Audrey Collins, genealogy specialist at the (UK) National Archives, in a presentation from last August, speaks on the many ways the London Gazette may be helpful in researching family and local history.
Listen from here.
21 November 2010
TNA Podcast: The London Gazette - not just the brave and the bankrupt
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I downloaded this to my iPod and listened to it twice through. Today, I sat down at the computer and discovered:
a)my father's promotions in the army;
b)several relatives in both my husband's and my family getting MBEs, OBEs, and CBEs;
c)calls for claims on the wills of two relatives who died after the period supplied by Ancestry, thus giving me the names of their executors and death-dates;
d)and most astonishing of all, the news (to us) that my husband's great-great-great-grandfather landed in Debtor's Prison in 1946!
We'll be watching and reading our Dickens with even greater interest this Christmas....
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