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May 16th, 2012
Going underground: The photos that show how New York City’s subway was built
It is one of the oldest public transportation systems in the world. Since Manhattan’s original 28 stations were built, its subway system has grown to over 468 stations serving 1.64billion riders a year. These black-and-white images show the painstaking process endured by the laborers who laid the foundation for the 842 miles of track winding [...] Read more...May 16th, 2012
British Olympic records set in digital archive
More than a century of British official agonising over the Olympics – from how to approach the 1936 Games being held in Berlin amid the rise of Nazism, to a doomed project to build an Olympic park in London’s then derelict Docklands in the 1980s – have been revealed on a website created by the [...] Read more...May 16th, 2012
Cambridge Uni to complete Charles Darwin’s last (and most creepy) experiment into human emotion
One of Charles Darwin’s last experiments – which seems more like a trick the evolutionist enjoyed playing on his dinner guests – has been re-born for the digital age. The pioneer of the theory of evolution owned a collection of photographs showing a French man having his face contorted via electrical shock treatment into a [...] Read more...Regular posts
May 16th, 2012
Go back earlier into Parish Records
Now you can research family records going right back to the reign of Henry VIII. Our amazing new London Parish Records collection gives you a unique opportunity to see records going back further than 1837 — which is when formal birth, marriage and death certificates were introduced, Read more...May 16th, 2012
Ancestry Library Edition (ALE)
Ancestry Library Edition (ALE) is the result of a partnership between Ancestry.com and ProQuest. This premiere genealogy database is distributed exclusively by ProQuest to the library market and is ideal for the family historian or the social historian. Ancestry Library Edition provides the most genealogical information available on-line, with more than 5 billion names in [...] Read more...May 15th, 2012
Gillies Archive: plastic surgery pioneers 1917-1925
Harold Gillies WWI plastic surgery records View approximately 20,000 records for 2,328 men who received facial plastic surgery from Dr Harold Gillies between 1917 and 1925. The records are an index of men treated and include their names, regiments, ranks, the injuries they sustained, as well as (often) the date they were wounded or injured, [...] Read more...May 15th, 2012
Family history records on findmypast.co.uk
Family history records on findmypast.co.uk. Read more...May 15th, 2012
Irish Genealogy: an introduction ot the key sources
People often assume that most of the Irish records were destroyed in the Four Courts Fire of 1922. While it was tragic that most Irish wills, census returns and many Church of Ireland parish registers were damaged (among other records), in fact there are many sources available to anyone tracing their Irish roots. Here are [...] Read more...May 15th, 2012
Find your Irish Ancestors
Search for your Irish ancestors in one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of Irish family history records. These include over 3.5 million crime and legal records, almost 2 million names in directories and almanacs, one million BMD records, exclusive land and estate records, as well as census substitutes, travel and migration records, and the [...] Read more...May 15th, 2012
Remembering them at last: First-ever memorial to 60 crew who died on pioneering underwater aircraft carrier 80 years after HMS M2 sank in the English Channel
Families of 60 men killed when the world’s first underwater aircraft carrier sank in 1932 are to sail out to the wreck for the first time to mark the 80th anniversary of the tragedy. HMS M2, the first submarine to carry a two-seater biplane in a watertight hangar on its deck, is believed to have [...] Read more...
