The statutory price for GRO Certificates/PDF/Digital Images has been increased

This applies to certificates from local councils too

New costs are - 

Certificate: £12.50

PDF: £8

Digital Image: £3

https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/

Please note that the Cheshire Records Office will now close from 8th August, when access to the collections at the Records Office will be on hold until the new centres open in Crewe and Chester from Winter 2025/26. 

For more infomation  👉https://www.cheshirearchives.org.uk/about-us/about-us.aspx

Remember that you can get help from FHSC Research Centres at Crewe and Mobberley, where our knowledgeable volunteers are always keen to help. 

This weekend (May 24th-28th) you can enjoy free access to the 673 military record collections available at MyHeritage

Watch the T&Cs!

Link for full details 👉https://blog.myheritage.com/2024/05/honoring-our-heroes-free-military-records-for-u-s-memorial-day-on-myheritage/

The June edition of the Cheshire Ancestor should have landed on your doormat if you opt to receive a printed version, otherwise the digital version is now available to download at the following link 👉https://www.fhsc.org.uk/new-cheshire-ancestor-3/cheshire-ancestor-2024/3533-cheshire-ancestor-june-2024-vol-54-no-4.html

The Festival of Ideas is a programme of free, inclusive, and accessible public events on a wide range of themes in and around Chester, co-created by the University of Chester, alongside other including the Grosvenor Museum, Chester Market and Chester Cathedral

For full deatils, whats on etc then click on the Event webpage link 👉https://festivalofideas.chester.ac.uk/

This may be of use to you to download and save 

A quick reference list of the dates of the UK Census dates, including the 1939 National Register 

Thanks to @BTGenealogy for the image 

1st of the month means my usual list of free to attend online events, I hope you find something to enjoy, please let me know 

Full details in link under each event

Press Release;

In honour of Anzac Day, all 130 million historical records from Australia and New Zealand on MyHeritage will be free to access from April 23–28, 2024.

Over the past year, MyHeritage have expanded their collection to include a vast array of historical newspapers. This new collection comprises over 24 million pages from 1,705 newspaper titles, covering every state and territory in Australia.

They also host many essential military collections, including the esteemed Anzac Memorial records and the comprehensive Australian World War II Nominal Roll, 1939–1945.

These resources, among others available on MyHeritage, can illuminate Australian and New Zealander relatives’ military service and contribute to a richer understanding of their lives.

PLEASE NOTE:  you may have to sign up for a free trial to view records, so be mindful of the T&Cs 

Link 👉 https://www.myheritage.com/research/catalog?location=Oceania

The letters of George Herbert Leigh-Mallory (1886 –1924), mountaineer who participated in the first 3 British Mount Everest expeditions, have been published on the Magdalene College, Cambridge website.

Hot off the press this morning [17th April]

The Record Office will now close to research visitors on Thursday 25 July, not 27 June as originally planned. There has been a small delay in getting the sites ready for our contractor to start work. 

All online services are unaffected, and we will continue to respond to research and digitisation requests. Please let me know if you or your members have any questions.

These amazing treasurers, a set of WWI dog tags and medals together with the envelope they were delivered in, were brought into the Crewe Research Centre today by a FHSC member.  We are helping Sue to research her family history, and these belonged to an ancestor, who happily survived the war.

The dog tags, over 100 years old, astounded us all, they were very light in weight but perfectly preserved and have obviously been treasured by the family – it was a privilege to be able to hold such a tangible set of artifacts from WWI

Great news, the lift is now working, so we once again have full access to our Research Centre/Family History Unit in Crewe.

We are closed on Bank Holiday Monday [6th May] but open as usual from Tuesday 7th 

I have mentioned the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure previously and advertised the website in the Ancestor - reently they have launched a new interactive website which allows user to map occupational structure from 1600-1911 and 2011

Find out more and give it a try http://economiespast.org

The Addressing Health Data Mapper is a tool to present and share data generated by the Addressing Health project. The project examines the health of UK postal workers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. It uses information about sickness-related absences and retirement derived from pension records and other sources of evidence.

Find out more and access the data base at this link 👉https://data.addressinghealth.org.uk/

Members may be interested in this new little webapp -  British Placename Mapper - created by Robin Wilson, It allows you to search for place names that match various criteria (starts with 'great', ends with 'burgh' etc) and plot them on an interactive map

Link to try it out 👉https://placenames.rtwilson.com/

Image is of placename search I did for places ending in 'wich' 

1st of the month means my usual list of free to attend online events, I hope you find something to enjoy, please let me know 

Full details in link under each event

25% off all The British Newspaper Archive subscriptions this Easter. Offer ends April 3rd.

:Link 👉https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/account/subscribe?PromotionCode=EASTER25

FHSC Trustees and Committee would like to wish all members a happy and joyful Easter, wherever and however you choose to celebrate. 

📷John Horns Easter Eggs, Date 1907  Credit: The National Archives - Ref Copy 1/263 [255]