- Editorial: by Wayne Thomas
One of the best, and cheapest, resources to begin your family history research are relatives. Talk to them and make use of those long term memories. As a means of researching family trees, interviewing relatives can be a really enjoyable experience for both parties, BUT there are some rules that need to be obeyed.
As with anything worthwhile, genealogy does have guidelines that must be followed if you are at all serious about family history.
5 Simple Rules. |
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There are many members and visitors asking to submit articles or news relevant to Family History / Genealogy, which may be of help to all our FHUK members and visitors alike.
So we have now launched an area for you to do exactly that - Submit your Article/News
So if you have any general genealogy / family history article which would be of help to us all - submit it to us now!
It may be a short peice on How to manage your written research, or an article on how you started in family history, or how to research the 1851 census, or how to look for family history on the net, or the history of your town/city. The world is your oyster. Have a go!
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Well the story continues with further pressure from the Genealogy Community. The government have a website dedicated to Petitions called The e-petitions system,  which was launched in November 2006.
After discussions on the soc.genealogy.britain Google newsgroup, a number of posters have got together and formulated a petition on the UK Census as follows:
- We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to reduce the classified period for census data from 100 years to 70 years.
- This would allow census information from 1911, 1921 and 1931 to be used by the general public researching their family history in the absense (or failing memories) of their elderly relatives. Birth, Marriage and Death information is already available so why is information about where people lived hidden.
If you are like minded and need to have the census opened to genealogists then visit the government e-petitions website to cast your vote now. |
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We have just found out that Guy Etchells (who runs a website for the Guys of Bottesford, leicestershire ) has received a decision from the Information Commissioner Richard Thomas granting him access to one particular 1911 record (for Bottesford in Leicestershire) via the Freedom of Information legislation. The Information Commissioner ruled that confidentiality could only be applied to details of people’s health or mental infirmity, which did not apply in the case of the particular record Guy requested. Go to The Information Commissioner's website to read the decision notice
The National Archives has just announced two services in advance of the official 2012 full release date. Starting in January, TNA will offer a limited research service where the address of an individual in the 1911 Census is already known. There will be a non-refundable seach charge of £45 (see www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/1911census ). Meanwhile, TNA said it hopes to offer a searchable online service in early 2009, with key sensitive information withheld until 2012. Well done Guy!
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 We, as a community member site here at www.familyhistory.uk.com, have been helping fellow family history / genealogy friends for over 18 months or so. Over this period we have had Nearly 2.2 million (2,198,098) visitors and a further 7106 members joined and helped us - to help you all. We thank each and everyone of you all for your support and look forward to your continued support in the future. Over the coming weeks, we will be reviewing the site and making some beneficial changes - for the better. If anyone has any suggestions, please contact us or post in the forum. This is your community site - let us know what you think and what you would like to see. Over this period, we will be "pruning" the member list, to ensure it is fully upto date. So if anyone has any issues logging in - please let us know. Many thanks to you all. |
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Hi folks,
Just to let you all know that we will be updating the website over the coming few weeks.
Initially we will be updating and moving the forum to a subdomain (now ready!):
http:www.forum.familyhistory.uk.com
Things are being added all the time. On the forum we have Zoints - the community of communities.
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