Cornwall records released on Ancestry

Ancestry (www.ancestry.co.uk) has released the following collections for Cornwall:

Cornwall, England, Bodmin Gaol Records, 1821-1899
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=60963

Cornwall, England, Penzance Dispensary Admissions, 1828-1841
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=61016

Bodmin, Cornwall, England, Inmates at St. Lawrence's Asylum, 1840-1900
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=61185

Cornwall, England, Workhouse Admission and Discharge Records, 1839-1872
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=61121

Truro, Cornwall, England, Police Charge Books, 1846-1896
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=61018

Falmouth, Cornwall, England, Congregational and Baptist Church Registers, 1763-1923
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=61004

Cornwall, England, Militia and Sea Fencibles Index, 1780 - 1831
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=61015

The source for the collections is Cornwall Record Office, Truro, Cornwall. Full details for each set are available via the links.

Chris

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Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1963 on Ancestry

Ancestry (www.ancestry.co.uk) has released a new collection of 7,051,081 American death records from the state of Pennsylvania, covering the first half of the 20th century - perhaps useful if you have Cornish and Welsh mining relatives who emigrated there, but obviously for others from Britain and Ireland also!

The collection is entitled Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1963, and is accessible at http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=5164.

Chris

Now available for UK research is the new second edition of the best selling Tracing Your Family History on the Internet: A Guide for Family Historians, whilst my new book British and Irish Newspapers is also now out. And please consider purchasing the great new version of Caledonia by The Libations at 79p via www.caledonia2014.com - all profits go to help fund Scottish foodbanks

Cornwall guide added to FamilySearch wiki site

FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org) has added a wiki page detailing how to research in Cornwall at https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Cornwall.

The full announcement is at https://familysearch.org/blog/en/free-guide-cornwall-england-ancestors.

Chris

My latest genealogy books are Tracing Your Family History on the Internet (2nd ed), Discover Scottish Civil Registration Records, and Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet. My next Pharos course is Scottish Research Online, which commences Feb 27th 2014, 5 weeks, price £45.99.

Cornish heraldry

This one just popped up in a Google alert - a Wikipedia page on heraldry from Cornwall. I'm all for something different! It's an interesting read at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornish_heraldry.

Chris

My new book, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet, is now available from Pen and Sword. My next Pharos Scottish course, Scotland 1750-1850: Beyond the Old Parish Registers, starts May 15th - see http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/scotland-1750-1850-beyond-oprs-starts.html. Time to smash a few brick walls...!

Lottery funding for missing Cornish manor hunt

Linkinhorne History and Community Archive has been granted £9400 by the Heritage Lottery Fund to locate the whereabouts of the Manor of Rillaton, close to the village of Rilla Mill in East Cornwall. The funds will help volunteers to visit the National Archives at Kew and the Duchy of Cornwall Archive in London for further research.

The full story is at www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/Parish-prepares-reveal-long-buried-history/story-17197562-detail/story.html

Chris

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