Change Log 1st Quarter 1999
Change Log 1st Quarter 1999
Please note,
- As servers change, the links go out of date. When this happens,
the links are removed from these pages as it is felt that the
effort in keeping them up to date is too great - the text of
course remains. For current links please go to the appropriate
Country page.
- Additions are made to this file as I am told about them.
As a result of this I could well be adding change data for things
which happened a month ago - so please scan the whole file each
time you come here.
- Surnames Interest
list files tend to be updated about once per month, and
thus are not normally listed here.
Latest updates at bottom of page.
2 Jan 1999
- Surrey
- Amended Link: Surrey History Service.
3 Jan
- Hertfordshire
- Links added: Hertfordshire Family & Population History
Society; Picture of Albury, St. Mary the Virgin; Picture of Hunsdon,
St. Dunstan; Picture of Bengeo, Holy Trinity; Picture of Broxbourne,
St. Augustine; Picture of Wormley, St. Lawrence.
4 Jan
- Channel Islands
- Link added to: Channel-Islands Mailing List - Review of the
first Year.
6 Jan
- Radnorshire, Breconshire, Montgomeryshire
- Link added: Mid-Wales Lookup Exchange.
7 Jan
- London
- Link added: London Jewish Genealogy Pages.
8 Jan
- UK and Ireland
- Links added to:
- The On-Line Books Page; Easter & Lent, version 1.0
- Freeware Program; UK churches; Show SoundEx, version 1.3 -
Freeware Program; GeneaNet - United Kingdom; Passenger List of
the Abyssinia - Liverpool/Queenstown to New York 1885; The Somme,
a land of history; Remembering the Battle of Britain; Profiles
of the Few; British Infantry Regiment Name Changes (1881); Florence
Nightingale Nurses; UK Surname Frequency - Comparison 1851 -
1996; Newspaper web sites in the United Kingdom; Postal and Shipping
Guides; 1840 Mulready Envelope; The British in Singapore &
Malaysia.
- England
- Amended Link: FreeBMD - a project to put the GRO indexes
online.
- Links added:
- Methodist Ministers and Probationers; Origins of English
Surnames; Kidon Media-Link: Newspapers, United Kingdom; The Village
Labourer 1760-1832.
- Wales
- Amended Link: FreeBMD - a project to put the GRO indexes
online
- Link Added:
10 Jan
- Shropshire
- Amended link: Map showing the location of the county.
- Staffordshire
- New parish pages: Ranton; Rocester; Rolleston; Rugeley; Seighford;
Sheen; Standon.
11 Jan
- Mailing Lists
- Links added/amended to details of: KENT-ENG; Manchester and
Lancs FHS Mailing List; DONEGALEIRE; SCT-ISLAY; SCT-ISLEOFMULL.
- Public Record Office
- Pages added:
- FRC Leaflets; Census Leaflets; Censuses of Population 1801-1891;
How to Use: The 1841 Census; How to Use: The 1851 Census; How
to Use: The 1861 Census; How to Use: The 1871 Census; How to
Use: The 1881 Census; How to Use: 1881 Surname Index; How to
Use: The 1891 Census; How to Use: Additional Census Finding Aids;
Wills and Probate Leaflets; Wills And Probate Records - Where
To Find Them; How to Use: PCC Wills Before 1700; How to Use:
PCC Wills After 1700; How to Use: Death Duty Records 1796-1903;
How to Use: Death Duty Records - How To Interpret Them; How to
Use: PCC Administration Before 1700; How to Use: PCC Administration
After 1700; Other Family Records Centre Leaflets; How to Use:
Non-Conformist Registers; How to Use: The International Genealogical
Index (IGI); How to Use: Family Search; How to Use: Microform
Services; How to Use: Self-Service Photocopier; Advisory Council
- 22nd October 1998; Advisory Council - 8th December 1998; Members
of the Advisory Council; Handle with Care: Best Practice in Document
Handling; An Introduction to Medical Records in the Public Record
Office; New to Kew?: An Introduction to the PRO for Family Historians;
Post-graduate Seminar in International History; Acquisition Policy;
Acquisition Policy Statement; Your Questions Answered; Health
and Safety (pdf format); Data Protection Act 1998; Draft Guidelines;
Public Record Office Awarded Investors in People Standard; Yemen
Agreement Signed; Conference Proceedings; Online Catalogue; Opening
of Fifty and Seventy-Five Year Old Closed Material; Openings
1999 - The Public Records of 1968; Highlights in the Records
of 1968.
