Scottish Indexes announces new records additions

Scottish Indexes (www.scottishindexes.com) has announced some new records additions to their site. In summary:

• A new volume from the register of deeds, from 1652-1653.
• An update to their prison records collection of a further 104,369 records. This includes material from the following prisons: Edinburgh Lock-up House 1848-1850 (2,919), Fort William 1849-1880 (949), Ayr 1893-1897 (8,577), Paisley 1866-1875 (9,198), Aberdeen 1896-1908 (20,198), Dundee 1911-1914,1922 (8,906), and Glasgow (Duke Street) 1850-1864 (53,623)
• A new collection, Pardoned or Ticket of Leave on New Charges 1855-1895 - this will include information on relevant trial papers.

Graham and Emma will be announcing more detail about these collections over the next week - check out their main website, and their social media channels, including Twitter (@ScottishIndexes) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/scottish.indexes).  

* The next Scottish Indexes conference will be on September 9th 2023.

Chris

Order Tracing Your Belfast Ancestors in the UK at https://bit.ly/BelfastAncestors. Also available - Tracing Your Irish Ancestors Through Land Records, Sharing Your Family History Online, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed), and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records - to purchase, please visit https://bit.ly/ChrisPatonPSbooks. For the USA visit https://www.penandswordbooks.com. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, and on Twitter @genesblog.

Dublin's Registry of Deeds facilitates self-service digital photography

As part of Explore Your Archive week in Ireland, the Registry of Deeds at Henrietta Street in Dublin (https://www.prai.ie/registry-of-deeds-services/#records), part of the Property Registration Authority, has announced that it is now permitting self-service digital photography in its reading room with small hand-held cameras or mobile devices, for documents over 100 years old, and for private research only. There is no fee. The announcement follows a trial held earlier in the year.

A short video explaining the change is available at https://twitter.com/i/status/1463084616198328322.

Don't forget that black and white microfilmed images of many of the records can be accessed freely online via FamilySearch at https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/185720. Many are also indexed at https://irishdeedsindex.net.

** For more on the Registry of Deeds, and how to use it for Irish family history research, along with many other land record types, consult my book Tracing Your Irish Ancestors Through Land Records, available to buy from Pen and Sword at https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Tracing-Your-Irish-Ancestors-Through-Land-Records-Paperback/p/19283.

Chris

My new book Tracing Your Irish Ancestors Through Land Records is now available to buy at https://bit.ly/IrishLandRecords. Also available - Sharing Your Family History Online, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed), and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records - to purchase, please visit https://bit.ly/ChrisPatonPSbooks. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, and on Twitter @genesblog.

Irish Registry of Deeds Indexing Project update

From the Registry of Deeds Indexing Project Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/RegistryofDeedsIndexProjectIreland/:

Update of 07 November 2021 – 452,604 index records from 47,489 memorials of deeds.

 

Thanks again to our magnificent volunteers we now have 452,604 main index records from 47,489 memorials of deeds.

 

We now have 72.5% of index entries with a direct link to the images on FamilySearch including all index entries from books 110 and below.

 

As always all these and the subsidiary indexes are fully searchable for free. https://irishdeedsindex.net/search/search.php

Chris

My new book Tracing Your Irish Ancestors Through Land Records is now available to buy at https://bit.ly/IrishLandRecords. Also available - Sharing Your Family History Online, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed), and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records - to purchase, please visit https://bit.ly/ChrisPatonPSbooks. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, and on Twitter @genesblog.

Registry of Deeds Indexing Project Ireland update

From the Registry of Deeds Index Project Ireland (https://irishdeedsindex.net) is fast approaching the half million entries mark:

Update of 26 September 2021 - 445,105 index records from 46,707 memorials of deeds.

Thanks to the continuing wonderful work of our volunteers we now have 445,105 index records from 46,707 memorials of deeds.

We continue to link more index entries to the associated images on FamilySearch and we now have almost two thirds linked. Moreover, all index entries for memorials in books 85 and below are linked. This means it is very quick to access the transcription book check the indexing and get more details form the memorail.

Of course all these index entries together with transcription of grantors and townland indexes are fully searchable for free at: https://irishdeedsindex.net/search/search.php

 

The Registry of Deeds, as well as the Land Registry and Land Commission records, are just some of those discussed in my newly released book, Tracing Your Irish Ancestors Through Land Records. A very useful record set indeed!

 

(With thanks to the project via its Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/RegistryofDeedsIndexProjectIreland)

Chris

My new book Tracing Your Irish Ancestors Through Land Records is now available to buy at https://bit.ly/IrishLandRecords. Also available - Sharing Your Family History Online, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed), and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records - to purchase, please visit https://bit.ly/ChrisPatonPSbooks. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, and on Twitter @genesblog.