06 May 2010

Now that the UK election is over!

British law places restrictions on government announcements during a General Election. For the (UK) National Archives this was interpreted as a virtual embargo on any announcement. While presentations held in the building at Kew continued no new podcasts were placed online. We have a backlog of these to look forward to.

The folks from Findmypast warned me to expect delays in release of digitized and indexed Chelsea Pensioners British Army Service Records too. It's a cooperative program with TNA. It didn't take long to add 97,515 records of men who were pensioned out of the British Army between 1873 and 1882.

Read more about these records at http://www.findmypast.co.uk/media/news/news-item.jsp?doc=CHEPmay.htmle>

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