Family Research – English, Scottish and Irish Genealogy

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Previously unseen colour footage of London during the Blitz has been discovered, after lying in an attic for almost 70 years.

The amateur footage includes images of bombed-out landmarks such as the John Lewis department store – on Oxford Street. for more click here

These eye-opening images bring the devastation of the Blitz into the modern world.

As a nation reflects on the 70th anniversary of one of the most brutal examples of ‘total war’ these montages blend vintage black and white shots of the carnage of 1940 with colour images of the same locations today. for more click here

Three organisations charged with handling public records in Scotland, including the burgeoning office responsible for the genealogy boom, have been asked to look at merging.

Ministers have asked the General Register Office for Scotland, National Archives of Scotland and Registers of Scotland to explore the benefits of amalgamation. for more click here

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Although the oldest regiment in the British Army is the 1st Royal regiment of Foot, usually known as the Royal Scots, it was not until the French and Indian War (known in Europe as the Seven Years War) that Scottish regiments played a significant role in the Army. In fact, between 1756 and 1763, Britain raised 10 regiments of Scots Highlanders to fight in the European and American theaters of that conflict. Many Scottish veterans of this conflict chose to stay in the colonies (sometimes returning to Scotland to bring families and friends back with them). The personal papers of various Scottish combatants, reflecting their nation’s participation in or the perspective on that famous conflict, can be found at the National Archives of Scotland in Edinburgh. for more click here

Ancestry.com. The registers of the Church of St. Michan, Dublin [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
Original data: The registers of the Church of St. Michan, Dublin. Dublin: Printed for the Parish Register Society of Dublin by A. Thom & Co., 1907. for more click here

Scots in the USA and Canada, 1825-1875 for more click here

n 1885, Joseph Thomas and the Lippincott Company published the “Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography”. In this massive undertaking containing more than 2,550 pages, he detailed the lives of everyone who had a place in history to that point. Kings, inventors, politicians and scoundrels from earliest history to the modern era were included. This database records Thomas’ work. For each of the nearly 61,000 names, you will find information on birth, reason for notoriety and death. Where it is included, additional information on marriage or family will be noted.

Areas covered: Afghanistan Algeria Armenia Austria Bahrain Belgium Brazil Canada China Cuba Denmark Egypt England Finland France Germany Greece Grenada Holland Hungary Iceland India Iran Iraq Ireland Italy Jamaica Japan Lebanon Lithuania Malta Morocco Norway Palestine Panama Poland Portugal Peru Prussia Russia Saudi Arabia Scotland Shoa Spain Syria Sweden Switzerland Turkey USA Wales. for more click here