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It is disappointing that WDYTYA Magazine webpage has said that the 1931 Census was destroyed during the Blitz, in fact that is only correct for England and Wales, the Scottish Census survives!.

It seems to me that it is now a week since TNA were "seeking clarification" following the Prime Minister's announcement on the 'road map', how long does it take to get clarification?.

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/abo ... us-update/

Re the article on the WDYTYA website. Marriage registers can be searched in the indexes for free from Scotland's People website and that the actual images can be downloaded for a reasonable fee, but only 75 years after the event, so that at the moment the records up to 1945 are available. Obviously ...

For those of us who can't access fmp or fold3 :( I was lucky Jon, I scored a free upgrade with Ancestry for a year because of problems I had with the site ;) Here (This record has not been digitised and cannot be downloaded) https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov. ... /C12648087 It has actually bee...

I am still awaiting the entry for my mum who was born in 1925 and died in 1987 to be released. The problem is that the entry has to be the same EXACTLY as the death entry. TNA have been aware of the problems with the 1939 Register and how the project was run and have been open about that, so they gi...

Why do people state that a person was born at one place when the birth index says they were born elsewhere (they are two distinct registration districts).

Jonathan Scott is correct, see the articles below. I wasn't aware of this transportation until now. https://www.familytree.com/blog/british-convicts-in-american-colonies/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_transportation#:~:text=England%20transported%20its%20convicts%20and%20political%20prisoners,%...

devonliz wrote: ↑

06 Feb 2021, 15:41

Yes, but the 17th-century was the 1600s, surely?
We are talking here about the 1700s, which is the 18th century ...

Quite right, has anyone else found the article?.

The Transportation Act 1717 allowed sending convicts to North America but of course Britain lost the American colonies and then the criminals were sent to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) and Australia. The law did not apply to cases in Scotland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_Act_1717#:~:...

I cannot see this article in the March edition, is it elsewhere?.