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Date
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Section
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Details
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29 Oct 2023
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Notable People
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A new section, with a single link
for now relating to the life and family of Sir
William Henry Preece, Victorian electrical
engineer. The section will be expanded in time
to include further Preece's.
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28 Feb 2023
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GRO
Records |
First update in a while - around
120 new Birth matches, and 40 Deaths. Various
tweaks here and there, with one or two new
records added into the Passenger records and US
Census.
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7 Aug 2022
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GRO
Records |
Good sized update to the matched
Births, Marriages and Death files - a handful of
Marriages, around 60 new Deaths, and over 300
new matches for Births.
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22 Jun 2022
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General update
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A few tweaks here and there,
along with a full check on internal and external
website links.
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21 Jun 2022
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Census
entries 1841 - 1921 - Yearly totals |
Scottish numbers added to 1911
Census totals
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20 Jun 2022
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Census
entries 1841 - 1921 - Yearly totals |
1921 Census totals added to
table, along with the numbers from the 1939
Register - these latter numbers are of course
incomplete as some are excluded from the public
transcriptions. My numbers are from 2016, I will
update them to 2022 in the near future
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29 Apr 2022
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General update
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Various cosmetic changes, to
opening page and to various linked pages. This
will cover all pages in due course, a few
changes to widths and colours used to create
better spacing and better visibility.
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27 Jan 2022
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North American Census
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1920 US Census page updated with
various links to UK census records, marriage
& passenger records where located.
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1 Jan 2022
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Complete site change
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A new look for a New Year.
After some time using a default font on all of
the pages here, I've now updated it using a
style sheet across the whole site and changed to
a Sans serif font (Noto Sans). Hopefully it will
give a slightly crisper look to the pages, and I
will be looking to update further aspects
(colour, positioning etc) as the year
progresses. |
28 Dec 2021
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Census records
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I have started to re-structure my
Census pages, splitting off the North American
census records on to a new page of their own. I
have added the basic details for the Immigrant
Preece's in the 1920 US census, I will add UK
matching details, emigration details etc to
these 1920 records in the coming days. In due
course I will re-design the US census main page,
to incorporate the many State Census records
that are available.
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27 Nov 2021
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GRO
Records |
A few cosmetic changes, along
with 101 new matches for Deaths (mostly to
burial records), and a handful of Marriages.
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20 Oct 2021
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General update
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Along with the GRO Index updates
mentioned below, some "behind the scenes" site
tweaks.
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20 Oct 2021
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GRO
Records |
Updates to the GRO Births and
Deaths records - 67 births and baptisms added,
together with 134 burials and deaths. Further
updates on these should be along soon.
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2 Jan 2021
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General update
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After very little updating in
three years, some movement! Some cosmetic work
on the opening page, plus some others, together
with introduction of a new Military Records
section. Facebook and DNA Project links now
incorporated into main menu. More to come!
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10 Mar 2019
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Links
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Mostly a cosmetic tidy up - some
re-positioning, all the external/internal links
have been checked and amended where needed and a
couple of new sites added.
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3 Mar 2019
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GRO
Records |
After a very busy (personally)
2018 with no updates, a bumper addition for the
start of 2019. A handful of new Marriage matches
have been added, together with 414 new Births
matches and 921 Deaths details matched with
either burial or death records.
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7 Oct 2017
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Mining
families |
Main page updated with slight
re-design to add external website links for
background information on the industry.
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6 Oct 2017
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General update
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It has been a long, long time
since the last update, but now winter is here it
is hoped to get a number of changes underway.
I've started with a standard update of the BMD
pages, with new matches for Births (144),
Marriages (30) and Deaths (179).
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8 Feb 2016
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Mining
families
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A new section has been started,
at this time showing details from the UK census
1841 - 1911 and maps showing the spread of
miners across the country in each census year.
Further development of this section is planned,
incorporating greater family details and
external links about the industry.
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28 Dec 15
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General update
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Some more changes - a problem has
been corrected following the last file upload
which had meant all of the GRO Marriage screens
held no data. A full check has been run on
internal and external website links and all
errors corrected.
