The General Register Office (GRO) has updated its online index to cover all deaths registered in England and Wales from 1984 to 2019.
The minimum information required for searching the index is the deceased’s surname, gender and year of death within two years. The free indexed entries give their full name, year of birth, registration district and GRO reference number. You can then order a full certificate online at a standard cost of £11.
Previously the GRO’s death index only covered the years 1837 to 1957. The new addition will still leave a gap of 27 years in the index, although deaths up to 2007 can be searched on other family history websites.
Showing posts with label Wales. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wales. Show all posts
Monday, December 9, 2019
Saturday, May 25, 2019
English and Welsh Maps Free Online
The National Library of Scotland has announced a
major new online resource for family historians - a collection of English and
Welsh maps covering more than 100 years.
The highly detailed
zoomable maps of England and Wales from 1842 to 1952 allow anyone to browse
through a catalogue of place names, modern street names, postcodes and grid
references. You can access the maps at maps.nls.uk/os/6inch-england-and-wales/info1.html.
The website compiles
37,390 sheets, including 35,124 quarter sheets of A2 size, and 2,236 full
sheets at A0 size, which makes for a wide range of search options.
The National Library of
Scotland’s map digitisation work in recent years has been externally funded,
leading to a recent expansion in map images beyond Scotland including a
Victorian plan of London which was uploaded last year.
The Ordnance Survey
six-inch mapping system is the most detailed map scale to cover England and
Wales and can record most man-made features in the landscape such as
roads, railways, fields, fencing, streams and buildings. Smaller features such
as letterboxes, bollards and mileposts can also be seen.
For many of
the towns featured, the maps show the detailed urbanisation and rapidly
changing landscape from 1914 through to the 1940s thanks to 25 inch to the mile
mapping.
Although
images can only be viewed individually, you have the option via the map group
tool to look at an area from the 1840’s up until 1952.
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
General Register Office PDF Pilot
Have you been ordering birth and death certificates online from England and Wales via the General Register Office (GRO)? It has just been confirmed that the latest pilot scheme to deliver PDF copies of birth and death records has been a success and will be extended.
Over 79,600 PDF applications had been processed in the three months from the introduction of the pilot on 12 October 2017. The GRO previously conducted a three-phase PDF pilot between November 2016 and April 2017, but has yet to establish a permanent PDF scheme. As a result of this popularity and positive feedback, the pilot scheme has now been extended past the minimum three month period. The scheme applies to births from 1837 to 1916 and deaths from 1837 to 1957, but (sadly) excludes marriage records.
By allowing family historians to order digital copies of records at £6 each with a 5-working day delivery period, it provides a cheaper and quicker alternative to ordering print copies, which cost £9.25 each or £23.40 for priority deliveries.
Personally, I have been taking advantage of this new service quite a bit over the past several months and have had a very positive experience. All certificates have arrive quickly, and all but one have been correct. For the one that wasn't right, I simply emailed the GRO pointing out the error (they had supplied the wrong certificate) and the correct certificate arrived within a few days, at no extra cost. I'll be ordering a few more certificates shortly, and am hoping they will extend the pilot to include marriage certificates soon.
Over 79,600 PDF applications had been processed in the three months from the introduction of the pilot on 12 October 2017. The GRO previously conducted a three-phase PDF pilot between November 2016 and April 2017, but has yet to establish a permanent PDF scheme. As a result of this popularity and positive feedback, the pilot scheme has now been extended past the minimum three month period. The scheme applies to births from 1837 to 1916 and deaths from 1837 to 1957, but (sadly) excludes marriage records.
By allowing family historians to order digital copies of records at £6 each with a 5-working day delivery period, it provides a cheaper and quicker alternative to ordering print copies, which cost £9.25 each or £23.40 for priority deliveries.
Personally, I have been taking advantage of this new service quite a bit over the past several months and have had a very positive experience. All certificates have arrive quickly, and all but one have been correct. For the one that wasn't right, I simply emailed the GRO pointing out the error (they had supplied the wrong certificate) and the correct certificate arrived within a few days, at no extra cost. I'll be ordering a few more certificates shortly, and am hoping they will extend the pilot to include marriage certificates soon.
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Welsh tithe maps go online
Do you have Welsh ancestry? The National Library of Wales has completed a project to make tithe maps of Wales searchable online.
The new Places of Wales website is in beta and welcomes feedback from visitors. It makes over 300,000 records searchable online, along with accompanying apportionment documents.
Tithes were payments charged on land users. Originally, payments were made using commodities like crops, wool, milk and stock. Tithe maps were produced between 1838 and 1850 to ensure that all tithes were paid with money rather than produce.
These are the most detailed maps of their period and they cover more than 95% of Wales. The apportionments accompanying each map list the payable tithes, the names of the landowners and land occupiers, the land use, and in most cases (75%) the field names.
An almost complete set of the tithe maps for Wales is held in the National Library of Wales as part of the diocesan records of the Church in Wales, who kindly consented to them being digitised as part of the Cynefin project. A complete set of accompanying tithe apportionments was supplied in digital form by The National Archives in London, who had digitised these documents before the start of the project.
The new Places of Wales website is in beta and welcomes feedback from visitors. It makes over 300,000 records searchable online, along with accompanying apportionment documents.
Tithes were payments charged on land users. Originally, payments were made using commodities like crops, wool, milk and stock. Tithe maps were produced between 1838 and 1850 to ensure that all tithes were paid with money rather than produce.
These are the most detailed maps of their period and they cover more than 95% of Wales. The apportionments accompanying each map list the payable tithes, the names of the landowners and land occupiers, the land use, and in most cases (75%) the field names.
An almost complete set of the tithe maps for Wales is held in the National Library of Wales as part of the diocesan records of the Church in Wales, who kindly consented to them being digitised as part of the Cynefin project. A complete set of accompanying tithe apportionments was supplied in digital form by The National Archives in London, who had digitised these documents before the start of the project.
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
National Library of Wales
The National Library of Wales has digitized an additional 100,000 historic newspaper pages in the month of June for their website Welsh Newspapers Online. The website now consists of some 725,000 pages and 7.6 million articles from over 100 newspapers. Newspaper dates range from 1804 to 1919. The website can be searched by keyword and category (such as family notices, advertisements, news or detailed lists). Alternatively, the historic newspapers can be browsed by title and date. Access is free. [Welsh Newspapers Online]
Friday, October 18, 2013
National Library of Wales
The National Library of Wales has a significant selection of databases you can search from The National
Library website.
- Crime and Punishment - Index to the Gaol Files of the Court of Great Sessions in Wales, 1730-1830
- Marriage bonds - Index of applicants for marriage licences 1616-1837
- Schedules - Finding-aids containing detailed descriptions of the archives housed at The National Library of Wales (incomplete, but growing). Archives and Manuscripts received before 1999 or Archives and Manuscripts received after 1999
- Manors - Manorial Documents Register. A guide to the manors and manorial records of Wales searchable through the National Archives website.
- Basic Inventory - Descriptions of our acquisitions year by year since 1909, based on the appendixes of the Library's Annual Reports
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