This week the focus is on Kent, the Garden of England.
Kent electoral registers, 1570-1907
Documenting both parliamentary and local voters, the collection contains 4,678,563 transcripts with the name, address, nature of the qualification to vote, and the period during which each individual is entitled to vote. The record types transcribed include oath rolls, burgess rolls, freeman certificates, and jury service lists as well as voters registers
The original registers are held at the Kent History and Library Centre in Maidstone and have been available at FamilySearch for some years.
Kent Burials
The additions to this expansive Kent Burials collection, now 3,032,823 records, are information on 16,013 burials that took place in Watling Street Cemetery in Dartford. They cover the period 1855 to 1934.
Sadly none of the three Reids included are in the branch of my Reid family that lived in the area.
The transcriptions were by the North West Kent Family History Society.
Findmypast has nearly 15 million Kent records in 16 titles, plus over 16 million articles in Kent newspapers. Ancestry has 6.6 million Kent records.



Registration for the 2022 edition of RootsTech,
Don’t plan on doing research at Library and Archives Canada over the Christmas – New Year period. Here’s the notice.
Here are the contents of the next issue, to be available on 10 December.
I’ve been wondering what Rick and Sandra Roberts have in the Global Heritage Press pipeline.
The last additions to Ancestry were on 19 November, an unusually large gap. There are often updates at the end of the month or at the beginning of the new month.
Dorothy Pauline Meyerhof (neé Ostrom) passed on 24 November 2021. She had a long-standing interest in genealogy, was an active member of several genealogical organizations, especially the
The British Newspaper Archive now has a total of 46,334,622 pages online (45,747,098 last month).