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25 Dec 15
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General update
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A few tweaks have been made here
and there, and there is now a direct link to the
newly set up DNA Project. A Facebook page has
also been set up now as an extra way of people
finding out about the One Name Study. Again, a
link has been put on the Home page. There has
been some work done on the mining project but
not yet ready for public viewing.
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25 Dec 15
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GRO Records
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Christmas update! Updates to the
GRO Births and Deaths matches, with 629 new
birth/baptisms and 178 deaths/burials. Around 60
of these have replaced census matches previously
identified.
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9 Nov 15
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Occupations
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A new page has been set up for
Occupations in advance of the mining project
mentioned below. At present just links back to
Trade Directory listings, along with a little
analysis of occupations in my database.
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8 Nov 15
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General update
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A very slow year for updates due
to work commitments, more changes to the website
will be undertaken over the winter, such as the
DNA page mentioned previously and a new
occupation section,combining general
occupation-related facts and figures with a
focus on specific industries, the first of which
is planned for mining.
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16 Jun 15
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COMING SOON
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I have now started a DNA Project
through FamilyTree DNA - there are very few
members at present of course, but it is hoped to
recruit new members as the years progress and
develop the results. I will be setting up a
section on this website to link to the Project
page soon.
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16 Jun 15
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GRO
Records |
Updates to the three main
sections - 136 new Birth matches, 65 Marriages
and 82 Deaths
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18 Feb 15
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GRO
Records |
First update for a good while,
but it is a good one - 467 new matches to GRO
Births added, 60 new Marriages and 239 new
burials matched to Deaths. More in the pipeline.
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28 May 14
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Roll of
Honour
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New page added listing those who
died during various military campaigns, mostly
the two World Wars but including other smaller
conflicts as I locate details.
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15 May 14
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GRO
Records |
Final update of the day! 143 new
matches to GRO Births included within the newly
re-structured pages now uploaded.
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15 May 14
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General
update
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Following
the re-structuring of the site, some of the
old links below this entry may well not work
or point to different pages.
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15 May 14
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GRO
Records |
As part of the general
re-structure, 297 burial records have been
matched with GRO Death entries.
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15 May 14
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General update
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The plan to update the pages with
a new look has almost been completed - the only
pages which are not now uploaded are the GRO
Births pages, this will be run later as it does
quite a lot of checking and takes some time. One
or two issues remain, such as de-capitalising
some pages, this will be done soon. Following
this, there are various sets of records waiting
to be sorted and added to my files from a
variety of subjects.
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21 Apr 14
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GRO
Records |
Migration to new software has
been completed for my database, code to
manipulate it continues to be updated. An added
complication has been an accident which has
given me a broken leg and arm to contend with! I
have now been able to re-start updates, with 187
new Marriages and 130 Births added today,
together with a few deaths and census matches
here and there.
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28 Sep 13
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GRO Records |
Finally, autumn
approaches and time to write some code to run a
proper update on my files! A very large update
of the GRO files, 22 new Marriages, 618 Births
and 1238 Deaths! Formatting issues still
present, and possibly one or two data integrity
issues remain, but these are being ironed out
right now as the database migration gets nearer.
The plan will be to get the website as up to
date (for data) as possible prior to the
change-over.
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23 Sep 13
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GRO Records |
With major
changes being worked on behind the scenes, data
continues to be added/amended where time
permits, 65 new Birth matches together with a
large update of marriages totaling 239 entries.
Formatting issues will remain, and a data
integrity program is now about to be written to
rectify glitches such as incorrectly matched
items where it is clearly not correct (different
years for example in the marriages). A full
scale change of software is now imminent for my
database, which will have an effect on page
updates for a while.
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13 Aug 13
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GRO Records |
69 new Marriage
matches added. Format issues have yet to be
resolved, this may remain the case until a large
project in the autumn/winter to transfer my
database to new software and to give the website
pages a general overhaul.
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4 Aug 13
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GRO Records |
195 new Marriage
details added, plus one or two new Burial and
Baptism entries. Formatting problems have
appeared, and will be corrected on next update,
the data is accurate.
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17 Jun 13
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GRO Records |
Around 70 entries
added across the Births, Marriages and Deaths
pages, plus various fixes of date and name
formatting and spelling.
