Happy St Patrick's Day. To celebrate, I'm sharing with you a link to Findmypast's webinar on the Irish in England and Wales at the time of the 1921 Census. There were over 300,000 Irish born people living in these two countries in 1921. Were your family members among them? If you did have Irish family members living and working in England or Wales around this time, it's well worth watching - not least because the webinar is presented by Brian Donovan, my favourite Irish fam

Day one of the world's biggest genealogy conference, RootsTech, is over and the highlight for me was a very short session about the Early British Census Project. A Brigham Young University genealogy initiative, the project is bringing together in one place, pre-1841 census data from all over the UK, Ireland and Channel Islands. So far the Project team has extracted information from 184 censuses, however, they estimate there are 1400 such datasets. Best of all, access is onl

Following is the text of an email I received today from Findmypast regarding settings relating to sharing information and photos uploaded by members to their site. What do you think of the changes? A good move or you would rather retain the status quo? Let me know in the Comments Section below. "Changes to your sharing permissions – act before May 1st Dear therese, We’re making changes to our tree settings and privacy policy to support the launch of two new developments. T