August 2006

Resources at Royston Library

Linda Eyre from Royston Library has sent us a list of the resources available there for Family Historians, they are:-

  • Allen Index - Herts
  • Marriages
  • Ancestry.com
  • HALS Parish Archive Index
  • Herts. Burials Index 1800-1851
  • HALSPIN - Index to Journal and newspaper articles held at HALS.
  • Census Vouchers, Royston Crow on microfilm, Parish Records on microfilm, printable microfilm reader at 40p a copy.
  • Transcriptions of:-

      • Marriages Index at Royston 1684-1711
      Marriages Index at Barley 1560-1812
      1851 Surname Index Kelshall
      1851 Surname Index Reed
      1851 Surname Index Royston
      1891 Surname Index Abington Pigotts
      1891 Surname Index Ashwell
      1891 Surname Index Guilden Morden
      1891 Surname Index Steeple Morden
      1891 Surname Index Therfield
      1901 Census for Sandon (photocopy).

"Ancestry.com" is now available FREE at HALS, Bishops Stortford, Borehamwood, Hitchin, Hemel Hempstead, Hoddesdon, Rickmansworth, St. Albans, Stevenage, Watford and Welwyn Garden city Libraries.

Also available at those libraries are 1 hour "Family History on the Internet" taster sessions which have to be pre-booked.

www.familyrelatives.org

A press release from www.familyrelatives.org has been received reporting that their web site offers free access to a searchable data base which will eventually contain all British Overseas Births, Marriages and Deaths from 1761 to the present day. They reflect the history of the British Empire, colonial rule and the transition to the Commonwealth.

There are deaths in foreign conflicts from the American Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars to the Indian Mutiny and the Boer War as well as the births and marriages registered across the Empire and in British Consulates across the Globe. Even the records from the Ionian Islands, now better known as Corfu, a British Protectorate from 1815-1864 together with marine records which register births and deaths at sea and aviation records listing deaths in the air.

Irish Immigrants of the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank Volume 2,
Accounts 2501 - 7500 Mr. Kevin J. Rich

This is a comprehensive list of data collected from the ledgers of the above bank identifying account holders during the period July 1852 to July 1854. There are 5000 depositors listed along with their known relatives and the information includes the depositor's birth, port of departure and entry, ship and date of arrival, occupation (some with employment address) and place of residence. All the names are indexed.

This is a 400 page, hard backed book and is available at $60 per copy plus $12 shipping cost for overseas orders.

It is available from K.J. Rich, Box 158, Massapequa, NY 11758 USA