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We are pleased to announce that, based on thousands of pieces of customer feedback, we have redesigned our search functionality and added some new features that will make searching for records about your ancestors faster, easier and more effective. With a simple, easy-to-read layout, record counts that tell you how many matches you have and new methods to easily browse titles you should be able to find exactly what you’re looking for in no time. Plus we’ve added advanced search filters, image previews and better organized content categories all to improve your onsite experience here at Ancestry.
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These are biographies of men and women who served the nation during the Great War of 1914-18. Although the majority of people were military personnel there are records of civilian and support workers, such as medical staff and munitions workers etc. The National Roll of the Great War was produced in 14 volumes plus an index and covers those who died and those who served. It was compiled on a subscription basis, which means that it is far from comprehensive. Listings were often written by family members, who may not have given correct details at the time of compilation. The publishers began to compile the volumes in 1920, but had gone into liquidation by 1922, having produced only 14 volumes. The collection contains images of pages in the original books. Originally published in fourteen volumes the series contains service details of over 100,000 people, not just soldiers but also those who served in factories, hospitals and other institutions. The majority of entries are for those who survived and this resource is often the only detailed record of their service.
For the National Roll of the Great War 1914-1918 click here.
This database contains the surviving service records on non-commissioned officers and other ranks that served in WWI and did not re-enlist in the Army prior to WWII. This database has recently been updated and now contains records for all surnames in the range A-N. Names that fall outside of this range that are presently included come from records that were misfiled according to surname sequence. For British Army WW1 Service Records 1914-1920 – Updated to surname ‘’N’’ click here.
Did your ancestors arrive from far-flung destinations to start a new life in the UK? Well, if you’re a Premium or Worldwide member you can now search the complete UK Incoming Passenger Lists 1878-1960 online, for the first time ever.
With 18 million names, the collection contains every surviving record of passengers arriving in the UK by boat from places like the Caribbean, India and Australia. As well as names, you can discover historical information such as the age, occupation and, from the 1920’s onwards, intended UK address of each passenger. So if your ancestors came here from abroad, you could find them on-board.
This unique collection contains over 28,000 records and 13,000 photographs of men and women who qualified as pilots in the golden age of British aviation, many of whom were instrumental in the founding of the Royal Flying Corps and its successor the Royal Air Force, which was founded in April 1918.
The collection is fully indexed and searchable by name, date of birth, location and rank or profession as well as the plane they qualified on, when and where. It also includes original images of the pilots themselves, many of which have never before been available to the public and reveals wonderful details about their flying lives and exploits
As part of our ongoing maintenance project, we have added approximately 1,024 images and an estimated 153,600 names that were previously missing, to the Marriage Index in this collection.
We are pleased to announce that significant maintenance work has been successfully carried out on this collection including the rescanning and rekeying of missing data as well as corrections to existing data. An estimated 9000 missing records have been added, 10,501 relationships corrected, 5,503 genders, 561 forenames and 444 surnames have all been corrected.
For the first time ever, you can now search 8.9 million names of those arriving into New South Wales in two, easy to use, online databases:
NSW Unassisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1826-1922
“Unassisted immigrants” were migrants whose journey was not subsidized and was paid for solely by themselves. These passenger lists are a record of their entry into New South Wales between 1826 and 1922 and contain details such as the name of the passenger and their occupation, their port of departure, the date they arrived and the name of ship they arrived on, and even possibly a bill of health
NSW Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896
These are the records of individuals whose journeys were subsidized or paid for by another person or through another agency. The database is made up of 3 different types of record; Returns of convicts’ applications for wives and families, Persons on bounty ships (Agents Immigrant Lists) and Persons on early migrant ships, and so contains an abundance of information.
This wonderful 19th century domestic bible provides you with a fantastic insight into how our ancestors ran their households and cared for their families and at the same time demonstrates the extent to which domestic life has evolved over the last 150 years.
We are pleased to announce a new and improved Learning Centre area on Ancestry.co.uk. The Learning Centre has been redesigned with an easy to use layout and additional features including a Family History Toolbox which is bursting with tips and tools to help you discover your family history and an Ancestry Library providing you with access to the biggest collection of family history educational resources on the Internet.
Click here to take a closer look at our new Learning centre now
Once uploaded, you’ll be able to add descriptions, and other supporting information all within a single window view, significantly reducing the time taken to both upload and add supporting commentary. You can also easily attach a photo or series of photos to more than one ancestor within the same page too.
Here’s an example of a 2 photo upload:
These questions will be familiar to many, irrespective of whether you’re just starting out
or are some way into your family research. Well, now you can discover these and many
more fascinating facts relating to your ancestors and their surnames by using Ancestry’s latest Family Facts features.
For example did you know that Turner means a maker of wooden, bone or metal objects, or even a an official in charge of tournaments in the Middle ages as well as a guard in a watch tower in Southern Germany? Nearly 30% of all Turners in England and Wales were living in either Lancashire or Yorkshire around the turn of the 20th Century.
Start discovering fascinating facts relating to your ancestors now
Each time you click forwards or backwards through your tree using the arrow buttons appearing when you hover near any of your ancestors,
you’ll create a link which will be displayed at the top of your family tree view.
Clicking on a named ancestor link will enable you to easily jump back to any previously visited ancestor so you can review, add further details or cross-reference with other ancestors you’ve already visited to
You’re in good company…Ancestry.co.uk received a “Gold Award” rating in a recent review by “Web User”, one of the UK’s leading internet magazines. Ancestry’s rich tree building and content features (photos, stories, personal profiles etc.) as well as extensiveness of records and ease of search were singled out in the review as being particularly impressive.
If you’re a regular visitor to the Ancestry Community section, you’re aware that we regularly run Member Polls to gain insights and feedback into your thoughts and ideas on a range of topics from record collections to site features and more. You may have even been a regular contributor to these, in which case we’d like to say “thank you”. If you’re not familiar with these, just look out for a poll. They’ll always be located in the same place on the righthand side of the Ancestry Community Homepage. Whilst you’re there you can also take a look round and perhaps explore the Message Boards to connect with other Ancestry Members searching for “shared” ancestors.
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