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UKGenealogists

  1. New Merchant Navy Seamen Records have been launched by Find My Past. Check them out at findmypast.co.uk.
  2. Who Do You Think You Are? Live starts tomorrow at Olympia! Should be a great event.
  3. Just 2 more weeks until 'Who Do You Think You Are Live' starts. Looks like it's going to be a great show this year!
  4. 'Who Do You Think You Are' show creeping up on us. Hope to see some of our clients there.
  5. ancestry.com are planning to add a fully indexed 1911 census to their site this year.
  6. The 1881 Scottish census has just been published on Find My Past...www.findmypast.co.uk
  7. Every Saturday throughout January you can search WW1 Records for free on Ancestry.
  8. 139 million records of the London Electoral Registers 1835-1965 have launched on Ancestry today. Check them out at ancestry.co.uk.
  9. Have a look at what Ancestry have planned for 2012. ancstry.me/rOYdzt
  10. The British Newspaper Archive can now be viewed at Genes Reunited.
  11. This is fascinating. facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3…
  12. Checked out the revealing details on the 1911 census yet?
  13. Don't forget 'Who Do You Think You Are? Live from 24-26 February at Olympia. Go to whodoyouthinkyouarelive.com for full details.
  14. I entered the Tweet to Win Holiday Giveaway. Tweeting about @ancestrydotcom enters you to win ancstry.me/rDdpKF
  15. We wish all our clients, past and present, a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year. Hope we can be of service in 2012.
  16. Don't forget to check the 1911 Census after 4th January when hidden information will be revealed.
  17. The British Newspaper Archive has now launched at britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk. Go check it out.
  18. Great episode of the American version of WDYTYA with Ashley Judd and her British connections. More, please!
  19. Suffragette records now at the National Archives site, nationalarchives.gov.uk
  20. Find My Past have just released a fully searchable database of Military Nurses 1856-1940. Check it out.