Ancestry adds RNLI and heraldry records

Ancestry (www.ancestry.co.uk) has made a couple of new records collections available:

UK and Ireland, The Royal National Lifeboat Institution Records, 1824-1989
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/62701/
Source: RNLI Records. Poole, Dorset, England: Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI).

Institution Records, 1824-1989

This collection covers the records between 1824 and 1989 for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), a charity to save lives at sea on the coasts of the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man. Record types in this collection include pension lists, honorary presentation books, legacy books, medal books, lifeboat donation records, crew lists, and applications.

Using this collection

Records in this collection may include the following information:

• Name
• Residence
• Occupation and rank
• Name of assigned lifeboat and station
• Employment or volunteer start/end date
• Date of gallantry medal(s)
• Date of pension
• Date of injury or death
• Information about spouse (name, death date)

The pensions and crew lists within this collection can provide a detailed timeline of your family member's service and valuable information about their life. The mApplications for Gallantry Medals books, also in this collection, may reveal specific instances of your family member's bravery. The RNLI records also include widow's pensions, which name relatives of RNLI members who died in the line of duty. If your family member served on a lifeboat, you may find documentation of rescues the lifeboat engaged in, including shipwrecks and events from the First and Second World Wars. You may also find records for your ancestor who funded lifeboats.


UK, Heraldic Card Index, 1150-1850
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/62736/
Source: Heraldic Card Index. London, England: Society of Antiquaries of London.

About the UK, Heraldic Card Index, 1150-1850

This collection captures hundreds of thousands of index cards created by the Society of Antiquaries for the purpose of connecting coats of arms to family names between 1150 and 1850. The Society of Antiquaries not only recorded descriptions of the coat of arms, but also brief genealogical information for the individual the coat of arms was assigned to.

Using this collection

In these index cards you may find the following information:

• Name (including suffixes and aliases)
• Age
• Birth year
• Occupation
• Residence
• Date and place of death
• Names of relatives
• Artifact date

This collection can help you determine if your family had a coat of arms, or to which family a coat of arms belonged to. Each index card describes a coat of arms and the objects on which it appears (seals, plateware, monuments, etc.). Sometimes the index card even includes a photograph or drawing. Keep in mind that the amount of information on each card varies greatly and may be printed or handwritten.


And two new third party indexes:

Web: United Kingdom, Corps of Military Police Index, 1800-2022
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/63108/

Web: Isle Of Man, Wills Index, 1600-1864
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/63077/

For further details on all, please consult the links given.

Chris

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