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Showing posts with label Europe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Europe. Show all posts
Monday, 3 November 2025

Special Scottish GENES Webinar for Remembrance Day: Trapped in Brussels in the First World War - A Civilian Story

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Pictured below is my grandfather Charles Paton, born in Brussels in 1905 to two Scottish parents from Blackford in Perthshire and Inverness....
Saturday, 2 November 2024

Ancestry releases five UK themed Second World War databases

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Ancestry ( www.ancestry.co.uk ) has released five new UK themed World War 2 databases: UK, World War II Photographs, 1939-1945 https://www.a...
Sunday, 21 July 2024

Cassini maps additions to Ancestry

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Ancestry ( www.ancestry.co.uk ) has added some Cassini maps collections to the site this week, the following two in particular may be of int...
Thursday, 3 August 2023

David Dobson's Irish Emigrants in North America - Consolidated Edition review

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The latest consolidated edition of books from Dundee based historian David Dobson has been released by Clearfield Company through the Geneal...
Friday, 16 June 2023

Two Crimean Wars (Dà Chogadh a' Chrimea)

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There's an interesting story on the BBC Alba news page, entitled "Two Crimean Wars" ("Dà Chogadh a' Chrimea") ou...
Tuesday, 21 March 2023

Review: The Covenanters of Scotland 1638-1690, by David Dobson

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I've just received a review copy of the latest book from David Dobson, entitled The Covenanters of Scotland 1638-1690 . Davidis a a Rese...
Thursday, 7 July 2022

Back home from Amsterdam

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Apologies for the lack of posting over the last few days, but I was on a city break in Amsterdam with my wife, as a wee 50th birthday presen...
Tuesday, 10 May 2022

The Family Histories Podcast - Trapped

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The second episode of the third series of The Family Histories Podcast has just been released, with yours truly as the subject. Here's ...
Thursday, 24 June 2021

Free immigration records access from MyHeritage

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From MyHeritage ( www.myheritage.com ) The Immigration & Travel records on MyHeritage encompasses 57 collections with 181 million histor...
Monday, 11 January 2021

Key to Napoleon's bedroom door on St Helena found in Scotland

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The key to the door of the bedroom on St Helena in which Napoleon died in 1821 has been found in Scotland, by descendants of a Scottish sold...
Wednesday, 2 December 2020

1891 Norway census added to FamilySearch

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Up and just to the right a wee bit... FamilySearch has added the 1891 census for Norway at www.familysearch.org/search/collection/4067726 . ...