Scottish GENES - weekly digest

If you missed them during the week, here are the latest posts from Scottish GENES (https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com) over the last two weeks (sorry, missed it last week, but it has been a bit quiet!):

PRONI launches Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times family engagement project
https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2020/04/proni-launches-ordinary-people.html

Forces War Records expands content with new digitised images
https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2020/04/forces-war-records-expands-content-with.html

Latest FamilySearch records additions
https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2020/04/latest-family-search-records-additions.html

RIP Dr Jonathan Bardon, author of A History of Ulster
https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2020/04/rip-dr-jonathan-bardon-author-of.html

Free access to records from the UK's National Archives now available
https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2020/04/free-access-to-records-from-uks.html

Celtic Connections conference in Illinois cancelled
https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2020/04/celtic-connections-conference-in.html

MyHeritage provides free access to American yearbooks
https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2020/04/myheritage-provides-free-access-to.html

Free access to SCRAN until end of July
https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2020/04/free-access-to-scran-until-end-of-july.html

Latest additions to FindmyPast
https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2020/04/latest-additions-to-findmypast.html

Further Wakefield cremation records available on Deceased Online
https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2020/04/further-wakefield-cremation-records.html

TheGenealogist releases property records for Kingston upon Thames, Hook and Malden
https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2020/04/thegenealogist-releases-property.html

Still availability on forthcoming Pharos courses in May
https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2020/04/still-availability-on-forthcoming.html

Ancestry adds Australian military records
https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2020/04/ancestry-adds-australian-military.html

Latest Irish additions to FamilySearch
https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2020/04/latest-irish-additions-to-familysearch.html

Free access to Ancestry for VE Day commemoration
https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2020/04/free-access-to-ancestry-for-ve-day.html

British Newspaper Archive approaches 37 million pages
https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2020/04/british-newspaper-archive-approaches-37.html

Slight delay on Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet publication
https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2020/04/slight-delay-on-tracing-your-scottish.html

FindmyPast adds Edinburgh and Lothian death and burial index
https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2020/05/findmypast-adds-edinburgh-and-lothian.html

Tracing the Irish in Scotland - talk now on YouTube
https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2020/05/tracing-irish-in-scotland-talk-now-on.html

Chris

My next 5 week Scotland 1750-1850: Beyond the OPRs course starts May 4th - see www.pharostutors.com/details.php?coursenumber=302. My next book, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scottish2 is out shortly, also available are 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.