Findmypast and Imperial War Museums have announced that their collaboration project Lives of the First World War will cease taking submissions on 18 March 2019. After that date, IWM will act as the custodian of the millions of contributions made by members of the public and will maintain its free access.
First national database of burial sites in England Wales to created
The Beautiful Burial Ground Project, the first national database of burial sites in England and Wales will be created after winning a £586,700 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The grant was given to the charity Caring for God’s Acre, for a four-year project to “Create a bespoke database with interactive map where individual burial sites can be mapped, linking biological records to a particular site, easily accessed by all and linked to other national heritage databases”.
Know your roots campaign links grandparents grandchildren through gardening
A new campaign to promote family links, food education and environmental knowledge has launched in March and will continue until July as part of a global network of businesses and not-for-profits, working together for a happier, healthier planet.
London's Regent Park to host World War 1 popup post office sorting office
Two free public events are being hosted by The Royal Parks on Saturday 12 and 19 May, 2018. They are inviting the public to discover the vital role played by London’s Royal Parks during first world war Britain.
Largest ever family tree created with 13 million people
The largest ever family tree with over 13 million people has been created by researchers according to Science magazine March 2018. They have looked into the genealogical history of UK, Europe and North America. The enormous record is slightly less than the population of the Commonwealth country of Zambia and illustrates 500 years migration across the Atlantic.
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2018/02/28/science.aam9309#
New Imperial War Museum records
The Imperial War Museum has just launched on 21 March 2018 its new War Memorials Register to mark the 100th anniversary of the 1918 Spring Offensive of the First World War. Over a million names of those killed in the First World War can now be located in this new database of war memorials along with over 23,000 images of the memorials.
21 March 2018
England and Wales Electoral register of over 6.7 million records indexed
Over 6.7 million records from the England and Wales 1920 Electoral Register have been indexed by subscription website Findmypast. This has been undertaken in partnership with the British Library. This work complements the 1939 Register which consists of over 1,200,000 pages listing the names, addresses, marital statuses, occupations and more of over 41,000,000 people.
https://www.bl.uk/collection-guides/uk-electoral-registers