12 Jan
- Northumberland
- Links added to new Tyne and Wear Archives Service pages:-
Accessions 1998, Annual Review 1997/8, Records of the Jewish
Community.
- Links added to newspaper websites:-, Berwick Advertiser,
Herald and Post, Hexham Courant, Northern Echo, Shields Gazette,
Gateshead Post, Sunderland Echo.
- Link added to: Gateshead Local Studies Online.
13 Jan
- Huntingdonshire
- New Parish page: Eaton Socon
- Renamed parish page: Hemingford Abbots
- Links added: Cambridge Evening News; Hunts Post; GENfair
- On-line Family History Fair.
17th Jan
- Clackmannanshire
- Added a page listing resources of interest to genealogists
which the local libraries have
to hand in Clackmannanshire.
18 Jan
- Isle of Man
- Link added: Manx Seafarers
19th Jan
- Dunbartonshire
- WWW server changed: Louise Smith has now taken over the development
of these pages.
- Hampshire
- Links added/amended:
- Local Studies & Reference Libraries; Hampshire County
Council Museums Service; Phillimore's Marriage Registers Vols
1-9, Vol 13. Bitterne Local History Society; Titchfield History
Society.
24th Jan
- Yorkshire
- Link added to Saddleworth Historical Society pages.
- Pembrokeshire
- Links added: Index to Llanfyrnach Parish Lore
- Cardiganshire
- New parish page: Llandysul
- Links added: Index to A Village Worthy , Evan Isaac Thomas
of Llandysul
26th January
- Roxburghshire
- Genealogy + Names, Personal: linked to new surname list
- Newspapers: linked to growing 'Newspaper Miscellany' of 1850's
articles, also linked to listing of old Roxburghshire newspapers
- Statistics: added info about published 3rd Statistical Account
for county
- parish listing: added link to page listing ancient (and vanished)
parishes
- Parishes. The following parish pages have been updated:
- Crailing, Roxburgh, Hawick, Wilton:
- Berwickshire:
- Maps: linked to scanned 19th century map of Berwickshire
- Newspapers: linked to listing of old Berwickshire newspapers
- Occupations: information on article about old occupations
- Statistics: added info about published 3rd Statistical Account
for county
- parish listing: added link to page listing ancient (and vanished)parishes
- Parish pages: Church History added to the following:
- Abbey St Bathans, Ayton, Cockburnspath, Coldingham, Gordon,
Hume, Hutton, Westruther
- Selkirkshire:
- Newspapers: linked to listing of old Selkirkshire newspapers
- Population: added more census statistics for the whole county
- Statistics: added info about published 3rd Statistical Account
for county
- parish listing: added link to page listing ancient (and vanished)
parishes
- Peeblesshire:
- Statistics: added info about published 3rd Statistical Account
for county
27 Jan
- Glamorganshire
- Links added/amended:
- Glamorgan Record Office Website; Skewen, St. John's Church;
Cosmeston Lakes; Ogmore, Llynfi & Garw Valleys in Old
Photographs; The History of the Llynfi Valley; The Old Photographs
Series, Pontypridd; Old Neath & District in Pictures; Views
of Old Porthcawl, volume 2; Llanfrynach Church; Duffryn House
and Gardens.
- Fife
- Links added:
- Fife Shopkeepers and Traders 1820-1870; Annals of Dunfermline;
Annals of Dunfermline Links Page.
28th January
- British Isles
- An extensively revised 4th edition of the splendid tutorial
"A-Z of British Genealogical Research" by Dr Ashton
Emery has been installed.
