Friday, 22 May 2015

Jersey and Lancashire records added to Ancestry

Ancestry (www.ancestry.co.uk) has added two new third party collections sourced from Jersey Archives in the Channel Islands to its site, via its web search initiative:

Web: UK, Jersey, Channel Islands, Occupation Registration Cards, 1940-1945
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=70779

Web: UK, Jersey, Channel Islands, Wills and Testaments, 1663-1948
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=70778

A blog post on the release is available at http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2015/05/22/records-from-the-jersey-archive-in-the-channel-islands-go-online-for-the-first-time/

Also released is a new Lancashire collection, sourced from Lancashire Record Office, Preston, England:

Lancashire, England, Quarter Session Records and Petitions, 1648-1908
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=6820

Further details via the links.

Chris

The latest British GENES podcast is available at http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/p/podcasts.html. For details on my latest book Down and Out in Scotland: Researching Ancestral Crisis, and my other genealogy guide books, please visit http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-books.html.

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