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29 Apr 13
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GRO Records |
Handful of
marriage and burial updates, plus 92 new
baptisms added to the Births pages.
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16 Mar 13
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General site and
systems update
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A number of pages
will need to be changed manually to remove
capital letters, this will also be ongoing.
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16 Mar 13
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GRO Records |
The move to
remove all-capital letter entries has begun! All
of the GRO pages should now correctly show
details and matches in 'proper' case, with
mothers maiden names where known in brackets
correctly formatted also. One or two small
issues to sort but these pages should now be OK
to view.
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11 Feb 13
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GRO Records |
Small update with
68 further Births matches and a handful of new
Marriages.
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04 Feb 13
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General site and
systems update |
Work has slowed
over the last few months due to other
commitments, plenty in pipeline to add over
coming months time permitting!
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04 Feb 13
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Census Strays |
Work has
continued slowly on the 1911 census, and finally
all entries have been extracted (well over
7,000). All have been tidied up and added to my
master database up to and including
Herefordshire. Strays therefore now incorporate
all counties up to "H".
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04 Feb 13
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GRO Records |
Small number of
new matches, plus some behind the scenes
tweaking
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24 Oct 12
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GRO Records |
112 new Births
matched, small changes in other matches.
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01 Oct 12
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GRO Records |
More Births and
Marriages updated, 86 new Births matched and 54
Marriages.
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15 Sep 12
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GRO Records |
First post-summer
update, 135 new Births entries and 23 Marriages.
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29 Apr 12
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GRO Records |
Further update of
Births matching, another 185 new entries added.
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23 Apr 12
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GRO Records |
Another batch
completed this evening, a further 127 Birth
matches. Two updates in one day!
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23 Apr 12
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GRO Records |
Further update of
100 new Birth matches.
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22 Apr 12
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GRO Records |
Small update, 95
new matches to the GRO Births. Lots more in
pipeline, but with the busy (for me) summer
months approaching progress will be slow until
probably September/October now.
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01 Mar 12
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General site and systems
update |
Recent updates
have started a process of "de-capitalising"
entries - up to now many of the data pages have
all the details in capital letters - this is
slowly being changed to reflect normal
capitalisation of Places, Names etc
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01 Mar 12
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GRO Records |
Further update to
Marriages, another 50 matches added
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28 Feb 12
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GRO Records |
Almost 300 new
matching baptism entries have been added to the
GRO Births - this has meant a reduction in the
census and death matches but overall almost 200
entries now have information where there was
previously none at all.
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24 Jan 12
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GRO Records |
Two large blocks
of changes are still in the pipeline, but in the
meantime around 140 new BMD records have been
added, 47 new Baptisms, 40 Marriages and 52
Burials.
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24 Jan 12
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GRO Records |
Finally a major
upgrade of information - the mothers maiden name
is now added (where known) in brackets after her
name. There are one or two issues where the name
is showing twice, once in brackets and once not,
but these will be sorted out in the coming days.
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13 Dec 11
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GRO Records |
Quite a good
number of changes, with a much larger block
being worked on [this will take a while yet]. 48
new GRO Birth matches, 110 Marriages, 10 Deaths,
32 new deaths at young age identified, and
another 78 Birth entries matched to census in
the absence of birth/baptism details.
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17 Oct 11
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North American Census
[linked via Online Records main page] |
1911 Canadian
census entries uploaded, further smaller
census's to follow, US census work yet to be
completed.
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11 Oct 11
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North American Census
[linked via Online Records main page] |
1901 Canadian
census entries added [where born in England,
Scotland or Wales], 1911 to follow.
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26 Sep 11
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GRO Records |
An update on the
levels of records matched for the three GRO
indexes - 3352 GRO Births are now matched to a
baptism and/or birth, 24.5% of the total between
1837 and 1920. In addition 497 matches have been
made between Births and Deaths, usually at a
very young age, and 1586 census entries have
been matched to Births where no other
information is held.
4246 Marriages have been matched, 59% of
the total (with quite a number to be added over
the winter), and 2031 Deaths have been matched,
25.5% of the overall total. In addition, a long
planned-for update will be actioned in the
coming months, first started in late 2010 but
never implemented fully, where the maiden name
of the mother will be shown on the site if
known.