31 Jan
- Durham
- Link amended: Gateshead MBC - Local History Information and
Photographs
- Hertfordshire
- Link amended: Hertfordshire Genealogical Discussion Forum
1 Feb
- Nottinghamshire
- Links added/amended:
- Picture Gallery of older Parish Churches; Small Searches.;
Nottinghamshire FHS; History of Blidworth; A History of Hucknall
Torkard; History of Kirkby in Ashfield; Description of Mansfield;
History of Mansfield; Graves moved from St Peters, Mansfield;
History of Skegby; History of Sutton in Ashfield; Inns and Public
Houses; Map of Sutton; Streets of Old Sutton in Ashfield; Description
of Tuxford.
2nd February
- East Lothian
- County now being maintained/developed by Dave Howie, server
changed.
- Warwickshire
- Links added/amended: Warwickshire County Library; Photographs
and Images.
- County Tyrone
- Links added: Vicki Barrett's County Tyrone Surnames
- County Fermanagh
- Links added: Roman Catholic Parish Records
5 Feb
- Mailing Lists
- Links added to details of
- CLANS; DUNBARTONSHIRE-GENWEB; DUR-NBL; ENG-HUNTINGDON; IRL-ARRANMORE;
SCT-STRATHNAIRN; WGW-SURNAMES-SCOTLAND.
- Public Record Office
- Links added:
- Street Map Page for the PRO at Kew; Street Map Page for the
Family Records Centre; Legal History in the Making - Summer Seminars
on Legal History; Independent Researchers; Fees & How to
Contact Independent Researchers; BT Archives; Familia; Australia,
Transported Convicts; Navy: Operational, 1939-1945; Archives
in Education; Guide to the Public Record Office 1999; The Secret
Service 1909-1945 - The Official History; What was Britain like
in 1800? How and Why did Political Rights Change in 19th Century
Britain? What political rights do we enjoy today? Why did the
Government Change the Political System in 1832? What Happened
at St Peter's Field? Whose fault was it? Who were the Radicals
and what were their grievences? What Political Rights did Women
have in 19th Century Britain? Were there any changes? Timeline;
Teacher's Guides: A Variety of Documents, The Investigations,
The National Curruiculum, Using the Tasks and Activities, Supporting
Literacy, Managing the use of the Internet, Local archives. The
English Experience in France, 1455 to 1580; New Releases:- Security
Service Records 1914-1945, Records of the Security Service 1914
to 1945, History of the Security Service 1908-1945, First World
War, Second World War, Section Histories, Double Cross and Deception,
Rudolf Hess, Personal Files of Enemy Spies, Class Lists of New
Records.
- Derbyshire
- Links added/amended:
- Surnames List; Small Searches.; Photographs of:- Buxton College;
Buxton Gardens, The Bridge; Buxton Gardens; Buxton Gardens, Concert
Hall; Buxton Gardens, Pavilion and Promenade; Buxton Opera House;
The Devonshire Hospital, Buxton; General View of Buxton; Buxton
Spring Gardens.
6th February
- Gloucestershire
- Substantial changes made, including a Guide to Research Sources
for each parish. Please see the "What's new" page for
that county.
- Herefordshire
- Links to new parish register transcripts online added. Please
see the "What's new" page for that county.
- Dumfriesshire
- County now being maintained/developed by Neil Wilson, server
changed.
7th Feb
- UK and Ireland
- Links added/amended:
- Shanghai Municipal Police (1900-45); Residential Number Search;
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild; The Historical Maritime Society;
Ships of our Ancestors; Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild; CWGC
Debt of Honour Register; Family Tree Web Site; GENfair.
- Carmarthenshire
- New parish pages:
- Links added:
- Index to Old Characters of Bettws; Index to History of Llanon
Parish Old Carmarthenshire.
- Staffordshire
- New parish pages:
- Fazeley; Fulford; Harborne; Hilderstone; Lower Gornal; Rowley
Regis; Rushall; Sedgley; Sheriff Hales; Smethwick; Stone; Tamworth.
