Federation Of Family History Societies

TNA Digitisation Projects Update

 

The following information has been taken from an update provided by The National Archives.

A) Licensed Internet Associateships ("LiAs") - available free onsite at TNA:

1. 1911 Census

The complete 1911 census records for people living in England, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man are now online at 1911census.co.uk, including full details of British Army personnel and their families stationed overseas. Free access at Kew is now available across all public terminals.

2. World War I Soldiers' Records

Pensions Records (WO 364) complete and online from Ancestry. Service Records (WO 363) - surnames A-N live. Final content launch (surnames O-Z and mis-sorts) is due later in the year.

3. Non-parochial births, marriages and deaths

RG 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 33 live on www.bmdregisters.co.uk from S&N Genealogy
Rest of package still to come: RG 32, 34-36 and BT 158-160

4. Immigration Records (BT 26, HO 2, 3 & 5)

BT 26 live online from www.ancestry.co.uk
HO 2, 3 & 5, transcription in progress, due to launch later in 2009

5. Chelsea Pensioners' Records (WO 96, 97)

Scanning is underway onsite by findmypast.co.uk. Timetable of record availability onsite is at www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/stories/212.htm. First content launches due late in 2009.

B) Academic, non-exclusive and non-commercial projects

1. State Papers Domestic, Foreign and Ireland 1509-1714

Series I (Domestic, Tudor) launched 18 November 2008, available free in TNA reading room via "OPERA" menu. Series II (foreign and Ireland, Tudor) is due for release shortly. The collection offers fully word-searchable calendar entries linked to original document images, and will match TNA documents with papers from the manuscript department of the British Library.

2. RG 18: Census Maps

Digital versions of the original Registration District maps from the 1871 census are now available to browse and download at cassinimaps.co.uk.

C) Documents Online

Series Currently in production:
ADM 139: Naval Ratings' service records 1853-72 - first 200 of 1000 pieces online; remainder online later in 2009.
ADM 159: Royal Marines registers of service now complete online.
ADM 196: Navy Officers' service records 1756-1966 - selected 98 pieces up to 1920 now online- for piece list see: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/adm196.asp
ADM 337: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserves records, World War I live online.
BT 389: World War II merchant shipping movement cards now online.

 

Roger Lewry
FFHS Archives Liaison

24 June 2009