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26 Sep 11
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General site and
systems update
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After the busy
summer period, updates will hopefully begin to
appear again. A few minor changes and additions
have been made, together with transfer to a new
PC and editing software.
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| 15 May 11 |
GRO
Records |
Small update, 64 new Marriage
matches and 10 Deaths, together with small
cosmetic changes on several other pages and
sections. |
| 24 Jan 11 |
North
American Census [linked via Online Records
main page] |
Newly expanded section for North
America, now including Canadian census entries
as well as existing USA links. 1881 and 1891
Canadian entries added today, 1901 and 1911 will
follow in time along with further USA entries
for 1920/1930. |
| 9 Jan 11 |
GRO
Records |
At the same time as the update
below, a few extra matches have been added to
Births (2), Marriages (10) and Deaths (2). |
| 9 Jan 11 |
Unmatched
Marriages and Burials [linked via Online
Records main page] |
A new section for entries I hold
between 1837 and 1920, where I have been unable
to match them to an entry in the GRO Indexes.
There may be a variety of reasons for this, not
least that my own records may have errors, so if
you can update any entries please do let me
know. |
| 4 Jan 11 |
GRO
Records |
First small update for the New
Year, 19 new Births matches, 15 marriages and 80
Deaths. |
| 13 Dec 10 |
US Census
Records |
Some small cosmetic changes to the
pages, together with some additional
UK/passenger details for 1900 and 1910. |
| 3 Dec 10 |
GRO
Records |
Matches updated, mainly new
marriages - 12 extra Births and 162 new
Marriages. |
| 11 Nov 10 |
GRO
Records |
Work continues to increase matches
to parish register and census information.
Increases as follows [total now matched in
brackets] :- Births 127 [3318], Marriages 8
[3977], Deaths 5 [1937], Births to Deaths 6
[500], and Birth to Census down 29 [1589]. |
| 11 Nov 10 |
Census
Strays |
For now work on the 1911 census
has stopped, due to other priorities, but will
hopefully continue in mid to late 2011. |
| 11 Nov 10 |
GRO
Records |
An additional piece of information
will be phased in to all Birth matches where
possible - when the maiden name of the mother is
known, it will be shown in brackets. This will
help you to cross reference to marriages. At
present only a small number have this
information, but many more will be amended in
the coming months where I hold related marriage
details. |
| 24 Aug 10 |
Census
Totals |
Page updated to show totals for
counties in the 1911 census, one or two not yet
shown. |
| 24 Aug 10 |
GRO
Records |
Small update, 1 extra Birth and 53
new Marriages matched. |
| 20 Jul 10 |
Census
Strays |
Herefordshire 1911 entries
continue to be worked on, Hereford District
strays only within the county now added, others
such as Kington, Leominster etc yet to be added.
Other counties now complete and added are DBY,
GLS, ESS, DEV, DOR and HAM. |
| 7 Jun 10 |
GRO
Records |
Small update, 6 new matches for
Births, 63 Marriages and 35 Deaths. |
| 8 Mar 10 |
GRO
Records |
Over two hundred new matches for
GRO records - 134 Births, 42 Marriages and 66
Deaths. This has led to small reductions in
Birth/Death matches (-6) and Birth/census (-22).
Work continues on 1911 census data with
Herefordshire now in progress, though not yet
added to any files which are visible here. |
| 26 Jan 10 |
Census
Strays |
1841 - 1901 pages updated with
previously missing information where it has been
possible to locate it (Heads of Household etc.)