- Links added:
- 1851 Harborne Census; Photograph of St Peter, Harborne; Staffordshire
Archives Services; Tamworth Past and Present.
- Herefordshire
- New parish page:
- Links added:
- Research Sources for St Mary, Donnington (nr. Ledbury, HEF);
Easnor War Memorial.
- Clackmannanshire
- Page added listing resources which the local libraries have
to hand in their "Private Deposite".
8 Feb
- Northumberland
- Links added:
- TWAS Exhibition - King Coal; "The Hartley Families";
On-Tyne Information Index for Tyneside.
- Glamorganshire
- Parish added: Cwm
- Links added:
- The History of the Vale of Neath; Old Characters of Gellinudd;
"Annals of St. Fagan's with Llanillterne - An Ancient Glamorgan
Parish"; Llantwit Major, A History and Guide; Old Bridgend
in Photographs; Once upon a village; The Vale of Glamorgan in
Old Photographs; Index to St. Nicholas A Historical Survey of
a Glamorganshire Parish.
9 Feb
- Oxfordshire
- Link amended: Vale (of White Horse) group
12 Feb
13 Feb
- County Armagh
- Parish page added: Armagh (city)
- Link added: The City of Armagh (NI Tourist Board)
16 Feb
- County Down
- County Carlow
17 Feb
- Anglesey
- Links added: The Anglesey Look-up Exchange.
- Caenarvonshire
- Links added: The Caernarvonshire Look-up Exchange
- Denbighshire
- Links added: The Denbighshire Look-up Exchange
- County Dublin
20th Feb
- West Lothian
- County now being maintained/developed by Margaret Mitchell,
server changed.
21st Feb
- Bute
- County now being maintained/developed by Louise Smith, server
changed.
- Westmorland
- Links added: EdenLinks; Directories from Roland Grigg.
- Mailing Lists
- Links added to details of: FreeBMD-Admins; FreeBMD-News;
genealogyuk.
- County Antrim
- Parishes added:
- Balleymoney; Carrickfergus
- Links added:
- Local Antrim; Antrim Genealogy Bulletin Board; County Antrim
Bulletin Board; Ballyclare and District Historical Society; Index
to Griffith's 1861 Valuation; Belfast; Telegraph News; Carrickfergus
Home Page; Carrickfergus Links.
- Durham
- Link added: Gateshead Theatre Royal tragedy
- Hertfordshire
- Links added: Picture of the Parish Church of St. Mary
22 Feb
- Somerset
- Links added:
- Photographs of Churches in Somerset A-E; Photographs of Churches
in Somerset F-Z; Index of churches for all counties; St Peter
& St Paul, Burials 1678-1902; St Mary & St Andrew
Baptisms 1649-1812; St Mary & St Andrew Burials 1683-1886;
St Mary Magadalen Baptisms 1677-1812; St Mary Magadalen Marriages
1723-1748; St Mary Magadalen Burials 1679-1812; Description of
Taunton from Pigot 1830; Taunton Names from Pigot 1830; St James
Baptisms 1610-1620; St James Baptisms 1683-1694; St James Marriages
1610-1620; St James Burials 1610-1620; St Thomas Burials 1700-1810;
All Saints Baptisms 1669-1925; All Saints Burials 1678-1889.
23 Feb
- Essex
- Link added: The Richmonds of Maldon and Burnham
25 Feb
- Staffordshire
- Parishes added:
- Bloxwich; Shenstone; Stonnall; Stowe; Walsall.
- Links added:
- Index of Boatpeople of the Wolverhampton Canal System; Staffordshire
Towns and Parishes.
