What's New - 17th February 2011
1911 Census summary books now available on Ancestry
web site
- You can discover where your family was living with the '1911 England and
Wales Census Summary Books'.
- These tell you the name of the head of each household and the number of
people recorded in each house, so you can work out if there are likely to be
any new members
- The details included are:
- Name of the head of household
- Number of household members
- Type of property (house, flat, or shop, etc.)
- Description of the enumerator’s route
- Statistics on the local population
Scottish 1911 Census records
- On April 5th, the General Register Office for Scotland will release
details collected from more than 4.7 million Scots
- The records will include the name, address, age, occupation, birthplace
and marital status of everyone counted in the 1911census, as well as details
about their children
- For the first time, the census data will be presented in full colour
rather than black and white
- For more details see the news item on the
Scottish
Government's web site
Ireland Census 1911 free online
- The Ireland Census 1911 is now free online at the
National Archives of Ireland
- Both searching and viewing of records and images are free. You can search
by name or place.
New reference book at Oxford Reference Online
- A new book added to Oxford Reference Online may be of interest to anyone
dealing with manuscripts in the course of local or family history: 'A
dictionary of English manuscript terminology 1450 - 2000', by Peter Beal
- It deals with all kinds of documentation, from every-day letters, notes,
and shopping lists to far-reaching legal instruments and literary works. It
defines, in a lively and accessible style, some 1,500 terms relating to
manuscripts and their production and use in Britain from 1450 to the present
day
- There are terms defining types of manuscript, their physical features and
materials, writing implements, writing surfaces, scribes and other writing
agents, scripts, postal markings and seals, as well as information relating to
literature, bibliography, archives, palaeography, the editing and printing of
manuscripts, dating, conservation and fields such as cartography, commerce,
heraldry, law, and military and naval matters
- At the online version there are also links to manuscript web sites. You
can find yet more such sites at
WebLinks > Languages and writing > Old handwriting
- Do you have a library number and PIN? You can
log in to Oxford Reference
Online now. Don't have a library card? You can
join the library now. Don't
have a PIN? You can request a PIN
now
What's New - 6th October 2010
Royal
Navy Medical Officers' journals
- The National
Archives has opened up its collection of journals and diaries kept by Royal
Navy Medical Officers for detailed searching and for viewing online
- The journals
and diaries were compiled by Royal Navy surgeons and assistant surgeons who
served on HM ships, hospitals, naval brigades, shore parties and on emigrant
and convict ships in the period 1793 to 1880
- The items
have been catalogued in detail so you can search by name for the officers and
for the people they treated at sea
- You can view
images of the originals with transcriptions given alongside
- Details and
links to the files and a podcast are at Surgeons at Sea: Royal Navy Medical
Officers' journals
- An
interesting introductory article is on the BBC Today programme web site at
Navy surgeons' stories
What's New - 1st September 2010
National
Probate Calendar now on Ancestry
- You can now search the 'National Probate
Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations),1861-1941' on the Ancestry web
site
- You can use Ancestry Libary Edition free in
all Bedford Borough and Central Bedfordshire libraries
1939 National Registers
- You can now
request data from the 1939 Register of England and Wales and from the 1939
Register for Scotland. In each case a fee is charged
- Each register
is a record of the civilian population on 29 September 1939 and is based on
the actual whereabouts of each individual on that night
- Data will be
released only on individuals who have died and who have been recorded
as deceased
- For
details of the 1939 Register for England and Wales, see the
NHS Information
Centre for Health and Social Care
- For details
of the 1939 Register for Scotland, see the
General Register Office for
Scotland
What's New - 13th July 2010
Royal Navy Lists Online
The records of commissioned officers of the Royal Navy dating back 163
years have been published online by
www.familyrelatives.com.
The Royal Navy lists from 1847 to 1945 give more than 2 million names.
What's New - 20th April 2010
London Parish Records on Ancestry Library Edition
- The amazing new London Parish Records collection on Ancestry Library
Edition gives you a unique opportunity to see records going back further than
1837, when formal birth, marriage and death registration was introduced
- You can now research registers for baptisms and burials from 1812 onwards,
and marriages after 1754, by forename, surname, locality and type of event.
You can browse digital images of earlier registers, going all the way back to
the 1500s. The collection was created in partnership with the London
Metropolitan Archives
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You can search Ancestry Library Edition free in all Bedford
Borough and Central Bedfordshire libraries
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Further details about the web site are at Ancestry
Library Edition Tips
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In addition to free use in libraries, the Ancestry web site is also available
by subscription at
Ancestry.com
NewsUK - new online resource
- NewsUK is a great new addition to the Virtual Library's
Online Resources
- You can search and browse articles past and present from a long list of
national and regional newspapers and from over forty popular magazines
- The newspapers include the local titles 'Herald & Post/Luton News', 'Times
& Citizen, Bedfordshire' and 'Milton Keynes Citizen'
- NewsUK also has a big section called News Topics, giving you information
on major contemporary issues. News Topics include recent headlines and
background reading articles, images and useful web sites
- Find out more and log in at
Newspapers Online or
Magazines Online or
News
Topics
What's New - 10th March 2010
Family History
Important dates and events for family
history researchers.
