rootSleuth Facebook For those who use facebook, you may be interested to know that I now have a rootsleuth Facebook page.  I hope to provide status updates providing  tips and insights as I come accross them. Please feel free to visit my page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/RootSleuth-Family-History-Research/229575327093234. Don’t forget, if you want to follow my posts, then click ‘like’ when [...]

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Introduced in March last year, this is a fantastic free online resource provided on the Bristol City Council website, with funding by the English Heritage. The Know Your Place site starts with a Modern Ordnance Survey map which is searchable. This can then be overlaid with various historic maps of the city, my particular favourites [...]

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HRI Online Publications is the publishing arm of the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Sheffield. They have some well establshed databases such as the Old Bailey Proceedings on line, but have now just launched the Cause Papers Database, documents dealing with the church courts of the Diocese of York 1300-1858. The documents detail [...]

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Catastrophy!! The Bristol Record Office is closed for annual stock taking from the 16th to the 31st January. All my plans for the next two weeks have suddenly gone out of the window.For all those out there who were planning a visit please take note.http://www.bristol.gov.uk/page/bristol-record-office-opening-hours

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Visiting the Bristol Records Office today. Doing a blanket search for a birth in the mid 1700′s and a marriage search in St Mary Redcliffe registers. Dale

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New rootSleuth Website It’s taken me a few months to review the design, but my new rootSleuth website is now finally live at the same address as before: www.family-history-researcher.co.uk. Comments gratefully received, and of course enquiries for research work are always welcome. Dale

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