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Researchers should be aware of this proposal. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/easier-access-to-historic-wills-under-new-government-plans https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/12/18/millions-of-wills-could-be-destroyed-deleting-history/ https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/dec/18/ministry-of-j...

Ancestry have a number of records (on Fold 3 transcriptions, i have no access to the records) which suggests it was in Galway, or Tipperary or Queens County. There seems to be no records on the National Records of Ireland website. So it appears to be in Ireland but it may have an Irish Gaelic name.

Have you approached MyHeritage about this. Many years ago Scots Origins (predecessor to Scotland's People) said one on my ancestors (born 1833) was the mother of the youngest child (born 1871) in the family because there was a 38-year age gap whereas actually the father had 5 or 6 wives, one at a ti...

That's interesting, When I was working at TNA on the morning of 9/11 the office and staff just carried on as usual, I thought it was pretty shocking. No respect shown by the PRO/TNA management.

Today is a sad and historic day with the 60th anniversary of the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President of the United States. I can still remember hearing the news on the special BBC news flash in 1963 (I was 7 years old) at the time. Also when I read of the assassination of his brother...

Following revelations that personal data at the British Library has it has been said been hacked and a ransom demanded just how safe are our own personal data details in such institutions?.

Oh that "London" is so annoying... You have my sympathy - they're all explicitly "London, England" so what else would you imagine "London" to be from that context? :? A number of places in Canada are named after British places, Aberdeen being one and also Halifax (Nova...

TNA have a T.124 pouch for him in BT 390/65/61 but alas it says the pouch is empty, in my view it is always worth checking the pouch to see if there is other information on the pouch. The place of birth is actually different in TNA's catalogue in that it says Wooston ,rather than Woolston..

According to TNA there are some records in series BT 390.

Today is the anniversary (79th) of OPERATION MARKET GARDEN to capture Eindhoven, Nijmegen and Arnhem in The Netherlands. It is difficult to find the service records at TNA because they haven't been tagged with 'Arnhem'. Apart from the military defeat it led to starvation and deaths in The Netherland...