Read all about it! This section will feature news of developments at Historic Records Limited, and also musings which I hope vistitors to this page will find interesting. I am ALWAYS interested in new records and bringing these to a wider audience, so do drop me a line if you have something in mind. Thanks to the likes of Ancestry, FamilySearch, Findmypast, MyHeritage, The Genealogist and others, there has never been a better time to be a family historian – and the good news is that tomorrow will be better still, thanks to the proactive publishing schedules of these organisations.
The Historic Records cemetery photography project is looking for individuals to help us document the last resting places of our ancestors. Currently this opportunity is limited to the English counties of Suffolk and Essex where much ground – literally – has already been covered. If you are smart, respectful, respectfully dressed, and can point a […]
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To the Nordic Archive Symposium in Copenhagen, and the chance to catch up with old friends and explore new opportunities. This is the first foray overseas for Historic Records Limited but there is more travel planned for next month and a calendar steadily filling for 2024. The conference kicks off properly tomorrow, but delegates have […]
Read MoreHistoric Records Bargain of the week has to be the HMSO “Royal Warrant for the pay, appointment, promotion and non-effective pay of the [British] Army” for 1914, won with a snipe on a well-known online auction site for the bargain price of 99 pence. My copy is the re-printed version of 1919 and, as an […]
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The Historic Records home page image shows smiling Canadian and Japanese soldiers during the First World War and was probably published in July 1916 as the caption for what was originally a black and white postcard reads, “The Jap ‘entente’ after the Big Push”. The words “Canadian Official” appear to the bottom right of the […]
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Welcome to the newly launched Historic Records website. My name is Paul Nixon and I founded Historic Records Limited after many years working with the UK’s leading family history website. For much of that time I headed up that company’s UK’s licensing effort and I retain a keen interest in, and key contacts within, the […]
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