Linda Romeril, Archives and Collections Director at Jersey Heritage unpacks the Jersey Alien Registration Cards and the exotic characters you can find within these records. The 3,500 cards that make up the Jersey Alien Registration Cards were introduced as a result of the Aliens Restriction Act passed on 17th February 1920, when the States of Read More
Ancestry’s Senior Content Manager, Miriam Silverman takes us through the new London school records from the London Metropolitan Archives. These two collections include admissions and discharges in mainstream schools that took place during the First World War, as well as an entirely new database of Pauper children’s registers, shedding an insight into the lives of a Read More
Ancestry Progenealogists‘ Simon Pearce, explores some of Ancestry’s key collections for researching the military careers of your ancestors. The armed forces were incredibly diligent at keeping records of those who dedicated their time and careers to military service. As such, military records can be incredibly beneficial when researching the lives of your ancestors; not only Read More
Did your ancestors walk the beat and help keep the peace in London? You could find them in our Metropolitan Police Pension Registers, 1852-1932 collection, digitised from original records held by The National Archives. The collection consists of registers of pensions awarded to Metropolitan Police officers who retired or resigned from the force between 1852 Read More
Our latest Irish collection, Ireland, Poor Law Union Removals From England, 1859-1860, gives us a window in to what life was like as an Irish pauper living in the UK in the late 1850’s. Irish paupers were often looked upon negatively, as an unwanted expense on the local communities in which they resided across England, Read More
Claire Skinner, Principal Archivist at the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre identifies some of the famous names you can see in the Wiltshire Parish Registers. Over three hundred Wiltshire parish registers, dating back to 1538, have been digitised by Ancestry working in partnership with Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre, a service funded by Wiltshire Council Read More
With the launch of the Swansea and the Surrounding Area Electoral, Gaol and Poor Law Union records, Dr David Morris, archivist at West Glamorgan Archive Service provides further insight into the value of searching for your ancestors in these collections. The Swansea and the Surrounding Area Poor Law Union Records, 1836-1916 records relate to the four Read More
While researching your British ancestry, you might discover that some of your family may have decided to try for a ‘new life’ in other parts of the world. In this blog post, Penny Allen, a Canadian who works as a Librarian in Greenwich and specialises in Canadian genealogy, discusses Canadian immigration and what tools are Read More
Transport for London (TfL) may have only been in existence since 2000, but it is actually the latest incarnation of an organisation that dates back to the establishment of the London General Omnibus Company (LGOC) in 1856. The types of public transport offered by the company have continued to evolve, encompassing walking and cycling through Read More
This blogpost about Jersey’s Worldwide Links and the Island’s Parish Church Records was written by Linda Romeril. Linda is Archives and Collections Director at Jersey Heritage and is responsible for the care and promotion of access to the Island’s archive and museum collections. Archive collections include records from the Government of Jersey, Public Institutions, the Read More