Contents
Online Parish Registers: Jonathan Scott provides a guide to online resources, organized by region.
Oral History: Capturing voices from the past: Bill Laws reveals how oral history sheds much-needed light on the lives of ordinary people and their experiences of historical events.
Ring Ring: Celebrating 150 years of the telephone, Caroline Roope recounts its early days in Britain.
In Children’s Workhouses, Peter Higginbotham charts the history of these national institutions and explains the records available to research ancestors who were in the workhouse as youngsters.
Two more from Jonathan Scott
WW2 Army Records: The best websites, with a focus on the ongoing digitization project by Ancestry based on records recently transferred from the military to TNA.
And another in the Around Britain series, this issue for Northumberland
I started reading this issue yesterday – lots to dig into!
Spelling of the word Britain. Cheers, John.