27 Feb
- Public Record Office
- Links added:
- Newsletter for Customers Winter 1998/99
- "Government" section renamed "Records Management"
28 Feb
- Sussex
- Link amended: East Sussex Record Office
- East Lothian
- County location map added
- Whittinghame parish page - some Church History + memorial
details added
- North Berwick parish page - additonal population data added
1 Mar
- UK and Ireland
- Link added: An Index to "Smuggling Days and Smuggling
Ways"
- Huntingdonshire
- Links added: Deeds relating to Huntingdonshire
- Scotland, Banffshire, Moray, Shetland Islands, Stirlingshire,
Sutherland
4 Mar
- Perthshire
- Perthshire pages on new site.
6 Mar
- Suffolk
- Links amended:
- Suffolk Surnames List; Suffolk Lookup Exchange.
- Aberdeenshire
- Site greatly expanded with pages for every parish.
7th March
- Kinross-shire, Clackmannanshire
- Main county pages updated with new links.
- Surrey
- Links added to details of: LONDON Mailing List; SUSSEX-PLUS
Mailing List; ENG-SURREY-L Mailing List.
8 Mar 1999
- Pembrokeshire
- New parish page: Llanstinan
12 Mar 1999
- Somerset
- Links added to transcripts of: Bishops Hull Marriages 1562-1812;
Halse Marriages 1559-1812; Pitminster St Mary
& St Andrew Banns of Marriage 1754-1810; Taunton St Marys
Marriages 1728-1812; Wellington St John Baptisms 1683-1812; Wellington
St John Marriages 1683-1783; Wellington St John Burials 1683-1812.
15 March 1999
- Derbyshire
- Derbyshire pages on new site.
16 Mar 1999
- Lancashire
- Links added: Lancaster Priory Gravestones; Lancaster Priory
and Parish Church.
17 Mar 1999
- Buckinghamshire
- Link added: Buckinghamshire Record Office and Local Studies
Library
20 Mar 1999
- Cumberland
- Links added: Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian
& Archaeological Society Publications of the CWAAS
- Merionethshire
- Links added: Merionethshire Look-up Exchange
21 Mar 1999
- Carmarthenshire
- Link added: Index to History of the Gwendraeth Valley by
Ap Huw 1873
- Link to parish page corrected: Llansadwrn
- Glamorganshire
- Links added: Index to "And They Work us to Death"
Volume 1; Old Cowbridge and Llanblethian Postcards; The History
of Pontardawe; Views of Old Porthcawl, Volume 1; Views of Old
Porthcawl, Volume 2; Inklemakers, Life in 19th century Oystermouth
[Mumbles].
22 Mar 1999
Huntingdonshire
Links added: Covington, All Saints Church; Hartford All Saints
Church; Huntingdon St. Mary's Church.
23 Mar 1999
- UK and Ireland
- Links added: Old and New Style Dates; General Register Office
of Scotland; Irregular Border and Scottish Runaway Marriages;
The Great War Society; Orders, Decorations and Medals.
- Wiltshire
- New parish pages: Standlynch; Whiteparish, Downton.
- Links added: The Downton Story; Kemble 1851 Census Transcript;
Kemble 1871 Census Transcript; Long Newton 1851 Census Transcript;
Poole Keynes 1851 Census Transcript; Poole Keynes 1871 Census
Transcript; Somerford Keynes 1851 Census Transcript; Somerford
Keynes 1871 Census Transcript; The Downton Story.
- Mailing Lists
- Links added to details of: BIFHS-USA-NEWS; GEN-TRIVIA-ENG;
ENG-LINCSGEN; ENG-BLACK-COUNTRY; ENG-SURREY; ENG-WORCESTER; IRISH-FAMINE;
IRL-LIMERICK; NIR-ARMAGH; NIR-DERRY; GEN-TRIVIA-SCOTLAND; SCT-RENFREW.
24 Mar 1999
- GENUKI Home Page
- Links added to: Changes made in the fourth Quarter of 1998;
Copyright and PRO Records; .
- Westmorland
- Links added: Askham Villagescape; Askham St Peter's Church;
Barton St Michael's Church; Barton Pooley Chapel; Cliburn St
Cuthbert's Church; Clifton St Cuthbert's Church; Lowther Mausoleum;
Picture of Lowther Parish Church.
