Daily Archives: January 31, 2012

Farm Subsidy in Europe – using this site for family history research

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The European Union spends around €55 billion a year on farm subsidies. This website helps people find out who gets what, and why.    http://farmsubsidy.org/ is searchable by country and is a really useful tool for family and local historians – not … Continue reading →

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What’s New at Durham (UK) Records Online

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The Records Office has been busy making changes to the underlying structure of the database, making it easier to add new types of data, such as monumental inscriptions, and adding a new spouse filter for burial searches. The new code should … Continue reading →

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The Ships List

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http://www.theshipslist.com/ TheShipsList website, online since August 1999, will help you find your ancestors on ships’ passenger lists. It also has immigration reports, newspaper records, shipwreck information, ship pictures, ship descriptions, shipping-line fleet lists and more; as well as hundreds of passenger lists … Continue reading →

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Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has relaunched its website at http://www.cwgc.org. As part of the new site the interface for the Search for War Dead page has been expanded – in addition to previous search parameters you can now also search … Continue reading →

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