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Ancestry

• Battle of Trafalgar Crew Lists, 1805-1806
• The Royal National Lifeboat Institution Records, 1824-1989
• Fold3.com, Memorials, 1600-current
• Isle of Man, Wills Index, 1600-1864
• RootsWeb WorldConnect Community Trees Index
• Australia, New South

The British Library of Political and Economic Science has uploaded high-resolution photos of Charles Booth's 'Maps Descriptive of London Poverty, 1898-9', which can be freely downloaded and used in recounting the stories of your

Enjoy a good podcast? If so, BBC4's latest offering, The Gift, will be sure to fascinate!

'Our lives were changed by unexpected DNA test results'

DNA tests used to be only the stuff of paternity suits

Ancestry

• Clergy of the Church of England Index, 1540-1835
• British Army World War II Medal Cards, 1939-1945
• World War II Photographs, 1939-1945
• Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Service Records, 1942-1959
• Royal Monmouth Royal Engineers

When searching for details about a West Australian teacher, I stumbled across a small cache of gold on the Carnamah Historical Society website that deserves mentioning.

They have produced the following databases and made them freely available online. 

Have a rummage through HERE

Ancestry

• United Kingdom, Index of Professional Boxers, 1900-1979
• Cheshire, Church of England Burials, 1813-1998
• Cheshire, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1939
• Cheshire, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1923
• Cheshire, Church of England Baptisms,

Thanks, Marcia Watson, for alerting us to the GLAM Workbench. It’s revealed that my paternal great-grandfather was a feminist! In 1894, he signed the South Australian Women’s

Ancestry

• Somerset, England, Wills and Probate Index 1300-2001
• France, Ain, Censuses 1836-1921
• France, Moselle, Births, Marriages and Deaths 1793-1922
• France, Var, Censuses 1836-1921
• U.S., Dead Fred Genealogical Photo Archive Index 1816-2001
• U.S.,

Ancestry

• Bacon's Atlases 1900
• General Map of Great Britain 1935-1937
• Lancashire, Catholic Registers of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials 1762-1913
• Yorkshire, Barnsley, England, Petty Sessions 1841-1923
• Gwent, Workhouse Registers 1833-1957
• Aberdeenshire,

Retiring State Record Office Archivist David Whiteford also spent decades working in the Battye Library and was renowned for his knowledge of the library's map collection. 

In this, his final contribution to the SROWA News, he