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This month, we're really excited about developments here at
Ancestry.co.uk that will bring you even closer to your fellow family
historians. Plus if you've got clerical ancestors, we've just released
a useful new record collection for you to search. You can also peruse
the pages of The Gentleman's Magazine online – and be in to win one of
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Were any of your ancestors members of the clergy? Well, now you can
discover a whole host of fascinating background information with the
release of Crockford's Clerical Directories – available for the first time online through Ancestry.co.uk.
Crockford's Directories first appeared in 1858 and are still published
today, although this release covers dates up to 1932.
Featuring about 250,000 names, the directories contain biographies of
UK Anglican clergy and details of English, Welsh and Irish
beneficiaries and churches. If your clerical ancestor is featured, you
can discover all sorts of in-depth information – such as: where they
studied and when they obtained a degree; a work history of where and
when they performed their clerical duties; details of any authors and
their address at the time of publication.
Searching the records couldn't be easier – the complete collection is
fully word searchable, so searching for ‘Olivier' returns the records
(below) for Laurence Olivier's father and grandfather who were both
clergymen.
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Have you ever wondered what sort of magazine your ancestors would have
read? Well now you can read for yourself, with the online release of The Gentleman's Magazine.
Founded in 1731 by Edward Cave and published monthly until it ceased in
1914, it's a far cry from today's lad magazines. To begin with, it
reproduced news, essays and articles from other publications, collating
them into a single source. However, as time went on the magazine
started to include original material, such as literary critiques and
Parliamentary reports.
In 1891 George Gomme republished an enormous amount of these articles
but edited and indexed them into county specific order.
The complete collection spans fifteen volumes covering all counties in
England, with three entire volumes covering London. So there is a huge
amount of information to interest family and local historians, with
many records of births, marriages and deaths, as well as biographical
and topographical information.
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England and Wales - Births, Marriages and Deaths 1837 – 2005
Civil Registration of these vital events began in 1837, at the dawn of
the Victorian era and has continued to this day. Birth, Marriage and
Death certificates are Public Records and are available to anyone to
order, but how do we find them? The answer is to use the General
Register Office's indices (known to genealogists of a certain age as
‘St Cath's indexes'). Using the indices you can find an event, order
the certificate direct from the Ancestry Shop and take your research back another stage.
In 1998 a charitable organisation called ‘FreeBMD' began a
volunteer-driven project to transcribe these records and make them
available to all, for free, on the internet.
Previously, to find the record you wanted you had to go to a record
office, library or LDS Family History Centre and trawl through miles of
microfilm in order to find the record you were so desperately looking
for. Ancestry began supporting FreeBMD in 2001 and as the project
gained momentum, more and more records have been made available to
search for free; both on FreeBMD and on Ancestry.
Continue reading here
Ancestry.co.uk on tour
If you're in Glasgow on the 21st – 23rd July, come and visit us at the
International Genealogy Festival at the University of Strathclyde. This
is part of the Homecoming Scotland celebrations and Ancestry.co.uk will
be at stand number 1, so come along and ask us any questions you have
about our website, our record collections and our memberships.
For more information on the festival visit www.strath.ac.uk/homecomingscotland
Win one of 20 lapel badges from Military Heritage!
We've got 20 lapel badges, courtesy of Military Heritage to give away.
If you have an interest in the Great War period, or would like to
commemorate an ancestor who served, visit www.militaryheritage.co.uk
to see the range of lapel badges you could win and then just click on
the link below to enter your details into the draw. If you're one of
the lucky winners, Military Heritage will be in contact with you to
take your lapel badge order.
New badges are constantly in production at Military Heritage, so if you
don't see the one you're looking for, add the details to your wishlist
on the site and Military Heritage will be in contact when your badge
becomes available, or just sign up for their newsletter to receive news
and offers.
To be in to win a lapel badge, just click on the link and enter your
details before 31 July 2009.
Enter prize draw here
We'll see you next month with more fascinating family history news.
The Ancestry.co.uk Membership Team
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Bringing the Ancestry family even closer together
We've got some exciting new features to help you make the
most of your Ancestry.co.uk membership, and bring you closer to our
worldwide community.
Have you ever wondered who was looking for the same family names as
you? Do you want to find out if your ancestors are featured in other
members' family trees? Would you like to keep up to speed with the
latest additions to our record releases?
Soon it'll be easy to see what's been going on when you log on.
New-look Person Page and tree viewer
Here you can see and save what other members have been saying about
your ancestors – and you can easily get in touch to discuss possible
ancestral links. Read more about this new view here.
Improved content viewer
With the improved Content Viewer, you can see which records have been
saved, corrected, or commented on by other members. Clicking on the
corrections button shows the edits – so you can have the most
up-to-date and correct information about your ancestors in an instant. Read more about these updates here.
Homepage updates to help you connect with members.
Pretty soon, you'll be able to instantly see everything that's been
happening in the world of Ancestry.co.uk. You can also view lists of
all recent member activity concerning ancestors in your family, as well
as records you've saved, edited, or commented on. So you can see who
else shares your ancestral interests.
You can learn more about these changes and see the preview here and you can also read an update from Eric Shoup, our Vice President of Product.
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Last month we asked you if you'd like to receive information on any
collections you might not be aware that we have on the Ancestry.co.uk
site. A big thanks to the 2683 members who responded. You'd be interested
to know that 97% of members said 'yes' they would, while 2% said 'no'
they would not and 1% said they 'didn't know.'
The new series of Who do you think you are? has just started on TV. So this month's question is 'Are you watching the series on TV?'
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If you want to know more about the collections featured in the series, visit whodoyouthinktheywere.com.
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Congratulations goes to Josephine Crayton of South Yorkshire who won
our Family Features documentary DVD from May's prize draw. She will get
a day's filming with Family Features and receive a DVD of her family
stories to keep forever. This month it could be your turn to win!
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