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Kindred Britain is a network of nearly 30,000 individuals
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Letters by Candlelight: An Original Victorian Diary
A book for sale by by C.L. Bennett. This is an original handwritten diary beginning in the year 1861, when Queen Victoria was on the throne in England and Charles Dickens was at the height of his fame. It was found by chance in a dusty attic in Cambridge, England and is full of fascinating historic detail. The writer was a young gentleman called William Holmes-Carter. He was from a rich family of Nottingham Lace Manufacturers but he himself lived in lodgings in Clifton, Bristol, where he worked as a managing clerk in a solicitors. He later moved to another solicitor's practice in Pembrokeshire and then when his brother passed away he decided to take over his brother's business in Sheffield. The diary is a personal account of everything that happens to him over a four year period and his thoughts and feelings.
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Library and Archives Canada - Home Children
Between 1869 and the late 1930s, over 100,000 juvenile migrants were sent to Canada from the British Isles during the child emigration movement.
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List of Missing Persons, 1901.
A list, from the Straits Times (Singapore) newspaper, of several dozen missing persons sought by relatives (mainly in the United Kingdom), in overseas countries, in 1901.
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Free UK based people finder site.
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Parliament & the British Slave Trade 1600-1833
Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries Parliament significantly shaped the progress and development of the transatlantic slave system. The Act of Parliament to abolish the British slave trade, passed on 25 March 1807, was the culmination of one of the first and most successful public campaigns in history.
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Parliament & the British Slave Trade 1600-1833
History of the British Slave Trade and its abolition by the British Parliament. Includes transcripts of two petitions raised by the people of Manchester, Lancashire, in connection with the bill for abolition.
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Pedigrees of the Peerage and Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland
An online collection of free books concerning the pedigrees of the Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, Landed Gentry, and Official Classes of Great Britain and Ireland. Burke's, Debrett's, Dodd's, Whitaker's etc. all covered.
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ROMANI | An Anglo-American Romany Gypsy & Traveller Heritage Project
Romani is a project focused on the heritage of Romany Gypsies and Travellers on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Soldiers Whom the World have Forgotten
Dedicated to the memory of soldiers & their families who died in and around Bangalore, India.
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Family & social history including a large genealogical database of old British & Irish families.
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Information on all various types of children's homes in Britain including orphanages, homes for those in poverty, and children with special needs, reformatories, industrial and approved schools, training ships, hostels etc.
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The Knowles Collection is group of records on the FamilySearch Community Trees Website. This database originally contained the records of a small section of the Jewish people of the British Isles. That set included less than 10,000 people. What was once a single database, has now grown to be six individual databases that now contain the genealogical records of almost 1.2 million Jewish people: The Jews of the British Isles; The Jews of North America; The Jews of Europe; The Jews of South America and the Caribbean; The Jews of Africa, The Orient and the Middle East; The Jews of the South Pacific. Read more about the collection here: FamilySearch Blog - Popular Online Jewish Genealogy Collection Surpasses One Million Entries
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The Travels of Captain James Cook
Captain James Cook was a British explorer
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Adoptions, biographies, ethnic groups, famous people, immigrants, orphans, some family groups, etc.