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New Memorials Added
We have added over 120,000 records to our War Memorial database,
which has reached a landmark level with 1,400 War Memorials and
over 300,000 records!
The latest additions include the Lowestoft memorial to 2,400
members of the Royal Naval Patrol service and the WW2 Army
memorial to the missing at Brookwood in Surrey - which includes
quite a few Canadians but also members of the Intelligence corps
and Special Operations Executive.
Of special interest is the Theatre Royal Drury Lane - a WW1
memorial to actors and other workers of the stage who died in
the war. There are also 2 memorials from the Royal College of
Music and one from Clifton (Bristol) Rugby club.
The system includes multiple photographs of each memorial, and
links to street view where possible.
The individual memorials include nice ones for Edith Cavell,
Wellington and Nelson from Norwich cathedral's grounds.
Headstone Database
The latest release brings the total to over 204 cemeteries with
50,000 headstones recorded with both photographs and
transcriptions.
We have just added a further 17 cemeteries with 2500 new
records. We always welcome new volunteers to the project who
earn credits towards subscriptions and gifts.
For further details of the project see: www.thegenealogist.co.uk/featuredarticles/2014/international-headstone-image-database-131/
TheGenealogist Launches New Images for 1891 Census
The new deep zoom image viewer now has high quality, high
resolution greyscale images for the 1891 Census, giving a vast
improvement over the digitisation of the early 1891 microform
records. This improvement has been enabled by higher internet
connection speeds and access to the original master film in
conjunction with The National Archives.
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