What's New - 26th February 2010
Maulden
New photos of
Maulden - St. Mary's Church, Ailesbury Mausoleum and The George pub.
What's New - 11th February 2010
Cranfield
New articles about the almshouses in
Cranfield,
plus photos of Cranfield Court.
What's New - 21st January 2010
R101 Crash Newspapers and Photos
The R101 section has been updated with contemporary reports of the crash,
the funeral and the impact the incident had on the British population.
Find out more in
the Cardington Airships section
What's New - 23rd December 2009
John Howard's Obituary
Taken from the February 1790 edition of The Gentleman's Magazine this
obituary gives and full description of John Howard's life and achievements.
Click here to see
John Howard's Obituary
What's New - 5th November 2009
 Gentleman's
Magazine
The Gentleman's Magazine was founded in 1731 and last published in 1914. At
first it aimed to reproduce news, essays and articles from other journals and
news-sheets. Gradually it began to include its own material, including literary
criticism, essays and parliamentary reports. Great for both local, social and
family history research.
For a few examples of articles and
obituaries from The Gentleman's Magazine click here.
 Second
World War Exhibition at Biggleswade Library
Starting on 2nd November 2009, for one month, there will
be an exhibition of Biggleswade and the Second World War. The
exhibition will contain photographs and artefacts from the archives of
the Biggleswade History Society and a complementing display of books
from the library's local history collection.
Click here for Biggleswade Library address and opening times.
What's New - 6th October 2009
 Heritage
Gateway
You can now search and view many records about historic buildings, monuments
and sites in Bedfordshire and elsewhere in England, on a great new web site,
the Heritage Gateway
The web site lets you search across several different databases at once,
including Bedfordshire's Historic Environment Record and the national Listed
Buildings Online
You will find this site on the Gateway to the Internet at
Archaeology > UK Archaeology and
at Bedfordshire > Archaeology
 Major
databases added to Ancestry Library Edition
- Some major new databases have been added to Ancestry Library Edition:
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England and Wales, Criminal Registers,1791 - 1892
- UK, Army Roll of Honour, 1939-1945
- UK, British Army Prisoners of War, 1939-1945
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You can search Ancestry Library Edition free in all
Bedford Borough and Central Bedfordshire
libraries
- Further details about the web site are at
Ancestry Library Edition Tips
- In addition to free use in libraries, the Ancestry web site is also
available by subscription at Ancestry.com
What's New - 30th September 2009
Leighton Buzzard and Linslade
More new content has been added about these communities - street images, shops
and updates to the timeline. Discover these and more on the
Leighton Buzzard
and Linslade pages
What's New - 23rd September 2009
Leighton Buzzard and Linslade Quiz
To mark the 30th birthday of Leighton Buzzard Library a quiz has been created -
test your
knowledge about Leighton Buzzard and Linslade.
Leighton Buzzard British School
A wonderful book marking the centenary of the British School has been digitised.
Click here to see the British School Centenary book.
What's New - 6th August 2009
1911 Census Online
You can now search the 1911census on-line at
www.1911census.co.uk
Searching the index is free, you can search through the census index to find
an ancestor or to find out who lived in your house. Once you are sure of the
record you want you will need to register and buy credits to view and print
a transcript or an image of the original handwritten page. To view a
transcript, all of the household of your ancestor, is 10 credits and to view
an original page is 30 credits.
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New Family History Books |
- STARKIE, Jane. How to start your family tree. 2008.
- BARRATT, Nick. Who do you think you are? : encyclopaedia of
genealogy. 2008.
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New local books |
- WALLER, Jeanett. Early Closing on Tuesday : shopping in Ampthill
in the 20th century.2008.
- WOOD, Kenneth. Biggleswade and The Great War : our own flesh and
blood. 2009
- QUEEN'S PARK LIVES All Saints' Church Bedford 1909-2009.
2009.
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What's New - 13th July 2009
19th Century Land Records
A collection of landowner records for England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland,
created in the 19th century and published in 1973, has now been published in
fully searchable form online by Family
Relatives, which is available by annual subscription.
The online collection gives names and addresses of over 320,000 landowners
who owned at least one acre (except that London was excluded from the
information collected, as also was waste land if it yielded no profit). The
records represent 1% of the entire population of the United Kingdom. The number
of owners with less than one acre was nearly 850,000.
Index of Maiden Names
An aid to tracing female relatives is the 'Index of maiden names' at the
Lost Cousins web site. The index
includes 150,000 maiden names of women who married before the 1881 Census. Names
in the index have been entered by Lost Cousins members.
New Zealand births, marriages and deaths
Lost Cousins web site
5th March 2009
 View
local and family history reference books free online
- New sites are frequently added to the Gateway. You can keep up-to-date by
checking What's New on the Gateway to the
Internet
- You can find sites of interest for local and family history in the
Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire towns and villages, Bedfordshire neighbouring
counties, Family history and Local history sections of the Gateway to the
Internet
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What's
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