What's new on Ancestry?

Title	Category	Records
UK, Burial and Cremation Index, 1838-2014	Birth, Marriage & Death, including Parish	1,610,623
Ireland, Royal Irish Constabulary Pensions, 1873-1925	Military	130,318
Canada, Certificates of Military Instruction, 1867-1932	Military	93,655
UK, Royal Air Force Muster Roll, 1918	Military	194,814
UK, British Jewry Roll of Honour, 1914-1918	Military	57,202
UK, Naval and Military Courts Martial Registers, 1806-1930	Military	838,431
Iowa, World War II Bonus Case Files for Beneficiaries, 1947-1959	Military	19,760
UK, British Army Lists, 1882-1962	Military	2,421,506
Orange Free State, South Africa, Estate Files, 1951-2006	Wills, Probates, Land, Tax & Criminal	218,266
UK, Military Deserters, 1812-1927	Military	302,802
Hawaii, Passenger Lists, 1843-1898	Immigration & Travel	165,630
Cape Province, South Africa, Estates Death Notice Index, 1834-1956	Birth, Marriage & Death, including Parish	316,197
Western Australia, Australia, Land Leases, Licences, Applications and Selected Images, 1821-1938	Wills, Probates, Land, Tax & Criminal	313,805
South Africa, Select Estates Death Notice Index, 1833-2008	Birth, Marriage & Death, including Parish	44,432
Transvaal Province, South Africa, Estates Death Notice Index, 1855-1976	Birth, Marriage & Death, including Parish	449,990
South Africa, Slaves and Free Blacks Records Index, 1658-1835	Census & Electoral Rolls	22,128
UK, British Army Recipients of the Military Medal, 1914-1920	Military	88,543
Dorset, England, Poor Law Apprenticeship Records, 1623-1898	Wills, Probates, Land, Tax & Criminal	2,739
Bavaria, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1556-1973 (in German)	Birth, Marriage & Death, including Parish	3,625,488
UK & Ireland, Medical Directories, 1845-1942	Schools, Directories & Church Histories	738,852
UK, The Midwives Roll, 1904-1959	Schools, Directories & Church Histories	398,334
UK, Medical and Dental Students Registers, 1882-1937	Schools, Directories & Church Histories	92,436
UK, Dentist Registers, 1879-1942	Schools, Directories & Church Histories	124,647
UK, Roll of the Indian Medical Service, 1615 -1930	Schools, Directories & Church Histories	8,443

Scotland's Places is now free to search

Big news for those with Scottish ancestors -  the Government-supported website ScotlandsPlaces has removed the subscription fee from its digital collections, meaning users now have unlimited access to millions of historical documents including the following :

Historical Tax Rolls

• Carriage Tax, 1785-1798, (20 volumes)
• Cart Tax, 1785-1798, (14 volumes)
• Clock and Watch Tax, 1797-1798, (2 volumes)
• Consolidated Schedules of Assessed Taxes, 1798-1799 (32 volumes)
• Dog Tax, 1797-1798, (2 volumes)
• Farm Horse Tax, 1797-1798, (13 volumes)
• Female Servant Tax, 1785-1792, (28 volumes)
• Hearth Tax, 1691-1695, (43 volumes)
• Horse Tax, 1785-1798, (33 volumes)
• Inhabited House Tax, 1778-1798 (64 volumes)
• Land Tax, 1645-1831, (129 volumes)
• Male Servant Tax, 1777-1798, (27 volumes)
• Poll Tax, 1694-1698, (88 volumes)
• Shop Tax, 1785-1789, (8 volumes)
• Window Tax, 1748-1798, (218 volumes)

Ordnance Survey Name Books

• Aberdeenshire, 1865-1878, (91 volumes)
• Argyll, 1868-1878, (81 volumes)
• Ayrshire, 1855-1857, (64 volumes)
• Banffshire, 1867-1869, (28 volumes)
• Berwickshire, 1856-1858, (41 volumes)
• Buteshire, 1855-1864, (7 volumes)
• Caithness, 1871-1873, (15 volumes)
• Clackmannanshire, 1861-1862, (7 volumes)
• Dumfriesshire, 1848-1858, (55 volumes)
• Dunbartonshire, 1860, (18 volumes)
• East Lothian, 1853-1854, (55 volumes)
• Fife and Kinross-shire, 1853-1855, (135 volumes) 
• Forfarshire (Angus), 1857-1861, (84 volumes)
• Inverness-shire, 1876-1878, (86 volumes)
• Kincardineshire, 1863, (20 volumes)
• Kircudbrightshire, 1848-1851, (159 volumes)
• Lanarkshire, 1858-1861, (50 volumes)
• Midlothian, 1852-1853, (135 volumes)
• Morayshire, 1868-1871, (23 volumes)
• Nairnshire, 1869, (7 volumes)
• Orkney, 1878-1880, (26 volumes)
• Peeblesshire, 1856-1858, (47 volumes)
• Perthshire, 1856-1858, (79 volumes)
• Renfrewshire, 1856-1857, (21 volumes)
• Ross and Cromarty, 1848-1852, (187 volumes)
• Roxburghshire, 1858-1860, (42 volumes)
• Selkirkshire, 1858, (15 volumes)
• Shetland, 1877-1878, (26 volumes)
• Stirlingshire, ca 1864, (27 volumes)
• Sutherland, 1871-1875, (35 volumes)
• West Lothian, 1855-1859, (69 volumes)
• Wigtownshire, 1845-1849, (88 volumes)

RCAHMS Archives

• Alexander Curle diaries, 1908-1953 (14 volumes)
• Inventories, 1909-1992 (30 volumes)

Burgh registers

• Aberdeenshire Burgh Registers, 1398-1511 (8 volumes)

Official Reports

• Medical Officer of Health Reports, 1891
• Land Ownership Commission Reports, 1872-1873

Published Gazetteers and Atlases

• Hay Shennan, County and Parish Boundaries, 1892
• An Atlas of Scottish History to 1707

Hydrographic Surveys

• Bathmetrical Surveys of Scottish Lochs, 1898-1909

PROV Website Test Available

The new PROV website is now available in test (beta) form: beta.prov.vic.gov.au. The new site has been developed to provide you with a faster search and simpler navigation, making finding what you’re looking for a lot easier.

It includes:

• topic pages for our most popular collections
• common questions for new and experienced researchers
• a photographic page listing both our digitised and non-digitised collections
• a page featuring online exhibitions about Victorian state history.

At first glance the new website is much easier to use and navigate around - I even managed to find a few new pieces of information about my family, including some coronial records and wills.  I think the developers at PROV have done a great job and put effort into understanding how the public use their site.  Well done!  Have a look and tell me what you think.