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Date
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Details
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7 Oct 2024
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Notable People
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A further addition to this section
- Alan Preece, artist and painter, with many of
his works featured across a number of pages
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27 Jul 2024
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Notable People |
Second addition to this new section
- John Preece, career criminal from Birmingham,
who spent much of his life in prison.
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13 Jun 2024
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General update
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With 1923 now added to BMD pages,
the remainder of the sites pages have now been
changed to reflect the newer design. Various other
"cosmetic" changes here and there.
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11 Jun 2024
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GRO Records |
I've now expanded the Births,
Marriages and Deaths pages to include the 1923
entries.This, along with a few other additions,
has added 60 new Birth matches, 65 Marriages and
127 Deaths.
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17 Dec 2023
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General update
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A re-vamp of the site has begun,
with a new page header, re-designed pages, and the
removal of the Message Board page and the
"Locations searched" page. Some pages will retain
the old look until the site is fully updated.
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4 Nov 2023
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GRO Records |
1921 and 1922 now added to Births,
Marriages and Deaths. This has resulted in 50 new
Birth matches, 139 new Marriages and 80 Deaths.
These numbers, in particular the Births will
increase as I check more entries in these years
against my database.
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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) |