New pages/links added for 1911 data as and when
I have it in a format to upload, very little on
these pages as yet but they will grow. The 1911
census contains around 7,000 Preece entries
including variants. The following counties have
so far been processed :- BDF, BKM, BRK, CHS
& CON. Not all of these will have produced
strays. |
| 29 Dec 09 |
GRO
Records |
Small update - I new Birth match,
27 new Marriage matches, 17 Births matched to
young Deaths, and 79 new Census - Birth matches. |
| 31 Aug 09 |
GRO
Records |
The initial check of entries for
GRO Births 1891 - 1901 has now ended - 458 new
Census/Birth matches have been made, together
with 156 Birth/Death matches. In addition 21 new
Births matches have been added, and a couple of
Marriages and Deaths. The result of all this is
that now over 6,000 GRO Births have some type of
matching information shown, whether it is actual
birth information, baptism, probable census
match or death record match for those who died
in infancy. |
| 27 Jul 09 |
GRO
Records |
Large chunk of 1898-1900 births
matched to census records where no other
matching details held, resulting in 132 new
Census/Birth matches. In addition, the new match
of death to birth records(usually where death
occurs very young) has started, where it is not
possible to match to a census record, and this
has begun with 226 records being matched in this
way. A few other updates on matches have also
been added - 6 new Births, 6 new Deaths and 4
Marriages. |
| 22 Jul 09 |
GRO
Records |
Start of new long-term plan to
attempt to try to match those Births entries
where no baptism/birth data held against the
correct entry in the first census after birth.
This has started with entries around 1900, and
todays update has 7 new Births added together
with 160 new Census/Birth matches. In turn, it
is hoped to also highlight those birth entries
where the person died in infancy (and so would
be unlikely to appear in any census). The period
1891 - 1901 will be covered first. |
| 7 Jul 09 |
GRO
Records |
GRO matches updated - 22 new
Births, 48 Marriages and 9 Deaths. Small
decrease in Census/Birth matches of 8. |
| 25 Apr 09 |
GRO
Records |
GRO matches updated - 43 new
Births, 40 Marriages and an increase of 88 in
Deaths. |
| 7 Mar 09 |
GRO
Records |
GRO matches updated - 18 new
Births, 32 new Marriages and 25 new Deaths.
Small increase in Census/Birth matches of 5. |
| 9 Jan 09 |
Links |
Page updated with a some new and
amended links, and removal of old ones.
Addresses removed from society links due to
changing nature of such information. |
| 23 Nov 08 |
Census
Strays |
Census Strays section completely restructured
- new main page set up (linked via On-line
records). From this you have ability to view
strays from 1841 - 1901 inclusive, separated
in 6 sections per year to make more
manageable. "Not Known", "Unknown" etc entries
now included, where had previously been
excluded. Totals of records involved are as
follows:
1841 - 338, 1851 - 827, 1861 - 877, 1871 -
1142, 1881 - 1515, 1891 - 1798 and 1901 -
2240.
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| 23 Nov 08 |
GRO
Records |
GRO matches updated - 128 new
Births, 7 Marriages and 6 Deaths. Reduction in
Census - Birth matches of a further 12 entries. |
| 16 Nov 08 |
GRO
Records |
GRO matches updated - 125 new
Births links and 35 Marriages. This has also
resulted in a reduction in Census - Birth
matches of 13. |
| 23 Oct 08 |
GRO
Records |
GRO matches update - 41 new
Births, 136 Marriages, 6 Deaths and just 2
Census - Births. |
| 23 Sep 08 |
GRO
Records |
Display adjusted to use "traffic
light" system - records where no matching
details are held shown with red background,
those with details in green, with a yellow
(amber) background used for those Births matched
with census records only. Long term aim to
remove all "red" entries! |
| 22 Sep 08 |
GRO
Records |
Error corrected on GRO Marriage
pages (pre 1911), removing duplicated GRO
Reference column. In addition, updates made to
GRO matches :- 256 new matches added to GRO
Births, 42 matches removed from Marriages, and
17 new Deaths matches added. Census - Births
matches reduced to 838, down by 23, as a result
of the above changes. |
| 1 Sep 08 |
Updates (this page) |
In future details will be added
here of numbers of new records added. An update
has been made today of the GRO index files, and
totals to date are as follows :- 2389 GRO Births
have been matched with Birth and/or Baptism
details, 3560 GRO Marriages have been matched
with Marriage details, and 1691 GRO Deaths
entries have been matched with Death and/or
Burial details. In addition, a further 861 GRO
Birth entries, which have no birth or baptism
details, have been matched with a census entry
giving details on place of birth and/or parents. |
| 31 Aug 08 |
Updates (this page) |
New page added to show updates
across whole site |
| 20 Aug 08 |
GRO
Records |
New column added to include
details for Spouse surname (Marriages
post-1911), age at death (Deaths post-1865) and
Mothers Maiden Name (for Births post-1911) |