1) A Vision of Britain
From the webmaster of A Vision for Britain
Over the last few months, the gazetteer of "places" that you search from the home page of "A Vision of Britain through Time" has been greatly improved. Our original list of "places" was mostly just a list of the Civil Parishes which existed in 1911, but it now brings together many more administrative units and links to almost all the descriptive gazetteer entries of any length: the site holds the full text of Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles, the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, and Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland.
The way our system works means that if a unit or a gazetteer entry is linked to a place, then if you type any place-name from the unit or entry into our home page you will be taken to the relevant "place page". To go direct to the unit or entry you need to use our expert searching.
The following units and entries are now all systematically linked to "places".
* All Ancient, Registration, Administrative, Scottish and Irish Counties.
* All Poor Law Unions, Registration Districts, Sanitary Districts and Local Government Districts.
* Almost all Registration sub-Districts (96%) are also linked.
* All ancient Boroughs, but so far only 76% of the Hundreds, Wapentakes and Commotes.
* All Ancient Parishes, Scottish Parishes, and all Civil Parishes which existed in 1911.
* All urban labour markets listed in Ministry of Labour unemployment statistics, in the 1930s, 1950s and 1960s.
* All Parliamentary Constituencies.
* All Dioceses, all Archdeaconries and 94% of the Rural Deaneries.
* All entries for populated places from the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales longer than 600 characters, and all entries from Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland longer than 1,000 characters (NB the Groome's entries are generally longer than those in the Imperial Gazetteer, and some of the Scottish settlements added based on this criterion are VERY small).
This work has involved adding 1,646 new "places" as well as getting rid of some existing "places" which were in some sense duplicates (there are issues here about what exactly is a "place", but the main criterion is that there has to be an identifiable settlement on a one inch map). The existing "places" were given point locations based on the geometric centres of their boundary polygons, but these new places have mostly been given locations based on where the main population centre was, and the web site shows the relevant excerpt from a one-inch map.We have also worked to improve linkage between the existing place pages and the descriptive gazetteers, so that almost all place pages include text from the gazetteers, and sorted out various problems with the descriptive gazetteers including a substantial number of missing or incomplete entries.
2 List of Online Newspaper Resources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: ... r_archives 3. Military Service Records
A good place to start is at
http://www.veterans-uk.info/service_rec ... cords.html 4. Griffith’s Valuation now on Askaboutireland.ie
The Primary Valuation was the first full-scale valuation of property in Ireland. It was overseen by Richard Griffith and published between 1847 and 1864. It is one of the most important surviving 19th century Irish genealogical sources. AskAboutIreland and the Cultural Heritage Project is an initiative of public libraries together with local museums and archives in the digitisation and online publication of the original, the unusual and the unique material from their local studies' collections to create a national Internet resource for culture.
The participating organisations have selected material of particular public interest from their
holdings within a variety of common topics ranging from sport, transport and architecture to flora and fauna and Irish writers. The material is then digitised (scanned, digitally photographed, recorded etc.) and set in a narrative context.
You can access Griffith’s Valuation at no charge at
http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation 5. Funeral - records - St.Helens Council
www.sthelens.gov.uk/lgnl.htm?id=335 Search over 10,000 Burial and Cremation Records from St.Helens Crematorium / St.Helens and Newton le Willows Cemeteries.
All you need to enter is a surname or part of a surname.
You can also enter a forename and / or a date range to narrow the search results.
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