- Public Record Office
- Links added: First Survey of Visitors to British Archives;
The First World War - Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia; Handling
the Past; Research Associates / Research Assistants; Web Site
Multimedia Designer; Web Site Designer; Advisory Council 4th
February 1999; The Organisation of Central Government Departments;
UKNDA - New Site; Records Management Standards; Appraisal Planning.
26 Mar 1999
- Northumberland
- Links added: Coal Industry - Part 1; Coal Industry - Part
2 - Individual Collieries; Irregular Border and Scottish Runaway
Marriages; North Fiche; Original Indexes; Newcastle Keel Boat;
Letter from a Tynemouth Emigrant.
27 Mar 1999
- Staffordshire
- New Parish pages: Bilston; Burntwood; Burslem; Burslem St
John; Burslem St Paul; Hammerwich; Lichfield; Lichfield Cathedral;
Lichfield St Chad; Lichfield St Mary; Lichfield St Michael; Marston;
Newchapel; Pelsall; Stafford St Chad; Stafford St Mary; Tettenhall
(Tettenhall-Regis); Tixall; Trysull; Uttoxeter; Wednesbury; Wednesfield;
Weeford; West Bromwich; West Bromwich All Saints; West Bromwich
Christ Church; Weston-under-Lizard; Weston-upon-Trent; Wetton;
Whittington; Wolstanton; Wolverhampton; Wolverhampton St George;
Wolverhampton St Peter; Wombourne; Woodford Grange.
- Links added: The Hundreds of the County of Staffordshire;
Cuttlestone Hundred; Offlow Hundred; Pirehill Hundred; Seisdon
Hundred; Totmonslow Hundred; Bilston St Leonard; Bilston St Mary;
Interactive Bilston; Famous Lichfeldians; Lichfield City Council's;
History of Lichfield; Map of the City of Lichfield; History of
Lichfield Cathedral; Lichfield Cathedral's pages; Stafford Borough
Council's; Uttoxeter Town Council's pages; Uttoxeter Town Council's
page; Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council; Sandwell - Steeped
in History; War Memorials of Wolverhampton; Virtual Wolverhampton;
"A Brief History of Victorian Wolverhampton.".
- Herefordshire
- Parish pages added:
- Ashperton; Aston Ingham; Avenbury; Bishopstone; Brinsop;
Cradley; Eye; Kingsland; Kington; Little Cowarne; Much Cowarne;
Pencombe; Stoke Bliss; Weobley; Whitbourne.
- Links added:
- Herefordshire Parish Registers; Tourist Guide;
- Ashperton - Extracts from the Parish Registers 1604-1871;
- Aston Ingham - Extracts from the Parish Registers 1851;
- Avenbury - Extracts from the Parish Registers 1761-1875;
- Bishopstone - Extracts from the Parish Registers 1797-1845;
- Brinsop - Extracts from the Parish Registers 1769-1843;
- Brinsop - Extracts from the Parish Registers 1662-1689;
- Cradley War Memorial; Cradley - Extracts from the Parish
- Registers 1768-1865; Eye - Extracts from the Parish Registers
- 1761-1805; Kingsland - Extracts from the Parish Registers
- 1792-1821; Kingsland - Extracts from the Parish Registers
- 1822-1950; Kington - Extracts from the Parish Registers
- 1824-1858; Little Cowarne - Extracts from the Parish
- Registers 1852-1858; Little Cowarne - Extracts from the
- Parish Registers 1819-1828; Much Cowarne - Extracts from
the
- Parish Registers 1761-1857; Much Cowarne - Extracts from
the
- Parish Registers 1865-1904; Much Cowarne - Extracts from
the
- Parish Registers 1905-1937; Pencombe - Extracts from the
- Parish Registers 1818-1821; 1896 Decription of Stoke Bliss;
- Weobley - Extracts from the Parish Registers 1834-1838;
- Whitbourne War Memorial.
27 Mar 1999
- Ayrshire
- Link added: Beith web site.
This file is maintained by Colin Hinson. (Last updated
- see last entry). 
