New Records on Ancestry

Once again Ancestry has been adding new records to their database.  Here are some of the Australian and United Kingdom records which have been added or updated in the past few months.

New Australian Records

Tasmania, Australia, Baptisms of Children of Convicted Women, 1833-1854

Tasmania, Australia, Convict Court and Selected Records, 1800-1899

Victoria, Australia, Lunatic Estates and Register, 1867-1906

Victoria, Australia, Selected Trial Brief and Correspondence Registers and Other Images, 1837-1993

Victoria, Australia, Deserter, Discharged, and Prisoner Crew Lists, 1852-1925

Australia Newspaper Vital Notices, 1851-1997

New South Wales, Australia, St. John's Parramatta, Marriages, 1790-1966

New South Wales, Australia, St. John's Parramatta, Burials, 1790-1986

New South Wales, Australia, St. John's Parramatta, Baptisms, 1790-1916

New South Wales, Australia, St. John's Parramatta, Confirmations, 1911-1925 and 1960-1966

Victoria, Australia, Index to Naturalisation Certificates, 1851-1928

Australia and New Zealand, Find A Grave Index, 1800s-Current

Victoria, Australia, Assisted and Unassisted Passenger Lists, 1839–1923

Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980

Australia, WWI Service Records, 1914-1920

New United Kingdom Records

U.K., Civil Divorce Records, 1858-1914

London, England, Workhouse Admission and Discharge Records, 1659-1930

Leeds, England, Beckett Street Cemetery, 1845-1987

West Yorkshire, England, Select Removal and Settlement Records, 1689-1866

UK, American Loyalist Claims, 1776-1835

UK, Foreign and Overseas Registers of British Subjects, 1628-1969

Manchester, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1930 (Cathedral)

England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966

UK, City, Town and Village Photos, 1857-2005

UK, Apprentices Indentured in Merchant Navy, 1824-1910

London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965

Gloucestershire, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938

Gloucestershire, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1813

Gloucestershire, England, Confirmations, 1834-1913

Gloucestershire, England, Burials, 1813-1988

Gloucestershire, England, Baptisms, 1813-1913

Northern Ireland, Will Calendar Index, 1858-1943

UK, British Army Muster Books and Pay Lists, 1812-1817

The Bomb Site

The Bomb Sight project is mapping the London WW2 bomb census between 7/10/1940 and 06/06/1941. Previously available only by viewing in the Reading Room at The National Archives, Bomb Sight is making the maps available to citizen researchers, academics and students. They will be able to explore where the bombs fell and to discover memories and photographs from the period.

The project has scanned original 1940s bomb census maps , geo-referenced the maps and digitally captured the geographical locations of all the falling bombs recorded on the original map.

You can use the interactive web-mapping application to explore and search for different bomb locations across London. Click on individual bombs and find out information relating to the neighbouring area by reviewing contextual images and memories from the Blitz.

You can explore statistics for different areas and see how many bombs fell in different wards and boroughs in London as well as read memories of Londoners contributed to the BBC WW2 People's War and images from the Imperial War Museum to allow you to visualise what it was like in London at such a difficult time.

Save Your Photos Day

Can you imagine losing your treasured family photos, videos and other documents? In the digital age that we live in, it doesn't just take a natural disaster to wipe our your photo library. A crashed hard drive or broken smart phone can also result in instant loss of treasured memories.

How safe are your photos and other treasures?  How prepared are you for a fire, flood or other catastrophe??  How often do you back up your digital photos - and how safe are your backups??  The Save Your Photos website has hints and tips for you.

On Save Your Photos Day consider how you can better preserve, backup and share your family's photographs, both physical and digital, and make sure they are preserved for future generations.

Victorian Places

Want to find out more about the town or suburb where your ancestors lived?  The Victorian Places website invites you to "Hop on the historic W-class tram and hop off at any one of over 1600 destinations throughout Victoria. Along the way you can discover the history of every town, city, suburb, village and settlement with a population of over 200 people."

The website, sponsored by Monash University and the University of Queensland, contains the history of those places in Victoria which now have or once had a population over 200 at any time since the establishment of Victoria as a British colony.  Below is the information provided to Brighton East.