Scottish GENES - weekly digest

It's been another downer of a week worldwide on the coronavirus front, with some genealogy developments included, but there are some other more positive stories also - I certainly think this has been my busiest week ever on the blogging front.

If you missed them during the week, here are the latest posts from Scottish GENES (https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com):

TheGenealogist releases Essex tithe maps
https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2020/03/thegenealogist-releases-essex-tithe-maps.html

How to obtain WDYTYA? magazine from home
https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2020/03/how-to-obtain-wdytya-magazine-from-home.html

Family Tree magazine announces new initiatives for readers
https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2020/03/family-tree-magazine-announces-new.html

Ulster Historical Foundation - Migration Memorial, Genealogy Hub, and Books Bundle
https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2020/03/ulster-historical-foundation-migration.html

TNA: Volunteers needed to transcribe Royal Navy service records
https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2020/03/tna-volunteers-needed-to-transcribe.html

Secretary Hand - the Joscelyn font!
https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2020/03/secretary-hand-joscelyn-font.html

NHS Scotland emergency hospital to be named after Louisa Jordan
https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2020/04/nhs-scotland-emergency-hospital-to-be.html

UK's National Archives to offer free access to digitised collections
https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2020/04/uks-national-archives-to-offer-free.html

Ancestry offers free week's access to curated records
https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2020/04/ancestry-offers-free-weekly-access-to.html

Harvest Your Family Tree conference in Kelowna cancelled
https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2020/04/harvest-your-family-tree-conference-in.html

Ancestry Library Edition access
https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2020/04/ancestry-library-edition-access.html

Scottish Indexes Conferences to be held online April 9th
https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2020/04/scottish-indexes-conferences-to-be-held.html

FindmyPast expands English and Welsh electoral registers collections
https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2020/04/findmypast-expands-english-and-welsh.html

Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet - 2nd reprint!
https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2020/04/tracing-your-irish-family-history-on.html

Documentary marks 700th anniversary of The Declaration of Arbroath
https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-declaration-of-arbroath.html

Irish Lives Remembered - Spring edition now freely available online
https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2020/04/irish-lives-remembered-spring-edition.html

Chris

You can pre-order my new book, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scottish2 (out April). Also available, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed) at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Irish1 and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scotland1. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, and on Twitter @genesblog.