. for more click here